Sahih Ibn Hibban 88
✧ The admonition to prevent reliance on the writings of a person without preserving them
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الثَّقَفِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْأَعْلَى بْنُ حَمَّادٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْخُرَيْبِيُّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَاصِمَ بْنَ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ جَمِيلٍ عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ قَالَ
كُنْتُ جَالِسًا مَعَ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ فِي مَسْجِدِ دِمَشْقَ فَأَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ إِنِّي أَتَيْتُكَ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ الرَّسُولِ فِي حَدِيثٍ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكَ تُحَدِّثُهُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ أَمَا جِئْتَ لِحَاجَةٍ أَمَا جِئْتَ لِتِجَارَةٍ أَمَا جِئْتَ إِلَّا لِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ؟ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَطْلُبُ فِيهِ عِلْمًا سَلَكَ اللَّهُ بِهِ طَرِيقًا مِنْ طُرُقِ الْجَنَّةِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ تَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا رِضًا لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ وَإِنَّ الْعَالِمَ يَسْتَغْفِرُ لَهُ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَالْحِيتَانُ فِي الْمَاءِ وَفَضْلُ الْعَالِمِ عَلَى الْعَابِدِ كَفَضْلِ الْقَمَرِ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ عَلَى سَائِرِ الْكَوَاكِبِ إِنَّ الْعُلَمَاءَ وَرَثَةُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ إِنَّ الْأَنْبِيَاءَ لَمْ يُوَرِّثُوا دِينَارًا وَلَا دِرْهَمًا وَأَوْرَثُوا الْعِلْمَ فَمَنْ أَخَذَهُ أَخَذَ بِحَظٍّ وَافِرٍ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Thaqafī
- ʿAbd al-Aʿlá b. Ḥammād
- ʿAbdullāh b. Dāwud al-Khuraybī
- ʿĀṣim b. Rajāʾ b. Ḥaywah
- Dāwud b. Jamīl
- Kathīr b. Qays
✧ I was sitting with Abu al-Darda' in the mosque of Damascus when a man came to him and said, 'O Abu al-Darda', I have come to you from the City of the Messenger ﷺ concerning a hadith which I was told you narrate from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.' Abu al-Darda' said, 'You have not come for any need, nor for trade; you have come only for this hadith?' He said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Indeed I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "Whoever travels a path seeking knowledge therein, Allah will make him travel a path from the paths of Paradise. The angels lower their wings in approval for the seeker of knowledge. Indeed the scholar is asked forgiveness for by whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on earth, and the fish in the water. The superiority of the scholar over the worshipper is like the superiority of the moon on the night of the full moon over all the other stars. Indeed the scholars are the heirs of the prophets. The prophets did not leave behind a dinar or a dirham; they left behind knowledge. So whoever takes it has taken an abundant share."'
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Good | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| ابن الملقن | Soundin صحيح ابن حبان, p. 89 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn al-Qaṭṭān
اضطرب فيه عاصم فعنه في ذلك ثلاثة أقوال أحدها قول عبد الله بن داود عن عاصم بن داود عن كثير بن قيس والثاني قول أبي نعيم عن عاصم عمن حدثه عن كثير والثالث قول محمد بن يزيد الواسطي عن عاصم عن كثير لم يذكر بينهما أحد والمتحصل من حال هذا الخبر هو الجهل بحال راويين من رواته والاضطراب فيه ممن لم يثبت عدالته انتهى
machine translationʿĀṣim was inconsistent (iḍṭaraba) regarding it, and three reports come from him on this: first, the report of ʿAbdullāh b. Dāwūd, from ʿĀṣim b. Dāwūd, from Kathīr b. Qays; second, the report of Abū Nuʿaym, from ʿĀṣim, from someone who narrated to him, from Kathīr; and third, the report of Muḥammad b. Yazīd al-Wāsiṭī, from ʿĀṣim, from Kathīr, without mentioning anyone between them. The outcome regarding this report is that the status of two of its narrators is unknown, and the inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in it comes from one whose trustworthiness ('adālah) has not been established. End of quote.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 89 - M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī
صححه ابن حبان
machine translationIbn Ḥibbān authenticated it (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 89 - Dāraquṭnī
عاصم ومن فوقه ضعفاء ولا يصح
machine translationʿĀṣim and those above him are weak (ḍuʿafāʾ), and it is not authentic (lā yaṣiḥḥ).
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 89 - al-Dhahabi
مضطرب
machine translationDisturbed (muḍṭarib).
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 89
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- Dāraquṭnī
ضعفه
machine translationHe considered him weak (ḍaʿīf).
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 89 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
مضطرب الإسناد
machine translationIts chain is confused (muḍṭarib al-isnād).
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 89
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلصريح في السماع
- weak (ḍaʿīf)كَثِيرِ بْنِ قَيْسٍضعيفعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)دَاوُدَ بْنِ جَمِيلٍضعيفعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. between 141 and 150 AHعَاصِمَ بْنَ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَصدوق يهمسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 211 AH, or 212 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: 213 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْخُرَيْبِيُّثقة عابدحدثنا
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. Ibn Ḥajar said: 236 AH, or 237 AH, said by al-Bukhārī, or: 239 AHعَبْدُ الْأَعْلَى بْنُ حَمَّادٍلا بأس بهحدثنا
- مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الثَّقَفِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.