Sahih al-Bukhari 6428

Translation

ʿImran bin Husain said: The Prophet ﷺ said, "The best people are my contemporaries (i.e., the present (my) generation) and then those who come after them (i.e., the next generation)." ʿImran added: I am not sure whether the Prophet ﷺ repeated the statement twice after his first saying. The Prophet ﷺ added, "And after them there will come people who will bear witness, though they will not be asked to give their witness; and they will be treacherous and nobody will trust them, and they will make vows, but will not fulfill them, and fatness will appear among them."

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3809Musnad Ahmad 18447Musnad Ahmad 19835al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16703al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 2185Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33076

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn b. ʿUbayd b. Khalaf al-Khuzāʿī

   embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ, and was virtuousd. 52 AH, Ibn Mandah related a view that he died in the year (53) AH
   عِمْرَان بْن حُصَيْن بْن عُبَيْد بْن خَلَف الْخُزَاعِيّأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلا
   سمعت
2. 2
   Zahdam

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   زَهْدَمُ بْنُ مُضَرِّبٍثقة
   حدثني
3. 3
   Abū Jamrah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. during the governorship of Yūsuf b. ʿUmar over Iraq, or 128 AH
   أَبَا جَمْرَةَثقة ثبت
   سمعت
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   غُنْدَرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Bashshār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
   حدثني
7. 7
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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