4. Codices Attributed to ‘Ali (A)

The codex compiled by ‘Ali (A) existed until the time of Ibn al Nad’im, i.e. the last decades of the 4^th/10^th century.” As mentioned in al Fihrist, he saw this codex in the possession of Abu Ya’la Hamzah al-Hasani and it remained as a legacy in the family of al-‘Imam al Hasan (A). ³⁸ Probably, the aforementioned person is al-Sharif Abu Ya’la – Hamzah ibn Zayd ibn al-Husayn al-Hasani al-‘Aftasi who was a disciple of al-Sayyid al-Murtada. ³⁹ Considering that al-Fihrist was written in the year 377/987 and al-Sayyid al-Murtada was probably born in 355/966, Abu Ya’la’s meeting with Ibn al-Nadim must have preceded his discipleship of al Sayyid al Murtada for it is unlikely that Abu Ya’la may have become the Sayyid’s pupil before the latter had reached the age of 22 years.