Sunan ad-Darimi 347
Virtue of Knowledge and the Scholar
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أَخْبَرَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ رَبِيعَةَ الصَّنْعَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا رَبِيعَةُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ وَاثِلَةَ بْنَ الْأَسْقَعِ يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«مَنْ طَلَبَ الْعِلْمَ فَأَدْرَكَهُ كَانَ لَهُ كِفْلَانِ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يُدْرِكْهُ كَانَ لَهُ كِفْلٌ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Marwān b. Muḥammad
- Yazīd b. Rabīʿah al-Ṣanʿānī
- Rabīʿah b. Yazīd
- Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ "Whoever seeks knowledge and attains it will have a double portion of reward; if he does not attain it, he will have a single portion of reward."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 253وَعَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ طَلَبَ الْعِلْمَ فَأَدْرَكَهُ كَانَ لَهُ كِفْلَانِ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يُدْرِكْهُ كَانَ لَهُ كفل من الْأجر». رَوَاهُ الدِّرَامِي
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 83 AH, or 85 AH, or 86 AHوَاثِلَةُ بْنُ الْأَسْقَعِ اللَّيْثِيُّصحابي مشهورسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 121 AH, or: 123 AHرَبِيعَةُ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة عابدحدثنا
- d. between 161 AH and 170 AHيَزِيدُ بْنُ رَبِيعَةَ الصَّنْعَانِيُّحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 210 AHمَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقةأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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