A Narration of his Last Moments

Amr Dhi Mur narrates:

“Hazrat Ali (ra) suffered wounds caused by a sword. When I went to see him, he had his head tied up. I said to him, ‘O Leader of the Faithful! Show me your wound.’ He removed the cloth from the wound to which I said, ‘It is only a minor injury and nothing more.’ Hazart Ali (ra) stated, ‘I am soon to depart from you all.’ Upon hearing this, Umm-e-Kulthumra, Hazrat Ali’s (ra) daughter, who was behind a curtain, began to cry. Hazrat Ali (ra) told her to stop and said, ‘If you saw what I am witnessing before me, you would not cry.’ I then said to him, ‘O Leader of the Faithful! What are you seeing before you?’ Hazrat Ali (ra) replied, ‘I see before me delegations of angels and prophets and also the Holy Prophet (sa) who is saying’”, i.e. this was in the form of a vision in which he saw angels, prophets “‘and the Holy Prophet (sa) was saying, “O Ali, rejoice! For the place where you are going to is better than the place where you currently are.”’”

In another narration, it is stated that when Hazrat Ali (ra) finished reciting his will, he said:

“I say to you, may the peace and blessings of Allah and His mercy be upon you.” After this, he said nothing except the declaration of faith [Kalima] and thereafter, he passed away.

(Ali Ibn al-Athir, Usdul Ghabah fi Ma‘rifah al-Sahabah, Vol. 4, (Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, 2003), pp. 114-115)