al-Mundhirī (4/86) and al-Haythamī (10/259) said: "Its narrators are trustworthy." It is in "Mawārid al-Ẓamʾān" (2565) - and the context is from it - and is also found in the sixth volume of "al-Ṣaḥīḥah" under number (2559). I am very surprised how those scholars from both groups overlooked citing it as evidence and refutation?! Especially al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, so we may know his opinion on the testimony of the angels before their Lord: that they are the best of His creation, and I do not think he finds an interpretation for it except to accept its indication! Similar is the ḥadīth of the chapter, yet none of them mentioned it, and perhaps that is because they also see it as specific to humans and not angels; as previously explained at the beginning of this extraction, which is what Imām al-Ālūsī inferred in his tafsīr "Rūḥ al-Maʿānī" (3/264)! And Allāh is the Guardian of success. As for the ḥadīth: "ʿAlī is the best of creation"; it is among the fabrications of the Shīʿah, and it has been narrated from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, and is found in "al-Ḍaʿīfah" (5593), and from Jābir ibn Jābir under number (4925), and al-Ālūsī mentioned it from Abū Hurayrah at Ibn Abī Ḥātim, and the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah, ʿAlī, and Ibn ʿAbbās at Ibn Mardawayh, and I have not found their isnāds. It is apparent that they are the work of the Shīʿah or others among the weak and liars, and therefore al-Ālūsī commented on them by saying: "And proving the authenticity of those reports is like extracting thorns from a thorny tree. And Allāh, the Exalted, knows best." It is necessary to point out that in it occurred the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah: "elevated," and I think it is distorted: "suspended"; for it is known that the reference for the later scholars in extracting tafsīr ḥadīths is mostly "al-Durr al-Manthūr," and the ḥadīth in it (6/379) is not elevated!