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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
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[Machine] I mentioned Ali's saying to Ibn Mas'ud, and he said, "Have you not seen his head? It is like a jar, and his surroundings are like a fence."  

الطبراني:١٦٠ – حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى السَّاجِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ نَافِعٍ ثنا أُمَيَّةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ ثنا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي الطُّفَيْلِ قَالَ

ذَكَرْتُ لِابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَوْلَ عَلِيٍّ ؓ فَقَالَ «أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى رَأْسِهْ كالطَّسْتِ وَإِنَّمَا حَوْلَهُ كالحِفَافِ»