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tabarani:10058Jaʿfar 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:١٠٠٥٨حَدَّثَنَا 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»  


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ahmad:25233Ḥusayn 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:٢٥٢٣٣حَدَّثَنَا 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  

tabarani:2188al-Qāsim b. Zakariyyā al-Muṭarriz > Abū Kurayb > Ibn Idrīs from his father from his grandfather > Jaʿdah b. Hubayrah

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

الطبراني:٢١٨٨حَدَّثَنَا الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا الْمُطَرِّزُ ثنا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ ثنا ابْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَنْ جَعْدَةَ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «خَيْرُ النَّاسِ قَرْنِي ثُمَّ الَّذِي يَلِيهِ ثُمَّ الْآخَرُونَ أَرْذَلُ»