The caliphate is in Quraysh and people follow them

Humayd bin Abd al-Rahman said: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was among some people of Madinah. He came, removed the cloth from the face of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), kissed the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and then said: "May my father and mother be ransomed for you! How pure you are in life and in death! By the Lord of the Ka'bah, Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) has passed away." After this the narrator mentioned the full hadith. The narrator said: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) set off, hurrying together, until they came to the Ansar. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) began to speak, and he left out nothing that had been revealed in the Qur'an or that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had mentioned concerning them; Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) mentioned every such thing. The people said: You know that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If the people were to walk in one valley and the Ansar in another valley, I would walk in the valley of the Ansar." (Then Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said:) O Sa'd! You know that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said this, you too were present there at that time (he had said:) "Quraysh will be the custodians of this matter; the righteous among the people will follow their righteous, and the wicked among the people will follow their wicked." The narrator said: Then Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "You have spoken the truth. We will be the ministers and you will be the rulers."
Ahmad recorded it. The beginning portion of it is reported in the Sahih. Its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy), except that the narrator Humayd bin Abd al-Rahman did not live in the time of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) said: My ears heard this, and my heart preserved it from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) (he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:) "The people will follow Quraysh: the righteous among the people will follow their righteous, and the wicked among the people will follow their wicked."
Abdullah bin Ahmad and al-Bazzar recorded it. Its chain contains Muhammad bin Jabir al-Yamami, who is da'if (weak) according to the majority, though he has also been declared trustworthy.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), while addressing the people, said: "Beware! The rulers will be from Quraysh. Beware! The rulers will be from Quraysh. Beware! The rulers will be from Quraysh, as long as they do three things: when they judge, they act with justice; when they make a covenant, they fulfil it; and when mercy is sought from them, they show mercy. Whoever among them does not do so, upon him will be the curse of Allah Almighty, the angels and all mankind."
Abu Ya'la recorded it; its chain contains narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The rulers will be from Quraysh. The righteous of Quraysh will be the rulers of the righteous among the people, and the wicked of Quraysh will be the rulers of the wicked among the people. Everyone has a right, so give every one who has a right his due. If a mutilated Abyssinian slave, whose nose and ears have been cut off, is appointed as your ruler, then listen to him and obey, as long as he does not give any one of you the choice between keeping his Islam or being killed. When he gives a person the choice between keeping his Islam or being killed, then the man should stretch out his neck. May his mother lose him! Once his religion has gone, neither this world nor the Hereafter will benefit him."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Saghir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat from his teacher Hafs bin Umar bin al-Sabbah al-Raqqi. Al-Hakim (may Allah have mercy on him) said: He narrated more than one hadith in which he was not corroborated.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Once we were with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); we were about eighty men, all from Quraysh, and every one of them was a Qurashi. By Allah! I have never seen faces more handsome than the faces of those people that day. They mentioned women and began talking about them, until I wished that they would fall silent. Sayyiduna Abdullah said: Then I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He recited the testimony of faith and then said: "To proceed: O people of Quraysh! You will be the custodians of this matter as long as you do not disobey Allah Almighty. When you disobey Him, He will send against you people who will strip you just as a stick is stripped." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said this regarding a stick that was in his blessed hand. Then he stripped the stick, and it became smooth and white.
Ahmad and Abu Ya'la recorded it, and al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. The narrators of Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih, and the narrators of Abu Ya'la are thiqat (trustworthy).

Bukayr bin Wahb al-Jazari said: Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said to me: I am going to narrate to you a hadith that I do not narrate to everyone. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stood at the door of a house while we were inside that house, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The rulers will be from Quraysh. I have a right over you, and they too have a right over you like it, as long as, when mercy is sought from them, they show mercy; when they make a covenant, they fulfil it; and when they judge, they act with justice. Whoever among them does not do so, upon him will be the curse of Allah Almighty, the angels and all mankind."
Ahmad and Abu Ya'la recorded it, and al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, more completely than the two of them. Al-Bazzar also recorded it, except that in his version the wording is: "Kingship will be in Quraysh." The narrators of Ahmad are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have a right over Quraysh, and Quraysh have a right over you, as long as they act with justice when they judge, fulfil the trust when they are entrusted, and show mercy when mercy is sought from them."
Ahmad recorded it, and al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. The narrators of Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him): "Among you (that is, Quraysh) are prophethood and rule."
Al-Bazzar recorded it; its chain contains Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman al-Amiri, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyar bin Salamah Abu al-Minhal said: I went with my father to Sayyiduna Abu Barzah (may Allah be pleased with him). I had two earrings in my ear, and I was a boy. He narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The rulers will be from Quraysh." He said this three times. (Then he said:) "As long as they do three things: they act with justice when they judge; when mercy is sought from them, they show mercy; and when they make a covenant, they fulfil it. Whoever among them does not do so, upon him will be the curse of Allah Almighty, the angels and all mankind."
Ahmad recorded it. Abu Ya'la recorded it as a more complete narration in which the whole incident is mentioned, and al-Bazzar also recorded it. The narrators of Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih, except for Sukayn bin Abd al-Aziz, and he is thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Quraysh: "This matter (that is, government) will be among you and you will be its custodians, until you introduce new (evil) deeds. When you do that, Allah Almighty will set the worst of His creation over you, and they will strip you just as a stick is stripped."
Ahmad and al-Tabarani recorded it. The narrators of Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih, except for al-Qasim bin Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman bin al-Harith, and he is thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stood at the door of a house in which there were some men from Quraysh. The narrator said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took hold of the two doorposts and said: "Is there anyone in the house except Qurashis?" It was said: "O Messenger of Allah! There is a nephew of ours (a sister's son) who is not a Qurashi." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The sister's son of a people is one of them." Then he said: "This matter (that is, government) will remain in Quraysh as long as they remain in this state: when mercy is sought from them, they show mercy; when they judge, they act with justice; and when they distribute, they act fairly. Whoever among them does not do so, upon him will be the curse of Allah Almighty, the angels and all mankind; no obligatory or voluntary worship of his will be accepted." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Abu Dawud recorded only these words of this narration: "The sister's son of a people is one of them."
Ahmad, al-Bazzar and al-Tabarani recorded it. The narrators of Ahmad are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Dhu Mikhbar (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This matter (that is, government) was among Himyar; then Allah Almighty took it away from them and placed it among Quraysh, and it will soon return to them." Abdullah said: In my father's writing these words are recorded in the same way, letter by letter separately, but when he narrated this hadith to us, he would pronounce the whole sentence properly.
Ahmad recorded it, and al-Tabarani recorded it with the letters abbreviated. Their narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Shurayh bin Ubayd said: Jubayr bin Nufayr, Kathir bin Murrah, Amr bin al-Aswad, Sayyiduna al-Miqdam bin Ma'dikarib and Sayyiduna Abu Umamah narrated to me that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! Will this matter remain only among your people?" He said: "Yes." He said: "Then enjoin them to treat us well." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Quraysh: "I exhort you to fear Allah Almighty in this regard, lest you subject my Ummah to hardship after me." Then he said to the people: "Soon there will be rulers after me, so obey them, for the ruler is like a shield by which one is protected. If they remain upright, are God-fearing and command you to do good, then that is well; and if they do evil and command you to do it, then (its burden will be) upon them, and you will be free of it." After this the narrator mentioned the full hadith.
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Muhammad bin Isma'il bin Ayyash, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Amr bin Awf bin Yazid bin Milhah al-Muzani (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was sitting with them. He went into the house and said: "Come in to me, but let only Qurashis come in." The narrator said: I got up from there and went in. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O people of Quraysh! Is there anyone with you who is not from among you?" The people said: "O Messenger of Allah! May our fathers and mothers be ransomed for you, we will tell you: with us is a nephew of ours (a sister's son) and a freed slave." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The ally of a people is one of them, and the sister's son of a people is one of them. O people of Quraysh! You will be the custodians of this matter after me, so do not die except as Muslims. Hold fast to the rope of Allah and do not divide into sects, and do not be like those who divided into sects and differed after clear proofs had come to them. And they were commanded only to worship Allah Almighty, making religion sincerely His and being upright, and to establish the prayer and pay the zakah; that is the upright religion. O people of Quraysh! Take care of me with regard to my Companions, their sons and their sons' sons. May Allah Almighty have mercy on the Ansar, the sons of the Ansar and the sons of the sons of the Ansar."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Kathir bin Abdullah bin Amr al-Muzani, who is da'if (weak), though al-Tirmidhi graded his hadith hasan (good). The rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came and stood by a house in which there were some men from Quraysh. He took hold of the two doorposts and asked: "Is there anyone in the house except Qurashis?" The people said: "No! There is also a nephew of ours (a sister's son)." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The sister's son of a people is one of them." Then he said: "This matter (that is, government) will remain in Quraysh as long as, when mercy is sought from them, they show mercy; and as long as they act with justice when they judge, and act fairly when they distribute. Whoever among them does not do so, upon him will be the curse of Allah Almighty, the angels and all mankind."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Saghir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We were in a house in which there were some men from the Muhajirun and the Ansar. Meanwhile the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to us, and every one of us began to make room, hoping that he might sit beside him. But the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stood by the door, took hold of its two doorposts and said: "The rulers will be from Quraysh. I have a great right over you, and they too will have a right, as long as they do three things: when mercy is sought from them, they show mercy; when they judge, they act with justice; and when they make a covenant, they fulfil it. Whoever among them does not do so, upon him will be the curse of Allah Almighty, the angels and all mankind." In one narration the wording is: "When they are entrusted, they fulfil it (that is, they return the trust)."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat and al-Mu'jam al-Kabir. Its chain contains Abdullah bin Farrukh, whom Ibn Hibban declared thiqah (trustworthy); he said: He sometimes narrates in contradiction (to others). There is criticism concerning this narrator. The remaining narrators of al-Mu'jam al-Kabir are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The safety of the people of the earth from drowning is the bow (perhaps meaning the appearance of the rainbow), and the safety of the people of the earth from discord is loyalty to Quraysh. Quraysh are the people of Allah. When any tribe of the Arabs opposes them, they will become the party of Iblis."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, though his wording is: "The safety of my Ummah from discord." In one narration the wording is: He said: "Quraysh are the people of Allah." He said this three times. Its chain contains Khulayd bin Da'laj, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In good and evil (in every matter), the people are followers of Quraysh."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its chain is hasan (good).

Sayyiduna al-Harith bin al-Harith (may Allah be pleased with him), Sayyiduna Kathir bin Murrah (may Allah be pleased with him), Sayyiduna Amr bin al-Aswad (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) report that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The best rulers of Quraysh will be the best rulers of the people."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain is hasan (good).

It is reported about Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah bin Abi Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said on the pulpit: Al-Dahhak bin Qays narrated this hadith to me, and he is a man of integrity in himself, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The ruler will always be from Quraysh."
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains Sunayd, who is thiqah (trustworthy); his narration from Hajjaj bin Sulayman has been criticized,
and this narration is one of those. And Allah knows best.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Hantab (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) addressed us at al-Juhfah and said: "Do I not have more right over you than your own selves?" The people said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah!" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then I will ask you about two things: about the Qur'an and about my family ('itrah). Beware! Do not go ahead of Quraysh, or you will go astray; and do not lag behind them, or you will perish; and do not try to teach them, for they are more knowledgeable than you. The strength of one man of Quraysh is greater than the strength of two men of any other people. Were it not for the fear that Quraysh would become arrogant, I would tell them what rank and station they have with Allah Almighty. The best of Quraysh are the best of the people."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains someone whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Thawban (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Remain upright towards Quraysh as long as they remain upright towards you. When you do not do so, then place your swords on your shoulders and annihilate them (perhaps it means: annihilate those who oppose Quraysh). If you do not do so, then in that case you will become wretched farmers, eating from the labour of your own hands."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Saghir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. The narrators of al-Mu'jam al-Saghir are thiqat (trustworthy). The hadith narrated by Sayyiduna al-Nu'man (may Allah be pleased with him) will come later.

Al-Ahnaf bin Qays said: I used to hear Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) say: "Whatever door a man of Quraysh enters by, people will enter along with him." Al-Ahnaf bin Qays said: I did not understand what his words meant, until Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was stabbed. He ordered Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him) to lead the people in prayer, which he would do for three days. He also instructed that food be prepared for the people during those three days, until the members of the Shura agreed upon one man. When the people returned from the funeral, the food had been laid out, but because of the grief they were in, they did not eat. Sayyiduna al-Abbas bin Abd al-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him) came and said: "O people! The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, and after him we continued to eat and drink; Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) passed away, and still we continued to eat and drink. So, O people, eat this food." Then Sayyiduna al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) stretched out his hand, and the people stretched out their hands too and began to eat and drink. At that moment I understood the meaning of what Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) had said.
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains Ali bin Zayd, whose hadith is hasan (good), and the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Utbah bin Abd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The caliphate will be in Quraysh." After this the narrator mentioned the full hadith, which has already passed earlier at the beginning of the Book of Rulings (Kitab al-Ahkam).
Ahmad and al-Tabarani recorded it. The narrators of Ahmad are thiqat (trustworthy). The hadith reported from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) has already passed, and its narrators are also thiqat (trustworthy).