Sunan ad-Darimi 247

✧ In the Departure of Knowledge

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ حَدَّثَنَا هِلَالٌ هُوَ ابْنُ خَبَّابٍ قَالَ

سَأَلْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ قُلْتُ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مَا عَلَامَةُ هَلَاكِ النَّاسِ؟ قَالَ «إِذَا هَلَكَ عُلَمَاؤُهُمْ»

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✧ I asked Sa'id b. Jubayr, saying, "O Abu Abdullah, what is the sign of the destruction of people?" He said, "When their scholars perish."

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Saʿīd b. Jubayr al-Asadī
Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh); his narration from ʿĀʾishah, Abū Mūsā and the like is mursald. 95 AH, from al-Fallās: 94 AH
سَعِيد بْن جُبَيْر الْأَسَدِيّثقة ثبت فقيه ، وروايته عن عائشة وأبي موسى ونحوهما مرسلة
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Hilāl b. Khabbāb
truthful (ṣadūq), his memory changed at the end of his lifed. 144 AH
هِلَالٌ هُوَ : ابْنُ خَبَّابٍصدوق ، تغير بآخره
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Thābit b. Yazīd
trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 169 AH
ثَابِتُ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة ثبت
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Abū al-Nuʿmān
trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt); his memory changed at the end of his life (taghayyara fī ākhir ʿumrihi)d. 224, also said: 223
أَبُو النُّعْمَانِثقة ثبت ، تغير في آخر عمره
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al-Dārimī
trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
الدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن

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