Sahih Ibn Hibban 7229
✧ The Virtue of the Ummah
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أَخْبَرَنَا 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»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Wakīʿ
- al-Aʿmash
- Hilāl b. Yasāf
- ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ «The best of people are my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them, then those who follow them.»
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رواه البزار وإسناده حسن رواه الطبراني وفيه من لم أعرفه
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 7237 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
رواه منصور بن أبي الأسود عن الأعمش عن علي بن مدرك عن هلال عن عمران عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وهو الصحيح
machine translationManṣūr b. Abī al-Aswad narrated it from al-Aʿmash, from ʿAlī b. Mudrik, from Hilāl, from ʿImrān, from the Prophet ﷺ, and this is the correct (ṣaḥīḥ) version.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 7237 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
يدخل بين الأعمش وهلال بن يساف علي بن مدرك
machine translationʿAlī b. Mudrik enters between al-Aʿmash and Hilāl b. Yisāf.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 7237
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- 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) AHعِمْرَان بْن حُصَيْن بْن عُبَيْد بْن خَلَف الْخُزَاعِيّأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلاسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AHهِلَالُ بْنُ يَسَافٍثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسحدثنا
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- d. 303 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.