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
✧ "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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Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. between 121 and 130 AHهَارُونُ بْنُ رِئَابٍثقة عابدحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AHالْأَوْزَاعِيُّثقة جليلحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 212 AH, or 215, 222 AHأَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِثقةأخبرنا
- 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.