Sunan ad-Darimi 270

✧ Working with knowledge and good intentions in it

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أَخْبَرَنَا وقالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ

مَا أَخَافُ عَلَى نَفْسِي أَنْ يُقَالَ لِي مَا عَلِمْتَ وَلَكِنْ أَخَافُ أَنْ يُقَالَ لِي مَاذَا عَمِلْتَ؟

Translation

Chain of narrators

I am not afraid to be told what I do not know, but I am afraid to be told what I have done.

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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
قال
Mālik b. Dīnār al-Nājī
truthful (ṣadūq), devout (ʿābid)d. 123 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH, or 130 AH
مالك بن دينار الناجيصدوق عابد
عن
Al-Ḥārith b. ʿUbayd
truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. between 171 AH and 180 AH
الحارث بن عبيد الإياديصدوق يخطئ
أنبأنا
ʿAmr b. ʿAwn
trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 225 AH, in Ibn ʿAsākir's book: the year 224 AH
عمرو بن عون الواسطيثقة ثبت
أخبرنا
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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