Sunan ad-Darimi 385
✧ The Blame for Seeking Knowledge for Other than Allah
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ بُرْدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ قَالَ
«مَنْ طَلَبَ الْعِلْمَ لِيُمَارِيَ بِهِ السُّفَهَاءَ وَلِيُبَاهِيَ بِهِ الْعُلَمَاءَ أَوْ لِيَصْرِفَ بِهِ وُجُوهَ النَّاسِ إِلَيْهِ فَهُوَ فِي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Yūsuf
- Sufyān
- Burd b. Sinān Abū al-ʿAlāʾ
- Makḥūl
✧ Whoever seeks knowledge to argue with the foolish, to vie with the scholars, or to turn people's faces to him, he is in the Fire of Hell.
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), frequently narrating with omission of the Companion (kathīr al-irsāl), well-known (mashhūr)d. 112 AH, or: 113 AH, or: 114 AH, or: 116 AH, Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus said: it is said 118 AHمَكْحُولُ بْنُ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍثقة فقيه ، كثير الإرسال ، مشهورعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadar (free will)d. 135 AHبُرْدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِصدوق ، رمي بالقدرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, it is said: he erred in some of the hadith of Sufyān, despite that, he is given precedence in it by them over ʿAbd al-Razzāqd. 212 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة فاضل ، يقال : أخطأ في شيء من حديث سفيان ، وهو مقدم فيه مع ذلك عندهم على عبد الرزاقأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
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