Sunan ad-Darimi 246
✧ In the Departure of Knowledge
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ خَالِدٍ أَنبَأَنَا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أبي مَالِكٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ مَوْلَى عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
«خُذُوا الْعِلْمَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَذْهَبَ» قَالُوا وَكَيْفَ يَذْهَبُ الْعِلْمُ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ وَفِينَا كِتَابُ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ فَغَضِبَ ثُمَّ قَالَ «ثَكِلَتْكُمْ أُمَّهَاتُكُمْ أَوَلَمْ تَكُنِ التَّوْرَاةُ وَالْإِنْجِيلُ فِي بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَلَمْ يُغْنِيَا عَنْهُمْ شَيْئًا؟ إِنَّ ذَهَابَ الْعِلْمِ أَنْ يَذْهَبَ حَمَلَتُهُ إِنَّ ذَهَابَ الْعِلْمِ أَنْ يَذْهَبَ حَمَلَتُهُ»
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Chain of narrators
- Mūsá b. Khālid
- Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān
- al-Ḥajjāj
- al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. By Mālik
- al-Qāsim Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman a freed slave of ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd
- Abū Umāmah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ "Take knowledge before it departs." They said, "How does knowledge depart, O Prophet of Allah, while the Book of Allah is among us?" He became angry and said, "May your mothers be bereaved of you! Were not the Torah and the Gospel among the Children of Israel, and they did not avail them anything? Indeed, the departure of knowledge is the departure of its bearers. Indeed, the departure of knowledge is the departure of its bearers."
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Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh said: 81 AH. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī and more than one said: 86 AHأَبُو أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), narrates unusual reports oftend. 112 AH, or 118 AHالْقَاسِمِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ مَوْلَى عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَصدوق يغرب كثيراعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, 128 AH, also said: 127 AHالْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي مَالِكٍثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), who made many errors and practiced much concealment (tadlīs)d. 145 AH, or before it, or 147 AHالْحَجَّاجِصدوق كثير الخطأ والتدليسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 186 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 188 AHمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَثقةأنبأنا
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 211 and 220 AHمُوسَى بْنُ خَالِدٍمقبولأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
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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)
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