Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1657
✧ 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 عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُوسَى، قَالَا: حدثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، حدثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، حدثنا أَبُو الْجَهْمِ عَبْدُ الْقُدُّوسِ بْنُ بَكْرِ بْنِ خُنَيْسٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ النَّضْرِ الْحَارِثِيِّ،
قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: " أَوَّلُ التَّعْلِيمِ الْإِنْصَاتُ لَهُ، ثُمَّ الِاسْتِمَاعُ لَهُ، ثُمَّ حِفْظُهُ، ثُمَّ الْعَمَلُ به، ثُمَّ بَثُّهُ "
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machine translationAbū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ and Muḥammad b. Mūsā informed us, both said: Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb narrated to us, ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal narrated to us, my father narrated to me, Abū al-Jahm ʿAbd al-Quddūs b. Bakr b. Khunays narrated to us, from Muḥammad b. al-Naḍr al-Ḥārithī,
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He said: It used to be said: "The first stage of learning is to be silent for it, then to listen to it, then to memorize it, then to act upon it, then to spread it."
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