Tafseer of The Evidence · Al-Bayyina · 98:7
Indeed, they who have believed and done righteous deeds - those are the best of creatures.
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And His statement: إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ أُولَئِكَ هُمْ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ (Verily, those who believe and do righteous deeds, they are the best of creatures.)
Allah — exalted be His mention — says: verily, those who have believed in Allah and His Messenger Muḥammad (the Prophet ﷺ), who have worshipped Allah while keeping the religion pure for Him as true monotheists (ḥunafāʾ), who have performed the ritual prayer (ṣalāh), given the obligatory alms (zakāh), and obeyed Allah in what He commanded and forbade — أُولَئِكَ هُمْ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ (they are the best of creatures). He says: whoever of mankind does that, they are the best of creatures.
And indeed: Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: ʿĪsā ibn Farqad related to us, on the authority of Abū al-Jārūd, on the authority of Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, concerning أُولَئِكَ هُمْ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ (they are the best of creatures), whereupon the Prophet ﷺ said: "You, O ʿAlī, and your followers (shīʿa)."
