Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1578
✧ The virtue of knowledge and the honor of its rank
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُ، حدثنا أَبُو حَامِدِ بْنُ بِلَالٍ، حدثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ، حدثنا النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍ، حدثنا عَوْنٌ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ
قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: " النَّاسُ مَعَادِنُ خِيَارُهُمْ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ خِيَارُهُمْ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ إِذَا فَقِهُوا " " خَالَفَهُ ابْنُ عَوْنٍ فَوَقَفَهُ " وَرُوِّينَا فِي الْحَدِيثِ الثَّابِتِ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ: " مَنْ يُرِدِ اللهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ " وَعَنْ سَعْدٍ، وَحُذَيْفَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ: " فَضْلُ الْعِلْمِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ - أَوْ قَالَ خَيْرٌ - مِنْ فَضْلِ الْعِبَادَةِ، وخَيْرُ دِينِكُمُ الْوَرَعُ " " وَرُوِّينَاهُ صَحِيحًا مِنْ قَوْلِ مُطَرِّفِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ " وَرُوِّينَا عَنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو سَمِعَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ: " قَلِيلُ الْفِقْهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ كَثِيرِ الْعِبَادَةِ، وَكَفَى بالْمَرْءِ فِقْهًا إِنْ عَبَدَ اللهَ "
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Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū Ṭāhir the jurist informed us, Abū Ḥāmid b. Bilāl narrated to us, Aḥmad b. Manṣūr al-Marwazī narrated to us, al-Naḍr b. Shumayl narrated to us, ʿAwn narrated to us, from Ibn Sīrīn, from Abū Hurayrah.
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He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "People are like mines; the best of them in the Jāhiliyyah are the best of them in Islam, if they gain understanding (of the religion)." "Ibn ʿAwn differed from him and made it mawqūf (a statement of the Companion)." And we have narrated in the authentic hadith from Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān that he heard the Prophet ﷺ say: "Whoever Allah wishes good for, He gives him understanding of the religion." And from Saʿd and Ḥudhayfah, from the Prophet ﷺ: "The excess of knowledge is more beloved to me - or he said: better - than the excess of worship, and the best of your religion is scrupulousness (wara')." "And we have narrated it authentically as a saying of Muṭarrif b. ʿAbdillāh b. al-Shikhkhīr." And we have narrated from ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr that he heard the Prophet ﷺ say: "A little understanding is better than much worship, and it is enough for a man to have understanding if he worships Allah."
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