“Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Kabīr with a good chain of transmission.”

A third route: Zakariyyā ibn Ḥakīm al-Ḥabaṭī narrated to us from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Abū al-Ṭufayl, from Abū Dharr, attributing it to the Prophet. It was recorded by Abū Nuʿaym in Akhbār Iṣfahān (2/129) and by Ibn ʿAdī (148/1), who said: “I know of no one who narrates it through this chain other than Zakariyyā, and he is among those whose hadiths are collected.” I say: In sum, with this corroborating report, the hadith does not fall below the rank of good. And Allah knows best.

2295—“Whoever harms ʿAlī has harmed me.”

It has been narrated from a number of the Companions:

The first: from ʿAmr ibn Shās. It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in al-Tārīkh (3/2/307), al-Fasawī in al-Maʿrifah (1/329–330), Aḥmad (3/483), Ibn Ḥibbān (2202), al-Ḥākim (3/122), who authenticated it—and al-Dhahabī concurred with him (!)—and Ibn ʿAsākir (12/109/2), through Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, who said: Abān ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to me; al-Faḍl ibn Maʿqil narrated to me from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Niyār al-Aslamī, from him. Ibn ʿAsākir then narrated it, with the same wording, by way of Mūsā ibn ʿUmayr, from ʿUqayl ibn Najdah ibn Hubayrah, from ʿAmr ibn Shās.

I say: In the first route is al-Faḍl ibn Maʿqil—namely, Ibn Sinān al-Ashjaʿī. Ibn Abī Ḥātim (3/2/67) mentioned him only through the narration of this Abān, without recording either criticism or accreditation concerning him. In the other route is ʿUqayl ibn Najdah, and I have found no one who mentioned him. As for Mūsā ibn ʿUmayr, if he is the blind Qurashī, then he is abandoned; but if he is the Tamīmī al-ʿAnbarī, then he is trustworthy.

The second: from Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ. It was recorded by al-Haytham ibn Kulayb in al-Musnad (15/2), Abū Yaʿlā (no. 770), al-Bazzār (2562), and al-Qaṭīʿī in his supplement to Faḍāʾil al-Ṣaḥābah