and Ismāʿīl ibn Abī al-Yusr; al-Nushbī; his son (1) Abū Bakr; al-Kamāl ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Zayn al-Umanāʾ; Farrās ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAsqalānī; ʿImād al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Ḥarastānī; and others.
By written authorization (ijāzah): Aḥmad ibn Salāmah al-Ḥaddād, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn ʿAllān, and a number of their peers.
Ibn ʿAllān and Ibn Salāmah informed us in writing, on the authority of al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī the ḥāfiẓ. He said: Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī informed us; Ḥaydara ibn ʿAlī the interpreter informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUthmān informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Ḥadhlam informed us; Abū Zurʿah narrated to us; ʿUqbah ibn Mukram narrated to me; Ghundar narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us, from al-Ḥakam, from ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn, from Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam:
“I was present with ʿAlī and ʿUthmān between Mecca and Medina. ʿUthmān forbade the mutʿah (the tamattuʿ form of pilgrimage) and the combining of both rites, but ʿAlī rejected that, entered into both, and proclaimed, ‘Here I am for an ʿumrah and a hajj together.’
ʿUthmān said, ‘I forbid the people, and you still do it?!’
He replied, ‘I will never abandon a Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, because of anyone’s statement.’
Al-Nasāʾī recorded the report (2), and it shows that Imam ʿAlī held the view that one may oppose the ruler