1549 — Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Nājiya informed us, saying: Shujā ibn Shujā Abu Mansūr related to us, saying: Abd al-Hamīd ibn Bahr al-Basrī related to us, saying: Sharīk related to us, saying: Salama ibn Kuhayl related to us, from Abu Abd al-Rahmān, from Ali—may Allah be pleased with him—who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “I am the city of religious understanding, and Ali is its gate.”