Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ubeyd, from Yunus, from Hammad, from Hamza Bin Al Tayyar who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘ The people are upon six divisions . All of these can be interpreted to be upon three divisions – the Emān , and the Kufr (disbelief), and the straying.
And they are the Promised people whom Allah -azwj has Promised the Paradise and the Fire – the Momineen , and the Un-believers, and the weak ones, and the hopeful ones for the Command of Allah -azwj , either He -azwj Punishes them or He -azwj Turns towards them (with Mercy), and the acknowledgers of their sins mixing the righteous deeds and the evil deeds, and the people of the Heights’.
[13] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ أَنَا وَ حُمْرَانُ أَوْ أَنَا وَ بُكَيْرٌ عَلَى أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ إِنَّا نَمُدُّ الْمِطْمَارَ قَالَ وَ مَا الْمِطْمَارُ قُلْتُ التُّرُّ فَمَنْ وَافَقَنَا مِنْ عَلَوِيٍّ أَوْ غَيْرِهِ تَوَلَّيْنَاهُ وَ مَنْ خَالَفَنَا مِنْ عَلَوِيٍّ أَوْ غَيْرِهِ بَرِئْنَا مِنْهُ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Salim, from Zurara who said, ‘I and Humran’, or ‘I and Bukeyr went over to Abu Ja’far -asws .
I said to him, ‘We are extending the plumb-line (a measuring device)’. He -asws said: ‘And what is the plumb-line?’ I said, ‘A measuring criteria. So the one who is concordant with us from the Alawites or others, we befriend him, and the one who opposes us from the Alawites or others, we disavow from him’.