Ibn Abī Shaybah narrated it in al-Musannaf (12...

Ibn Abī Shaybah narrated it in al-Musannaf (12:80 # 12170); Abū Nu‘aym, Hilyat-ul-awliyā’ wa tabaqāt-ul-asfiyā’ (6:294); Muhib Tabarī, ar-Riyād-un-nadrah fī manāqib-il-‘ashrah (3:129); Haythamī, Mawārid-uz-zam’ān (p.543 # 2203); and Hindī in Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (13:142 # 36444). [3].

Ibn Mājah transmitted this sahīh (sound) hadīth in the preface ( al-muqaddimah ) to his Sunan (1:90 # 121); Ibn Abī ‘Āsim, as-Sunnah (p.608 # 1386); Mizzī, Tuhfat-ul-ashrāf bi-ma‘rifat-il-atrāf (3:203 # 3901); and Nasā’ī reproduced it with slightly different words in Khasā’is amīr-il-mu’minīm ‘Alī bin Abī Tālib (pp. 32,33 #91). [4].

Ibn Mājah narrated this sound hadīth (tradition) in preface ( al-muqaddimah ) to his Sunan (1:88 # 116); Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāyah wan-nihāyah (4:168); Hindī, Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (11:602 # 32904); Ibn ‘Asākir, Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (45:167, 168); and Ibn ‘Abī ‘Āsim briefly mentioned in as-Sunnah (p.603 # 1362). [5].

Ahmad bin Hambal related it from Barā’ bin ‘Āzib through two different chains of transmission in al-Musnad (4:281); Ibn Abī Shaybah, al-Musannaf (12:78 # 12167); Muhib Tabarī, Dhakhā’ir-ul-‘uqbā fī manāqib dhawī al-qurbā (p.125), ar-Riyād-un-nadrah fī manāqib-il-‘ashrah (3:126, 127); Hindī, Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (13:133, 134 # 36420); Ibn ‘Asākir, Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (5:167, 168); Ibn Athīr, Asad-ul-ghābah (4:103); and Ibn Kathīr in al-Bidāyah wan-nihāyah (4:169; 5:464).

Ahmad bin Hambal in his book Fadā’il-us-sahābah (2:610 # 1042) has added the following words in the tradition related to ‘Umar bin al-Khattāb (RA). The Prophet (SAW) said: وعاد من عاداه, وانصر من نصره, وأحب من أحبه. قال شعبة: أو قال: و ابغض من أبغضه. (O Allāh!) Be the enemy of one who is his (‘Alī’s) enemy, and help him who helps him, and love him who loves him.

Shu‘bah says that the Prophet (SAW) said in its place, “Bear malice towards him who bears malice towards (‘Alī).” Manāwī has written in Fayd-ul-qadīr (6:217) that when Abū Bakr (RA) and ‘Umar (RA) had heard the Prophet’s saying - One who has me as his master has ‘Alī as his master - they said to ‘Alī (RA) : O son of Abū Tālib!

You have become the master of every male and female believer, morning and evening (for ever).” Dhahabī has said in Siyar a‘lām-in-nubalā’ (2:623, 624) that ‘Umar (RA) uttered the words: هنيئا لك يا علي! O ‘Alī! Congratulations. [6].