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Sunan Ibn Majah 257

Gaining benefit from knowledge and acting in accordance with it

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ النَّصْرِيِّ عَنْ نَهْشَلٍ عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

لَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْعِلْمِ صَانُوا الْعِلْمَ وَوَضَعُوهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِهِ لَسَادُوا بِهِ أَهْلَ زَمَانِهِمْ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ بَذَلُوهُ لأَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا لِيَنَالُوا بِهِ مِنْ دُنْيَاهُمْ فَهَانُوا عَلَيْهِمْ سَمِعْتُ نَبِيَّكُمْ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَنْ جَعَلَ الْهُمُومَ هَمًّا وَاحِدًا هَمَّ آخِرَتِهِ كَفَاهُ اللَّهُ هَمَّ دُنْيَاهُ وَمَنْ تَشَعَّبَتْ بِهِ الْهُمُومُ فِي أَحْوَالِ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يُبَالِ اللَّهُ فِي أَىِّ أَوْدِيَتِهَا هَلَكَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad and -al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr
  3. Muʿāwiyah al-Naṣrī
  4. Nahshal
  5. al-Ḍaḥḥāk
  6. al-Aswad b. Yazīd
  7. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

"If the people of knowledge had taken care of it and presented it only to those who cared for it, they would have become the leaders of their age by virtue of that. But they squandered it on the people of wealth and status in this world in order to gain some worldly benefit, so the people of wealth and status began to look down on them. I heard your Prophet say: 'Whoever focuses all his concerns on one issue, the concerns of the Hereafter, Allah will suffice him and spare him the worries of this world. But whoever wanders off in concern over different worldly issues, Allah will not care in which of these valleys he is destroyed.'" (Da'if) Another chain with similar wording.

Notes

  • قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ حَدَّثَنَا خَازِمُ بْنُ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ النَّصْرِيِّ وَكَانَ ثِقَةً ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ نَحْوَهُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ

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Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiHasanfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautDaiffawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiDaiffawazahmed0
al-AlbaniDaiffawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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  • Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

    هذا حديث منكر ونهشل بن سعيد متروك الحديث

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 269
  • أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

    إسناده ضعيف فيه نهشل بن سعيد قيل إنه يروي المناكير وقيل الموضوعات

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 269

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 263وَعَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: لَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْعِلْمِ صَانُوا الْعِلْمَ وَوَضَعُوهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِهِ لَسَادُوا بِهِ أَهْلَ زَمَانِهِمْ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ بَذَلُوهُ لِأَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا لِيَنَالُوا بِهِ مِنْ دُنْيَاهُمْ فَهَانُوا
  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 4106«مَنْ جَعَلَ الْهُمُومَ هَمًّا وَاحِدًا هَمَّ الْمَعَادِ كَفَاهُ اللَّهُ هَمَّ دُنْيَاهُ، وَمَنْ تَشَعَّبَتْ بِهِ الْهُمُومُ فِي أَحْوَالِ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يُبَالِ اللَّهُ فِي أَىِّ أَوْدِيَتِهِ هَلَكَ».

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 256Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35455Musnad al-Bazzar 1650al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3658al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7934

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
    One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
    عن
  2. al-Aswad b. Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī
    Mukhaḍram (lived in both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras), trustworthy (thiqah), prolific narrator (mukthir), jurist (faqīh)d. 74 AH, or 75 AH
    الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَمخضرم ، ثقة ، مكثر ، فقيه
    عن
  3. al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Muzāḥim al-Hilālī
    Truthful (ṣadūq), who very often narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl).d. after: 100 AH, or: 102 AH, or: 105 AH, or: 106 AH
    الضَّحَّاكِصدوق ، كثير الإرسال
    عن
  4. Nahshal b. Saʿīd b. Wardān al-Wardānī
    abandoned (matrūk)d. between 161 AH, and: 170 AH
    نَهْشَلٍمتروك
    عن
  5. Muʿāwiyah al-Naṣrī
    acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 141 and 150 AH
    مُعَاوِيَةَ النَّصْرِيِّمقبول
    عن
  6. Ibn Numayr
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a man of hadith, from the people of the Sunnah (ahl al-sunnah)d. 199 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍثقة ، صاحب حديث من أهل السنة
    حدثنا
  7. Al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
    acceptable (maqbūl)d. 253 AH
    وَالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِمقبول
    حدثنا
  8. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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Mishkat al-Masabih 263

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