Abu al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd al-Salām informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn Abī Sharīk informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī dictated to us; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Suwayd ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; Sharik narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Hubshī ibn Junādah, who said:
“I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘ʿAlī is from me and I am from ʿAlī; no one conveys on my behalf except myself or he.’ ”
This is a fair, singular hadith.
Ibn Mājah transmitted it in his Sunan (1) on the authority of Suwayd; our chain meets his with the advantage of greater elevation.
Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, lecturer at the Shāmiyyah (2), and Zaynab bint Kindī (3) likewise transmitted to us by direct audition, from Zaynab bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥasan al-Shaʿriyyah,
= Ahmad, in the Zawaid al-Zuhd; Ibn al-Mundhir; Ibn Abi Hatim; Ibn Mardawayh; and al-Bayhaqi in al-Baʿth.
(1) (119) Cited in the Introduction, by al-Tirmidhi (no. 3719), and by Ahmad, 4/165, through the isnad of Sharik → Abu Ishaq → Hubshi b. Junada. Ahmad also reports it (4/164) through Yahya b. Adam and Ibn Abi Bukayr, both of whom said: “Israel related to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Hubaysh b. Junada, who was present at the Farewell Pilgrimage, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Ali is of me and I am of him; no one shall discharge my duty except myself or Ali.’ ” The chain is sound; all the transmitters are those accepted by the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhari and Muslim).
(2) The “inner Shamiya” madrasa stood just south of the Nuriyya hospital. Only its gate survives today. It had originally been the residence of al-Sham Khatun, sister of al-Malik al-Adil b. Ayyub; she later converted it into a Shafi‘i law college and endowed it generously. As for Taj al-Din mentioned here, the author sketches his life in his Muʿjam al-Shuyukh, fol. 139: Muhammad b. Abd al-Salam b. al-Mutahhar, grandson of the scholar Qadi al-Qudat Abu Saad Abd Allah b. Muhammad b. Hibat Allah b. Abi Asrun, the eminent teacher, long-lived muhaddith, Taj al-Din Abu Abd Allah b. Abi al-Fadl al-Tamimi, first of Aleppo then of Damascus, Shafi‘i professor at the smaller Shamiya. He heard hadith from his father and from Ibn Rawzana Makram b. Muhammad. Pious, humble and amiable, his spoken Arabic was colloquial, yet he delivered his lessons verbatim with elegance. I myself heard several fascicles from him. He was born in Aleppo, Muharram 610/June 1213, and died in Rabi I 695/January 1296.
(3) The author also records her in the Muʿjam al-Shuyukh, fol. 50: Zaynab bt. Umar b. Kindi b. Saad b. Ali, known as Umm Muhammad al-Dimashqiyya al-Kindiyya, later resident in Baalbek—a venerable, upright shaykha renowned for her charity. She performed the pilgrimage, built a ribat, and endowed property for benevolent works. She transmitted extensively under the ijaza of al-Muayyad al-Tusi, Abu Ruh, and Zaynab bt. al-Shi‘ri. She died in late Jumada al-Akhira 699/April 1300.