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Sunan Abi Dawud 3664

Regarding seeking knowledge for other than (the sake of) Allah

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا سُرَيْجُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِ حَدَّثَنَا فُلَيْحٌ عَنْ أَبِي طُوَالَةَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَعْمَرٍ الأَنْصَارِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ عِلْمًا مِمَّا يُبْتَغَى بِهِ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ ﷻ لاَ يَتَعَلَّمُهُ إِلاَّ لِيُصِيبَ بِهِ عَرَضًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يَجِدْ عَرْفَ الْجَنَّةِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
  2. Surayj b. al-Nuʿmān
  3. Fulayḥ
  4. Abū Ṭuwālah ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Maʿmar al-Anṣārī
  5. Saʿīd b. Yasār
  6. Abū Hurayrah
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said: If anyone acquires knowledge that should be sought seeking the Face of Allah, but he acquires it only to get some worldly advantage, he will not experience the arf, i.e. the fragrance, of Paradise.

Notes

  • يَعْنِي رِيحَهَا

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What scholars said about it

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  • Dāraquṭnī

    المرسل أشبه بالصواب

    machine translationThe mursal version (mursal) is closer to being correct.

    in سنن أبي داود, p. 3660

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 227وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ عِلْمًا مِمَّا يُبْتَغَى بِهِ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ لَا يَتَعَلَّمُهُ إِلَّا لِيُصِيبَ بِهِ عَرَضًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ
  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 252مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ عِلْمًا مِمَّا يُبْتَغَى بِهِ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ لاَ يَتَعَلَّمُهُ إِلاَّ لِيُصِيبَ بِهِ عَرَضًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يَجِدْ عَرْفَ الْجَنَّةِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 8457Sahih Ibn Hibban 78Musnad Abi Ya'la 6377al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 288al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 289

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. Saʿīd b. Yasār mawlá Maymūnah zawj Rasūl Allāh
    trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 116 AH or 117 AH, in another manuscript of Ibn Ḥibbān: 120 AH
    سَعِيدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة متقن
    عن
  3. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Maʿmar
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 134 AH, also said: after that
    أَبِي طُوَالَةَ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَعْمَرٍثقة
    عن
  4. Fulayḥ
    truthful (ṣadūq), makes many errors (kathīr al-khaṭaʾ)d. 168 AH
    فُلَيْحٌصدوق ، كثير الخطأ
    نا
  5. Surayj
    trustworthy (thiqah), makes occasional mistakes (yahimu qalīlan)d. 217 AH or 229 AH
    سُرَيْجُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِثقة يهم قليلا
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
    حدثنا
  7. Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
    أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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)
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)

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