Sahih al-Bukhari 6658

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ was asked, "Who are the best people?" He replied: The people of my generation, and then those who will follow (come after) them, and then those who will come after the later; after that there will come some people whose witness will precede their oaths and their oaths will go ahead of their witness." Ibrahim (a sub-narrator) said, "When we were young, our elder friends used to prohibit us from taking oaths by saying, 'I bear witness swearing by Allah, or by Allah's Covenant."'

Notes

• قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ وَكَانَ أَصْحَابُنَا يَنْهَوْنَا وَنَحْنُ غِلْمَانٌ أَنْ نَحْلِفَ بِالشَّهَادَةِ وَالْعَهْدِ

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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
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbīdah b. ʿAmr al-Salmānī

   a senior Successor, mukhaḍram, jurist, firm (thabt)d. 62 AH, or 63 AH, or 72 AH, or 73 AH, said by al-Tirmidhī and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar, or 74 AH, also said 76 AH, Ibn Ḥajar said in al-Taqrīb: the correct view is that he died before 70 AH, Mughulṭāy said in al-Ikmāl: the most correct regarding his death is 74 AH
   عَبِيدَةَتابعي كبير ، مخضرم ، فقيه ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيرا
   عن
4. 4
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
5. 5
   Shaybān

   trustworthy (thiqah), he has a bookd. 164 AH
   شَيْبَانُثقة , صاحب كتاب
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Saʿd b. Ḥafṣ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 215 AH
   سَعْدُ بْنُ حَفْصٍثقة
   حدثنا
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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.