Sunan ad-Darimi 342
Virtue of Knowledge and the Scholar
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قَالَ وأخْبرني مُحَمَّدٌ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ قَالَ
«أَجْهَلُ النَّاسِ مَنْ تَرَكَ مَا يَعْلَمُ وَأَعْلَمُ النَّاسِ مَنْ عَمِلَ بِمَا يَعْلَمُ وَأَفْضَلُ النَّاسِ أَخْشَعَهُمْ لِلَّهِ ﷻ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Wʾkhbrny Muḥammad Abū ʿAbdullāh
- Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
✧ "The most ignorant of people is the one who abandons what he knows; the most knowledgeable of people is the one who acts upon what he knows; and the best of people is the one most humble before Allah, Mighty and Sublime."
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Narrators
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَان بْن عُيَيْنَةثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 236 AH, or 237 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِثقةأخبرني
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
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