628 - Muhammad ibn 'Ali informed me, saying: I heard Muhammad ibn Mutahhar al-Missisi say: I asked Abu 'Abd Allah about [the matter of] precedence [in virtue], and he mentioned the answer, and he mentioned the hadith of Hammad ibn Salamah from Sa'id ibn Jumhan, from Safinah regarding the Caliphate. He said: "'Ali, in our view, is among the Rightly Guided and the rightly directed, and Hammad ibn Salamah is, in our view, trustworthy, and we only increase in insight regarding him every day."