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السيوطي:١٢٣٣١a

"بُعِثْتُ مِنْ خَيرِ قُرُونِ بَنِي آدَمَ قَرْنًا، فَقَرْنًا، حَتَّى كُنْتُ مِنَ القَرْنِ الَّذِي كُنْتُ فِيهِ".  

[خ] البخاري وابن سعد، [هب] البيهقى في شعب الإيمان عن أَبي هريرة

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Collected by Bukhārī, Aḥmad
bukhari:3557Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Yaʿqūb b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > ʿAmr > Saʿīd al-Maqburī > Abū Hurayrah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "I have been sent (as an Apostle) in the best of all the generations of Adam's offspring since their Creation."  

البخاري:٣٥٥٧حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ عَمْرٍو عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ بُعِثْتُ مِنْ خَيْرِ قُرُونِ بَنِي آدَمَ قَرْنًا فَقَرْنًا حَتَّى كُنْتُ مِنَ الْقَرْنِ الَّذِي كُنْتُ فِيهِ  

ahmad:9392Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Yaʿqūb b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Qārī > ʿAmr b. Abū ʿAmr > Saʿīd al-Maqburī > Abū Hurayrah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "I have been sent (as an Apostle) in the best of all the generations of Adam's offspring since their Creation." (Using translation from Bukhārī 3557)  

أحمد:٩٣٩٢حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدٍ الْقَارِيُّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي عَمْرٍو عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ بُعِثْتُ فِي خَيْرِ قُرُونِ بَنِي آدَمَ قَرْنًا فَقَرْنًا حَتَّى كُنْتُ مِنَ الْقَرْنِ الَّذِي كُنْتُ فِيهِ  

ahmad:8857Sulaymān > Ismāʿīl > ʿAmr > Saʿīd al-Maqburī > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] "The Prophet Muhammad, ﷺ , said: I was sent in the best of generations of the sons of Adam, generation after generation, until I was sent in the generation I belonged to."  

أحمد:٨٨٥٧حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ أَخْبَرَنِي عَمْرٌو عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ بُعِثْتُ مِنْ خَيْرِ قُرُونِ بَنِي آدَمَ قَرْنًا فَقَرْنًا حَتَّى بُعِثْتُ مِنَ الْقَرْنِ الَّذِي كُنْتُ مِنْهُ