Sahih al-Bukhari 79
The superiority of a person who learns (Islam, becomes a religious scholar) and then teaches it to others
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ أُسَامَةَ عَنْ بُرَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
«مَثَلُ مَا بَعَثَنِي اللَّهُ بِهِ مِنَ الْهُدَى وَالْعِلْمِ كَمَثَلِ الْغَيْثِ الْكَثِيرِ، أَصَابَ أَرْضًا فَكَانَ مِنْهَا نَقِيَّةٌ قَبِلَتِ الْمَاءَ، فَأَنْبَتَتِ الْكَلأَ وَالْعُشْبَ الْكَثِيرَ»، «وَكَانَتْ مِنْهَا أَجَادِبُ أَمْسَكَتِ الْمَاءَ، فَنَفَعَ اللَّهُ بِهَا النَّاسَ فَشَرِبُوا وَسَقَوْا وَزَرَعُوا، وَأَصَابَتْ مِنْهَا طَائِفَةً أُخْرَى، إِنَّمَا هِيَ قِيعَانٌ، لاَ تُمْسِكُ مَاءً وَلاَ تُنْبِتُ كَلأً»، «فَذَلِكَ مَثَلُ مَنْ فَقِهَ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ وَنَفَعَهُ مَا بَعَثَنِي اللَّهُ بِهِ، فَعَلِمَ وَعَلَّمَ، وَمَثَلُ مَنْ لَمْ يَرْفَعْ بِذَلِكَ رَأْسًا وَلَمْ يَقْبَلْ هُدَى اللَّهِ الَّذِي أُرْسِلْتُ بِهِ»،
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
- Ḥammād b. Usāmah
- Burayd b. ʿAbdullāh
- Abū Burdah
- Abū Mūsá
- al-Nabī ﷺ
from he Prophet ﷺ who said: “The likeness of what Allah has sent me with of guidance and knowledge is like abundant rain that falls upon land.” “Part of it is good soil that absorbs the water and produces much pasture and grass. Another part of it is barren ground that retains the water, and Allah benefits people through it: they drink from it, water others, and cultivate. And the rain falls upon another portion that is only flat, hard ground: it neither holds water nor produces pasture.” “That is the likeness of one who understands the religion of Allah and benefits from what Allah has sent me with, so he learns and teaches; and the likeness of one who does not raise his head for it and does not accept the guidance of Allah with which I was sent.” Abu Abdullah said: Ishaq said: “And another portion of it is such that the water remains on it—flat land over which water lies, and level, smooth ground of the earth.”
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ وَكَانَ مِنْهَا طَائِفَةٌ قَيَّلَتِ الْمَاءَ قَاعٌ يَعْلُوهُ الْمَاءُ وَالصَّفْصَفُ الْمُسْتَوِي مِنَ الأَرْضِ
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 150وَعَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَثَلُ مَا بَعَثَنِي اللَّهُ بِهِ مِنَ الْهُدَى وَالْعلم كَمثل الْغَيْث الْكثير أصَاب أَرضًا فَكَانَ مِنْهَا نقية قَبِلَتِ الْمَاءَ فَأَنْبَتَتِ الْكَلَأَ وَالْعُ
- Shahih Muslim 2282عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ مَثَلَ مَا بَعَثَنِي اللَّهُ بِهِ ﷻ مِنَ الْهُدَى وَالْعِلْمِ كَمَثَلِ غَيْثٍ أَصَابَ أَرْضًا فَكَانَتْ مِنْهَا طَائِفَةٌ طَيِّبَةٌ قَبِلَتِ الْمَاءَ فَأَنْبَتَتِ الْكَلأَ وَالْعُشْبَ الْكَثِيرَ وَكَانَ مِنْهَا
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 19573Sahih Ibn Hibban 4Musnad al-Bazzar 3166al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5820
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AHأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AHأَبِي بُرْدَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), makes a few mistakesd. between 141 and 150 AHبُرَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ، يخطئ قليلاعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AHحَمَّادُ بْنُ أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistakeمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِثقة حافظحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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