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فقال الرجل: من هذا يا رسول الله؟ قال: «هذا من الذين أنزل الله فيهم إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَ عَمِلُوا الصَّالِحاتِ أُولئِكَ هُمْ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ So, the man said, ‘Who is this, O Rasool-Allah -saww ?’ He -saww said: ‘This is the one for whom ‑asws Allah -azwj Revealed: Surely those who believe and are doing righteous deeds, those, they are the best of the Created beings [98:7] ’.
[18] أبو نعيم الأصفهاني في (ما نزل من القرآن في علي (عليه السلام)): بالإسناد، عن شريك بن عبد الله، عن أبي إسحاق، عن الحارث، قال علي (عليه السلام): «نحن أهل بيت لا نقاس بالناس Abu Na’eem Al-Isfahany in ‘What Came down from the Quran regarding Ali -asws ’ (Ma Nazal-Min Al-Quran Fi Ali -asws ) – By his chain, from Shareek Bin Abdullah, from Abu Is’haq, from Al-Haris who said: ‘Ali -asws said: ‘We -asws , the People -asws of the Household cannot be compared with the (other) people’.
فقام رجل فأتى ابن عباس، فأخبره بذلك، فقال: صدق علي، النبي لا يقاس بالناس؟ و قد نزل في علي (عليه السلام) إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَ عَمِلُوا الصَّالِحاتِ أُولئِكَ هُمْ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ So a man stood up and came to Ibn Abbas and informed him of that. He said, ‘Ali -asws has spoken the truth. The Prophet -saww did not compare them -asws with the people.
And it has been Revealed regarding Ali -asws : Surely those who believe and are doing righteous deeds, those, they are the best of the Created beings [98:7] ’.
[19] The best of Created beings – Amir Al-Momineen -asws and the Imams -asws و روى الطبرسي، رفعه: عن مقاتل بن سليمان، عن الضحاك، عن ابن عباس، في قوله: هُمْ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ، قال: نزلت في علي و أهل بيته (عليهم السلام) And Tabarsy has reported, with an unbroken chain from Maqaatil Bin Suleyman, from AL-Zahaaq, from Ibn Abbas, Regarding His -azwj Words: the best of the Created beings [98:7] , he -saww said: ‘It was Revealed regarding Ali -asws and the People -asws of his -asws Household’.
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