Sunan ad-Darimi 604
✧ Maintenance of knowledge
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ
أَنَّ عُمَرَ قَالَ لِكَعْبٍ مَنْ أَرْبَابُ الْعِلْمِ؟ قَالَ «الَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ بِمَا يَعْلَمُونَ» قَالَ فَمَا أَخْرَجَ الْعِلْمَ مِنْ قُلُوبِ الْعُلَمَاءِ؟ قَالَ «الطَّمَعُ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Yūsuf
- Sufyān
✧ Umar said to Ka'b: 'Who are the masters of knowledge?' He said: 'Those who act upon what they know.' He said: 'Then what removes knowledge from the hearts of the scholars?' He said: 'Greed.'
Grades by grader
| Ḥasan Salīm Asad al-Dārānī | Weak, Problematic | hadithunlocked |
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 266وَعَنْ سُفْيَانَ أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ لِكَعْبٍ: مَنْ أَرْبَابُ الْعِلْمِ؟ قَالَ: الَّذِي يَعْمَلُونَ بِمَا يَعْلَمُونَ. قَالَ: فَمَا أَخْرَجَ الْعِلْمَ مِنْ قُلُوبِ الْعُلَمَاءِ؟ قَالَ الطَّمَعُ. رَوَاهُ
Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 34 AH, also said: 32 AH, and al-Wāqidī stated it definitively, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, and more than oneكَعْب الأَحْبَارثقةأن
- 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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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