and then said to the rest of His creation, “Be,” and it was; yet this ruby is not mentioned in those reports.

Then what is so momentous about holding this ruby that such a tremendous promise should be attached to it?

The same applies to his statement:

“The first person to enter Hell will be one who hates you.”

Would any Muslim say that the Kharijites will enter Hell before Abū Jahl ibn Hishām, Pharaoh, Abū Lahab, and others like them among the polytheists?!

Likewise, his statement:

“The first person to enter the Garden will be one who loves you.”

Would any rational person say that the prophets and messengers enter (the Garden) (1) first because they love Alī, rather than because they love Allah, His Messenger, and all the other prophets and His messengers—and that love for Allah and His messengers is not what causes this? Can blessedness and wretchedness hinge solely upon loving Alī, to the exclusion of loving Allah and His Messenger, in any way other than they hinge upon loving Abū Bakr, Umar, Uthmān, and Muāwiyah—may Allah be pleased with them?

If someone were to say, “Whoever loves Uthmān and Muāwiyah will enter the Garden, and whoever hates them will enter Hell,” that would be the same kind of claim made by the Shiites.

[The Twelfth: Other Hadiths Cited as Evidence for the Imamate of Alī, May Allah Be Pleased with Him]

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The Rāfidī (2) said: The twelfth: (3) The preacher (4) of Khwarazm narrated through his chain of transmission from (5) Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī, who said: “The Messenger of Allah said (may Allah bless him and