Musnad Ahmad 21715
✧ My father, Darda
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَاصِمُ بْنُ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَ عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ قَالَ
قَدِمَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ إِلَى أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ وَهُوَ بِدِمَشْقَ فَقَالَ: مَا أَقْدَمَكَ، أَيْ أَخِي ؟ قَالَ: حَدِيثٌ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكَ تُحَدِّثُ بِهِ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ قَالَ: أَمَا قَدِمْتَ لِتِجَارَةٍ ؟ قَالَ: لَا. قَالَ: أَمَا قَدِمْتَ لِحَاجَةٍ ؟ قَالَ: لَا. قَالَ: أَمَا قَدِمْتَ إِلَّا فِي طَلَبِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَطْلُبُ فِيهِ عِلْمًا، سَلَكَ اللهُ بِهِ طَرِيقًا إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ، وَإِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ لَتَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا رِضًا لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ، وَإِنَّهُ لَيَسْتَغْفِرُ لِلْعَالِمِ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ، حَتَّى الْحِيتَانُ فِي الْمَاءِ، وَفَضْلُ الْعَالِمِ عَلَى الْعَابِدِ كَفَضْلِ الْقَمَرِ عَلَى سَائِرِ الْكَوَاكِبِ، إِنَّ الْعُلَمَاءَ هُمْ وَرَثَةُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ، لَمْ يُوَرِّثُوا دِينَارًا وَلَا دِرْهَمًا، وَإِنَّمَا وَرَّثُوا الْعِلْمَ، فَمَنْ أَخَذَ بِهِ أَخَذَ بِحَظٍّ وَافِرٍ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Yazīd
- ʿĀṣim b. Rajāʾ b. Ḥaywah
- Qays b. Kathīr
✧ A man from Madinah came to Abu al-Darda while he was in Damascus and said: What brought you here, my brother? He replied: A hadith reached me that you narrate from the Messenger of God ﷺ. He said: Did you come for trade? He said: No. He said: Did you come for some need? He said: No. He said: Did you come only in search of this hadith? He said: Yes. He said: Indeed, I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: Whoever travels a path seeking knowledge therein, God makes a path to Paradise easy for him. Indeed, the angels lower their wings in approval of the seeker of knowledge. Indeed, all who are in the heavens and the earth seek forgiveness for the scholar, even the fish in the water. The superiority of the scholar over the worshipper is like the superiority of the moon over all other heavenly bodies. Indeed, the scholars are the heirs of the prophets; they did not leave behind dinars or dirhams, but they left behind knowledge, and whoever takes of it has taken an abundant share.
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Good Due to External Factors | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| ابن الملقن | Soundin مسند أحمد, p. 22070 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Dāraquṭnī
ضعفه
machine translationHe considered him weak (ḍaʿīf).
in مسند أحمد, p. 22070 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
مضطرب الإسناد
machine translationIts chain is confused (muḍṭarib al-isnād).
in مسند أحمد, p. 22070 - 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 مسند أحمد, p. 22070 - Dāraquṭnī
ولا يثبت
in مسند أحمد, p. 22070
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- Dāraquṭnī
عاصم ومن فوقه ضعفاء ولا يصح
machine translationʿĀṣim and those above him are weak (ḍuʿafāʾ), and it is not authentic (lā yaṣiḥḥ).
in مسند أحمد, p. 22070 - al-Dhahabi
مضطرب
machine translationDisturbed (muḍṭarib).
in مسند أحمد, p. 22070
Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 1388"من سلك طريقًا يبتغي فيه علمًا سهل الله له طريقًا إلى الجنة، وإن الملائكة لتضع أجنحتها لطالب العلم رضا بما صنع، وإن العالم ليستغفر له من في السماوات والأرض حتى الحيتان في الماء، وفضل العالم على العابد كفضل القمر على سائر الكواكب، وإن العلما
- Musnad Ahmad 21716أَقْبَلَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ. فَذَكَرَ مَعْنَاهُ
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)قَيْسِ بْنِ كَثِيرِضعيفعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. between 141 and 150 AHعَاصِمُ بْنُ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَصدوق يهمأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Ḥibbān and others said: 188 AH. He said elsewhere: 190 AH, also said: 189 AH. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥaḍramī said: 191 AH. Also said: 192 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة ثبت عابدحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.