Amr bin Maymun reported,

I was sitting with Ibn Abbas when nine men came to him and said, "Abu Abbas, either you stand up and come with us, or let these others leave us alone with you."Ibn Abbas said, "Rather, I will get up and come with you." This was at a time when he was still in good health, before he lost his sight.So they went off and began talking, but we did not know what they were saying. Then he came back shaking out his garment and saying, "Pah! Ugh! They have spoken ill of a man who has ten merits. They have spoken ill of a man about whom the Prophet ﷺ said, 'I shall surely send a man whom Allah will never disgrace, who loves Allah and His Messenger.'"Those who hoped for it craned their necks. The Prophet ﷺ asked, "Where is Ali?"They said, "He is at the millstone, grinding."He said, "It was not for any of you to be doing the grinding."So Ali came, and his eyes were so inflamed he could barely see. The Prophet ﷺ spat into his eyes, then shook the banner three times and handed it to him. Ali came back bringing Safiya bint Huyayy.Then the Prophet ﷺ sent so-and-so with Surah at-Tawba, and afterwards sent Ali after him and took it from him, saying, "Only a man who is from me, and I from him, should carry this."He said to his cousins, "Which of you will be my ally in this world and the next?"Ali was sitting with him. They all refused.Ali said, "I will be your ally in this world and the next."The Prophet said, "You are my ally in this world and the next."Then he left him and turned to another of them and said, "Which of you will be my ally in this world and the next?" They refused.Ali said, "I will be your ally in this world and the next."He said, "You are my ally in this world and the next."Ali was the first person to embrace Islam after Khadijah.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ took his cloak and placed it over Ali, Fatimah, Hasan, and Husayn, and said, "Allah only wishes to remove all impurity from you, people of the household, and to purify you completely" [Ahzab 33:33].Ali sold himself by putting on the Prophet's ﷺ cloak and sleeping in his place. The polytheists had been throwing stones at the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Abu Bakr came while Ali was sleeping, thinking it was the Prophet of Allah, and said, "Prophet of Allah."Ali said to him, "The Prophet of Allah ﷺ has gone toward the well of Maymun. Catch up with him."Abu Bakr went off and entered the cave with him. Meanwhile, Ali continued to be pelted with stones, just as the Prophet of Allah had been, twisting in pain, his head wrapped in the cloak, not bringing it out until morning. Then he uncovered his head, and they said, "You are despicable. When we threw stones at your companion, he would not flinch, but you flinch. We found that strange."The Prophet went out with the people on the expedition of Tabuk.Ali said to him, "Shall I go out with you?"The Prophet of Allah said, "No."Ali wept, so the Prophet said to him, "Are you not pleased that you should be to me as Harun was to Musa, except that you are not a prophet? It is not fitting that I depart unless you are my deputy."The Messenger of Allah said to him, "You are my ally for every believer after me."He said, "Close all the doors opening into the mosque except the door of Ali," so Ali could enter the mosque even when in a state of major impurity, since it was the only path he had.He said, "Whoever I am his master, Ali is his master."Allah told us in the Quran that He was pleased with them, with the Companions of the Tree, and He knew what was in their hearts. Did He inform us afterwards that He became displeased with them?The Prophet of Allah ﷺ said to Umar when he asked, "Permit me to strike off his neck," "Would you really do that? How do you know? Perhaps Allah has looked upon the people of Badr and said, 'Do whatever you wish.'"

حدثنا عبد الله حدثنا يحيى بن حماد حدثنا أبو عوانة حدثنا أبو بلج حدثنا

عمرو بن ميمون قال

إني لجالس إلى ابن عباس إذ أتاه تسعة رهط فقالوا يا أبا عباس إما أن تقوم معنا وإما أن يخلونا هؤلاء قال فقال ابن عباس بل أقوم معكم قال وهو يومئذ صحيح قبل أن يعمى قال فابتدءوا فتحدثوا فلا ندري ما قالوا قال فجاء ينفض ثوبه ويقول أف وتف وقعوا في رجل له عشر وقعوا في رجل قال له النبي ﷺ لأبعثن رجلا لا يخزيه الله أبدا يحب الله ورسوله قال فاستشرف لها من استشرف قال أين علي قالوا هو في الرحل يطحن قال وما كان أحدكم ليطحن قال فجاء وهو أرمد لا يكاد يبصر قال فنفث في عينيه ثم هز الراية ثلاثا فأعطاها إياه فجاء بصفية بنت حيي قال ثم بعث فلانا بسورة التوبة فبعث عليا خلفه فأخذها منه قال لا يذهب بها إلا رجل مني وأنا منه قال وقال لبني عمه أيكم يواليني في الدنيا والآخرة قال وعلي معه جالس فأبوا فقال علي أنا أواليك في الدنيا والآخرة قال أنت وليي في الدنيا والآخرة قال فتركه ثم أقبل على رجل منهم فقال أيكم يواليني في الدنيا والآخرة فأبوا قال فقال علي أنا أواليك في الدنيا والآخرة فقال أنت وليي في الدنيا والآخرة قال وكان أول من أسلم من الناس بعد خديجة قال وأخذ رسول الله ﷺ ثوبه فوضعه على علي وفاطمة وحسن وحسين فقال {إنما يريد الله ليذهب عنكم الرجس أهل البيت ويطهركم تطهيرا} قال وشرى علي نفسه لبس ثوب النبي ﷺ ثم نام مكانه قال وكان المشركون يرمون رسول الله ﷺ فجاء أبو بكر وعلي نائم قال وأبو بكر يحسب أنه نبي الله قال فقال يا نبي الله قال فقال له علي إن نبي الله ﷺ قد انطلق نحو بئر ميمون فأدركه قال فانطلق أبو بكر فدخل معه الغار قال وجعل علي يرمى بالحجارة كما كان يرمى نبي الله وهو يتضور قد لف رأسه في الثوب لا يخرجه حتى أصبح ثم كشف عن رأسه فقالوا إنك للئيم كان صاحبك نرميه فلا يتضور وأنت تتضور وقد استنكرنا ذلك قال وخرج بالناس في غزوة تبوك قال فقال له علي أخرج معك قال فقال له نبي الله لا فبكى علي فقال له أما ترضى أن تكون مني بمنزلة هارون من موسى إلا أنك لست بنبي إنه لا ينبغي أن أذهب إلا وأنت خليفتي قال وقال له رسول الله أنت وليي في كل مؤمن بعدي وقال سدوا أبواب المسجد غير باب علي فقال فيدخل المسجد جنبا وهو طريقه ليس له طريق غيره قال وقال من كنت مولاه فإن مولاه علي قال وأخبرنا الله عز وجل في القرآن أنه قد رضي عنهم عن أصحاب الشجرة فعلم ما في قلوبهم هل حدثنا أنه سخط عليهم بعد قال وقال نبي الله ﷺ لعمر حين قال ائذن لي فلأضرب عنقه قال أوكنت فاعلا وما يدريك لعل الله قد اطلع إلى أهل بدر فقال اعملوا ما شئتم