Wikipedia's first sentence called it “explicitly mentioned in the quran”. Today it says “said to have been revealed about ali ibn abi talib”.
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Ali ibn Abi Talib is explicitly mentioned in the Quran . An exception is in Ja'far Ibn al-Haytham 's Kitab al-Munazarat , there is a specific mention of the words ʿAliyyan ( ), ʿAliyyun ( عَلِيٌّ ) and ʿAlayya ( عَلَيَّ ) in the Quran which, he believes, according to grammatical rules are the names to Ali . Examples of these, he says, are the following verses: In the (mother of the Book which is with Us, he is Ali, full of wisdom ; We appointed for them Ali as a voice of truth ; and This is the straight path of Ali . However, many other verses of the Quran have been interpreted, by both Shia and Sunni scholars, as referring to Ali.1
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Ali in the Quran collects the verses of the Quran , the central religious text of Islam , which are said to have been revealed about Ali ibn Abi Talib , the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad .Ali played a pivotal role during the formative years of Islam and is recognized as the fourth Rashidun caliph ( r. 656–661 ) in Sunni Islam and the first imam in Shia Islam .Perhaps the most controversial such verse is 5:55, also known as the verse of walaya , which gave Ali the same spiritual authority ( walaya ) as Muhammad, according to the Shia.
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Quran verses about Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali in the Quran collects the verses of the Quran , the central religious text of Islam , which are said to have been revealed about Ali ibn Abi Talib , the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad . Ali played a pivotal role during the formative years of Islam and is recognized as the fourth Rashidun caliph ( r. 656–661 ) in Sunni Islam and the first imam in Shia Islam . Perhaps the most controversial such verse is 5:55, also known as the verse of walaya , which gave Ali the same spiritual authority ( walaya ) as Muhammad, according to the Shia.
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said to have been revealed about ali ibn abi talib
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