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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What are the four preferred centuries?

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Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: What are the four preferred centuries?

Answer:
The four preferred centuries are the century of the Companions, then the century of the Tabi'un, then the century of the generation after the Tabi'un, and then the fourth century. The fourth century is called the fourth hundred, and a century is one hundred years, meaning four centuries, which is four hundred years. This is the beginning of Islam; this is called the beginning of Islam. In it are the scholars, the imams, the knowledge, and much good, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The best of you are my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them. The narrator said: I do not know if he mentioned two or three generations after his generation. Then he said that after them, people of little faith will appear.خيركم قرني ثم الذين يلونهم ثم الذين يلونهم قال الراوي لا ادري ذكر بعد قرنه قرنين او ثلاثة ثم انه تحدث بعدهم خلوف
say what you do not do? (3) Great is hatredتَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ كَبُرَ مَقْتًا
[As-Saf 61:2-3]
... until the end of the hadith. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 50 - ما هي القرون الأربعة المفضلة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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