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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