Salaf (, or ), also often referred to with the honorific expression of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ (, ), are often taken to be the first three generations of Muslims. This comprises companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (the ), their followers (the ), and the followers of the followers (the ). 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", a period believed to exemplify the purest form of Islam. The generations of Muslims after the third are referred to as the Khalaf.
Salaf (, or ), also often referred to with the honorific expression of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ (, ), are often taken to be the first three generations of Muslims. This comprises companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (the ), their followers (the ), and the followers of the followers (the ). 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", a period believed to exemplify the purest form of Islam. The generations of Muslims after the third are referred to as the Khalaf.
==Second generation== The Tabi‘un, the successors of Sahabah. 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
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).