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the generation of the Successors, their followers, and those who came thereafter from among the children of Persia—men like al-Hasan al-Basri, Muhammad ibn Sirin, Saʿid ibn Jubayr, ʿIkrimah, the freedman of Ibn ʿAbbas, Mujahid ibn Jabr, and many times their number besides—people who indeed attained it.
When the Almighty revealed His words:
‘Allah will bring forth a people He loves and who love Him—humble toward the believers, mighty against the disbelievers’ (Al-Ma’idah 5:54)
التَّابِعِينَ وَتَابِعِيهِمْ، وَهَلُمَّ جَرَّا، مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ فَارِسَ،
مِثْلُ:
الْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِيِّ، وَمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ، وَسَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، وَعِكْرِمَةَ مَوْلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، وَمُجَاهِدِ بْنِ جَبْرٍ، وَأَضْعَافِ هَؤُلَاءِ، مَنْ نَالُوا ذَلِكَ.
«وَلَمَّا نَزَلَ قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى:
{فَسَوْفَ يَأْتِي اللَّهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُحِبُّهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَهُ أَذِلَّةٍ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَعِزَّةٍ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ}
[المائدة: ٥٤]