´Ibn Buraidah narrated that his father said:` "The Messenger of Allah said: 'Allah has commanded me to love four people, and He told me that He also loves them.' He was asked: 'O Messenger of Allah, who are they?' He said: ''Ali is one of them,' and he said that three times, 'and Abu Dharr, Salman and Miqdad.'"
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Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
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(In the chain of narration, Abu Rabi‘ah al-Ayadi is weak in hadith, and Sharik al-Qadi has poor memory.)
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 3718