My God...
My God, befriend whoever befriends him and be hostile to whoever is hostile to him.'" Abu al-Tufayl says: "I said to Zayd, 'Did you hear it from the Prophet(S)?' He replied, 'There was no one in the caravan who did not see it with his eyes and hear it with his ears,'" Khasa'is ‘Ali is part of al-Nasa'i's al-Sunan al-kubra as shown by the 3rd volume of the MS in the king's collection in Morocco, written in 759/1358 folios 81-117.
See also in this regard the introduction of al-Khasa'is (Kuwait: Maktabat al-Mu’alla, 1406), ed. by Ahmad Mirayn Balushi. The editor states that this tradition is sahih and its transmitters are thiqah. Among others who have recorded it in their books are: Al-Bukhari, al-Ta'rikh al-kabir, iii, 96; Muslim, Sahih, bab fada'il ‘Ali, no. 2408; Ahmad, Musnad, iii, 17, iv, 366; ‘Abd ibn Humayd, Musnad, no.
265; Ibn Sa’d, and Abu Ya’la from Abu Sa’id, as mentioned in Jam’ al-jawami ’ and Kanz al-‘ummal ; Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, in his Sahih., as mentioned by Ibn Hajar in al-Matalib al-Aliyah, iv, 65, no. 1873, where he states that its isnad is sahih, and also by al-Busayri in Ithaf al-sadah (MS in Topcopi Library, vol. 3, F.55b) who, too, considers the isnad as sahih; Ibn Khuzaymah, Sahih, MS in Topcopi Library, F.240; al-Darimi, Sunan, ii, 310, no.
2319; Abu Dawud, Sunan, as mentioned in Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, Tadhkirat khawass al-ummah, 322; Abu 'Uwwanah, Musnad, as mentioned in al-Shaykhani, al-Sirat al-sawi ; al-Bazzaz, from Umm Hani, as mentioned in Wasilat al-ma'al ; Ibn Abi 'Asim, Kitab al-Sunnah, 629, no. 1551, 630, no. 1555, 629, no. 1551; al-Ya’qubi, Ta'rikh, ii, 112; al-Baladhuri, Ansab al-ashraf, 110, no.
48, the biographical account of ‘Ali (A); al-Hafiz al-Hasan ibn Sufyan al-Nasawi, the author of Musnad, from Hudhayfah ibn Usayd, as mentioned by Abu Nu’aym, al-Hilyah, i, 355, al-Fasawi, al-Ma’rifah wa al-ta'rikh, i, 536; Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, from Hudhayfah ibn Usayd, Zayd ibn Arqam (with al-Nasa'i's wording as well as with the wording of Muslim), Abu Sa’id al-Khudri, as cited in Jam’ al-jawami’, ii, 357, 395, Kanz al-’ummal, 12911, xiii, 36441, 36340, 37620, 37621, 36341, Jami’ al-ahadith, vii, 14523, 15112, 15122, 15113, iv, 7773, 8072, 8073; al-Dulabi, al-Dhurriyyat al-tahirah, no.