Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1656
✧ He said: "The seeker of knowledge should learn, and the scholar should teach, for the sake of Allah, exalted is He"
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدِ بْنُ فِرَاسٍ بِمَكَّةَ، أخبرنا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنُ الضَّحَّاكِ، حدثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، حدثنا أَبُو يَعْقُوبَ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ،
يَقُولُ: " الْعَالِمُ لَا يُمَارِي وَلَا يُدَارِي يَنْشُرُ حِكْمَةَ اللهِ، فَإِنْ قُبِلَتْ حَمِدَ اللهَ، وَإِنْ رُدَّتْ حَمِدَ اللهَ "
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machine translationAbū Muḥammad b. Firās informed us in Mecca, Abū ʿAbdillāh b. al-Ḍaḥḥāk informed us, ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated to us, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Marwazī narrated to us, he said: I heard Sufyān,
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He would say: "The scholar does not argue and does not flatter. He spreads the wisdom of God; if it is accepted, he praises God, and if it is rejected, he praises God."
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