al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3670
✧ Exhortation to Spread Knowledge
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وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ الْمُحَبَّرِ، ثَنَا مَيْسَرَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَائِشَةَ السَّعْدِيِّ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، وَابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَا:
خَطَبَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَذَكَرَ حَدِيثًا وَفِيهِ: وَمَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْعِلْمَ، وَتَوَاضَعَ فِي الْعِلْمِ، وَعَلَّمَهُ عِبَادَ اللهِ تَعَالَى يُرِيدُ بِذَلِكَ مَا عِنْدَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَفْضَلُ ثَوَابًا وَلَا أَعْظَمُ مَنْزِلَةً مِنْهُ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ فِي الْجَنَّةِ مَنْزِلَةٌ وَلَا دَرَجَةٌ رَفِيعَةٌ نَفِيسَةٌ إِلَّا وَلَهُ فِيهَا أَوْفَرُ نَصِيبٍ وَأَوْفَرُ الْمَنَازِلِ، أَلَا وَإِنَّ الْعِلْمَ أَفْضَلُ الْعِبَادَةِ وَمِلَاكَ الدِّينِ الْوَرَعُ، وَإِنَّمَا الْعَالِمُ مَنْ عَمِلَ بِعِلْمِهِ، وَإِنْ كَانَ قَلِيلَ الْعِلْمِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- Dāwud b. al-Muḥabbar
- Maysarah b. ʿAbd Rabbih
- Abū ʿĀʾishah al-Saʿdī
- Yazīd b. ʿUmar
- Abū Salamah
- Abū Hurayrah and Ibn ʿAbbās
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave us a sermon and mentioned a hadith, in which he said: 'Whoever learns knowledge, is humble in it, and teaches it to the servants of Allah, the Exalted, seeking thereby what is with Allah, Mighty and Majestic, there will be no one in Paradise with a greater reward or a higher station than him, nor will there be in Paradise any station or lofty degree, precious and valuable, except that he has in it the most abundant share and the most abundant of positions. Verily, knowledge is the best of worship, and the essence of religion is piety. The scholar is only the one who acts upon his knowledge, even if he has little knowledge.'
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13742al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13959al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3965al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 9272al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 1118al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 317
Narrators
- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرعن
- يَزِيدَ بْنِ عُمَرَعن
- أبو عائشة السعديعن
- d. between 171 and 180 AH, or: between 191 and 200 AHمَيْسَرَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِحدثنا
- abandoned (matrūk)d. 206 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in: «the section on those who died from 90 to 200»دَاوُدُ بْنُ الْمُحَبَّرِمتروكحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
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