The most beloved of women to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was Fatimah, and the most beloved of men was Ali.
كان أحب النساء إلى رسول الله ﷺ فاطمة، ومن الرجال علي.
Tirmidhi (3868), Tabarani in Al-Awsat (7258), and Hakim (3/155) all reported it through the route of Aswad bin Amir Shazan, from Jafar bin Ziyad Ahmar, from Abdullah bin Ata, from Abdullah bin Burayda, from his father, who said, then he related it.Its chain is hasan because of Jafar Ahmar and Abdullah bin Ata, for the two of them raise the hadith to the level of hasan. The hadith is to be understood as referring to the members of his household and his relatives in terms of lineage, as Tirmidhi mentioned on the authority of his teacher Ibrahim bin Saad Jawhari.On this basis, there is no contradiction between this hadith and the hadith in which it is reported that the most beloved of people to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was, "Ayesha." And among the men, "her father."