By Imaam Muhammad Naasirud-Deen al-Albaanee [d. 1420H]
As for those whom we have pointed out at the outset of this speech from the Salafiyyeen and other than them from amongst those who adhere to their mode of conduct, and they could be referred to by other than this name, then these ones differ from all of the other Islaamic groups because they hold onto something else.  This something else is: safety from going against the Book and the Sunnah in the name of the Book and the Sunnah.  Indeed, that is due to holding onto what the Companions of the Prophet from the emigrants (muhaajiroon) and the helpers (ansaar) and those who followed them from the taabi’een and the taabi’ taabi’een.  Indeed, they are the generations for whom goodness was witnessed in the authentic hadeeth.  Rather, it is a mutawaatir (concurrent) hadeeth in which the Messenger of Allaah said, “The best of people are my generation, then those who follow them.”