What is your opinion regarding al-Sagani's statement in his book *Qanun al-Mawdu'at*: "Every hadith containing: 'O Ali' is invalid, except the hadith:
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The Shaykh : As for what is transmitted from Imam al-Sagani, this transmission from him is correct; that is, the hadiths narrated from Ali that begin with the vocative "O Ali" are, in fact, all invalid, with nothing valid among them except the hadith he excluded: Sahih Muslim 2404b. However, what I recall is that in the two Sahihs, the hadith does not contain the word of vocative. Although it occurred specifically regarding Ali when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) traveled to Tabuk for the famous Battle of Tabuk and left Ali behind in Madinah, Ali wept with sorrow at not being with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) as a mujahid. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) consoled him, saying: Sahih Muslim 2404b. In the two Sahihs, the word of vocative or the letter of vocative does not exist, except that this wording appeared in some chains of narration. Al-Hafiz al-Dimashqi Abu al-Qasim Ibn Asakir, in his noble, great, and large book known as *Tarikh Dimashq*, which consists of about twenty large volumes, if it were to be printed, would come out to about one hundred volumes of the size of the *Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah* series, one hundred volumes. On the occasion of his biography of Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), he cited the hadiths of Ali: , and in some of these narrations, the word of vocative appears.
