Ali ibn Abi Talib, semoga Allah meridainya - dan nama Abu Talib ialah cAbd Manaf - ibn cAbd al-Muttalib - dan namanya ialah Shaybah - ibn Hashim - dan namanya ialah cAmr - ibn cAbd Manaf - dan namanya ialah al-Mughirah - ibn Qusayy - dan namanya ialah Zaid - ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ibn Kacb ibn Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik ibn Nadr ibn Kinanah. Beliau ialah Abu'l-Hasan dan beliau ialah Abu Turab, sebuah kunyah yang diberikan oleh Nabi ﷺ kepadanya.

Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him - and the name of Abu Talib was cAbd Manaf — ibn cAbd al- A-Muttalib - and his name was Shaybah - ibn Hashim - and his name was cAmr - Ibn cAbd Manaf - and his name was al-Mughirah - ibn Qusayy - and his name was Zaid - ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ibn Kacb ibn Lu’ayy ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik ibn Nadr ibn Kinanah. He was Abu’l-Hasan and he was Abu Turab, a kunyah which the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave him.

Ibunya ialah Fatimah binti Asad bin Hashim, dan beliau ialah wanita Hashimi pertama yang melahirkan anak Hashimi. Beliau menerima Islam dan berhijrah.

His mother was Fatimah bint Asad ibn Hashim and she was the first Hashimi woman to give birth to a Hashimi child. She accepted Islam and emigrated.

ʿAli, semoga Allah meridainya, adalah salah seorang daripada sepuluh sahabat yang dipersaksikan bahawa mereka dijanjikan Syurga. Beliau adalah saudara Rasulullah ﷺ melalui ikatan persaudaraan (yang dimeterai antara golongan Muhajirin dan golongan Ansar di Madinah). Beliau juga menantu Baginda melalui perkahwinan dengan Fatimah, penghulu wanita sekalian alam, semoga Allah meridainya. Beliau termasuk antara orang yang terawal memeluk Islam, salah seorang ulama yang mulia, salah seorang yang masyhur dengan keberanian, salah seorang yang disebut kerana sifat zuhudnya, salah seorang yang diiktiraf sebagai penyampai khutbah yang unggul, serta orang yang menghafal keseluruhan Al-Quran dan membacanya di hadapan Nabi ﷺ. Abu al-Aswad ad-Du'ali dan ʿAbd ar-Rahman as-Sulami pula masing-masing membacakan Al-Quran di hadapan beliau. Beliau ialah khalifah pertama daripada Bani Hashim, dan ayahanda kepada dua cucu Nabi ﷺ. Beliau memeluk Islam pada peringkat yang sangat awal; malah, Ibn ʿAbbas, Anas, Zaid bin Arqam, Salman al-Farisi dan sekumpulan lain berkata bahawa beliaulah orang pertama yang memeluk Islam, dan sebahagian daripada mereka meriwayatkan bahawa terdapat ijmak mengenainya.

cAli, may Allah be pleased with him, is one of the ten for whom it is witnessed that the Garden is for them, he was the brother of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace, by the act of taking brothers (undertaken between the Muhajirun and the Ansar in Madinah); he was his son-in-law through (marriage to) Fatimah, the mistress of the women of the worlds, may Allah be pleased with her; he was one of the first to embrace Islam, one of the lordly learned ones, one of the famously courageous ones, one of those mentioned for being abstinent, one of the recognised deliverers of the khutbah, one who memorised the entire Qur’an and recited it before the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and Abu’l-Aswad ad-Du’ali and cAbd ar-Rahman as-Sulami, in turn, recited it before him. He was the first khalifah from Bani Hashim, the father of the two grandsons (of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace). He accepted Islam very early on; rather, Ibn cAbbas, Anas, Zaid ibn Arqam, Salman al-Farisi and a whole group of others said that he was the first to accept Islam, and some of them relate that there is a consensus on that.

Abu Ya'la meriwayatkan bahawa 'Ali, semoga Allah meredhainya, berkata: "Rasulullah ﷺ diutus (untuk menjalankan misi kenabiannya) pada hari Isnin, dan aku menerima Islam pada hari Rabu." Umurnya ketika menerima Islam ialah sepuluh tahun. Ada yang mengatakan sembilan, ada yang mengatakan lapan, dan bahkan ada yang mengatakan kurang daripada itu. Al-Hasan bin Zaid bin al-Hasan berkata: Beliau tidak pernah menyembah berhala, kerana masih muda.

Abu Yacla narrated that cAli, may Allah be pleased with him, said, ‘The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was sent (on his prophetic mission) on Monday and I accepted Islam on the Wednesday.’ His age when he accepted Islam was ten years old. It has been said that it was nine, eight, and it has even been said that it was less than that. Al-Hasan ibn Zaid ibn al-Hasan said: He didn’t ever worship idols, because of his youth.

Ibn Sa'd meriwayatkannya.

Ibn Sacd narrated it.

Ketika beliau ﷺ menyuruhnya tinggal beberapa hari di Makkah selepas pemergiannya, untuk menyelesaikan pembayaran beberapa barang amanah yang dititipkan kepada Nabi ﷺ, dan kemudian menyertai keluarganya, dia pun melakukannya.

When he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, told him to remain some days behind after him in Makkah, in order to repay some things entrusted to and deposited with the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and for him then to join his family, he did that.

Dia hadir bersama Rasulullah ﷺ dalam Badar, Uhud dan semua peperangan lain kecuali Tabuk, kerana Nabi ﷺ telah menjadikannya sebagai wakilnya di Madinah. Dalam semua peperangan itu terdapat kisah-kisah yang masyhur mengenainya, dan Nabi ﷺ telah menyerahkan panji kepadanya pada banyak kesempatan.

He was present with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace, at Badr, Uhud and all the rest of the battles except for Tabuk, because the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, made him his deputy in Madinah. In all of the battles there are famous stories about him, and the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave him the standard on many occasions.

Sa'id bin al-Musayyab berkata: Pada hari Uhud, 'Ali menerima enam belas luka.

Sacid ibn al-Musayyab said: On the day of Uhud, cAli received sixteen wounds.

Telah tetap dalam dua kitab Sahih, bahawa beliau ﷺ memberikan panji pada hari Khaibar dan memberitahu bahawa kemenangan akan berada di tangannya. Riwayat tentang keberanian beliau dan kisah-kisah beliau dalam peperangan adalah masyhur.

It is well established in the two Sahih collections, ‘That he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave him the standard on the day of Khaybar and told that victory would be at his hands.’ The accounts of his bravery and stories of him in the wars are famous.

Ali, ketika sudah tua, bertubuh gempal, botak di bahagian dahi, berambut banyak, berketinggian sederhana cenderung pendek, berperut buncit, dan berjanggut sangat lebat yang memenuhi ruang di antara kedua bahunya serta putih seperti kapas, dan kulitnya sangat sawo matang.

cAli, as an old man, was stout, balding over the forehead, with much hair, of middle stature inclining to shortness, full-bellied, with an extremely full beard which filled between his two shoulders and was white as if it were cotton, and he was very tawny complexioned.

Jabir bin cAbdullah berkata: cAli memikul pintu gerbang di atas punggungnya pada hari Khaybar sehingga kaum Muslimin dapat naik ke atasnya dan menaklukkannya. Kemudian mereka cuba menyeretnya, dan hanya empat puluh orang sahaja yang mampu mengangkatnya. Ibn cAsakir meriwayatkannya.

Jabir ibn cAbdullah said: cAli carried the gate upon his back on the day of Khaybar until the Muslims ascended upon it and conquered it. They tried to drag it afterwards and it was only possible for forty men to carry it. Ibn cAsakir narrated it.

Ibnu Ishaq dalam al-Maghazi dan Ibnu cAsakir meriwayatkan daripada Abu Rafi‘ bahawa: cAli memegang pintu gerbang benteng, benteng Khaybar; dia menggunakannya sebagai perisai untuk melindungi dirinya, dan ia kekal di tangannya semasa dia berperang sehingga Allah memberikan kemenangan kepada kami. Sesungguhnya saya benar-benar melihat lapan daripada kami bersusah payah untuk membalikkan pintu gerbang itu, dan kami tidak mampu membalikkannya.

Ibn Ishaq in al-Maghazi and Ibn cAsakir narrated from Abu Rafic that: cAli took hold of the gate of the fortress, the fortress of Khaybar; he used it as a shield to protect himself, and it continued in his hand while he fought until Allah gave us the victory. I certainly saw eight of us struggling to turn that gate over and we were not able to turn it.

Al-Bukhari meriwayatkan dalam kitab al-Adab bahawa Sahl bin Sa'd berkata: Nama yang paling disukai oleh 'Ali, semoga Allah meridhainya, ialah Abu Turab (ertinya 'Si Berdebu' atau secara harfiah 'Bapa Debu'), dan dia gembira apabila dipanggil dengan nama itu. Tiada seorang pun yang menamakannya Abu Turab kecuali Nabi ﷺ. Itu kerana pada suatu hari, ketika dia marah kepada Fatimah, dia keluar dan berbaring bersandar pada dinding masjid, lalu Nabi ﷺ datang dan belakangnya dilitupi debu. Nabi ﷺ mula menyapu debu dari belakangnya sambil bersabda, 'Duduklah, wahai Abu Turab.' Dia meriwayatkan lima ratus lapan puluh enam hadith daripada Nabi ﷺ, semoga Allah memberi selawat dan salam kepada baginda, keluarga baginda dan memberi kesejahteraan kepada mereka.

Al-Bukhari narrated in al-Adab that Sahl ibn Sacd said: The name that cAli, may Allah be pleased with him, loved the most was Abu Turab (‘Dusty One’ or literally ‘Father of Dust’), and he rejoiced in being called by it. No-one named him Abu Turab except for the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. That was because one day, when he was angry with Fatimah, he went out and laid down against the wall of the mosque, and then the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came and his back was covered in dust. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, began to rub the dust from his back saying, ‘Sit down Abu Turab.’ He related five hundred and eighty-six hadith from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace.

Tiga orang anaknya, al-Hasan, al-Husain dan Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, meriwayatkan daripadanya, begitu juga Ibn Mas'ud, Ibn 'Umar, Ibn 'Abbas, Ibn az-Zubair, Abu Musa, Abu Sa'id, Zaid ibn Arqam, Jabir ibn 'Abdullah, Abu Umamah, Abu Hurairah, serta ramai lagi para Sahabat dan Tabi'in, semoga Allah meredai mereka semua.

His three sons, al-Hasan, al-Hussein and Muhammad ibn al- Hanafiyyah, related from him, and Ibn Mascud, Ibn TJmar, Ibn cAbbas, Ibn az-Zubayr, Abu Musa, Abu Sacid, Zaid ibn Arqam, Jabir ibn cAbdullah, Abu Imamah, Abu Hurayrah, and a great number of other Companions and Followers, may Allah be pleased with all of them.