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Ibn Hanbal says:
‘Abdullāh bin Ahmad has related to us from Abu al-Harth Surayj bin Yunus from Abu Hafs Abbār from Hakam bin ‘Abd al-Malik from Harth bin Hasīrah from Abī Sādiq from Rabī‘ah bin Nājidh from (Imam) ‘Alī (‘a), who narrates:
The Messenger of Allah (S) told me:
“Fīka mathalun min ‘Isā, abghazathu al-Yahud hattā bahatu ummahu, wa ahabbathu al-Nasārā hattā anzaluhu bi al-manzilati allatī laysa bih (You are like Jesus. The Jews hated him so much that they slandered his mother, and the Christians because of their extreme devotion to him placed him in a position which was not his.”
Then (Imam) ‘Alī (‘a) said:
“Yuhliku fiyya rajulān, muhibbun mufritun yuqarrizunī bi ma laysa fiyya, wa mubghizun yahmiluhu shan’ānī ‘alā an yabhatanī (Two persons [groups] are doomed concerning me; the devoted extremist exalting me to what I am not, and the spiteful hater bearing malice towards me and slandering me).[53]
The annotator of the Musnad considers the isnād of this hadith as hasan (fair).
Notes: [53] Al-Musnad, hadith no. 1376 and also hadith no. 1377 with a slight variation in its text and a different chain of authority (Ahmad Shākir).
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