Sunan ad-Darimi 351
Virtue of Knowledge and the Scholar
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي هَارُونُ بْنُ رئَابٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ
«اغْدُ عَالِمًا أَوْ مُتَعَلِّمًا وَلَا تَغْدُ فِيمَا بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ فَإِنَّ مَا بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ جَاهِلٌ وَإِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ تَبْسُطُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا لِلرَّجُلِ غَدَا يَبْتَغِي الْعِلْمَ مِنَ الرِّضَا بِمَا يَصْنَعُ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Mughīrah
- al-Awzāʿī
- Hārūn b. Rʾāb
- ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
- Kān
✧ "Go forth as a scholar or a student, and do not go forth as anything in between, for what is between that is ignorance. Indeed, the angels spread their wings for a man who goes out seeking knowledge, out of pleasure with what he is doing."
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