Sunan ad-Darimi 364
Virtue of Knowledge and the Scholar
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَمَانٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَجْلَانَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ
«فَضْلُ الْعَالِمِ عَلَى الْمُجْتَهِدِ مِائَةُ دَرَجَةٍ مَا بَيْنَ الدَّرَجَتَيْنِ خَمْسُ مِائَةِ سَنَةٍ حُضْرُ الْفَرَسِ الْمُضَمَّرِ السَّرِيعِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿImrān
- Yaḥyá b. Yamān
- Muḥammad b. ʿAjlān
- al-Zuhrī
✧ The superiority of the scholar over the devoted worshipper is one hundred degrees, between each two degrees a distance of five hundred years of the running of a swift, lean horse.
Grades by grader
| Ḥasan Salīm Asad al-Dārānī | Weak | hadithunlocked |
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Narrators
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHالزُّهْرِيُّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), except that the hadiths of Abū Hurayrah became confused for him (ikhtalaṭat ʿalayhi)d. 148 AH, or 149 AH, al-Dhahabī said in al-Kāshif 138 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَجْلَانَصدوق إلا أنه اختلطت عليه أحاديث أبي هريرةحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), devout; he made many mistakes, and his memory changed (taghayyara).d. 188 AH or 189 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ يَمَانٍصدوق عابد ، يخطئ كثيرا ، وقد تغيرحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 231 and 240 AH, or 241 AH 250 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عِمْرَانَصدوقأخبرنا
- 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.