Ahmad bin Hambal related it in al-Musnad (4...

Ahmad bin Hambal related it in al-Musnad (4:368), and Fadā’il-us-sahābah (2:586 # 992); Tabarānī, al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (5:195 # 5070); Ibn ‘Asākir, Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (45:165); and Hindī in Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (13:105 # 36343). Nasā’ī has narrated this tradition through Sa‘d in Kasā’is amīr-il-mu’minīn ‘Alī bin Abī Tālib (p.97 # 92) with a slight difference in the use of words.

Haythamī has referred to it in Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (9:107) that it has been narrated by Bazzar and its narrators are reliable ( thiqah ). Maymūn Abū ‘Abdullāh describes that Zayd bin Arqam (RA) related this tradition when someone asked him about ‘Alī (RA), and Hindī has reproduced this tradition in Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (13:104, 105 # 36342). [17].

Ibn Abī Shaybah related it in al-Musannaf (12:59 # 12121); Hindī, Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (13:137 # 32433); Ibn ‘Asākir, Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (45:169, 170, 172); and Ibn Kathīr has written in al-Bidāyah wan-nihāyah (4:173) that Dhahabī has graded it fair ( hasan ).

Dhahabī narrated it through ‘Abdullāh bin Muhammad bin ‘Aqīl in Siyar a‘lām-in-nubalā ’, (7:570, 571), who said, “‘Alī bin Husayn, Muhammad bin Hanafiyyah, Abū Ja‘far and I were at Jābir’s house.” Dhahabī says that the text of the tradition is successive. [18]. Ibn Abī ‘Āsim related it in as-Sunnah (p.

603 # 1360); Ibn ‘Asākir, Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (45:161, 162); and Hindī has said in Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (13:140 # 36441) that Ibn Rāhawayh, Ibn Jarīr, Ibn Abī ‘Āsim and Mahāmilī narrated it in Amālī , and graded it sahīh (sound). [19].

Tabarānī related it in al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (3:67, 180, 181 # 2683, 3052; 5:166, 167 # 4971); Haythamī, Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (9:164, 165); Ibn ‘Asākir, Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (45:166, 167); Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāyah wan-nihāyah (5:463); and Hindī in Kanz-ul-‘ummal (1:188, 189 # 957, 958). Ibn ‘Asākir related it from Sa‘d also in Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (45:169). [20].

Tabarānī transmitted it in al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (2:357 # 2505); Haythamī, Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (9:106); Ibn ‘Asākir, Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (45:179); and Hindī in Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (13:138, 139 # 36437). Previous…