Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1661
✧ 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 سَعِيدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الشُّعَيْبِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَحْمَدَ بْنَ نَصْرِ بْنِ إِشْكَابَ الْفَقِيهُ، قَالَ: حدثنا أَبُو يَعْقُوبَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْقَزْوِينِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ يَحْيَى بْنَ مُعَاذٍ الرَّازِيَّ،
يَقُولُ: " الْكَلَامُ حَسَنٌ، وَأَحْسَنُ مِنَ الْكَلَامِ مَعْنَاهُ، وَأَحْسَنُ مِنْ مَعْنَاهُ اسْتِعْمَالُهُ، وَأَحْسَنُ مِنَ اسْتِعْمَالِهِ ثَوَابُهُ، وَأَحْسَنُ مِنْ ثَوَابِهِ رِضَا مَنْ عَمِلْتَ لَهُ "
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machine translationSaʿīd b. Muḥammad al-Shuʿaybī informed us, he said: I heard Aḥmad b. Naṣr b. Ishkāb the jurist say: Abū Yaʿqūb Ismāʿīl b. al-Ḥusayn al-Qazwīnī narrated to us, he said: I heard Yaḥyā b. Muʿādh al-Rāzī,
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He would say: "Speech is good, and better than speech is its meaning, and better than its meaning is putting it into practice, and better than putting it into practice is its reward, and better than its reward is the pleasure of the one for whom you acted."
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