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al-‘Abbas, “How come ‘Ali INHERITED the Messenger of Allah , peace be upon him, and not yourselves?” He replied, “Because he was the first of us to meet him (in Islam) and the he was the strictest of us to adhere to him.[^17] Al-Hakim says: هذا حديث صحيح الإسناد This hadith has a sahih chain. ^18 Al-Dhahabi concurs: صحيح Sahih . ^19 [^1]: Nur al-Din ‘Ali b. Abi Bakr al-Haythami, Majma’ al-Zawaid (Beirut: Dar al-Fikr; 1412 H), vol. 9, p. 183, # 14765 [^3]: Muhammad Nasir al-Din b.

al-Hajj Nuh al-Albani, Silsilah al-Ahadith al-Dha’ifah wa al-Mawdhu’ah wa Atharihah al-Sayyiah fi al-Ummah (Riyadh: Dar al-Ma’arif; 1st edition, 1412 H), vol. 10, p. 653, # 4948 [^4]: The jarh…