This is the greatest of the former and latter beings from the inhabitants of the skies and earth
This is the greatest of the former and latter beings from the inhabitants of the skies and earth
هذا خير الأولين و الآخرين من أهل السماوات و الأرض
This is the greatest of the former and latter beings from the inhabitants of the skies and earth.[1]
I could not locate it, neither in the books of the Ahlus Sunnah nor of the Shia except the book of Ahmed al Rahmani al Hamdani titled al Imam ‘Ali.
It appears as the researcher was at a loss at inventing a reference so he sufficed on writing the word reference without providing an actual one.
[1] Al Imam ‘Ali pg. 306.