[1] Ibn Ibn Abi’l-Ḥadīd writes that this sermon comprises three parts which do not fit together, because as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī selected some parts of Amīr al-mu’minīn’s sermons and did not record other parts as a result of which the continuity of utterance was not maintained. Thus, one part ends at “if he is left unanswered he would be disgraced,” the other at “and endurance at the pain of wound” and the third runs till the end of the sermon.