3-94 In Kufa in the year 354 A.H. (965 A.D.) Al-Hassan ibn Muhammad al-Sahkooni al-Mazaki narrated that Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Hazrami quoted on the authority of Al-Qasim ibn Zakaria ibn Dinar, on the authority of Ishaq ibn Mansoor, on the authority of Ja’far al-Ahmar, on theauthority of Ummi al-Sayrafi, on the authority of Abi Kathir al-Ansari, on the authority of Abdullah ibn As’ad ibn Zurarah that God’s Prophet (MGB) said,

“When I ascended to my Lord, He revealed to me three words regarding Ali (MGB): he is the leader of the pious ones; he is the master of the believers; and he is the leader of the radiant ones.”