al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3683
✧ Encouragement and urging to seek knowledge
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قَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ:
الْعِلْمُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ، وَالنَّفْسُ الصَّالِحَةُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ اللُّؤْلُؤِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- ʿAbdullāh b. Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr
- my father
✧ Knowledge is better than gold, and a righteous soul is better than pearls.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
موقوف صحيح
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ) as a statement of a Companion (mawqūf)
in المطالب العالية, p. 3683
Narrators
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسلسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 171 and 180 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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