Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1751
✧ 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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سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْكِرْمَانِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ الشِّيرَازِيَّ الصُّوفِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا زُرْعَةَ أَحْمَدَ بْنَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الطَّبَرِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ جَعْفَرًا الْخَلَدِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ الْجُنَيْدَ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَارِثَ الْمُحَاسِبِيَّ
يَقُولُ: " لَا يَرِدُ الْقِيَامَةَ أَكْثَرَ حَسْرَةً من رَجُلَيْنِ: عَالِمٍ لَمْ يَنْتَفِعْ بِعِلْمِهِ، وَزَاهِدٍ أَكَلَ الدُّنْيَا بِدِينِهِ "
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machine translationI heard Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Kirmānī say: I heard Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh al-Shīrāzī al-Ṣūfī say: I heard Abū Zurʿah Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl al-Ṭabarī say: I heard Jaʿfar al-Khuldī say: I heard al-Junayd say: I heard al-Ḥārith al-Muḥāsibī
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He would say: "No two men will come to the Day of Resurrection with greater regret than a scholar who did not benefit from his knowledge, and an ascetic who consumed this world with his religion."
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