Sunan ad-Darimi 252

Translation

✧ "People are either scholars or learners, and there is no good in what is beyond that."

Grades by grader

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū al-Dardāʾ

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphate
   أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليل
   عن
2. 2
   Sulaymān b. Mūsá al-Ashdaq

   truthful (ṣadūq), jurist, there is some softness in his hadith, and his mind became confused shortly before his deathd. 115 AH, or 119 AH
   سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَىصدوق , فقيه , في حديثه بعض لين , وخولط قبل موته بقليل
   عن
3. 3
   Burd b. Sinān

   truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadar (free will)d. 135 AH
   بُرْدٍصدوق ، رمي بالقدر
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbthar

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 178 AH, also said: 179 AH
   عَبْثَرٌثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Asad Abū ʿĀṣim

   d. between 231 AH and 240 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَسَدٍ أَبُو عَاصِمٍ
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.