Hadith 168

(The book) ‘Illal Al Sharaie’ – Abdullah Bin Muhammad Bin Abdul Wahhab, from Mansour Bin Abdullah Al Asbahany, from Ali Bin Abdullah Al Iskandarany, from Sa’ad Bin Usman, from Muhammad Bin Abu Al Qasim, from Abbad Bin Yaqoub, from Ali Bin Hashim, from Nasih, from Abdullah, from Simak Bin Harb, from Abu Saeed Al Khudari who said, ‘Salman-ra said, ‘O Prophet-saww of Allah-azwj! For every Prophet-saww there has been a successor-as, so who is your-saww successor-asws? ’ He-saww was silent from me-ra. When it was afterwards, he-saww saw me-ra from far. He-saww said: ‘O Salman-ra! ’ I-ra said, ‘At your-saww service! ’, and I-ra hurried towards him-saww. He-saww said: ‘Do you-ra know who the successor was of Musa-as? ’ I-ra said, ‘Yoshua Bin Noon-as’. Then he-saww said: ‘That is because on that day he-as was their best and their most learned’. Then he-saww said: ‘And I-saww testify that today Ali-asws is their best and their superior, and he-asws is my-saww guardian, and my-saww successor-asws, and my-saww inheritor’’. [84]