Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1780
✧ 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 زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحُسَيْنِ بْنَ حَمَّادٍ الْكُوفِيَّ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَحْمَدَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ النَّحْوِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ وَهْبَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ
يَقُولُ: كَانَ ابْنُ السَّمَّاكِ الْوَاعِظُ بِالْكُوفَةِ، فبدأ فِي بَعْضِ مُجَالِسِهِ مِنْ ذَكَرَ النَّارَ فَبَكَى وَأَبْكَى، وَوَعَظَ وَذَكَّرَ، وَجَرَى مَجْلِسٌ حَسَنٌ جَمِيلٌ" فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي الْمَجْلِسِ الثَّانِي رفِعَتْ إِلَيْهِ رُقْعَةٌ كَانَ فِيهَا: [البحر الكامل] يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّجُلُ الْمُعَلِّمُ غَيْرَهُ... هَلَّا لِنَفْسِكَ كَانَ ذَا التَّعْلِيمُ تَصِفُ الدَّوَاءَ مِنَ السَّقَامِ لِذِي الضَّنى... كَيْمَا يَصِحَّ بِهِ وَأَنْتَ سَقِيمُ وَأَرَاكَ تُلْقِحُ بِالرَّشَادِ عُقُولَنَا... نُصْحًا وَأَنْتَ مِنَ الرَّشَادِ عَدِيمُ فَمَرِضَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ مَرَضًا شَدِيدًا وَتُوُفِّيَ مِنْهُ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ
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machine translationAbū Zakariyyā b. Abī Isḥāq informed us, he said: I heard Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥammād al-Kūfī say: I heard Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Naḥwī say: I heard Wahb b. ʿAlī
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He said: Ibn al-Sammāk the preacher was in Kūfah. In one of his sessions he began by mentioning the Fire, and he wept and made others weep, and he preached and admonished, and it was a fine and beautiful session. When it was the second session, a note was handed up to him in which was written: [Metre: al-Kāmil] O man who teaches others, why was this teaching not for your own self? You prescribe medicine for the illness to one who is wasted, so that he may be healed by it, while you yourself are sick. And I see you impregnating our minds with right guidance, in sincere counsel, while you are devoid of right guidance. So he fell severely ill from that, and died of it, may God have mercy on him.
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