1496 — Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muhammad al-Baghawī narrated to us: Yahyā ibn ʿAbd al-Hamīd al-Himmānī narrated to us: Sharik narrated to us, from Abū Rabīʿa al-Iyādī, from Ibn Burayda, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said, “My Lord—Glorious and Exalted—has commanded me to love four people and informed me that He loves them. You, O ʿAlī, are one of them; you, O ʿAlī, are one of them”—three times.