Sunan ad-Darimi 371
✧ Whoever seeks knowledge without intention, knowledge returns to intention
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْأَجْلَحِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ
«طَلَبْنَا هَذَا الْعِلْمَ وَمَا لَنَا فِيهِ كَبِيرُ نِيَّةٍ ثُمَّ رَزَقَ اللَّهُ بَعْدُ فِيهِ النِّيَّةَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ajlaḥ
- my father
- Mujāhid
✧ We sought this knowledge while we had no great intention in it, then Allah granted us intention in it afterward.
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Narrators
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِد بْن جَبْر المَخْزُومِيّثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), Shīʿīd. 145 AHأَبِيصدوق شيعيحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 191 and 200 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْأَجْلَحِصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 256 AH, or 257 AH, in the book "Zahrat al-Mutaʿallimīn": died (223 AH). Mughulṭāy said: "I have not seen it from anyone else, so it should be examined".عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقةأخبرنا
- 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.