Musnad Ahmad — Hadith #45042

Abdullah told us, Ismail bin Ubaid bin Abi Karimah Al-Harrani told us, Muhammad bin Salamah told us, on the authority of Abu Abdul Rahim, on the authority of Zaid Ibn Abi Unaisa, on the authority of Al-Zuhri, on the authority of Ali Ibn Hussein, on the authority of his father, he said, I heard Ali saying, “The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, came to me.” May God bless him and grant him peace, while I was sleeping with Fatima, and that was dawn, until he stood at the door and said, “Won’t you pray?” I said, responding to him, “O Messenger of God, it is only Our souls are in the hands of God, so when He wishes to send us, he said, then the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, returned and did not return to The words, so I heard him say when he turned and struck his thigh with his hand: “And man is the most contentious of all things.”