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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
  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ajlaḥ
  3. my father
  4. 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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