Hadith 278

(The book) ‘Al Amdah’, from the second volume from the book of Law compiled by the Sheyskh Abu Bakr Muhammad Bin Al Husayn Tilmeez Abu Bakr, son of Abu Dawood al Sijistany, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad Bin Nahiya, from Ahmad Bin Yahya Al Sowfy, from Hurayn Bin Hassan Al Ashqar, from Sabih, from Ali Bin Al Hakam Al Abdy, from Al Amsh, from Ibrahim, from Alqamah Bin Qays and Al Aswad Bin Yazeed who said, ‘We came to Abu Ayoub Al-Ansari and we said to him, ‘Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted Honoured you with Muhammad-saww when it was Revealed to his-saww ride (camel) and it knelt at your door, so Rasool-Allah-saww was your guest. Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Graced you with it, then you came out fighting alongside Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws’. Abu Ayoub said, ‘Welcome to both of you and hello! I swear to you by Allah-azwj that Rasool-Allah-saww, Ali-asws was seated on his-saww right and I was standing in front of him-saww when the door was moved (knocked upon). Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘O Anas! Look, who is at the door! ’ He went and looked, and returned and said, ‘This is Ammar Bin Yasser’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Ayoub said, ‘I heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying: ‘O Anas! Open for Ammar the good, the perfumed! ’ Anas opened the door, and Ammar entered. He greeted unto Rasool-Allah-saww and he-saww returned unto him and was welcoming with him and said: ‘O Ammar! There will be happening in my-saww community after me-saww, tribalism and differing until the swords are interchanged between them, until some of them kill the others, and some of them disavow from others. When you see that, then upon you is to be with this one on my-saww right, meaning Ali-asws. If the people, all of them were to travel into a valley, and Ali-asws (in another) valley, then travel the valley of Ali-asws, and leave the people immediately’. O Ammar! He-asws will not err you from a guidance. O Ammar! Obedience to Ali-asws is from obeying me-saww, and obedience to me-saww is obedience of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic’’. [175]
I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘And it is reported in (the book) ‘Al Mustadrak’, from the book ‘Hulyat Al Awliya’, by his chain from Al Minhal Bin Amro, from Zirr, ‘He heard Ali-asws saying: ‘I-asws blinded the eye of Fitna, and had it not been for my-asws fighting the people of Al-Naharwan, and people of the camel, and had it not been for me-asws fearing that the deeds might be neglected, I-asws would inform you all with that which Allah-azwj had Narrated upon the tongue of your Prophet-saww for the ones to fight them, being insightful with their straying, recognising the guidance which we are upon’’. [176]