Ghurar al-hikam

Ghurar al-ḥikam wa durar al-kalim (Arabic: غرر الحکم و درر الکلم, lit.

Ghurar al-hikam was compiled by Abd al-Wahid al-Amidi (d. 1116), who has been described as either a Shafi'i jurist or a Twelver Shia scholar.

[1] Ghurar al-hikam is a collection of over ten thousand pietistic and ethical sayings attributed to Ali, taken from various sources, including Nahj al-balagha by the Twelver theologian Sharif al-Radi (d. 1015), Mi'a kalema (lit.

'hundred sayings [of Ali]') by the Abbasid-era scholar al-Jahiz (d. 869),[2][1] Tuhuf al-uqul by the Shia traditionist Ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani, and Dustur ma'alim al-hikam by the Shafi'i jurist al-Quda'i (d. 1062).

[2] The aphorisms in Ghurar al-hikam and other works attributed to Ali are said to have exerted considerable influence on the Islamic mysticism throughout its history.