al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3695
✧ Encouragement and urging to seek knowledge
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وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَوْنٍ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ، عَنْ زَيْدٍ الْعَمِّيِّ، عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ الْعَبْدِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
فَضْلُ الْعَالِمِ عَلَى الْعَابِدِ كَفَضْلِي عَلَى أُمَّتِي
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAwn
- Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl
- Zayd al-ʿAmmī
- Jaʿfar al-ʿAbdī
- Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The virtue of the scholar over the worshipper is like my virtue over my ummah.
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Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2685Sunan ad-Darimi 297Sunan ad-Darimi 352al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7937
Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- جَعْفَرٍ الْعَبْدِيِّعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 131 AH and 140 AHزَيْدٍ الْعَمِّيِّضعيفعن
- they declared him a liard. 180 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِكذبوهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 232 AH, also said: 231 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَوْنٍثقة عابدحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.