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The Various Occasions Related to Hadith al­Thaqalayn - 2. At Ghadir Khumm:

2. At Ghadir Khumm:

Al­Nasa'i in his al­Sunan al­kubra, 96, No. 79, records the following tradition in the chapter "Khasa'is `Ali":

    Al­Nasa'i narrates from Muhammad ibn al­Muthanna, he from Yahya ibn Hammad, from Abu 'Uwwanah, from Sulayman, from Habib ibn Abi Thabit, from Abu al­Tufayl, from Zayd ibn Arqam, who said, "When the Messenger of Allah (A) returned from the last hajj and came down at Ghadir Khumm....

    "Then he declared: 'I am about to answer the call (of death). Verily, I have left two precious things (thaqalayn) among you, one of which is greater than the other: the Book of God and my `Itrah, my Ahl al­Bayt. So watch out how you treat them after me. For, indeed, they will never separate until they return to me by the side of the Pond.' Then he said, 'Verily, God is my master (mawlaya) and I am the wali of every believer.' Then he took `Ali's hand and declared, 'To whomever I am his wali, this one is also his wali. My God, befriend whoever befriends him and be hostile to whoever is hostile to him.'" Abu al­Tufayl says: "I said to Zayd, 'Did you hear it from the Prophet(S)?' He replied, 'There was no one in the caravan who did not see it with his eyes and hear it with his ears,'"

Khasa'is `Ali is part of al­Nasa'i's al­Sunan al­kubra as shown by the 3rd volume of the MS in the king's collection in Morocco, written in 759/1358 folios 81-117. See also in this regard the introduction of al­Khasa'is (Kuwait: Maktabat al­Mu`alla, 1406), ed. by Ahmad Mirayn Balushi. The editor states that this tradition is sahih and its transmitters are thiqah.

Among others who have recorded it in their books are:

    Al-Bukhari, al­Ta'rikh al­kabir, iii, 96;
    Muslim, Sahih, bab fada'il `Ali, no. 2408;
    Ahmad, Musnad, iii, 17, iv, 366;
    `Abd ibn Humayd, Musnad, no. 265;
    Ibn Sa`d, and
    Abu Ya`la from Abu Sa`id, as mentioned in Jam` al­jawami` and Kanz al­`ummal;
    Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, in his Sahih., as mentioned by Ibn Hajar in al­Matalib al­`aliyah, iv, 65, no. 1873, where he states that its isnad is sahih, and also by al-Busayri in Ithaf al­sadah (MS in Topcopi Library, vol. 3, F.55b) who, too, considers the isnad as sahih;
    Ibn Khuzaymah, Sahih, MS in Topcopi Library, F.240;
    al­Darimi, Sunan, ii, 310, no. 2319;
    Abu Dawud, Sunan, as mentioned in Sibt ibn al­Jawzi, Tadhkirat khawass al­'ummah, 322;
    Abu 'Uwwanah, Musnad, as mentioned in al­Shaykhani, al­Sirat al­sawi;
    al­Bazzaz, from Umm Hani, as mentioned in Wasilat al­ma'al;
    Ibn Abi 'Asim, Kitab al­Sunnah, 629, no. 1551, 630, no. 1555, 629, no. 1551;
    al­Ya`qubi, Ta'rikh, ii, 112;
    al­Baladhuri, Ansab al­'ashraf, 110, no. 48, the biographical account of `Ali (A);
    al­Hafiz al­Hasan ibn Sufyan al­Nasawi, the author of Musnad, from Hudhayfah ibn Usayd, as mentioned by Abu Nu`aym, al­Hilyah, i, 355,
    al­Fasawi, al­Ma`rifah wa al­ta'rikh, i, 536;
    Ibn Jarir al­Tabari, from Hudhayfah ibn Usayd, Zayd ibn Arqam (with al­Nasa'i's wording as well as with the wording of Muslim), Abu Sa`id al­Khudri, as cited in Jam` al­jawami`, ii, 357, 395, Kanz al-`ummal, 12911, xiii, 36441, 36340, 37620, 37621, 36341, Jami` al-'ahadith, vii, 14523, 15112, 15122, 15113, iv, 7773, 8072, 8073;
    al­Dulabi, al­Dhurriyyat al­tahirah, no. 228;
    al­Hafiz al­Tahawi, Mushkil al 'athar, ii, 307, iv, 368;
    al­Hakim al­Tirmidhi, Nawadir al-'usul, from Hudhayfah ibn Usayd;
    al­Tabarani, al­Mu`jam al­kabir, iii, 2679, 2681, 2683, 3052, v, 4969, 4970, 4971, 4986, 5026, 5028;
    al­Hakim, al­Mustadrak `ala al­Sahihayn, iii, 109, 110 where he expressly states, as mentioned above, that the tradition is sahih in accordance with the criteria of al­Bukhari and Muslim; al­Dhahabi has confirmed his judgement;
    Abu Nu`aym, Hilyat al­'awliya', i, 355, ix, 64;
    al­Bayhaqi, al­Sunan al­kubra, ii, 148, vii, 30, x, 114;
    al­Khatib, Ta'rikh Baghdad, viii, 442;
    Ibn al­Maghazili, Manaqib Amir al­Mu'minin (A), 23;
    Ibn `Asakir, Ta'rikh Dimashq, ii, 45, no. 547, the biographical account of `Ali (A), and v, 436 of Badran's edition in the biographical account of Zayd ibn Arqam;
    al­Baghawi, Masabih al­Sunnah, ii, 205 and Sharh al­Sunnah (MS in Topcopi Libary, vol. 2, F. 718), bab Manaqib Ahl al­Bayt;
    Ibn al­'Athir, Usd al­ghabah, iii, 92 in the biographical account of 'Amir ibn Layla, no. 2727;
    Ibn Hajar, al­'Isabah in the biographical account of 'Amir;
    al-Mizzi, Tuhafat al­'ashraf, iii, 203, no. 3688 from Muslim and al­Nasa'i;
    al­Diya' al­Muqaddisi, al­Mukhtarah, as cited by al­Samhudi and al­Sakhawi;
    Ibn Taymiyyah, Minhaj al­Sunnah, iv, 85;
    al-Dhahabi, Talkhis al­Mustadrak, iii, 109;
    Ibn Kathir, al­Bidayah wa al­nihayah, v, 209, vi, 199, from al­Nasa'i, where he quotes al­Nasa'i's statement that this narration is sahih;
    al­Khazin, Tafsir under verses 42:23 and 3:103;
    al­Mulla, Wasilat al­muta`abbidin, v, 199;
    al-Haythami, Majma` al­zawa'id, ix, 163 from Zayd, 164 from Hudhayfah.

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