Al-Khiṣāl
Hadith 98110-9 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن أحمد بن إسحاق بن سعد، عن بكر بن محمد الازدي، عن بعض أصحابنا، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: قال أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام: كان لي من رسول الله صلي الله عليه وآله عشر ما يسرني بالواحدة منهن ما طلعت عليه الشمس قال: أنت أخي في الدنيا والآخرة، وأنت أقرب الناس مني موقفا يوم القيامة، ومنزلك تجاه منزلي في الجنه كما يتواجه الاخوان في الله، وأنت صاحب لوائي في الدنيا والآخرة، وأنت وصيي ووارثي وخليفتي في الاهل والمال والمسلمين في كل غيبة، شفاعتك شفاعتي، ووليك وليي ووليي ولي الله، وعدوك عدوي وعدوي عدو الله
10-9 My father, may God be pleased with him, narrated to us, he said: Saʿd b. ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; from Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. Saʿd; from Bakr b. Muḥammad al-Azdī; from one of our companions; from Abū ʿAbd Allāh (ʿas) who said that the Commander of the Faithful (ʿas) said, "I possess ten (distinctive characteristics) given to me by the Messenger of God (ṣ), each individual one of them pleases me more than everything over which the sun rises. He said to me: 'You are my brother in this world and the next. Your place of standing will be the closest of anyone to mine on the Day of Judgement. Your house will face my house in the Garden, in the manner that two brothers in God face one another. You are my standardbearer in this world and the next. You are my legatee, my inheritor, and my caliph over the people and wealth and Muslims in every absence of mine. Your intercession is my intercession. Your friend is my friend, and my friend is God's friend. Your enemy is my enemy, and my enemy is God's enemy.'"
Notes
Bakr b. Muḥammad al-Azdī was among the incredibly long-lived Shīʿah (muʿammarūn) who had short chains of transmission. He had a book (kitāb) transmitted from him by Abū Ṭalib ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ṣalt al-Qummī, al-ʿAbbas b. Maʿrūf, and Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. Saʿd. The former two are noted in the ṭarīq of Shaykh al-Ṭūsī, while the latter is the source for both Shaykh al-Ṣadūq's tradition here and al-Najāshī's ṭarīq, which takes a different path from Aḥmad b. Isḥāq.