Sunan ad-Darimi 386
✧ The Blame for Seeking Knowledge for Other than Allah
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أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بِسْطَامَ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَمْزَةَ حَدَّثَنِي النُّعْمَانُ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«مَنْ طَلَبَ الْعِلْمَ لِيُبَاهِيَ بِهِ الْعُلَمَاءَ أَوْ لِيُمَارِيَ بِهِ السُّفَهَاءَ أَوْ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُقْبِلَ بِوُجُوهِ النَّاسِ إِلَيْهِ أَدْخَلَهُ اللَّهُ جَهَنَّمَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Bisṭām
- Yaḥyá b. Ḥamzah
- al-Nuʿmān
- Makḥūl
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Whoever seeks knowledge to vie with the scholars, to argue with the foolish, or to attract people's attention to himself, Allah will admit him to Hell.
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- 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 qadard. 132 AHالنُّعْمَانُصدوق رمي بالقدرحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 180 AH, or 183 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 185 AHيَحْيَى بْنِ حَمْزَةَثقة ، رمي بالقدرعن
- d. between 211 AH and 220 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ بِسْطَامٍأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
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