Sunan ad-Darimi 362
Virtue of Knowledge and the Scholar
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ مُطَرِّفِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ
أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِابْنِهِ يَا بُنَيَّ إِنَّ «الْعِلْمَ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْعَمَلِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd
- al-Masʿūdī
- ʿAwn b. ʿAbdullāh
- Muṭarrif b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Shikhhīr
✧ That he said to his son: O my son, 'knowledge is better than action.'
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Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 87 AH, or: 95 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died after the Plague of al-Jārif, and the Plague of al-Jārif was in the year 69 AHمُطَرِّف بْن عَبْد الله بْن الشِّخِّير الْحَرَشِيّثقة عابد فاضلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. between 110 and 120 AHعَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة عابدعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); he became confused (ikhtalaṭa) before his death, and the rule is: whoever heard from him in Baghdad heard after the confusion.d. 160 AH, also said: 165 AHالْمَسْعُودِيُّصدوق ، اختلط قبل موته ، وضابطه : أن من سمع منه ببغداد فبعد الاختلاطحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil); he taught the recitation of the Quran for over seventy yearsd. 212 AH, or 213 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة فاضل ، أقرأ القرآن نيفا وسبعين سنةأخبرنا
- 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
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