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bayhaqi:5794 – Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Muḥammad b. Khālid > Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī > al-Ḥasan > Ibn ʿUmārah > ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib > Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī > ʿAlī ؓ

[AI] If the Imam feeds you, then feed him.

البيهقي:٥٧٩٤ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْوَهْبِيُّ ثنا الْحَسَنُ هُوَ ابْنُ عُمَارَةَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ قَالَ

إِذَا اسْتَطْعَمَكُمُ الْإِمَامُ فَأَطْعِمُوهُ

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bayhaqi:5795 – Abū Bakr b. al-Ḥārith > ʿAlī b. ʿUmar al-Ḥāfiẓ > ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Dāwud b. Rushayd > Abū Ḥafṣ / al-Abbār > ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib > Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī Arāh > ʿAlī

[AI] "If the Imam feeds you, then feed him."

البيهقي:٥٧٩٥ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ أنبأ عَلِيُّ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْحَافِظُ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا دَاوُدُ بْنُ رُشَيْدٍ ثنا أَبُو حَفْصٍ يَعْنِي الْأَبَّارَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ أَرَاهُ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ؓ قَالَ

إِذَا اسْتَطْعَمَكُمُ الْإِمَامُ فَأَطْعِمُوهُ