Sunan ad-Darimi 388

✧ The Blame for Seeking Knowledge for Other than Allah

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أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْلَى حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ قَالَ لِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ

«إِنِّي لَأَحْسَبُ الرَّجُلَ يَنْسَى الْعِلْمَ كَانَ يَعْلَمُهُ لِلْخَطِيئَةِ كَانَ يَعْمَلُهَا»

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✧ I certainly think that a man forgets knowledge he used to know because of a sin he committed.

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Ḥasan Salīm Asad al-Dārānī	Weak Chain	hadithunlocked

ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
قال لي
al-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Masʿūdī
trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 116 AH, also said 120 AH or before it
الْقَاسِمِثقة عابد
عن
al-Masʿūdī
Truthful (ṣadūq); he became confused (ikhtalaṭa) before his death, and the rule is: whoever heard from him in Baghdad heard after the confusion.d. 160 AH, also said: 165 AH
الْمَسْعُودِيُّصدوق ، اختلط قبل موته ، وضابطه : أن من سمع منه ببغداد فبعد الاختلاط
حدثنا
Yaʿlā b. ʿUbayd
Trustworthy (thiqah), except in his hadith from al-Thawrī, in which there is softness.d. 209 AH, also said: 207 AH.
يَعْلَىثقة إلا في حديثه عن الثوري ففيه لين .
أخبرنا
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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