I said: al-Ḥākim authenticated it (3/125). Third: from Abū Sulaymān (the muezzin) from him, who said: "ʿAlī called upon the people, saying: I implore by Allāh anyone who heard the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: 'O Allāh, whoever I am his master, ʿAlī is his master. O Allāh, befriend those who befriend him, and oppose those who oppose him.'" He said: "Sixteen men stood up and testified." It was narrated by Aḥmad (5/370) and Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh al-Baghdādī in the second of "al-Amālī" (Q 20/2) from Abū Isrāʾīl al-Malāʾī from al-Ḥakam from him. Abū al-Qāsim said: "This is a ḥadīth with a sound and authentic text." Al-Haythamī said (9/107): "It was narrated by Aḥmad, and in it is Abū Sulaymān, whom I do not know except that he might be Bashīr ibn Sulaymān. If it is him, he is trustworthy, and the rest of the narrators are trustworthy." Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar commented, saying: "Abū Sulaymān is Zayd ibn Wahb as it appears in al-Ṭabarānī." I said: He is trustworthy, from the narrators of al-Bukhārī, but in Abū al-Qāsim's narration, there is the addition "the muezzin," which is not mentioned in the biography of this Zayd. If it is preserved, it is a beneficial addition to his biography. However, Abū Isrāʾīl, whose name is Ismāʿīl ibn Khalīfah, is disputed, and in "al-Taqrīb": "truthful but poor in memory." I said: Thus, his ḥadīth is ḥasan in supporting evidences. Then I reconsidered and said: al-Ṭabarānī also narrated it (4996) from the mentioned perspective, but