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السيوطي:١٣٨٧٨a

"خَيْرُ النَّاسِ قَرْنِى ثم الذين يَلُونَهُم".  

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن جميلة بنت أَبى جهل

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Collected by Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ خَيْرَ النَّاسِ بَعْدَ أَتْبَاعِ التَّابِعِينَ تَبَعُ الْأَتْبَاعِ

ibnhibban:7229al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Wakīʿ > al-Aʿmash > Hilāl b. Yasāf > ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The best of people are my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them, then those who follow them."  

ابن حبّان:٧٢٢٩أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ حَدَّثَنَا هِلَالُ بْنُ يَسَافٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عِمْرَانَ بْنَ حُصَيْنٍ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «خَيْرُ النَّاسِ قَرْنِي ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ»  

tabarani:15677Darār b. Sufyān al-Qaṭṭān al-Baṣrī > Muḥammad b. Kathīr > Hammām > Qatādah > Zurārah b. Awfá > ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn

The Prophet ﷺ said, "The people of my generation are the best, then those who follow them, and then whose who follow the latter. After that there will come some people whose witness will go ahead of their oaths, and their oaths will go ahead of their witness." Ibrahim (a sub-narrator) said, "We used to be beaten for taking oaths by saying, 'I bear witness by the Name of Allah or by the Covenant of Allah." (Using translation from Bukhārī 2652)  

الطبراني:١٥٦٧٧حَدَّثَنَا دَرَارُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ الْقَطَّانُ الْبَصْرِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ ثنا هَمَّامٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ بْنِ أَوْفَى عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «خَيْرُ النَّاسِ قَرْنِي ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ»