TS1347 I lost my contact list on my iphone

I need help recovering my contact list on my iphone.  Today I noticed all my contacts had disappeared

Ahmed, surely if those are your "life time" contacts, you have them stored somewhere else besides a phone, which can break, get lost or stolen, or have a software problem.
If you've been using your phone as recommended, you've been synching your contacts with your computer (Address Book, Outlook) or with a cloud service (Google, iCloud).  Your contacts should be nice and safe on your computer or in the cloud.  Just resynch them to your phone.
If you have NOT been using your phone as recommended, and you are unable to restore your phone from the previous backup, then you have unfortunately learned the hard way how foolish it was to not use your phone as intended to keep your data safe.

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