Sunan ad-Darimi 346

Virtue of Knowledge and the Scholar

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أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبَانَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنْ طَاوُسٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

مَنْهُومَانِ لَا يَشْبَعَانِ طَالِبُ عِلْمٍ وَطَالِبُ دُنْيَا

Translation

Chain of narrators

✧ Two are insatiable and never have enough: a seeker of knowledge and a seeker of this world.

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Ḥasan Salīm Asad al-Dārānī	Weak Chain	hadithunlocked

ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
عن
Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān
trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 100 AH, or: 101 AH, or: 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, or: 106 AH, or after: 110 AH
طَاوُسٍثقة فقيه فاضل
عن
Layth
Truthful (ṣadūq), his memory became badly confused (ikhtilāṭ), his hadith could not be distinguished, so he was abandonedd. 138 AH, or 141 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH, or 148 AH
لَيْثٍصدوق اختلط جدا ، ولم يتميز حديثه فترك
عن
ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs
Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid)d. 191 AH, or 192 AH
عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَثقة . فقيه عابد
حدثنا
Ismāʿīl b. Abān
trustworthy (thiqah), criticized for Shīʿismd. al-Muṭayyan and others said: 216 AH, Ibn Khalfūn said: 226 AH
إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبَانَثقة ، تكلم فيه للتشيع
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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