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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3668

✧ Vastness of Knowledge

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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ لَيْثِ بْنِ أَبِي سُلَيْمٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، وَأَحْسَبُهُ، قَدْ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ:

مَنْهُومَانِ لَا يَقْضِي أَحَدُهُمَا نَهْمَتَهُ: مَنْهُومٌ فِي طَلَبِ الْعِلْمِ لَا يَقْضِي نَهْمَتَهُ، وَمَنْهُومٌ فِي طَلَبِ الْمَالِ لَا يَقْضِي نَهْمَتَهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Isḥāq
  2. Jarīr
  3. Layth b. Abū Sulaym
  4. Mujāhid
  5. Ibn ʿAbbās and ʾAḥsabuh Qad Rafaʿah

✧ There are two greedy types whose greed is never satisfied: one greedy for seeking knowledge, whose greed is never satisfied; and one greedy for seeking wealth, whose greed is never satisfied.

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan ad-Darimi 344Sunan ad-Darimi 346al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10417Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26641Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20555Musnad al-Bazzar 4886

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  2. Mujāhid b. Jabr al-Makhzūmī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AH
    مُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلم
    عن
  3. Layth
    Truthful (ṣadūq), his memory became badly confused (ikhtilāṭ), his hadith could not be distinguished, so he was abandonedd. 138 AH, or 141 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH, or 148 AH
    لَيْثِ بْنِ أَبِي سُلَيْمٍصدوق اختلط جدا ، ولم يتميز حديثه فترك
    عن
  4. Jarīr
    Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AH
    جَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
    أنا
  5. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm
    trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH
    إِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد

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