Sunan Abi Dawud 3641
Regarding the virtue of knowledge
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدُ بْنُ مُسَرْهَدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ سَمِعْتُ عَاصِمَ بْنَ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ جَمِيلٍ عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ قَالَ
كُنْتُ جَالِسًا مَعَ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ فِي مَسْجِدِ دِمَشْقَ فَجَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ إِنِّي جِئْتُكَ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ الرَّسُولِ ﷺ لِحَدِيثٍ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكَ تُحَدِّثُهُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَا جِئْتُ لِحَاجَةٍ قَالَ فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَطْلُبُ فِيهِ عِلْمًا سَلَكَ اللَّهُ بِهِ طَرِيقًا مِنْ طُرُقِ الْجَنَّةِ وَإِنَّ الْمَلاَئِكَةَ لَتَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا رِضًا لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ وَإِنَّ الْعَالِمَ لَيَسْتَغْفِرُ لَهُ مَنْ فِي السَّمَوَاتِ وَمَنْ فِي الأَرْضِ وَالْحِيتَانُ فِي جَوْفِ الْمَاءِ وَإِنَّ فَضْلَ الْعَالِمِ عَلَى الْعَابِدِ كَفَضْلِ الْقَمَرِ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ عَلَى سَائِرِ الْكَوَاكِبِ وَإِنَّ الْعُلَمَاءَ وَرَثَةُ الأَنْبِيَاءِ وَإِنَّ الأَنْبِيَاءَ لَمْ يُوَرِّثُوا دِينَارًا وَلاَ دِرْهَمًا وَرَّثُوا الْعِلْمَ فَمَنْ أَخَذَهُ أَخَذَ بِحَظٍّ وَافِرٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad b. Musarhad
- ʿAbdullāh b. Dāwud
- ʿĀṣim b. Rajāʾ b. Ḥaywah Yuḥaddith
- Dāwud b. Jamīl
- Kathīr b. Qays
Kathir ibn Qays said: I was sitting with AbudDarda' in the mosque of Damascus. A man came to him and said: AbudDarda, I have come to you from the town of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for a tradition that I have heard you relate from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I have come for no other purpose. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise. The angels will lower their wings in their great pleasure with one who seeks knowledge, the inhabitants of the heavens and the Earth and the fish in the deep waters will ask forgiveness for the learned man. The superiority of the learned man over the devout is like that of the moon, on the night when it is full, over the rest of the stars. The learned are the heirs of the Prophets, and the Prophets leave neither dinar nor dirham, leaving only knowledge, and he who takes it takes an abundant portion.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| ابن الملقن | Soundin سنن أبي داود, p. 3638 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
ضعفه
machine translationHe considered him weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3638 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
مضطرب الإسناد
machine translationIts chain is confused (muḍṭarib al-isnād).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3638 - al-Tirmidhi
لا نعرف هذا الحديث إلا من حديث عاصم بن رجاء بن حيوة وليس إسناده عندي بمتصل
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3638 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
اختلف في هذا الحديث اختلافا كثيرا
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3638
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- Qurṭubī
وزاد زيادات حسنة
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3638 - Bazzār
داود بن جميل وكثير بن قيس لا يعلمان في غير هذا الحديث ولا نعلم روى عن كثير غير داود والوليد بن مرة ولا نعلم روى عن داود غير عاصم
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3638 - Ibn al-Qaṭṭān
اضطرب فيه عاصم فعنه في ذلك ثلاثة أقوال أحدها قول عبد الله بن داود عن عاصم بن داود عن كثير بن قيس والثاني قول أبي نعيم عن عاصم عمن حدثه عن كثير والثالث قول محمد بن يزيد الواسطي عن عاصم عن كثير لم يذكر بينهما أحد والمتحصل من حال هذا الخبر هو الجهل بحال راويين من رواته والاضطراب فيه ممن لم يثبت عدالته انتهى
machine translationʿĀṣim was inconsistent (iḍṭaraba) regarding it, and three reports come from him on this: first, the report of ʿAbdullāh b. Dāwūd, from ʿĀṣim b. Dāwūd, from Kathīr b. Qays; second, the report of Abū Nuʿaym, from ʿĀṣim, from someone who narrated to him, from Kathīr; and third, the report of Muḥammad b. Yazīd al-Wāsiṭī, from ʿĀṣim, from Kathīr, without mentioning anyone between them. The outcome regarding this report is that the status of two of its narrators is unknown, and the inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in it comes from one whose trustworthiness ('adālah) has not been established. End of quote.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3638 - Dāraquṭnī
عاصم ومن فوقه ضعفاء ولا يصح
machine translationʿĀṣim and those above him are weak (ḍuʿafāʾ), and it is not authentic (lā yaṣiḥḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3638 - al-Dhahabi
مضطرب
machine translationDisturbed (muḍṭarib).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3638 - Shuayb al-Arnaut
حسن بشواهده
machine translationGood (ḥasan) by virtue of its corroborating reports (shawāhid).
in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 3641
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 212عَن كثير بن قيس قَالَ كُنْتُ جَالِسًا مَعَ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ فِي مَسْجِد دمشق فَجَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ إِنِّي جِئْتُكَ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ الرَّسُولِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَا جِئْتُ لِحَاجَةٍ قَالَ فَإِنِّي س
- Sunan Abu Dawud 3642عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِمَعْنَاهُ
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلقال
- weak (ḍaʿīf)كَثِيرِ بْنِ قَيْسٍضعيفعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)دَاوُدَ بْنِ جَمِيلٍضعيفيحدث عن
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. between 141 and 150 AHعَاصِمَ بْنَ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَصدوق يهمسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 211 AH, or 212 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: 213 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ .ثقة عابدنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدُ بْنُ مُسَرْهَدٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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