Arabic Text
وَحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ الأُمَوِيُّ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، وَابْنُ، بَشَّارٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي كِلاَهُمَا، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ زُرَارَةَ بْنِ أَوْفَى، عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ خَيْرُ هَذِهِ الأُمَّةِ الْقَرْنُ الَّذِينَ بُعِثْتُ فِيهِمْ ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ زَادَ فِي حَدِيثِ أَبِي عَوَانَةَ قَالَ وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ أَذَكَرَ الثَّالِثَ أَمْ لاَ بِمِثْلِ حَدِيثِ زَهْدَمٍ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ وَزَادَ فِي حَدِيثِ هِشَامٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ وَيَحْلِفُونَ وَلاَ يُسْتَحْلَفُونَ
isnad (chain of narrators) text
Abdul Hamid Siddiqui
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Imran b. Husain through another chain of transmitters (and the words are):The best generation of this Umma is the generation to which I have been sent, then the next one, and there is an addition in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Abu 'Awana (and the words are): And Allah knows best whether he made a mention of the third (generation) or not; the rest of the hadith is the same as transmitted by Zahdam on the authority of 'Imran. And in the hadith transmitted by Hisham on the authority of Qatada there is an addition of these words: They take an oath whereas they are not asked to take
Chain of Narrators (Isnad)
The chain is ordered from the source of the saying to the compiler: 1 = the speaker/first transmitter, the following links those who passed it on in turn, and at the bottom Muslim who compiled the work. Click a narrator to list every hadith in which he appears; the number in parentheses is how many hadiths across the collections on this site the narrator appears in.
This hadith is transmitted through 2 separate chains (turuq); each chain is shown separately.
Path 1
- 1'Imran bin Husain (64 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2Zararah bin Awfa al-'Amiri al-Harshi (29 hadiths) an
- 3Katâde b. Diâme (620 hadiths) an
- 4Ebû Avâne (216 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 5Qutayba bin Sa'id bin Jamil (992 hadiths) and Ibn Abi al-Shuwarab (8 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 6Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 5 narrators.
Path 2
- 1'Imran bin Husain (64 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2Zararah bin Awfa al-'Amiri al-Harshi (29 hadiths) an
- 3Katâde b. Diâme (620 hadiths) an
- 4Hisham bin Abi 'Abdullah al-Dastawa'i (164 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 5Mua'dh bin Hisham bin Aby (83 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 6Muhammad bin al-Muthna - al-Zaman (843 hadiths) and Muhammed b. Beşşâr (578 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 7Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 6 narrators.
Narrator names are parsed automatically from the isnad; identity matching and biographies (death year, jarh wa ta'dil) are being added progressively.
