Divine virtues and status of Ali and his followers — Hadith 1

My father (r) narrated from Sa’d bin Abdullah from Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Khalid from al-Qasim bin Yahya from his grandfather alHasan bin Rashid from Abu Bassir from Abu Abdullah (a) that the Prophet (s) said: O Ali, Allah has bestowed upon you with the love of the poor and the oppressed on this earth. You have accepted them as brothers and they have accepted you as their imam. Blessed are they who loved and believed you. Woe to them who hated and belied you. O Ali, you are the most knowledgeable in this umma. He who loves you will win. Whoever hates you will perish. O Ali, I am the city (of knowledge) and you are its door. How can a city be entered from anything other than its door? O Ali, the people who love you are every repentant and keeper (of his promises) as well as every wearer of shabby clothes whose supplications are utterly answered by Allah. O Ali, your brothers are the pure, chaste, and diligent ones who love and hate for your sake. They are humiliated in the sight of people, but they are high-ranking in the sight of Allah. O Ali, the people who love you will be the neighbors of Allah in the Abode of High Paradise. They do not feel sorry for what they had left in the world. O Ali, I am the support of him whoever you support and the enemy of him whoever you antagonize. O Ali, he who loves you loves me and whoever hates you hates me. O Ali, your brothers are the dry-lipped ones. Reverence is identified in their faces. O Ali, your brothers will be happy in three situations: When they go out of their graves while you and I will be their witnesses, when they encounter the tomb interrogation, and when they encounter the Presentation and the Path when the other people will not find answers as they will be asked about their faith. O Ali, to fight you is to fight against me and to make peace with you is to make peace with me. To fight against me is to fight against Allah and to make peace with me is to make peace with Allah. He who makes peace with you is making peace with Allah. O Ali, bear the good tidings to your brothers; Allah has been satisfied with them so long as He accepted you as their leader and they accepted you as their master. O Ali, you are the commander of the faithful believers and the leader of the white-forheaded honorables. O Ali, your Shia are the choice. Without you as well as your Shia, the religion of Allah would not have risen. If the earth is empty of you, the heavens will not cause its drops of rain to descend. O Ali, you will have a treasure in Paradise. You are the twohorned of this nation. Your Shia are known as Hezbollah (the Party of Allah). O Ali, your Shia and you are the administrators of justice and the best creatures of Allah. O Ali, I will be the first one who shakes off the dust from the head and you will be with me. Then the other creatures will do. O Ali, your Shia and you will be the guardians of the Divine Pool. You will water whomever you like and prevent whomever you dislike. You are the saved on the Day of the Grand Horror. You will be under the shadow of the Divine Throne. People will panic, but you will not panic. People will be sad, but you will not be sad. You are the only intendeds in Allah’s saying: "But those to whom We have already promised blessings will be far away from Hell. They will not even hear the slightest sound from it while enjoying the best that they can wish for in their everlasting life. They will not be affected by the great terror. The angels will come to them with this glad news: ’This is your day which was promised to you. ’ (21: 101-3)" O Ali, your Shia and you will ask in the Situation (of the Judgment) and you will bask in the gardens (of Paradise). O Ali, the angels and the doorkeepers (of Paradise) long for meeting you. The bearers of the Divine Throne and the intimate angels pray for you exclusively, implore to Allah by their love for you and become happy for the coming of anyone of you to the