
Narrated Umm Salama:
The Messenger of Allah said: “Ali is with Quran, and Quran is with
Ali. They shall not separate from each other till they both return to
me by the Pool (of Paradise).”
Sunni references:
- al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p124 on the authority of Umm Salama
- al-Sawa’iq al-Muhriqah, by Ibn Hajar, Ch. 9, section 2, pp 191,194
- al-Awsat, by al-Tabarani; also in al-Saghir
- Tarikh al-Khulafaa, by Jalaluddin al-Suyuti, p173