Hadith No: 1
Al-Muwaffaq al-Khwarizmi - al-Manaqib
Volume: (1) - Page Number: (176)
214 - And Abu Mansur Shahdhar ibn Shirwayh ibn Shahdhar al-Daylami, the master of the scholars, informed me (in what he wrote to me from Hamadan): Abu al-Fath Abdus ibn Abd Allah ibn Abdus al-Hamdani wrote to us, narrating from the noble Abu Talib al-Mufaddal ibn Muhammad ibn Tahir al-Ja'fari in Isfahan, from the scholar Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Marduyah ibn Furk al-Isfahani, who said: Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Daqqaq al-Baghdadi narrated to us, and Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us, and Ibrahim ibn al-Hasan al-Taghlibi narrated to us, and Yahya ibn Ya'la narrated to us, and Umar ibn Yazid narrated to us, and Abdullah ibn Hanthalah narrated to me, from Shahr ibn Hawshab, who said: I was with Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her), and a man greeted her. It was said, "Who are you?" He replied, "I am Abu Thabit, the freedman of Abu Dharr." She said, "Welcome, Abu Thabit. Enter." So he entered, and she welcomed him. She then said, "Where did your heart soar when hearts were swirling?"
He said, "With Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him)." She replied, "You are right, and by the One in whose hand is the soul of Umm Salamah, I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) say: 'Ali is with the Quran, and the Quran is with Ali.' They will not separate until they return to me at the cistern. And I had sent my son Umar and my nephew Abdullah ibn Umayyah and instructed them that if they fought, they should fight with Ali against whoever fought him. If it were not that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) commanded us to remain in our tents or in our homes, I would have gone out to stand in the ranks of Ali."