‘
Sa‘īd bin Wahb and Zayd bin Yuthay‘ ((رضئ اللہ تعالی عنہ))
narrate that ‘Alī (AlahisSalam) made people swear in an open plain
an d asked anyone to stand up who had heard the Prophet
(صلى-الله-عليه-و-آله-وسلم) say something on the day of Ghadīr Khum. The
narrator says: Six (men) from Sa‘īd’s side and six from
Zay d’s side stood up an d bore witness that they had heard
the Prophet (صلى-الله-عليه-و-آله-وسلم) say about ‘Alī (AlahisSalam) on the day of Ghadīr
Khum: Is Allāh not nearer than the lives of the believers?
The people said: Why not! Then he said: O Allāh! One
who has me as his master has ‘Alī as his master. O Allāh!
Be you h is friend who befriends him (‘Alī), an d be his
enemy who is his (‘Alī’s) enemy.”
Ahmd bin Hambal related it in al-Musnad (1:118); Ibn Abī Shaybah, al-Musannaf (12:67 # 12140); Tabarānī, al-Mu‘jam-ulawsat (3:69, 134 # 2130, 2275), al-Mu‘jam-us-saghīr (1:65); Diyā’
Maqdisī, al-Ahādīth-ul-mukhtārah (2:105, 106 # 480); Abū Nu‘aym, Hilyat-ul-awliyā’ wa tabaqāt-ul-asfiyā’ (5:26); Ibn
‘Asākir, Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (45:160); and Hindī in Kanz-ul-
‘ummāl (13:157 # 36485).
Nasā’ī narrated it with sound (sahīh) chain of authorities in
Khasā’is amīr-il-mu’minīn ‘Alī bin Abī Tālib (pp.90, 100 # 84, 95).
Haythamī said in Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (9:107,108) that
Tabarānī’s chain of authorities is hasan (fair).
“‘Abd-ur-Rahmān bin Abī Laylā narrates that I saw
‘Alī (AlahisSalam) in a vast plain. At that time he was asking people
on o ath that anyone who had heard the Messenger of Allāh
(صلى-الله-عليه-و-آله-وسلم) say on the day of Ghadīr Khum — one who has me
as h is master has ‘Alī as his master — should stand up an d
bear witness. ‘Abd-ur-Rahmān said: At this twelve Badrī1 Companion s ((رضئ اللہ تعالی عنہ)) stood up as I am look in g at one of them.
Those (Badrī Companions) said: We bear witness that we
heard the Messenger of Allāh (صلى-الله-عليه-و-آله-وسلم) say on the day of
Ghadīr Khum: Am I not nearer than the lives of the
believers and are not my wives their mothers? All of them
said: Why not, O Messenger of Allāh! At this he said: One
who has me as his master has ‘Alī as his master. O Allāh!
Befriend him who befriends him (‘Alī) and be his enemy
who is his (‘Alī’s) enemy.”
1. The Companions () who took part in defensive war fought at the
plain of Badr near Medina after the aggression of Makkans on
Medinan Muslims.
2. Ahmad bin Hambal narrated it in al-Musnad (1:119); Tahāwī,
Mashkal-ul-āthār (2:308); Diyā’ Maqdisī, al-Ahādīth-ulmukhtārah (2:80, 81 # 458); Khatīb Baghdādī, Tārīkh Baghdad
(14:236); Ibn ‘Asākir, Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (45:156, 157); IbnAthīr, Asad-ul-ghābah (4:102, 103); Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāyah wannihāyah (4:170; 5:461, 462); and Shawkānī in Darr-us-sahābah
(p.209).
Ibn ‘Asākir related it from Ziyād bin Abī Ziyād too in Tārīkh
Dimashq al-kabīr (45:161).
Muhib Tabarī related it from Ziyād bin Abī Ziyād in ar-Riyādun-nadrah fī manāqib-il-‘ashrah (3:128).
Haythamī says in Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (9:105, 106) that it has
been narrated by Abū Ya‘lā in al-Musnad (1:257 # 563) and its
men are thiqah (trustworthy).
Hindī says in Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (13:170 # 36515) that this
tradition has also been narrated by Ibn Jarīr, Sa‘īd bin Mansūr and
Ibn Athīr Jazarī.
Ahmad bin Hambal has related the tradition from Ziyād bin
Abī Ziyād also in al-Musnad (1:88); and Haythamī has copied it in
Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (9:106) and declared its men trustworthy
(rijāluhū thiqah).
“Amr bin Dh ī Mur, Sa‘īd bin Wah b an d Zay d bin
Yuthay ‘((رضئ اللہ تعالی عنہ)) narrate that we heard ‘Alī (AlahisSalam) say: I want to
ask every man on oath who may have heard the Prophet
() say this on the day of Ghadīr Khum. At this thirteen
men stood up and bore witness that the Messenger of
Allāh (صلى-الله-عليه-و-آله-وسلم) said: Am I not nearer than the lives of the believers? All of them said: Why not! O Messenger of
Allāh. The narrator says that he then caught hold of ‘Alī’s
hand and said: One who has me as his master has ‘Alī as
his master. O Allāh! Befriend him who befriends him, and
be his enemy who is his (‘Alī’s) enemy, love him who
loves him (‘Alī), bear malice towards him who bears
malice towards him (‘Alī), help him who help s him (‘Alī)
and degrade him who (tries to) degrade him (‘Alī).”
Haythamī said in Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (9:104, 105) that Bazzār
related it in al-Musnad (3:35 # 786) and called its men sahīh (sound) except Fitr bin Khalīfah while he is thiqah (trustworthy).
Tahāwī related it in Mashkal-ul-āthār (2:308); Hindī, Kanz-ul-
‘ummāl (13:158 # 36487); Ibn ‘Asākir, Tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr (45:159, 160); and Ibn Kathīr in al-Bidāyah wan-nihāyah (4:169;
5:462).
Aal-e-Qutub Aal-e-Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi 