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Sunan ad-Darimi 382

✧ The Blame for Seeking Knowledge for Other than Allah

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أَخْبَرَنَا نُعَيْمُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ حَدَّثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ عَنِ الْأَحْوَصِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَنِ الشَّرِّ فَقَالَ «لَا تَسْأَلُونِي عَنِ الشَّرِّ وَاسْأَلُونِي عَنِ الْخَيْرِ يَقُولُهَا ثَلَاثًا» ثُمَّ قَالَ «أَلَا إِنَّ شَرَّ الشَّرِّ شِرَارُ الْعُلَمَاءِ وَإِنَّ خَيْرَ الْخَيْرِ خِيَارُ الْعُلَمَاءِ»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād
  2. Baqiyyah
  3. al-Aḥwaṣ b. Ḥakīm
  4. his father

✧ A man asked the Prophet ﷺ about evil, and he said: “Do not ask me about evil; ask me about good,” saying it three times. Then he said: “Indeed, the worst of evil is the wicked scholars, and the best of good is the best scholars.”

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 267وَعَن الْأَحْوَص بن حَكِيم عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى الله عَلَيْهِ سلم عَنِ الشَّرِّ فَقَالَ: «لَا تَسْأَلُونِي عَنِ الشَّرِّ وَسَلُونِي عَنِ الْخَيْرِ» يَقُولُهَا ثَلَاثًا ثُمَّ قَالَ: «أَلَا إِنَّ شَرَّ الشَّرِّ

Narrators

  1. Ḥakīm b. ʿUmayr b. al-Aḥwaṣ al-ʿAnsī
    truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. between 101 and 110 AH
    حَكِيمُ بْنُ عُمَيْرِ بْنِ الْأَحْوَصِ الْعَنْسِيُّصدوق يهم
    عن
  2. al-Aḥwaṣ b. Ḥakīm
    weak in memory
    الْأَحْوَصِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍضعيف الحفظ
    عن
  3. Baqiyyah
    truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AH
    بَقِيَّةُصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاء
    حدثنا
  4. Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād
    truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes, A jurist knowledgeable in the laws of inheritance (farāʾiḍ)d. 227 AH, or 228 AH, 229 AH
    نُعَيْمُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍصدوق يخطئ كثيرا ، فقيه عارف بالفرائض
    أخبرنا
  5. al-Dārimī
    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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Mishkat al-Masabih 267

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