A large number of knowledge-seekers were the narrators of...

A large number of knowledge-seekers were the narrators of his hadiths and availed themselves of his overflowing spring emanated from the Prophet and 'Ali's boundless body of knowledge. Describing Imam's personality, Muhammad Ibn Sa'd, Sunnites historian and scholar, had said, كان علي بن الحسين ثقة مأمونا كثير الحديث عالياً رفيعاً ورعاً [^14] ”'Ali Ibn Husayn, trustworthy, said many hadiths.

He was magnanimous, superior and pious.” In his thesis about the reliability of this unique narration, Shafi'i had written, وجدت علي بن الحسين - وهو أفقه أه