al-Naqūr, who said: ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Jarrāḥ dictated to us in the year 389 AH. He said: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad related to us. He said: Suwayd ibn Saʿīd narrated to us. He said: Shurayk narrated, from Abū Isḥāq, from Ḥabashī ibn Junādah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say, “ʿAlī is from me and I am from ʿAlī; none conveys on my behalf except I or he.”
Ibn Mājah recorded it through Suwayd, and al-Tirmidhī transmitted it through Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā from Shurayk, declaring it authentic though singular (ṣaḥīḥ gharīb).
It was also transmitted by Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, from Isrāʾīl, from his grandfather; al-Nasāʾī reproduced it in al-Khaṣāʾiṣ.
Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān al-Ḍabʿī said: Yazīd al-Rashk related to us, from Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, dispatched a detachment and appointed ʿAlī as its commander. It was the custom of the Muslims that, when they returned from a journey or a campaign, they would first go to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, before heading for their dwellings, and inform him of what had taken place. ʿAlī had taken a slave-girl, and four of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, pledged among themselves, “We shall inform him of this.” The detachment returned; they came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and reported their march. One of the four stood up and said, “O Messenger of Allah, ʿAlī has taken a slave-girl.” He turned away from him. Then the second rose and said, “He has done such-and-such,” and he turned away from him; the third did likewise, and then the fourth. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, then faced them angrily and said, “What do you want with ʿAlī? ʿAlī is from me and I am from him; he is the patron of every believer after me.” Aḥmad included it in the Musnad.