Sunan ad-Darimi 354

Translation

✧ I was sitting with Abu al-Darda' in the mosque of Damascus when a man came to him and said: "O Abu al-Darda', I have come to you from al-Madinah, the city of the Messenger ﷺ, for a hadith that reached me from you, which you narrate from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." He said: "Did you come for trade?" He said: "No." He said: "Did anything else bring you?" He said: "No." He said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'Whoever travels a path seeking knowledge therein, Allah makes easy for him thereby a path to one of the paths of Paradise. Indeed, the angels lower their wings out of pleasure for the seeker of knowledge, and indeed the seeker of knowledge is asked forgiveness for by whoever is in the heavens and the earth, even the fish in the water. Indeed, the superiority of the scholar over the worshipper is like the superiority of the moon over all the stars. Indeed, the scholars are the heirs of the prophets; the prophets did not leave behind a dinar or a dirham, but they left behind knowledge. Whoever takes hold of it has taken an abundant share.'"

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• Ibn al-Qaṭṭān

  اضطرب فيه عاصم فعنه في ذلك ثلاثة أقوال أحدها قول عبد الله بن داود عن عاصم بن داود عن كثير بن قيس والثاني قول أبي نعيم عن عاصم عمن حدثه عن كثير والثالث قول محمد بن يزيد الواسطي عن عاصم عن كثير لم يذكر بينهما أحد والمتحصل من حال هذا الخبر هو الجهل بحال راويين من رواته والاضطراب فيه ممن لم يثبت عدالته انتهى

  machine translationʿĀṣim was inconsistent (iḍṭaraba) regarding it, and three reports come from him on this: first, the report of ʿAbdullāh b. Dāwūd, from ʿĀṣim b. Dāwūd, from Kathīr b. Qays; second, the report of Abū Nuʿaym, from ʿĀṣim, from someone who narrated to him, from Kathīr; and third, the report of Muḥammad b. Yazīd al-Wāsiṭī, from ʿĀṣim, from Kathīr, without mentioning anyone between them. The outcome regarding this report is that the status of two of its narrators is unknown, and the inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in it comes from one whose trustworthiness ('adālah) has not been established. End of quote. Report a problem

  in مسند الدارمي, p. 354
• Dāraquṭnī

  ضعفه

  machine translationHe considered him weak (ḍaʿīf). Report a problem

  in مسند الدارمي, p. 354
• ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī

  مضطرب الإسناد

  machine translationIts chain is confused (muḍṭarib al-isnād). Report a problem

  in مسند الدارمي, p. 354
• Dāraquṭnī

  عاصم ومن فوقه ضعفاء ولا يصح

  machine translationʿĀṣim and those above him are weak (ḍuʿafāʾ), and it is not authentic (lā yaṣiḥḥ). Report a problem

  in مسند الدارمي, p. 354

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3535

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū al-Dardāʾ

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphate
   أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليل
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Kathīr b. Qays

   weak (ḍaʿīf)
   كَثِيرِ بْنِ قَيْسٍضعيف
   عن
3. 3
   Dāwūd b. Jamīl

   weak (ḍaʿīf)
   دَاوُدَ بْنِ جَمِيلٍضعيف
   عن
4. 4
   ʿĀṣim b. Rajāʾ b. Ḥaywah

   truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. between 141 and 150 AH
   عَاصِمِ بْنِ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَصدوق يهم
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. Dāwūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 211 AH, or 212 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: 213 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ دَاوُدَثقة عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Naṣr b. ʿAlī

   Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt); he was asked to take the judgeship (qaḍāʾ) but declinedd. 250 AH, also said: 251 AH
   نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة ثبت ، طلب للقضاء فامتنع
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   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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