Ali's) lectures and sermons and different epistles...

Ali's) lectures and sermons and different epistles, and their number reaches more than 480 lectures; they were delivered extempore, but people memorized them and continued to narrate them and teach them."[^1] Now if these more than 480 lectures could be found, they would have made a bigger volume than Nahjul Balaghah.

There was Abdul-Hamid Al-Katib Ibn Yahya, who died in 132 A.H., and Ibn Abi1-Hadid quotes him in his Commentary that he said: I memorized 70 lectures from the lectures of Ali, and its benefits continued to grow and grow.

Ibn Al-Muqaffa, who died in 142 A.H., used to say: "I drank from the sermons and lectures of Ali and its pleasing benefits grew and grew." That is why Allama Hassan Al-Nadubi writes in his foot-notes of Al-Bayan Wat-Tabyin of Al-Jabi: Obviously he learned and acquired his rhetoric from the lectures of Imam Ali (ع). Ibn Nubatah, who died in 374 A.H., said: I memorized 100 pieces of sermons of Ali Ibn Abi Talib (ع), and it was a treasure of rhetoric which the more it is spent the more it increases.

Zayd Ibn Ali Ibn Al-Hussain (ع), the grandson of Imam Hussain (ع), known as Zayd Ash-Shaheed, (martyred in 120 A.H.) used to listen to the sermons of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (ع). Abu Salah Al-Kinani has said: Zayd used to hear from the lectures of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (ع) [^2]. Even before him Zayn Ibn Wahb Al-Juhni who died in 90 A.H., who was one of the narrators of Amirul-Mu'minin (ع)'s traditions, had compiled Ali's lectures and sermons.

There were other persons who had collected the lectures and sermons of Ali (ع), a short list of which is given here: Hisham Ibn Muhammad Ibn Saib Al-Kalbi (d. 186 A.H.)[^3] Ibrahim Ibn Zahir; He had compiled Kitabu Khutub Ali (ع) i.e. the Book of the Sermons of Ali (ع) [^4] Abu Muhammad Mas'adah Ibn Sadaqah had also collected the sermons of Ali (ع) [^5] Abu Al-Qasim Abdul Azim Ibn Abdullah Hassani, who was a companion of Imam Ali An- Naqi (ع) had compiled Kitabu Khutub Amirul-Mu'minin (ع) ^6 .

Abu1-Khayr Sad Ibn Abi Hammad Ar-Radi, a contemporary of the above-mentioned Abdu1-Azim. He had also collected a similar book ^7 . Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Madaini (d. 335 A.H.) He had also compiled lectures and letters of Ali (ع)[^8]. Abu Muhammad Abdu1-Aziz Al-Jaludi (d. 330 A.H.). He had compiled several books separately on lectures of Ali, Letters of Ali, Sermons of Ali (ع) etc. [^9] Abu Muhammad Hassan Ibn Ali Ibn Shu'bah Al-Halabi (d.