Narrated to us Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Shuja' ibn Makhlad — and the wording is that of Abu Bakr — they said: Narrated to us Husayn, who is Ibn 'Ali al-Ju'fi, from Za'idah, from al-Suddi, from 'Abdullah al-Bahi, from 'A'ishah, who said: A man asked the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, "Which people are best?" He said: "The generation in which I am, then the second, then the third."