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Sunan Ibn Majah 52

Avoiding individual opinion and analogy (with regard to matters of religion)

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ وَعَبْدَةُ وَأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍ وَمَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ وَحَفْصُ بْنُ مَيْسَرَةَ وَشُعَيْبُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

إِنَّ اللَّهَ لاَ يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ انْتِزَاعًا يَنْتَزِعُهُ مِنَ النَّاسِ وَلَكِنْ يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ بِقَبْضِ الْعُلَمَاءِ فَإِذَا لَمْ يُبْقِ عَالِمًا اتَّخَذَ النَّاسُ رُءُوسًا جُهَّالاً فَسُئِلُوا فَأَفْتَوْا بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ فَضَلُّوا وَأَضَلُّوا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. [Chain 1] Abū Kurayb Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs and ʿAbdah Waʾabū Muʿāwiyah Waʿabd Allāh b. Numayr Wamuḥammad b. Bishr [Chain 2] Sūwayd b. Saʿīd
  3. ʿAlī b. Mushir and Mālik b. Anas Waḥafṣ b. Maysarah Washuʿayb b. Isḥāq
  4. Hishām b. ʿUrwah
  5. his father
  6. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Allah will not take away knowledge by removing it from people (from their hearts). Rather He will take away knowledge by taking away the scholars, then when there are no scholars left, the people will take the ignorant as their leaders. They will be asked questions and they will issue verdicts without knowledge, thus they will go astray and lead others astray.'"

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautSahihfawazahmed0
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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Shahih al-Bukhari 100«إِنَّ اللَّهَ لاَ يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ انْتِزَاعًا يَنْتَزِعُهُ مِنَ الْعِبَادِ، وَلَكِنْ يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ بِقَبْضِ الْعُلَمَاءِ، حَتَّى إِذَا لَمْ يُبْقِ عَالِمًا، اتَّخَذَ النَّاسُ رُءُوسًا جُهَّالاً، فَسُئِلُوا فَأَفْتَوْا بِغَيْرِ عِلْ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 206وَعَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ انْتِزَاعًا يَنْتَزِعُهُ مِنَ الْعِبَادِ وَلَكِنْ يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ بِقَبْضِ الْعُلَمَاءِ حَتَّى إِذَا
  • Shahih Muslim 2673aإِنَّ اللَّهَ لاَ يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ انْتِزَاعًا يَنْتَزِعُهُ مِنَ النَّاسِ وَلَكِنْ يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ بِقَبْضِ الْعُلَمَاءِ حَتَّى إِذَا لَمْ يَتْرُكْ عَالِمًا اتَّخَذَ النَّاسُ رُءُوسًا جُهَّالاً فَسُئِلُوا فَأَفْتَوْا بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ فَ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاء
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهور
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
    هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلس
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), with some odd reports (gharāʾib) after he went blindd. 189 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍثقة له غرائب بعد ما أضر
    حدثنا
  5. Truthful in himself (ṣadūq), except that he went blind and would accept prompting of what was not from his hadith.d. 240 AH, or: 239 AH
    سُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍصدوق في نفسه ، إلا أنه عمي فصار يتلقن ما ليس من حديثه
    حدثنا
  6. 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

شرح مشكل الآثار
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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