Among those [that narrated this] include: Imam Zayd bin „Ali, his brother—al-Bāqir, as-Šadiq, „Ali bin Musa ar-Riža, al-Qāsim bin Ibrāhīm, al-Hādi, al-Murshid Billah, Abul Fath ad-Daylami, al-Mutawikkil ala Allah Ahmed bin Sulayman, al-Mansur Billah „Abdullah bin Hamza, al-Hassan bin Badr ad-Dīn, Abu al-Hussein Ahmed bin Musa at-Tabari, Muhammad bin Sulayman al-Kufi, al-Hākim al-Jushmi in his Tanbīh al-Ghāfilīn, al-Hākim al-Hasakāni, al-Wāhidi, ath-Tha‟labi, al-Batrīq in his ‘Umdat, at-Tusi in his Tafsīr, ar-Rāzi in Mafātīh Ghayb, and others.

There are some that narrated the address with the wording ((Then, whomever I have authority over, „Ali has authority over. O Allah, help those that help him and oppose those that oppose him!)). Some of them include the specialists of the community: Ahmed bin Hanbal, Sa‟id bin Mansur on the authority of „Ali, upon him be peace, Zayd bin Arqam, 30 companions, Abu Ayyub while gathering the companions, al-Hākim in Mustadrak on the authority of „Ali, upon him be peace, and Talha, Abu Nu‟aym on the authority of Sa‟d bin Abi Waqqās, al-Khatīb on the authority of Anas, and at-Tabarāni on the authority of Umar bin Marah and Zayd bin Arqam—who adds ((…Assist those that assist him, and abandon those that abandon him!)) This conforms to the wording of these narrations. Their evil will be halted. This is narrated in the Lawama’ al-Anwār.

In Kitāb Faža’il al-Khamsa, it says:

[It is narrated in] Sahīh at-Tirmidhi (V. 2; p. 298) on the authority of Zayd bin Arqam, „Ali bin Sultan in his Marqāt (V. 5, p. 568) on the authority of at-Tirmidhi, an-Nisā‟i, and ad-Ðiya on the authority of Zayd.

An-Nisā‟i narrated it in his Khasā`is (p.25) on the authority of Sa‟d, Ibn Māja in his Sahīh (p. 12) on the authorities of al-Barā bin Āzib and Sa‟d bin Abi Waqqās, Ibn Hanbal in his Musnad (V. 4, p. 281) on the authority al-Barā, Kanz al-Ummāl (V. 1, p.48) and (V. 6, p.397) as related by Ibn Abi Shayba, at-Tabari in Riyāđ (V. 2, p. 169) as related by as-Simān, al-Hākim in his Mustadrak (V. 3, p. 109) on the authority of Zayd bin Arqam and (p. 533) on the authority of Zayd Batriq, and at-Tabarāni in Kabir on the authority of Zayd.

Al-Hākim related it in his Mustadrak (V. 3, p. 116) on the authority of Sa‟d bin Mālik, (p. 371) on the authority of Rifā‟i bin Ilyās ad-Ðabi on the authority of his father on the authority of his grandfather, and (p. 110) related by Burayda. [Al-Hakim] says: “These are authentic according to the conditions of [al-Bukhari and Muslim].” Ahmed narrated the hadīth of Burayda (V. 5, p. 347). Al-Muttaqi [al-Hindi] in Kanz al-Ummāl (V. 6, p. 154) related that it is narrated by Ahmed bin Hanbal, Ibn Hibban, Samawiyya, al-Hākim, and Sa‟id bin Mansur on the authorities of Ibn Abbas and Burayda. An-Nisā‟i narrated it in his Khasā`is (pp. 8 and 22) and Ibn Hajar mentioned it in his Sawā’iqa (p. 26). Afterwards, he [i.e. Ibn Hajar] says: “Adh-Dhahabi authenticated it.”

„Ali bin Sultan related in his Marqāt (V. 5, p. 568) that adh-Dhahabi narrated it on the authority of Burayda and authenticated it. Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi in Kanz al-Ummāl (V. 6, p. 152) says that it is related by Ahmed [bin Hanbal] on the authority of Burayda; an-Nisā‟i on the authority of al-Barā; and an-Nisā‟i, at-Tirmidhi, and ad-Ðiya on the authority of Zayd bin Arqam. This is also mentioned by al-Munāwi in Fayđ al-Qadīr (V.6, p. 218).

Al-Muhib at-Tabari narrated this in Riyāđ (V. 2, p. 172) on the authority of Burayda. [At-Tabari] said: “Abu Hātim related this. Ahmed also related this in his Musnad (V. 1, p.152) on the authority of „Ali, upon him be peace.” [At-Tabari] also narrated this in Riyāđ (V. 2, p. 203) and Dakhā`ir (p. 86) and said: