it is the covenant of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, to me that: “No one loves you except a believer, and no one hates you except a hypocrite.” Muslim recorded it, and al-Tirmidhī also cited it and declared it authentic.

Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sammān and others related, on the authority of Abū Saʿīd, who said: “We used to recognize the hypocrites by their hatred of ʿAlī.”

Abū al-Zubayr likewise reported from Jābir: “We did not know the hypocrites of this community except by their hatred of ʿAlī.”

Mukhtār ibn Nāfiʿ—who is counted among the weak narrators—said: Abū Ḥayyān al-Taymī narrated to us, from his father, from ʿAlī, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
“May Allah have mercy on Abū Bakr; he married his daughter to me, carried me to the Abode of Emigration, and set Bilāl free. May Allah have mercy on ʿUmar; he speaks the truth even when it is bitter—the truth left him with no friend. May Allah have mercy on ʿUthmān; the angels feel shy before him. May Allah have mercy on ʿAlī. O Allah, turn the truth with him wherever he turns.”
Al-Tirmidhī recorded this report and remarked, “It is singular (gharīb); we know it only through this route.”

Al-Aʿmash likewise transmitted—from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from al-Ḥārith, from ʿAlī—who said: “Two kinds of people will perish because of me: a spiteful slanderer and an excessive admirer.”

Yahyā al-Ḥammānī said: Abū ʿAwāna narrated to us, from Abū Bishr, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from ʿĀʾisha, who said: “I was sitting with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, when ʿAlī approached and …”