Hadith 123

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of Al Sadouq – Ibn Al Mutawakkal, from Al Sa’ad Abady, from Al Barqy, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Abu Al Jaroud, from Al Qasim Bin Al Waleed, from a sheykh from Sumalah who said, ‘I entered to see an old, aged woman of Tameem, and she was narrating to the people. I said to her, ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you! Narrated to me regarding some of the merits of Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws’. She said, ‘I shall narrate to you, and this sheykh is like what you see sleeping in front of me’. I said to her, ‘And who is this? ’ She said, ‘Abu Al-Hamra’a, a servant of Rasool-Allah-saww’. I sat to him. When he felt my presence, he sat upright and said, ‘Shh! ’ I said, ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you! Narrate to me with what you saw from Rasool-Allah-saww doing with Ali-asws, for Allah-azwj will Question you about it’. He said, ‘To the Informed I fall. As for what I saw the Prophet-saww dealing with Ali-asws, he-saww said to me one day: ‘O Abu Al-Hamra’a! Go and call one hundred from the Arabs and fifty men from the non-Arabs, and thirty men from the Coptics, and then from the Ethiopians! ’ I came with them. Rasool-Allah-saww stood up and placed the Arabs in a row, then a row of the non-Arabs behind the Arabs, and a row of the Coptics behind the non-Arabs, and a row of the Ethiopians behind the Coptics. Then he-saww stood, praised Allah-azwj and extolled upon Him-azwj, and glorified Allah-azwj with such praise the people had not heard the like of it. Then he-saww said: ‘O community of the Arabs, and the non-Arabs, and the Coptics, and the Ethiopians! Do you acknowledge with the testimony that there is no god except Allah-azwj Alone, there is no associate for Him-azwj, and that Muhammad-saww is His-azwj servant and His-azwj Rasool-saww? ’ They said, ‘Yes! ’ He-saww said: ‘O Allah-azwj, be Witness! ’ – until he-saww said it thrice. He-saww said during the third: ‘Do you acknowledge with the testimony that there is no god except Allah-azwj and that Muhammad-saww is His-azwj servant, and His-azwj Rasool-asws, and that Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-as