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Sunan ad-Darimi 376

✧ The Blame for Seeking Knowledge for Other than Allah

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أَخْبَرَنَا مَكِّيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ

الْعِلْمُ عِلْمَانِ فَعِلْمٌ فِي الْقَلْبِ فَذَلِكَ الْعِلْمُ النَّافِعُ وَعِلْمٌ عَلَى اللِّسَانِ فَذَلِكَ حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى ابْنِ آدَمَ

Translation

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  1. Makkī b. Ibrāhīm
  2. Hishām
  3. al-Ḥasan

✧ Knowledge is of two types: knowledge in the heart – that is the beneficial knowledge; and knowledge on the tongue – that is Allah’s proof against the son of Adam.

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 270وَعَن الْحسن قَالَ: «الْعِلْمُ عِلْمَانِ فَعِلْمٌ فِي الْقَلْبِ فَذَاكَ الْعلم النافع وَعلم على اللِّسَان فَذَاك حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَلَى ابْنِ آدَمَ». رَوَاهُ الدَّارمِيّ

Narrators

  1. 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 AH
    الْحَسَنُ الْبَصْرِيُّثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
    عن
  2. Trustworthy (thiqah), among the most reliable of people in narrating from Ibn Sīrīn; there is some criticism of his narration from al-Ḥasan and ʿAṭāʾ, because it was said that he used to narrate from them by way of mursal transmission (irsāl).d. 146 AH, or 147 AH, or 148 AH
    هِشَامٌثقة من أثبت الناس في ابن سيرين ، وفي روايته عن الحسن وعطاء مقال لأنه قيل : كان يرسل عنهما
    حدثنا
  3. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 214 AH, or: 215 AH
    مَكِّيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة ثبت
    أخبرنا
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
    الدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)

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