Ahl Sufa, A Muslim mystic
يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ عَنْ رُمَيْلَةَ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ع مَرَّ بِرَجُلٍ يَخْبِطُ هُوَ هُوَ فَقَالَ يَا شَابُّ لَوْ قَرَأْتَ الْقُرْآنَ لَكَانَ خَيْراً لَكَ فَقَالَ إِنِّي لَا أُحْسِنُهُ وَ لَوَدِدْتُ أَنْ أُحْسِنَ مِنْهُ شَيْئاً فَقَالَ ادْنُ مِنِّي فَدَنَا مِنْهُ فَتَكَلَّمَ فِي أُذُنِهِ بِشَيْءٍ خَفِيٍّ فَصَوَّرَ اللَّهُ الْقُرْآنَ كُلَّهُ فِي قَلْبِهِ فَحَفِظَ كُلَّهُ
(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported from Rumeylah,
‘(Amir ul-Momineen) Ali-asws passed by a man stomping the ground (saying) ‘هُوَ هُوَ’ ‘(Name of Allah-azwj)! (acting on a Sufi ritual). He-asws said: ‘O youth! If you were to read the Quran, it would be better for you’. He said, ‘I am not good at it, and I would love to be good with something from it’. He-asws said: ‘Come near me-asws’. He went near him-asws. He-asws spoke in his ears with something in a low voice, and Allah-azwj Transferred the Quran, all of it into his heart. He memorised all of it’.[1]
[1] Bihar Al Anwaar – V 40, The book of History – Amir Al Momineen-asws, Ch 116 H 1