Sunan an-Nasa'i 5018
سنن النسائي#5018Sahihأَخْبَرَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ عِيسَى قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ عَدِيٍّ عَنْ زِرٍّ قَالَ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ إِنَّهُ لَعَهْدُ النَّبِيِّ الْأُمِّيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَيَّ أَنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّكَ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنٌ وَلَا يَبْغُضُكَ إِلَّا مُنَافِقٌ
It was narrated that Zirr said:'Ali said: "The Unlettered Prophet [SAW] made a covenant with me, that none but a believer would love me, and none but a hypocrite would hate me
Scholarly Authentication
The label above is the grade most of these scholars gave, each scholar counted once — one dissenting opinion no longer speaks for all of them. If any scholar calls a narration fabricated, that verdict is shown instead, whatever the others say. When they judged only its chain of narrators (“Isnaad”), the label says “Sound chain”. Each scholar's own wording:
Our source also lists this ruling under Abu Ghuddah, the editor of the printed edition it was taken from. It is al-Albani's ruling printed again, so it is counted once.
In-book reference: 47:34