2637 – ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim related to us, saying: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah narrated to us; he said: Wakiʿ and Abū Muʿāwiyah—both of them—from al-Aʿmash, [break].

2638 – And ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Khayrān related to us; he said: Abū ʿĪsā Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Qaṭan narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah narrated to us; he said: Abū Muʿāwiyah, from al-Aʿmash, from Saʿd ibn ʿUbaydah, from Ibn Buraydah, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stated ⦗1459⦘, “Whoever has me as his mawla (guardian and ally), ʿAlī is his mawla.” In the report transmitted by Ibn Abī Ḥātim it reads: “ʿAlī is his walī (protector).”