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Sunan Ibn Majah 253

Gaining benefit from knowledge and acting in accordance with it

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كَرِبٍ الأَزْدِيُّ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ

مَنْ طَلَبَ الْعِلْمَ لِيُمَارِيَ بِهِ السُّفَهَاءَ أَوْ لِيُبَاهِيَ بِهِ الْعُلَمَاءَ أَوْ لِيَصْرِفَ وُجُوهَ النَّاسِ إِلَيْهِ فَهُوَ فِي النَّارِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Hishām b. ʿAmmār
  2. Ḥammād b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  3. Abū Karib al-Azdī
  4. Nāfiʿ
  5. Ibn ʿUmar
  6. al-Nabī ﷺ

The Messenger of Allah said: "Whoever seeks knowledge in order to argue with the foolish, or to show off before the scholars, or to attract people's attention, will be in Hell."

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Sunan Ibn Majah 259Sunan ad-Darimi 385Sunan ad-Darimi 386al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10715Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 25003Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26649Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 19628Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 5283al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 293

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
    One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
    عن
  2. Nāfiʿ mawlá Ibn ʿUmar
    trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a well-known jurist (faqīh)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AH
    نَافِعٍثقة ثبت فقيه مشهور
    عن
  3. Abū Karib al-Azdī
    unknown (majhūl)
    أَبُو كَرِبٍ الْأَزْدِيُّمجهول
    حدثنا
  4. Ḥammād b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
    weak (ḍaʿīf)
    حَمَّادُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِضعيف
    حدثنا
  5. Hishām b. ʿAmmār
    Truthful (ṣadūq), a Quran reciter (muqriʾ); in old age he began to accept prompting (talqīn), so his earlier hadith are sounderd. 244 AH, or: 245 AH, or: 246 AH
    هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصح
    حدثنا
  6. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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Mishkat al-Masabih 226

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