
From the life of Hazrat Ali (ra) bin Abi Talib
Hazrat Saeed (ra) bin Musayyib relates that Hazrat Ali (ra) sustained 16 wounds during the Battle of Uhud.
(Ali Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah fi Ma‘rifat al-Sahabah, Vol. 4, Dhikr Ali bin Abi Talib [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Fikr, 2003], 93)