Salaf
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Template:More footnotes needed Template:Islam Salaf (Template:Langx, "ancestors" or "predecessors"), also often referred to with the honorific expression of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ (Script error: No such module "Lang"., "the pious predecessors"), are often taken to be the first three generations of Muslims.[1] This comprises companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (the Template:Transliteration), their followers (the Template:Transliteration), and the followers of the followers (the Template:Transliteration).[2] Their religious significance lay in the statement attributed to Muhammad: "The best of my community are my generation, the ones who follow them and the ones who follow them",[3] a period believed to exemplify the purest form of Islam. The generations of Muslims after the third are referred to as the Khalaf.[4]
Second generation
The Tabi‘un, the successors of Sahabah. Script error: No such module "Hatnote". Template:Div col
- Amir al-Sha'bi
- Abu Muslim Al-Khawlani
- Abu Suhail an-Nafi' ibn 'Abd ar-Rahman
- Al-Ahnaf
- Malik Ibn Anas
- Abu Hanifa
- Ja'far al-Sadiq
- Al-Rabi Ibn Khuthaym
- Ali Akbar
- Ali ibn Husayn (Zain-ul-'Abidin)
- Alqama ibn Qays al-Nakha'i
- Ata Ibn Abi Rabah
- Atiyya bin Saad
- Hasan al-Basri
- Iyas Ibn Muawiyah Al-Muzani
- Masruq ibn al-Ajda'
- Muhammad al-Baqir
- Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah
- Muhammad Ibn Wasi' Al-Azdi
- Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
- Muhammad ibn Munkadir
- Nafi Mawla Ibn Umar
- Muhammad ibn Sirin, son of a slave of Khalid ibn al-Walid
- Musa ibn Nusayr
- Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
- Raja ibn Haywa
- Sa'id ibn Jubayr
- Said ibn al-Musayyib
- Salamah ibn Dinar
- Salih Ibn Ashyam Al-Adawi
- Salim Ibn Abdullah Ibn Umar Ibn al-Khattab
- Shuraih Al-Qadhi
- Sufyan al-Thawri
- Tariq Ibn Ziyad
- Tawus Ibn Kaysan
- Umar Ibn Abdul-Aziz
- Umm Kulthum bint Abu Bakr
- Urwah Ibn Al-Zubayr
- Uwais al-Qarni
- Amr ibn Dinar
Third generation
The Tabi‘ al-Tabi‘in, the successors of the Tabi‘un. Script error: No such module "Hatnote". Template:Div col
- Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi
- Al Qutaybah
- Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya
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- Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya
- Al-Shafi‘i
- Zayd ibn Ali
- Ishaq ibn Rahwayh
- Al-Layth ibn Sa'd
- Sufyan ibn Uyaynah