Sunan ad-Darimi 370
✧ Whoever seeks knowledge without intention, knowledge returns to intention
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَمَانٍ قَالَ
سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ مُنْذُ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً قَالَ «مَا كَانَ طَلَبُ الْحَدِيثِ أَفْضَلَ مِنْهُ الْيَوْمَ» قَالُوا لِسُفْيَانَ إِنَّهُمْ يَطْلُبُونَهُ بِغَيْرِ نِيَّةٍ؟ قَالَ «طَلَبُهُمْ إِيَّاهُ نِيَّةٌ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿImrān
- Yaḥyá b. Yamān
✧ I heard Sufyan forty years ago say: 'Seeking hadith was never more excellent than it is today.' They said to Sufyan: They seek it without intention? He said: 'Their seeking it is an intention.'
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| Ḥasan Salīm Asad al-Dārānī | Good Chain | hadithunlocked |
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Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَان الثَّوْرِيّثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةسمعت
- 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
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