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2302. 'Imrān bin Ḥuṣain narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "The best of people are my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them, then those who follow them." (He ﷺ said that) three times. "Then, after them a people will come who increase in fatness, loving fatness, giving testimony before they are asked for it."[1] (Sahih)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Gharīb as a narration of Al-A'mash from 'Alī bin Mudrik. The companions of Al-A'mash only reported it from Al-A'mash, from Hilāl bin Yasāf, from 'Imrān bin Ḥuṣain.
(Another chain) with similar narration. And this is more correct than the narration of Muḥammad bin Fuḍail (a narrator in no. 2302).
[He said:] The meaning of this Hadīth: "Giving testimony before they are asked for it." – according to some of the people of knowledge – is only false witness, it is said that one of them will give
testimony without testimony being requested.
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[1] This appeared earlier, nos. 2221, 2222.
Commentary
The Hadīth confirms that the best of times is the time of the Prophet's Companions, then of their Successors, then of the Followers of the Successors, and then of the Post-Followers, although falsehood shall start striking its roots in this period. On the whole, however, it will be better than the times that will follow it.
