"#History which does not inform present-day concerns amounts to little more than self-indulgent antiquarianism"...Quentin Skinner, Cambridge Inaugural Lecture 1997
Last surviving Sahabi, Anas bin Malik ra died in 712 CE
Last Tabiee to die was Khalaf ibn Khalifa in c. 796 CE
Tabieen of Tabieen survived till late 9th century