Muhammad ibnil Abbas says Ahmed ibn Muhammad ibn Sa’eed told me a hadith, from his narrators, on the authority of Sulaym ibn Qays, from the authority of Hasan ibn Ali, from the authority of his father (peace be on both of them) concerning Allah’s revelation ‘And the foremost are the foremost, These are they who are drawn nigh (to Allah)’ (Surah Waq’iah: 0 – )
He said: “I am the most forward going of those who go forward towards Allah and His Prophet, and the nearest of the nearest to Allah and His Messenger.”