2687. Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Juʿfī transmitted to us by authorization; al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Farazdaq al-Fazārī, reading in his presence, stated; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Bazīʿ narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Ṣubayḥ narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Shamir, from Jābir, from Abū al-Ṭufayl, who said:

ʿAlī used to say, “The people with the strongest claim to the prophets are those who know best what the prophets brought. Then he would recite the verse, ‘Indeed, the people most worthy of Abraham are those who followed him, and this Prophet’ (Qur’an 3:68) — meaning Muhammad and those who follow him. So do not alter this: the ally of Muhammad is the one who obeys Allah, and the enemy of Muhammad is the one who disobeys Allah, even if he is a close relative.”