On this same day, after the gathering, the virtuous scholar Abu Jaʿfar Muhammad b. ʿAli b. al-Husayn b. Musa b. Babawayh al-Qummi (RA) narrated to us, saying:
My father (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated to us, saying:
ʿAbdullah b. al-Hasan al-Muaddib narrated to us from Ahmad b. ʿAli al-Isfahani, from
Ibrahim b. Muhammad al-Thaqafi, who said:
Abu Ghassan al-Nahdi narrated to us, saying: Yahya b. Salamah b. Kuhayl narrated to us from his father, from Abu Idris, from
al-Musayyib b. Najabah, who said
It was said to ʿAli (a): Tell us about the companions of Muhammad (SAW). Tell us about Abu Dharr al-Ghifari.
He said: "He learned knowledge and sealed it, binding it with a tight seal."
They said: "What about Hudhayfah?"
He said: "He learned the names of the hypocrites."
They said: "What about ʿAmmar b. Yasir?"
He said: "A believer filled to his core with faith; he forgets, but when reminded, he remembers."
It was said: "What about ʿAbdullah b. Masʿud?"
He said: "He recited the Qurʾan, and it descended upon him."
They said: "Tell us about Salman al-Farisi."
He said: "He attained the first knowledge and the last knowledge, and he is an inexhaustible sea. He is one of us, the Ahl al-Bayt."
They said: "Tell us about yourself, O Commander of the Faithful."
He said: "Whenever I asked, I was given, and when I remained silent, I was initiated."