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darimi:3231Abū al-Nuʿmān > Ḥammād b. Zayd > Hishām from his father

[Machine] Ali entered the room of a patient and they mentioned the will to him. Ali said, "Allah said, 'If you leave something good' (Al-Baqarah 2:180), and I do not consider that he left something good." Hammad said, "So I memorized that he left more than seven hundred things."  

الدارمي:٣٢٣١حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّ عَلِيًّا دَخَلَ عَلَى مَرِيضٍ فَذَكَرُوا لَهُ الْوَصِيَّةَ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ قَالَ اللَّهُ {إِنْ تَرَكَ خَيْرًا} [البقرة 180] وَلَا أُرَاهُ تَرَكَ خَيْرًا قَالَ حَمَّادٌ «فَحَفِظْتُ أَنَّهُ تَرَكَ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ سَبْعِ مِائَةٍ»