Hadith 16

(The book) ‘Kashf Al Yaqeen, from the book of Ahmad Bin Mardawayh, from Suleyman Bin Ahmad, form Muhammad Bin Abdullah Al Hazramy, from Jandal Bin Waliq, from Muhammad Bin Habeeb, from Ziyad Bin Al Munzir, from Abdul Rahman Bin Masoud, from Uleym, from Salman-ra; And as well from the book of Akhtab Khuwarizm, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn Al Baghdady, from Al Husayn Muhammad Bin Muhammad Al Zaynabi, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Shazan, from Muhammad in Muhammad Bin Murrah, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Al Asimy, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Malik Bin Abu Al Shawarib, from Ja’far Bin Suleyman, from Sa’ad Bin Tareyf, from Al Asbagh Bin Nubata, ‘From Salman-ra having said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘My-saww community would divide after me-saww into sects. A sect of the people of truth, not being marred by the falsehood. Their example is like an example of the god. Every time it is tried with the fire, its quality and goodness increases, and their Imam-asws of this is one of the three, and he-asws is the one-asws Allah-azwj Commanded with in His-azwj Book: an Imam and a Mercy [46: 12]. And a sect of the people of falsehood, not being marred by truth. Their example is like an example of iron slag. Every time it is tried with the fire, it increases in wickedness and stink, and their imam is one of the three. And a sect of the people of straying, wavering, neither towards these ones nor towards those; [4: 143]. Their imam is one of the three’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I asked him-saww about the people of the truth, and their Imam-asws. He-saww said: ‘This Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, is Imam-asws of the pious, and withhold (yourselves) from the two’. I struggled to get him-saww to name the two, but he-saww did not do so’’. [16]