28. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn Faddal from Sufyan ibn Ibrahim al-Jaririy from al-Harith ibn al-Hasirah al-Asadiy from Abi Ja'far who has said the following: I entered the Ka'ba with my father, and so he prayed on the red marble between the two pillars and said:

It was in this place that the people agreed that if the Messenger of Allah (s) were to die or be killed, then the matter (i.e. rulership) would never be given to someone from his Ahl al-Bayt. He (al-Harith) said: I said: And who were they [that agreed upon this]? He said: They were the first, the second, Abu Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah and Salim b. al-Habibah. [Translation not by Muhammad Sarwar]