The best truth-teller [Siddiq-e-A’zam](the greatest honest friend)
It is narrated from Dawood ibn Bilal ibn Ajnah that the Messenger of Allah (ص) said:
﴿ اَلصِّدِّيقُونَ ثَلَاثَةٌ: حَبِيبُ النَّجَّارُ، وَحِزْقِيلُ مُؤْمِنُ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ، وَالثَّالِثُ أَفْضَلُهُمْ ﴾
"The truthful ones are three: Habib Najjar, Hezekiel, a believer from the progeny of Pharaoh and Ali ibn Abi Talib and the third is the best of them"
Habib is a person who hastened from a far off place and urged the people of Antioch to follow the angels of God. His story has come down in the blessed Sura Yasin.
The believer from Pharaoh's household is the one who hid his faith from the Pharaohs and prevented them from opposing Moses (ع). He would say to them, "Will you kill a man who says that my Lord is God?
Dailami, Ferdaus al-Akhbar, V.2, page 581; Subki, Jam al-Jawami, page 11083; Munawi, Faiz al-Qadir, V.4, page 313, hadith 5148 from Ibn Abbas and hadith 5149; Qurtubi, Tafsir, V.15, page 306; Muttaki Hindi, Kanz al-Ummal, V.11, page 601; Kharazmi, Al-Manaqib, page 310; Ibn Asaker, Tarikh Madinah-Damishq, V.42, page 43; Suyuti, Al-Durr al-Manthur, V.5, page 262; Ibid, Al-Jami' as-Saghir, V.2, page 115; Ibn Hajar Haitami, Al-Sawa’iq al-Muhriqah, page 125; Qunduzi, Yanabi al-Muwadda, V.2, page 235 (with difference in wordings).
Also, refer to Suyuti, Al-Durr al-Manthur, V.6, page 154; Alusi, Rūh al-Ma'ānī, V.27, page 132 regarding interpretation of the verse ﴿وَالسَّابِقُونَ السَّابِقُونَ﴾; Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Fazail-e-Sahaba, V.2, page 627-655, hadith 1072 & 1117.
