The word · History
التَّابِعُون
Tabi'un
The second generation: Muslims who met Companions but never met the Prophet himself.
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The meaning
What Tabi'un means in Islam
They are the ones who received Islam warm from the hands that had held it, and they built the first schools of law and Qur'an teaching. Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, al-Hasan al-Basri, Ibn Sirin and Urwah ibn az-Zubayr belong here, and the Prophet named Uways al-Qarani the best of them without ever meeting him. The Prophet said the best of people are his generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them.
Evidence · Sunnah · Established in the authentic Sunnah
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Words that sit beside it
- SahabahThe Companions: anyone who met the Prophet as a believer and died still believing.الصَّحَابَة
- Tabi' at-Tabi'inThe third generation: those who met the Followers, the last age the Prophet praised by name.تَابِعُو التَّابِعِين
- SalafThe first three generations of Muslims: the Companions, the Followers, and those after them.السَّلَف
- Tabi'iA Muslim of the generation after the Companions, who met a Companion but not the Prophet.التَّابِعِيّ
More from History
- Abu BakrThe Prophet's closest friend, his companion in the cave, and the first caliph.أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيق
- Banu UmayyahThe first dynasty of caliphs, ruling from Damascus for about ninety years after the Rashidun.بَنُو أُمَيَّة
- Hasan ibn AliThe Prophet's elder grandson, who gave up the caliphate to stop a war between Muslims.الحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيّ
- Imam al-BukhariThe scholar from Bukhara who compiled the Sahih, the most rigorously sifted book of hadith.مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ البُخَارِيّ
- KhandaqThe siege of Madinah in year five, met by digging a trench across the city's open side.الخَنْدَق
- MuhajirunThe Muslims who left Makkah for Madinah, leaving homes and property behind.المُهَاجِرُون