Sunan ad-Darimi 265
✧ Working with knowledge and good intentions in it
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أَخْبَرَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مَزْيَدٍ عَنْ أَوْفَى بْنِ دَلْهَمٍ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ
«تَعَلَّمُوا الْعِلْمَ تُعْرَفُوا بِهِ وَاعْمَلُوا بِهِ تَكُونُوا مِنْ أَهْلِهِ فَإِنَّهُ سَيَأْتِي بَعْدَ هَذَا زَمَانٌ لَا يَعْرِفُ فِيهِ تِسْعَةُ عُشَرَائِهِمُ الْمَعْرُوفَ وَلَا يَنْجُو مِنْهُ إِلَّا كُلُّ نُوَمَةٍ فَأُولَئِكَ أَئِمَّةُ الْهُدَى وَمَصَابِيحُ الْعِلْمِ لَيْسُوا بِالْمَسَايِيحِ وَلَا الْمَذَايِيعِ الْبُذْرِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar
- ʿUmar b. Mazyad
- Awfá b. Dalham
- Balaghah
- ʿAlī
✧ Learn knowledge so that you are known by it, and act upon it so that you become among its people. For after this there will come a time when nine-tenths of their people will not recognize the known, and none will escape from it except every quiet one. Those are the leaders of guidance and the lamps of knowledge, not the prattlers, nor the broadcasters, nor the gossips.
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ نُوَمَةٌ غَافِلٌ عَنِ الشَّرِّ الْمَذَايِيعُ كَثِيرُ الْكَلَامِ وَالْبُذْرُ النَّمَّامُونَ
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Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 121 AH, until 130 AHأَوْفَى بْنِ دَلْهَمٍصدوقبلغه
- عُمَرُ بْنُ مَزْيَدٍحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah). It was said: Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd was not pleased with himd. 207 AH, or 208 AH, or 209 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَثقة . قيل : كان يحيى بن سعيد لا يرضاهأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
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