Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 121
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ سَابِطٍ، - وَهُوَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ - عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ، قَالَ قَدِمَ مُعَاوِيَةُ فِي بَعْضِ حَجَّاتِهِ فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ سَعْدٌ فَذَكَرُوا عَلِيًّا فَنَالَ مِنْهُ فَغَضِبَ سَعْدٌ وَقَالَ تَقُولُ هَذَا لِرَجُلٍ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ يَقُولُ " مَنْ كُنْتُ مَوْلاَهُ فَعَلِيٌّ مَوْلاَهُ " . وَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ " أَنْتَ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى إِلاَّ أَنَّهُ لاَ نَبِيَّ بَعْدِي " . وَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ " لأُعْطِيَنَّ الرَّايَةَ الْيَوْمَ رَجُلاً يُحِبُّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
'Ali ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us; Musa ibn Muslim narrated to us, from Ibn Sabit—namely, 'Abd al-Rahman—from Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, who said: Mu'awiyah came during one of his pilgrimages, and Sa'd entered to see him. They mentioned 'Ali, and Mu'awiyah spoke ill of him. Sa'd became angry and said: Do you say this of a man about whom I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: Whoever has me as his mawla, 'Ali is his mawla? I heard him say: You are to me as Aaron was to Moses, except that there is no prophet after me. And I heard him say: Today I shall give the banner to a man who loves Allah and His Messenger.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Mawla is preserved in transliteration in the first saying because its relational sense can vary; the English witness specifies “close friend.”