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ahmad:25233 – Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī > Zāʾidah > al-Suddī > ʿAbdullāh al-Bahī > ʿĀʾishah

Of the generation to which I belong, then of the second generation (generation adjacent to my generation), then of the third generation (generation adjacent to the second generation). (Using translation from Muslim 2536)   

أحمد:٢٥٢٣٣ – حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ زَائِدَةَ عَنْ السُّدِّيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْبَهِيِّ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَيُّ النَّاسِ خَيْرٌ؟ قَالَ الْقَرْنُ الَّذِي أَنَا فِيهِ ثُمَّ الثَّانِي ثُمَّ الثَّالِثُ  

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muslim:2536 – Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah And Shujāʿ b. Makhlad Wa-al-Lafẓ Lʾabī Bakr

Of the generation to which I belong, then of the second generation (generation adjacent to my generation), then of the third generation (generation adjacent to the second generation).  

مسلم:٢٥٣٦ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَشُجَاعُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لأَبِي بَكْرٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنٌ وَهُوَ ابْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْجُعْفِيُّ عَنْ زَائِدَةَ عَنِ السُّدِّيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْبَهِيِّ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ أَىُّ النَّاسِ خَيْرٌ قَالَ الْقَرْنُ الَّذِي أَنَا فِيهِ ثُمَّ الثَّانِي ثُمَّ الثَّالِثُ  

tabarani:10058 – Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad al-Firyābī > Yaḥyá b. Mūsá al-Balkhī > Yaḥyá b. Ibrāhīm al-Sulamī > al-Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ > al-Ajlaḥ > al-Shaʿbī > ʿAlqamah > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The best people are my generation, then the one that follows them, then the one that follows them, and then there will come a people in whom there is no good."  

الطبراني:١٠٠٥٨ – حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْفِرْيَابِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ مُوسَى الْبَلْخِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ السُّلَمِيُّ ثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ عَنِ الْأَجْلَحِ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «خَيْرُ النَّاسِ قَرْنِي ثُمَّ الثَّانِي ثُمَّ الثَّالِثُ ثُمَّ يَجِيءُ قَوْمٌ لَا خَيْرَ فِيهِمْ»