Sunan ad-Darimi 336

Virtue of Knowledge and the Scholar

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وقَالَ قَالَ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ

«إِنَّ النَّاسَ لَيَحْتَاجُونَ إِلَى هَذَا الْعِلْمِ فِي دِينِهِمْ كَمَا يَحْتَاجُونَ إِلَى الطَّعَامِ وَالشَّرَابِ فِي دُنْيَاهُمْ»

Translation

Chain of narrators

✧ People need this knowledge for their religion just as they need food and drink for their worldly life.

No grade is recorded for this wording. Ask what scholars say about its grade

al-Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ b. Ṣāliḥ b. Ḥayy
trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid); accused of Shiʿism (rumiya bi-l-tashayyuʿ)d. 167 AH, or: 169 AH
الْحَسَنُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ بْنِ صَالِحٍ بْنِ حَيٍّثقة فقيه عابد ، رمي بالتشيع
قال
Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ
Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
وكيع بن الجراحثقة حافظ عابد
أنبأنا
Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm
trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH.
يعقوب بن إبراهيم بن كثيرثقة .
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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