Tibrani writes from Al-Matlab bin Abdullah ibne Hantab from his father. He says that I heard the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) announce at Johfa: “Am I not more superior to you than yourselves?” The people replied: Yes, O Messenger of Allah! The Prophet then said: “I will question you (hold you responsible) about two things; the Quran and my Ahle Bayt.”1

Tibrani records through Ibne Abbas that the Prophet of Allah (s.a.w.s.) said: “(on the Resurrection day) no foot a servant (of Allah) will move before being asked about four things:

(1) his years and how he spent them

(2) his body and how he worn it out

(3) his wealth and how he spent it and

(4) about his love towards us, (the Ahle Bayt)?”2

Daylami quotes Ali (a.s.) to have heard from the Messenger of Allah, “The first ones to arrive at the pool (of Kausar in Paradise) will be my Ahle Bayt.”3

Daylami has also mantioned the following tradition of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) through Ali (a.s.): “Teach your children three habits; to love your Prophet, to love his (Prophet's) household and to recite the Quran; because the carrier of the Quran will be in the shade of Allah alongwith His Prophet and the chosen ones on the day when there will be no shade except that of Allah's.”4

Ali (a.s.) has also been recorded by Daylami to have quoted from the Messenger of Islam (s.a.w.s.) the following tradition: “The most sure-footed upon the bridge of Seraat will be those who were more deeply in love of my Ahle Bayt and my companions.”5

Daylami also mentions that Ali (a.s.) quoted the Messenger of Allah as saying: “I will intercede for four kinds of people:

(1) Those who loved and respected my progeny.

(2) Those who fulfilled their needs and solved their problems.

(3) Those who helped them in diffulties and in times of needs.

(4) Those who maintained their respect and friendship by words and by heart.6