Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1730
✧ 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 الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ بِشْرَانَ، أخبرنا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ السَّمَّاكِ، حدثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ بِشْرًا
يَقُولُ: " لَا أَعْلَمُ شَيْئًا أَفْضَلَ مِنْهُ، إِذَا أُرِيدَ بِهِ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ " يَعْنِي طَلَبَ الْعِلْمِ
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machine translationAbū al-Ḥusayn b. Bishrān informed us: ʿUthmān b. Aḥmad b. al-Sammāk informed us: al-Ḥasan b. ʿAmr narrated to us, he said: I heard Bishr
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He said: "I do not know of anything more excellent than it, when it is sought for the sake of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic," meaning the seeking of knowledge.
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