Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1663
✧ 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، أَخْبَرَنِي جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدَّثَنِي الْجُنَيْدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ السَّرِيَّ،
يَقُولُ: " إِذَا ابْتَدَأَ الْإِنْسَانُ بِالنُّسُكِ، ثُمَّ كَتَبَ الْحَدِيثَ فَتَرَ، وَإِذَا ابْتَدَأَ بِكِتَابَةِ الْحَدِيثِ، ثُمَّ تَنَسَّكَ نَفَذَ "
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machine translationAbū ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us, Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad informed me, al-Junayd b. Muḥammad narrated to me, he said: I heard al-Sarī,
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He would say: "If a person begins with devotion, then writes down hadith, he weakens; but if he begins with writing down hadith, then devotes himself to worship, he carries through."
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