al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3329
✧ Reason and its virtue
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حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ، ثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ طَرِيفٍ، عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ الْمُعْتَمِرِ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ سُوَيْدِ بْنِ غَفَلَةَ، قَالَ:
إِنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ ؓ خَرَجَ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ، فَاسْتَقْبَلَهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فَقَالَ لَهُ: مَا جِئْتَ بِهِ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: الْعَقْلُ، قَالَ: بِمَ أُمِرْتَ ؟ قَالَ: بِالْعَقْلِ، قَالَ: فَبِمَ يُجَازَى النَّاسُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ؟ قَالَ: بِالْعَقْلِ، قَالَ: فَكَيْفَ لَنَا بِالْعَقْلِ ؟ قَالَ: إِنَّ الْعَقْلَ لَا غَايَةَ لَهُ، وَلَكِنْ مَنْ أَحَلَّ حَلَالَ اللهِ، وَحَرَّمَ حَرَامَهُ، سُمِّيَ عَاقِلًا، فَإِنِ اجْتَهَدَ فِي الْعِبَادَةِ وَسَمَحَ - أَوْ شَمَخَ - فِي مَرَاتِبِ الْمَعْرُوفِ، وَلَا حَظَّ لَهُ مِنْ عَقْلٍ يَدُلُّهُ عَلَى اتِّبَاعِ أَمْرِ اللهِ تَعَالَى، وَاجْتِنَابِ مَا نَهَى عَنْهُ، فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْأَخْسَرُونَ أَعْمَالًا الَّذِينَ ضَلَّ سَعْيُهُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَهُمْ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ يُحْسِنُونَ صُنْعًا
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Chain of narrators
- Dāwud
- Naṣr b. Ṭarīf
- Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir
- Abū Wāʾil
- Sūwayd b. Ghafalah
✧ Abu Bakr ؓ went out one day, and the Prophet ﷺ met him. He said to him: What have you brought, O Messenger of God? He said ﷺ: The intellect. He said: With what were you commanded? He said: With the intellect. He said: With what will people be recompensed on the Day of Resurrection? He said: With the intellect. He said: How can we attain intellect? He said: The intellect has no limit, but whoever declares lawful what God has made lawful and forbids what God has made forbidden is called a man of intellect. If he strives in worship and excels—or rises—in the ranks of good but has no share of intellect to guide him to follow the command of God Almighty and avoid what He has forbidden, then those are the greatest losers in deeds, whose effort goes astray in the life of this world while they think they are doing well.
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Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 36275al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3300al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3303al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3322
Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 76 AH, or: 80 AH, 81 AH, 82 AHسُوَيْدُ بْنُ غَفَلَةَ الْمَذْحِجِيُّثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHأَبِي وَائِلٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AHمَنْصُورِ بْنِ الْمُعْتَمِرِثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلسعن
- d. between 161 and 170 AHنَصْرُ بْنُ طَرِيفٍحدثنا
- abandoned (matrūk)d. 206 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in: «the section on those who died from 90 to 200»دَاوُدُمتروكحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالحارث بن محمد بن أبي أسامة
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