Musnad Ahmad 7123

Translation

✧ The best of my nation is the generation in which I was sent, then those who follow them, then those who follow them - and Allah knows best whether he said the third or not - then there will come a people who love fatness and who testify before they are asked to testify.

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• Dāraquṭnī

  والصحيح عن هشيم عن أبي بشر عن عبد الله بن شقيق عن أبي هريرة

  in مسند أحمد, p. 7203

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3809

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Shaqīq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some hostility toward ʿAlī (naṣb) in himd. during the governorship of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf over Iraq, or 108 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍثقة ، فيه نصب
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Bishr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), among the most reliable of people in narrating from Saʿīd b. Jubayrd. 123 AH or 124 AH or 125 AH or 126 AH, also said: 131 AH
   أَبُو بِشْرٍثقة ، من أثبت الناس في سعيد بن جبير
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Hushaym b. Bashīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), who often practiced tadlīs and hidden irsāl.d. 181 AH, or 183 AH
   هُشَيْمٌثقة ثبت كثير التدليس والإرسال الخفي
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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