people, love us in the manner taught by Islam, for your love of us persisted until it became a disgrace to us.” Muhammad ibn Sa‘d cited this in al-Tabaqāt (1).
‘Ārim ibn al-Fadl informed us; Hammād informed us (2).
Ibn Sa‘d (3) then said: “They said: ‘Alī ibn al-Husayn was trustworthy and reliable, a prolific narrator of hadith, and a man of lofty and eminent standing (4).” He also narrated (5) from Shayba ibn Na‘āma, who said:
“‘Alī ibn al-Husayn was considered miserly. When he died, they discovered that he had secretly been providing sustenance (6) for the members of one hundred households (7) in Medina.”
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The Rāfidī (8) said:
“Mālik studied under Rabī‘a, Rabī‘a under ‘Ikrima, ‘Ikrima under Ibn ‘Abbās, and Ibn ‘Abbās was a student of ‘Alī” (9).
The response is that this is a lie, for Rabī‘a learned nothing from ‘Ikrima,