Sunan ad-Darimi 520

✧ Who has been authorized to write about knowledge?

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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ أَنبَأَنَا وَكِيعٍ حَدَّثَنَا أبي عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَنَشٍ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ عِنْدَ الْبَرَاءِ بِأَطْرَافِ الْقَصَبِ عَلَى أَكُفِّهِمْ»

Translation

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✧ I saw them writing in the presence of al-Bara with the tips of reeds on their palms.

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Ḥasan Salīm Asad al-Dārānī	Sound Chain	hadithunlocked

al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī
Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
صريح في السماع
ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥanash
d. between 111 AH and 120 AH
عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ حَنَشٍ
عن
Abī
truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. Ibn al-Athīr said: 166 AH, khalīfah said: 175 AH, Ibn Qāniʿ said: 176 AH
أَبِيصدوق يهم
حدثنا
Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ
Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
وَكِيعٍثقة حافظ عابد
أنبأنا
Muḥammad b. Saʿīd
trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 220 AH
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
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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