The Sufficient (Vol 2) · Hadith 775 (#Ḥadīth #1)

1ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ كُلَيْبِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ الصَّيْدَاوِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) إِيَّاكُمْ وَالنَّاسَ إِنَّ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِذَا أَرَادَ بِعَبْدٍ خَيْراً نَكَتَ فِي قَلْبِهِ نُكْتَةً فَتَرَكَهُ وَهُوَ يَجُولُ لِذَلِكَ وَيَطْلُبُهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَوْ أَنَّكُمْ إِذَا كَلَّمْتُمُ النَّاسَ قُلْتُمْ ذَهَبْنَا حَيْثُ ذَهَبَ الله وَاخْتَرْنَا مَنِ اخْتَارَ الله وَاخْتَارَ الله مُحَمَّداً وَاخْتَرْنَا آلَ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى الله عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَيْهِمْ.

1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Kulayb ibn Mu’awiyah al-Saydawi who has said the following: “Once Abu ‘Abdillah said to me, ‘Beware of people.’ If Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, wills good for a servant. He places a dot in his heart. He then leaves him alone and for that reason he moves around and searches it (belief).’ The Imam then said, ‘Were you to talk to people, say we have gone where Allah goes, we choose whoever Allah chooses. Allah chose Muhammad and we chose the family of Muhammad, recipients of divine supreme covenant.’”

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).