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2221. 'Imrān bin Ḥuṣain narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "The best of people are my generation, then those who follow them. Then, after them a people will come who increase in fatness, loving fatness, giving testimony before they are asked for it." (Sahih)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This is how Muḥammad bin Fuḏail reported this Hadīth; from Al-A'mash, from 'Alī bin Mudrik from Hilāl bin Yasāf.
Others among the Huffāz reported [this Hadīth] from Al-A'mash, from Hilāl bin Yasāf, and they did not mention 'Alī bin Mudrik in it.
Al-Ḥusain bin Ḥuraith narrated to us: "Wakī narrated to us from Al-A'mash: 'Hilāl bin Yasāf narrated to us, from 'Imrān bin Ḥusain from the Prophet ﷺ.'" And he mentioned a similar narration. And this is more correct to me than the narration of Muḥammad bin Fuḏail. This Hadīth has been reported through more than one route from 'Imrān bin Ḥusain from the Prophet ﷺ.
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Commentary
'Abduliāh bin Mas'ūd's version of the Hadīth as quoted in Saḥīḥ Muslim also contains mention of the 'third generation'. Anyway, the Hadīth is categorical on the point that the best of all generations was that of the Companions and they were superior to all the rest. Second in order of superiority were the Successors, and the third were the Followers. Thereafter, begins the age of people whose integrity cannot be relied upon since they would love eating and will brag about their own superiority or else, they would have a desire to amass more and more wealth, so much so, that they would even be prepared to give false testimony for it.
