Tabi' al-Tabi'in
The Successors of the Successors of the Companions of Muhammad From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tābiʿū al-Tābʿīn (Arabic: تَابِعُو ٱلتَّابِعِينَ, singular تَابِعُ ٱلتَّابِعِينَ) is the generation after the Tābi‘ūn in Islam.
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The first generation of Muslims are called the companions of Muhammad. The second generation of Muslims are called tābi‘ūn "Successors". The third generation are called tabi‘ū al-tabi‘īn "successors of the Successors".[1] The three generations make up the Salaf, the "Ancestors", of Islam.
Definition according to the Sunnis
The Sunnis define a successor of the Successors as a Muslim who:
- Saw at least one of the tābiʿ.
- Was rightly guided (is a Sunni)
- Died in the state of Sunnihood
In a Hadith, The Nabi Muhammad said, "The best people are those living in my generation, then those coming after them, and then those coming after." Sahih Bukhari[2]
List of Tābiʿ al-Tābʿīn
- Sufyan al-Thawri
- Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah
- Malik ibn Anas
- Abu Yusuf
- Muhammad al-Shaybani
- Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i
- Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak
- Al-Shafi'i
- Zayd ibn Ali
- Al-Layth ibn Sa'd
- Hammad Ibn Zayd
- Makki ibn Ibrahim
- Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad
- Dawud al-Ta'i
- Sari al-Saqati
- Abdullah Shah Ghazi
- Muhammad al-Bukhari
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Yahya ibn Ma'in
- Ishaq ibn Rahwayh
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