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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4967

✧ Merit of the Companions and the Successors in general

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وَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ إِدْرِيسَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ، عَنْ جَعْدَةَ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ ؓ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:

خَيْرُ النَّاسِ قَرْنِي، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ، ثُمَّ الْآخَرُونَ أَرْدَى

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr
  2. Ibn Idrīs
  3. his father
  4. his father
  5. Jaʿdah b. Hubayrah
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

✧ The best people are my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them, then those who follow them, then the later ones are worse.

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