Hadith 19

for you to recognise all my-asws virtues and my-asws preferences. Are you knowing that Allah-azwj Preferred to Speak in His-azwj Book, being the foremost to – in another Verse from His-azwj Book over the preceded one, and there is no one from the community who preceded me-asws to Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww? ’ They said, ‘O Allah-azwj, yes’. He-asws said: ‘I-asws adjure you all to Allah-azwj, I-asws asked the Rasool-Allah-saww about His-azwj Words: And the foremost are the foremost [56: 10] These are the ones of proximity [56: 11]. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Allah-azwj has Sent these down regarding the Prophets-as and their-as successors-as, and I-saww am the best of the Prophets-as of Allah-azwj, and my-saww brother, and my-saww successor-asws Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws is the best of the successors-as? ’
About seventy from the participants of Badr, most of them from the Helpers and the rest of them from the Emigrants stood up. Among them were Abu Al-Haysam Bin Al-Tayhaan, and Khalid Bin Zayd Abu Ayyub Al-Ansaary, and from the Emigrants were Ammar Bin Yaaser and others, so they said, ‘We hereby testify that we have heard the Rasool-Allah-saww say that’. He-asws said: ‘I-asws adjure you to Allah-azwj regarding the Words of Allah-azwj O you who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Rasool and those with (Divine) Authority from you. [4: 59], and His-azwj Words: But rather, your Guardian is Allah, and His Rasool, and those who are believing, those who are establishing the Salat and are giving the Zakat while they are performing Ruku [5: 55], then Said: and do not take as a confidant any one from besides Allah, nor His Rasool, nor the Momineen; [9: 16]. The people said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww, is this especially for some of the believers or generally for all of them? ’ Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Commanded His-azwj Rasool-saww that he-saww should teach them as to the ones-asws for whom the Verse Came down, and that he-saww should explain about the ‘Wilayah’ just as he-saww had explained to them their Salats, and their Fasts, and their Zakaat, and their Hajj. He-saww nominated me-asws at Ghadeer Khumm and said that: ‘Allah-azwj Sent me-saww with a Message which constricted my-saww chest and I-saww saw that the people would not believe me-saww. He-azwj Promised me-saww that I-saww should preach it or else He-azwj would Punish me-saww. Arise! O Ali-asws’. Then he-saww called for the congregational Salat, so we all prayed Salat with him-asws, Al-Zohr (Midday Salat), then said: ‘O you people! Surely Allah-azwj is my-saww Master (Mawla), and I-saww am the Master-saww of the Momineen and foremost with them than their own selves. Indeed! The one to whom I-saww am Master-saww of, Ali-asws is his Master-asws. O Allah-azwj! Befriend the one who befriends him-asws, and be Inimical to the one who is inimical to him-asws, and Help the one who helps him-asws and Abandon the one who abandons him-asws’. Salman Al-Farsi-ra stood up in front of him-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww, be submissive to him-asws like what? ’ He-saww said: ‘Be submissive to him-asws like you-ra are submissive to me-saww. The one to whom I-saww am higher than his own self, so Ali-asws is higher to him than his own self’. And Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted Revealed: Today I Perfected your Religion for you and Completed My Favour upon you, and am Pleased with as a Religion for you [5: 3]. Salman Al-Farsi-ra said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww, this Verse has Descended regarding Ali-asws especially? ’ Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Indeed, it is regarding him-asws, and regarding my-saww successors up to the Day of Qiyamah’. Salman Al-Farsi-ra said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww, explain it for us’. He-saww said: ‘Ali-asws, who is my-saww brother, and my-saww Vizier, and my-