Ash- Sharif ar-Radi, the compiler of the Nahj al-Balagha, died in 406/1115, but most of the material of the Nahj al-Balagha I have found word-for-word in sources written long before the fifth century of Islam. These sources include, for example, Nasr b. Muzahim al- Minqari's Waq'at Siffin, Ya'qubi's Ta'rikh, Jahiz Al-Bayan wa'l- Tabyin, Mubarrad's Kamil, Baladhuri's Ansab al-Ashraf and many other standard works of the second, third, and fourth centuries.
Tarehekumi na nane mwaka wa kumi hijiria, majira ya asubuhi Mtume Muhammad (s.a.w.w) alipokuwa akirejea kutoka Makka baada ya kufanya ibada ya Hijja, akiandamana na Waislamu zaidi ya laki moja. Mtume (s.a.w.w) pamoja na Waislamu walipofika njia panda, njia ziendazo Madina, Misri na Iraqi, katika bonde la khom, ndipo Mwenyeezi Mungu alipoteremsha aya:-