Sunan ad-Darimi 255
✧ In the Departure of Knowledge
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍ أَنبَأَنَا خَالِدٌ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ رُبَيِّعَةَ قَالَ قَالَ سَلْمَانُ
«لَا يَزَالُ النَّاسُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا بَقِيَ الْأَوَّلُ حَتَّى يَتَعَلَّمَ الْآخِرُ فَإِذَا هَلَكَ الْأَوَّلُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الْآخِرُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. ʿAwn
- Khālid
- ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib
- ʿAbdullāh b. Rubayyiʿah
- Salmān
✧ People will remain in good as long as the first remains until the last learns. When the first perishes before the last learns, the people perish.
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 34 AH or before it, or 35 AH or 36 AH or 37 AHسَلْمَان الْفَارِسِيّصحابيقال
- He was mentioned among the Companions, Abū Ḥātim denied it. And Ibn Ḥibbān deemed him trustworthyd. around the year 90 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ رُبَيِّعَةَذكر في الصحابة ، ونفاها أبو حاتم . ووثقه ابن حبانعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), became confused (ikhtalaṭa)d. 133 AH, or 134 AH, or 136 AH, or 137 AHعَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِصدوق اختلطعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt).d. 179 AH, or 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.خَالِدٌثقة ثبت.أنبأنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 225 AH, in Ibn ʿAsākir's book: the year 224 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍثقة ثبتأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
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