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Sunan ad-Darimi 383

✧ The Blame for Seeking Knowledge for Other than Allah

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أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ عَنْ عِيسَى قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الشَّعْبِيَّ يَقُولُ

إِنَّمَا كَانَ يَطْلُبُ هَذَا الْعِلْمَ مَنِ اجْتَمَعَتْ فِيهِ خَصْلَتَانِ الْعَقْلُ وَالنُّسُكُ فَإِنْ كَانَ نَاسِكًا وَلَمْ يَكُنْ عَاقِلًا قَالَ هَذَا أَمْرٌ لَا يَنَالُهُ إِلَّا الْعُقَلَاءُ فَلَمْ يَطْلُبْهُ وَإِنْ كَانَ عَاقِلًا وَلَمْ يَكُنْ نَاسِكًا قَالَ هَذَا أَمْرٌ لَا يَنَالُهُ إِلَّا النُّسَّاكُ فَلَمْ يَطْلُبْهُ فَقَالَ الشَّعْبِيُّ وَلَقَدْ رَهِبْتُ أَنْ يَكُونَ يَطْلُبُهُ الْيَوْمَ مَنْ لَيْسَتْ فِيهِ وَاحِدَةٌ مِنْهُمَا لَا عَقْلٌ وَلَا نُسُكٌ

Translation

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  1. Saʿīd b. ʿĀmir
  2. Ḥumayd b. al-Aswad
  3. ʿĪsá
  4. al-Shaʿbī

✧ Only one in whom two qualities were combined used to seek this knowledge: intellect and devotion. If he was devout but not intelligent, he said: “This is a matter that none but the intelligent attain,” so he did not seek it. If he was intelligent but not devout, he said: “This is a matter that none but the devout attain,” so he did not seek it. Al-Sha‘bī said: “I fear that today it is sought by one who has neither of the two: neither intellect nor devotion.”

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Narrators

  1. al-Shaʿbī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
    الشَّعْبِيّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
    سمعت
  2. ʿĪsá b. Abī ʿĪsá
    abandoned (matrūk)d. 151 AH
    عِيسَىمتروك
    عن
  3. Ḥumayd b. al-Aswad
    truthful (ṣadūq), makes few errors (yahim qalīlan)d. 190 AH
    حُمَيْدُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِصدوق يهم قليلا.
    حدثنا
  4. Saʿīd b. ʿĀmir
    trustworthy (thiqah), righteous (ṣāliḥ)d. 208 AH or 210 AH
    سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍثقة صالح
    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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