Hadith 320

s of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic: And when you ask them (wives of Rasool-Allah) for any chattels, then ask them from behind a curtain, [33: 53]. So, who is this whose importance has reached such that I-ra should be welcoming him with my-ra favour and my-ra wrist? ’’
He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said to her-ra as if it was angrily: one who obeys the Rasool, so he has obeyed Allah, [4: 80]. Arise and open the door for him-asws, for at the door is a man, who is neither with clumsiness, nor with bad temper, nor with haste in his-asws affairs. He-asws loves Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww, and Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww love him-asws, and he-asws will not open the door until the intimacy is covered from him-asws’. Umm Salama-ra stood up, and she-ra did not know who was at the door, apart from that she-ra had preserved the qualities and the praise (just described). She-ra walked to around the door and she-ra was saying: ‘Congratulations! Congratulations to a man who loves Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww, and Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww love him’. She-ra opened for him-asws’. He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘Ali-asws withheld at the threshold of the door and did not cease to be standing until the intimacy had been hidden from him-asws, and Umm Salama-ra had entered her-ra room. He-asws opened the door and entered. He-asws greeted unto Rasool-Allah-saww. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘O Umm Salama-ra! Do you-ra recognise him-asws? ’ She-ra said, ‘Yes, and congratulations to him-asws. This is Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws’. He-saww said: ‘You-ra speak the truth, O Umm Salama-ra! This is Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws! His-asws flesh is from my-saww flesh, and his-asws blood from my-saww blood, and he-asws is from me-saww at the status of Haroun-as from Musa-as except there will be no Prophet-as after me-saww. O Umm Salama-ra, listen to me-saww and be my-saww witness! This Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws is Amir Al-Momineen, and chief of the successors-as, and he-asws is receptacle of my-saww knowledge, and my-saww door which I-saww can be accessed from, and he-asws is the successor-asws after me-saww, upon the deceased from my-saww family, and Caliph upon the living ones from my-saww community, and my-saww brother in the world and the Hereafter, and he-asws will be with me-saww in the highest peak. Be my-saww witness, O Umm Salama-ra and memorise! He-asws will be fighting the allegiance-breakers, and the deviants, and the renegades’’. The Syrian said, ‘You have relieved from me, O Abdullah, and I testify that Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws is my Master-asws and Master-asws of every Muslim’’. [226]