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Musnad Ahmad 2840

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حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَالِكٍ عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْأَخْنَسِ عَنِ الوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي مُغِيثٍ عَنْ يُوسُفَ بْنِ مَاهَكَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ

مَنِ اقْتَبَسَ عِلْمًا مِنَ النُّجُومِ اقْتَبَسَ شُعْبَةً مِنْ سِحْرٍ مَا زَادَ زَادَ، وَمَا زَادَ زَادَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Rawḥ
  2. Abū Mālik ʿUbaydullāh b. al-Akhnas
  3. al-Walīd b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Mughīth
  4. Yūsuf b. Māhak
  5. Ibn ʿAbbās
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

✧ Whoever acquires a branch of knowledge from the stars has acquired a branch of sorcery; the more he increases, the more he increases, and the more he increases, the more he increases.

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  1. 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 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Bakr b. Abī ʿĀṣim said: 103 AH. Ibn Ḥajar said: 106 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 110 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ and others said: 113 AH. Also said: 114 AH
    يُوسُفَ بْنِ مَاهَكَثقة
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah)
    الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي مُغِيثٍثقة
    عن
  4. truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 141 AH and 150 AH
    أَبُو مَالِكٍ عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْأَخْنَسِصدوق
    حدثنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, he authored worksd. 205 AH, also said: 207 AH
    رَوْحٌثقة فاضل ، له تصانيف
    حدثنا
  6. Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
    أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)

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