Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 652 – Volume 8, Book 78

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Volume 8, Book 78, Number 652:
Narrated 'Abdullah:
The Prophet was asked, "Who are the best people?" He replied: The people of my generation, and
then those who will follow (come after) them, and then those who will come after the later; after that
there will come some people whose witness will precede their oaths and their oaths will go ahead of
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their witness." Ibrahim (a sub-narrator) said, "When we were young, our elder friends used to pro –
hibit us from taking oaths by saying, 'I bear witness swearing by Allah, or by Allah's Covenant."'