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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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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. Jaʿdah b. Hubayrah al-Ashjaʿī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. in the time of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān, or: during the strife of Ibn al-Zubayr, at the beginning of ʿAbd al-Malik's reign
    جَعْدَةَ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَصحابي
    عن
  2. Yazīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Aswad
    acceptable (maqbūl)
    جَدِّهِمقبول .
    عن
  3. Idrīs al-Awdī
    trustworthy (thiqah)
    أَبِيهِثقة
    عن
  4. ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid)d. 191 AH, or 192 AH
    ابْنُ إِدْرِيسَثقة . فقيه عابد
    حدثنا
  5. Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف

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