al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3685
✧ Encouragement and urging to seek knowledge
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حَدَّثَنَا هُذَيْلٌ الْحِمَّانِيُّ، ثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ حَمَّادٍ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
طَلَبُ الْعِلْمِ فَرِيضَةٌ عَلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Hudhayl al-Ḥimmānī
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Ḥammād
- Abū Wāʾil
- ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim.
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What scholars said about it
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- ابن عدي
وهذه الأحاديث لعثمان التي ذكرتها ومنها الحديث عامتها لا يوافقه عليها الثقات وله غير ما ذكرت وعامة ما يرويه مناكير إما إسنادا وإما متنا
in المطالب العالية, p. 3685
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2011al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2033al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2465al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4101al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5914Musnad al-Bazzar 6748
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHأَبِي وَائِلٍثقةعن
- jurist, truthful (ṣadūq), has some lapses (awhām)d. 119 AH, or 120 AH, or 121 AHحَمَّادٍفقيه ، صدوق له أوهامعن
- abandoned (matrūk), and Ibn Maʿīn declared him a liard. during the caliphate of al-Rashīdعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِمتروك ، وكذبه ابن معينحدثنا
- d. between 221 and 230 AHالهذيل بن إبراهيم الجمانيحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأبو يعلى الموصلي
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