Sunan ad-Darimi 418
✧ Equity in Science
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أَخْبَرَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ
«كُنَّا نَكْرَهُ كِتَابَةَ الْعِلْمِ حَتَّى أَكْرَهَنَا عَلَيْهِ السُّلْطَانُ فَكَرِهْنَا أَنْ نَمْنَعَهُ أَحَدًا»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Bishr b. al-Ḥakam
- Sufyān
- al-Zuhrī
✧ We used to dislike writing down knowledge until the authorities compelled us to do so; then we disliked withholding it from anyone.
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Narrators
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHالزُّهْرِيُّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), ascetic, juristd. Zakariyyā b. Dalawayh said: the year two hundred and thirty-seven. Al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad al-Qabbānī said, and Abū Ḥātim b. Ḥibbān: the year two hundred and thirty-eightبِشْرُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِثقة ، زاهد ، فقيهأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.