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Musnad Ahmad 3963
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It was narrated from 'Abdullah that the Prophet (ﷺ) said:

"The best of the people are my generation who are with me, then those who come after them, then those who come after them.” And I do not know whether he said after the third or fourth time: "There will come people after them one of whose testimony will come before his oath and his oath before his testimony.

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Book 26, Hadith 3963
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