Short Sayings of Imam Ali (A.S.)
Name: Ali
Title: Amiral Momineen (Leader of the believers)
By name: Abul Hassan,Abu Toraab, Asadollah
Father: Abu Talib ibne Abdul Motalleb
Mother: Fatima binte Asad
Date of birth: 13 Rajab 23B.H
Place of birth: Inside Ka’ba. Mecca, Arabia
Period of Imamat: 30 years as the first divine Imam
Period of khilaafat: about 5 years
Place of Martyrdom: Mosque in Kufa(while leading morning congregation prayers on 19 Ramazan ,Ali (A.S) was lethally wounded)
Date of Martyrdom: 21 Ramazan 40 A.H
Age: 63 years
Shrine: Najafe Ashraf, Iraq
Recommended A’mal On the Night of Qadr
Can be performed on the 19th , 21st and 23rd
It is reported in Hadith that whoever keeps awake on the nights of Qadr 
shall have his/her
sins forgiven, even if they equal the number of the stars in the heaven.
It is also recommended to recite hundred rak`aat (i.e. 50 namaz of 2 rak`aat each) on
these nights. The practice of performing Qadha prayers on these nights has no origin in
Virtues of Imam Ali (A.S.) in Sunni Sources
Virtue Number 1
Hasan bin Ahmad bin Sokhtaweyh narrated in Kufa in the year three hundred and seventy-four from Abu Bakr Mohammad bin Ahmad bin Isa bin Mihran, from Yahya bin Abdul Hamid, from Qays bin Rabee’, from Aamash, from Abaya, from Habba Al-‘Arani, from the Commander of the Believers, Ali bin Abi Taleb , who said:
The Messenger of Allah said:
I am the master of the first and the last, and you, O Ali, are the master of the creations after me. I am just like you and you are just like me.