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Sunan Ibn Majah 252

Gaining benefit from knowledge and acting in accordance with it

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَسُرَيْجُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا فُلَيْحُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَعْمَرٍ أَبِي طُوَالَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ عِلْمًا مِمَّا يُبْتَغَى بِهِ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ لاَ يَتَعَلَّمُهُ إِلاَّ لِيُصِيبَ بِهِ عَرَضًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يَجِدْ عَرْفَ الْجَنَّةِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
  2. Yūnus b. Muḥammad and Surayj b. al-Nuʿmān
  3. Fulayḥ b. Sulaymān
  4. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Maʿmar Abū Ṭuwālah
  5. Saʿīd b. Yasār
  6. Abū Hurayrah
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Whoever acquires knowledge by which the pleasure of Allah is sought, but he only acquires it for the purpose of worldly gain, will not smell the fragrance of Paradise on the Day of Resurrection.'" (Hasan) Another chain with similar wording.

Notes

  • يَعْنِي رِيحَهَا قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو حَاتِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ حَدَّثَنَا فُلَيْحُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ فَذَكَرَ نَحْوَهُ

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What scholars said about it

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  • Dāraquṭnī

    المرسل أشبه بالصواب

    machine translationThe mursal version (mursal) is closer to being correct.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 262

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 227وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ عِلْمًا مِمَّا يُبْتَغَى بِهِ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ لَا يَتَعَلَّمُهُ إِلَّا لِيُصِيبَ بِهِ عَرَضًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ
  • Sunan Abu Dawud 3664مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ عِلْمًا مِمَّا يُبْتَغَى بِهِ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ ﷻ لاَ يَتَعَلَّمُهُ إِلاَّ لِيُصِيبَ بِهِ عَرَضًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يَجِدْ عَرْفَ الْجَنَّةِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 8457Sahih Ibn Hibban 78Musnad Abi Ya'la 6377al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 288al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 289

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. Saʿīd b. Yasār mawlá Maymūnah zawj Rasūl Allāh
    trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 116 AH or 117 AH, in another manuscript of Ibn Ḥibbān: 120 AH
    سَعِيدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة متقن
    عن
  3. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Maʿmar
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 134 AH, also said: after that
    عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَعْمَرٍ أَبِي طُوَالَةَثقة
    عن
  4. Fulayḥ
    truthful (ṣadūq), makes many errors (kathīr al-khaṭaʾ)d. 168 AH
    فُلَيْحُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَصدوق ، كثير الخطأ
    حدثنا
  5. Surayj
    trustworthy (thiqah), makes occasional mistakes (yahimu qalīlan)d. 217 AH or 229 AH
    وَسُرَيْجُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِثقة يهم قليلا
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
    حدثنا
  7. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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