In his Kitab al-`Ilm ...

In his Kitab al-`Ilm , al-Bukhari records the following: Al-Sha`bi has quoted Abu Juhayfa saying, “I asked Ali: `Do you have a book in your possession?' He said, `No, except the Book of Allah, or some knowledge bestowed upon a Muslim man, or what this saheefa quotes of the Prophet.' I asked him, `And what is in this saheefa ?' `It contains reason,' he said, `the ransoming of the captives, and that no Muslim should kill another Muslim.'“[^7] In another place, al-Bukhari quotes Ibrahim al-Taymi quoting his father quoting Ali saying, “We have nothing except the Book of Allah and this saheefa which quotes the Prophet.”[^8] In yet another place in al-Bukhari's Sahih , the author quotes Ibrahim al-Taymi quoting his father saying, “Ali delivered a sermon once to us in which he said, `We have no book to read except the Book of Allah and what is recorded in this saheefa .'“[^9] In another place of his Sahih , al-Bukhari quotes Ali saying, “We did not write down from the Prophet except the Qur'an and this saheefa .”[^10] In yet another place of his Sahih , al-Bukhari says, “Ibrahim al-Taymi quotes his father saying, `Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, delivered a sermon to us once from a pulpit built of baked bricks, and he was carrying a sword from which a saheefa was draping and said, `By Allah!

We do not have any book to read except the Book of Allah and what is recorded in this saheefa .'“[^11] Al-Bukhari, however, did not indicate…