How sound is the Hadith: "The best of people are the Arabs, and the best of Arabs are Quraish, and the best of Quraish are Banu Hashim, and the best of Banu Hashim am I," and does it contradict Allah's saying: "Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you" and the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: "There is no superiority for an Arab over a non-Arab except by piety (taqwa)"?
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The Hadith: "The best of people are the Arabs, and the best of Arabs are Quraysh, and the best of Quraysh are Banu Hashim. And the best of non-Arabs are the Persians, and the best of black people are the Nubians." It was narrated by Al-Daylami in Musnad Al-Firdaws. Al-Shawkani said in Al-Fawa'id Al-Majmu'ah: It is fabricated, and its chain of narration contains unknown individuals.
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