Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2647
The Virtue Of Seeking Knowledge
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حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْعَتَكِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الرَّازِيِّ عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
مَنْ خَرَجَ فِي طَلَبِ الْعِلْمِ فَهُوَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Naṣr b. ʿAlī
- Khālid b. Yazīd al-ʿAtakī
- Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī
- al-Rabīʿ b. Anas
- Anas b. Mālik
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Whoever goes out seeking knowledge, then he is in Allah's cause until he returns."
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ وَرَوَاهُ بَعْضُهُمْ فَلَمْ يَرْفَعْهُ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Bashar Awad Maarouf | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- al-Tirmidhi
حسن غريب
machine translationGood and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb).
in جامع الترمذي, p. 2875 - al-Tirmidhi
هذا حديث حسن غريب
machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), gharīb ḥadīth.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 2875 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن غريب ورواه بعضهم فلم يرفعه
in سنن الترمذي, p. 2647
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 220وَعَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ خَرَجَ فِي طَلَبِ الْعِلْمِ فَهُوَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ حَتَّى يرجع». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيّ والدارمي
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7414al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 381Musnad al-Bazzar 6522
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 139 AH or 140 AH, also said: before itالرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَنَسٍصدوق له أوهامعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), but of poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ), especially in his narrations from Mughīrah.d. around 160 AHأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الرَّازِيِّصدوق . سيئ الحفظ خصوصا عن مغيرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 182 AH, or 183 AHخَالِدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْعَتَكِيُّصدوق يهمحدثنا
- Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt); he was asked to take the judgeship (qaḍāʾ) but declinedd. 250 AH, also said: 251 AHنَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة ثبت ، طلب للقضاء فامتنعحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AHالتِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)
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