Hadith 179

(The book) ‘Al Majalis’ of Al Mufeed – Ali Bin Bilal, from Abdullah Bin Asad, from Al Saqafy, from Ismail Bin Sabeeh, from Salim Bin Abu Salim, from Abu Haroun Al Abady who said, ‘I used to view the views of the Khawarijites. There was no view for me apart from it, until I said to Abu Saeed Al-Khudry and I heard him saying, ‘The people were Commanded with five but they acted with four and neglected one’. A man said to him, ‘O Abu Saeed! What are these four which they acted upon? ’ He said, ‘The Salat, and the Zakat, and the Hajj, and Fasts of the Month of Ramazan’. He said, ‘So what is the one which they neglected? ’ He said, ‘Wilayah of Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws’. The man said, ‘And it is Obligatory along with these? ’ Abu Saeed said, ‘Yes, by the Lordazwj of the Kabah! ’ The man said, ‘The people are Kafirs then! ’ Abu Saeed said, ‘So what is my fault? ’’[182] (Not a Hadeeth)