Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) says that Allah Almighty decreed on the blessed tongue of the Prophet ﷺ that war... is the name of strategy. Indeed, I am a warrior, I speak about war. He said that, but when the Holy Prophet ﷺ has said something, then by God, I would have preferred to fall headlong from the sky rather than say something about the Messenger of Allah ﷺ that he did not say.