How can i retrieve my contacts? iPhone 4

I have an Ipad 3rd generation and it has only 4 contacts. Unlike my iphone the contacts from my ipad are saved on the icloud. While syncing today with my iphone my contacts got lost and now i have the contacts from my ipad on my phone.(happend to me the 2nd time) but this time i cannot retrieve them. Help me

You must have logged into icloud on the phone (Settings>icloud) and turned on Contacts for syncing.  You were asked whether to merge local contacts with those on icloud, and I fear you made the wrong decision.  If you have no backup of the iphone on itunes, then the data is gone.

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