Criteria of faith and hypocrisy
Abu-Zar narrates that the Messenger of Allah (ص) said:
﴿ عَلِيٌّ بَابُ عِلْمِي، وَمُبَيِّنٌ لِاُمَّتِي مَا اُرْسِلْتُ بِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِي. حُبُّه إِيمَانٌ، وَبُغْضُهُ نِفَاقٌ، وَالنَّظَرُ إِلَيْهِ رَأْفَةٌ وَمَوَدَّتُهُ عِبَادَةٌ ﴾
"Ali is the door of my knowledge, and after me, he will be the expositor of my ‘Risalah’ (divine message) for my ‘Ummah’ (nation). Loving him is faith and enmity with him is hypocrisy, and looking at him with compassion and amity is worship”
Dailami, Firduas Al-Akhbar, V.3, page 91; Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Zahr al-Firdaus, V.2, page 316-317 as a statement; Muttaqi Hindi, Kanz al-Ummal, V.11, page 614-615; Ibn Taimiyyah, Al-Qawl al-Jali, hadith 38 and others. In like manner, it has been narrated in Al-Mustadrak, 36; Manawi, Kunuz al-Haqaiq, page 188; Abu Na'im Esfahani in Hilyatul Auliya, V.1, page 63; Salehi Shami, Subulul Huda wal Rashad, V.11, page 293; Qunduzi, Yanabi al-Muwadda, V.2, page 240.
