Sunan ad-Darimi 372
✧ Whoever seeks knowledge without intention, knowledge returns to intention
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أَخْبَرَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْبَزَّارُ حَدَّثَنَا حَسَّانُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ
«لَقَدْ طَلَبَ أَقْوَامٌ الْعِلْمَ مَا أَرَادُوا بِهِ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى وَلَا مَا عِنْدَهُ» قَالَ «فَمَا زَالَ بِهِمُ الْعِلْمُ حَتَّى أَرَادُوا بِهِ اللَّهَ وَمَا عِنْدَهُ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Bishr b. Thābit al-Bazzār
- Ḥassān b. Muslim
- Yūnus b. ʿUbayd
- al-Ḥasan
✧ “Some people sought knowledge, not intending thereby Allah Almighty nor what is with Him.” He said: “But knowledge did not cease to accompany them until they intended thereby Allah and what is with Him.”
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Narrators
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنُ الْبَصْرِيُّثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), virtuous, scrupulous.d. 138 AH, or 139 AH, or 140 AHيُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍثقة ثبت فاضل ورععن
- حسان بن مسلمحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 201 and 210 AHبِشْرُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْبَزَّارُصدوقأخبرنا
- 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.