Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 430-425b
✧ Abdullah b. Mas'ud
"عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: لَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ العِلْمِ صَانوا العِلْمَ وَوَضَعُوهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِهِ لَسَادُوا أَهْلَ زَمَانِهِمْ وَلكِنَّهُمْ وَضَعُوهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا لِيَنَالُوا مِنْ دُنْيَاهُمْ فَهَانُوا عَلَيْهِمْ، سَمِعْتُ نَبِيَّكُمْ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ جَعَلَ الهُمُومَ هَمًّا وَاحِدًا - هَمَّ المَعَادِ كَفَاهُ اللهُ سَائِرَ هُمُومِهِ، وَمَنْ تَشَعَّبَتْ بِهِ الهُمُومُ مِنْ أَحْوالِ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يُبَالِ اللهُ فِى أَيَّ أوْدِيتهَا هَلَكَ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Masʿūd
- Law
- Ahl
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Ibn Mas'ud who said: If the people of knowledge guarded knowledge and placed it with its people, they would have become masters of the people of their time. But they placed it with the people of the world, to obtain some of their worldly gain, so they became contemptible in their sight. I heard your Prophet ﷺ say: Whoever makes his concerns one concern, the concern of the return (to Allah), Allah will suffice him for all his other concerns. And whoever has his concerns scattered by the affairs of this world, Allah does not care in which of its valleys he perishes."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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