The Book of the Sunnah

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Hisham ibn Ammar reported to us: al-Walid ibn Muslim reported to us: Marwan ibn Janah reported to us, from Yunus ibn Maysarah ibn Halbas, who told him: I heard Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan relate from the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) that he said, ‘Goodness is a habit and evil is persistence. Whoever Allah wills good for, He grants him understanding of the religion.’

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Hisham ibn Ammar reported to us: al-Walid ibn Muslim reported to us: Rawh ibn Janah Abu Sad reported to us, from Mujahid, from Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, ‘One jurist is more formidable to Satan than a thousand devoted worshippers.’

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Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dāwūd narrated to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah, from Dāwūd ibn Jamīl, from Kathīr ibn Qays, who said: I was sitting with Abū al-Dardāʾ in the mosque of Damascus when a man came to him and said, “Abū al-Dardāʾ, I have come to you from Medina, the city of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, for a report that has reached me which you narrate from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.” He asked, “Did trade bring you here?” He said, “No.” He asked, “Did anything else bring you here?” He said, “No.” He said: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “Whoever follows a path seeking knowledge on it, God will make easy for him a path to Paradise. The angels lower their wings in approval of the seeker of knowledge. Everyone in the heavens and the earth seeks forgiveness for the seeker of knowledge, even the fish in the water. The superiority of a scholar over a devoted worshipper is like the superiority of the moon over all the other stars. The scholars are the heirs of the Prophets. The Prophets did not leave behind a dinar or a dirham; they left knowledge. Whoever takes it has taken an abundant share.”

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān narrated to us: Kathīr ibn Shinẓīr narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim. Whoever places knowledge with those unworthy of it is like one who puts jewels, pearls, and gold collars on pigs.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad said: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Whoever relieves a believer of one of the distresses of this world, God will relieve him of one of the distresses of the Day of Resurrection. Whoever conceals a Muslim, God will conceal him in this world and the Hereafter. Whoever makes things easier for someone in hardship, God will make things easier for him in this world and the Hereafter. God aids the servant as long as the servant aids his brother. Whoever follows a path seeking knowledge on it, God will make easy for him, by means of it, a path to Paradise. Whenever a people gather in one of the houses belonging to God, reciting the Book of God and studying it together, the angels surround them, tranquility descends upon them, mercy covers them, and God mentions them among those with Him. Whoever is held back by his deeds, his lineage will not make him advance.”

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Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us: Maʿmar informed us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, from Zirr ibn Ḥubaysh, who said: I came to Ṣafwān ibn ʿAssāl al-Murādī, and he asked, “What brought you here?” I said, “I am seeking knowledge.” He said: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “Everyone who leaves his home seeking knowledge has the angels lower their wings for him, in approval of what he is doing.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Ḥātim ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us, from Ḥumayd ibn Ṣakhr, from al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “Whoever comes to this mosque of mine, coming only for some good to learn or teach, is like one who strives in the path of God. Whoever comes for something else is like a man watching the belongings of another.”

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Ṣadaqah ibn Khālid narrated to us: ʿUthmān ibn Abī ʿĀtikah narrated to us, from ʿAlī ibn Yazīd, from al-Qāsim, from Abū Umāmah, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “You must acquire this knowledge before it is taken away; its being taken away means that it is lifted up.” He joined his middle finger and the one next to the thumb like this. Then he said: “The scholar and the learner are partners in the reward, and there is no good in the rest of the people.”

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Bishr ibn Hilāl al-Ṣawwāf narrated to us: Dāwūd ibn al-Zubirqān narrated to us, from Bakr ibn Khunays, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said: One day the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, came out of one of his rooms and entered the mosque. He found two circles: one was reciting the Quran and supplicating to God, and the other was learning and teaching. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Both are engaged in good. These people recite the Quran and supplicate to God; if He wills, He gives them, and if He wills, He withholds from them. These people learn and teach, and I was sent only as a teacher.” Then he sat with them.

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad said: Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl narrated to us: Layth ibn Abī Sulaym narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbbād Abū Hubayrah al-Anṣārī, from his father, from Zayd ibn Thābit, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “May God brighten the face of a person who hears my words and conveys them. For perhaps one who carries understanding is not himself learned, and perhaps one carries understanding to someone more learned than he.” ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad added: “There are three things toward which the heart of a Muslim bears no rancor: sincere action for God, sincere counsel to the leaders of the Muslims, and remaining with their community.”

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr narrated to us: My father narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, from ʿAbd al-Salām, from al-Zuhrī, from Muḥammad ibn Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, from his father, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, stood at al-Khayf in Minā and said: “May God brighten the face of a person who hears my words and conveys them. For perhaps one who carries understanding is not himself learned, and perhaps one carries understanding to someone more learned than he.” ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: My maternal uncle Yaʿlā narrated to us. And Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us. They both said: Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Muḥammad ibn Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, from his father, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with similar wording.

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār and Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd said: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Simāk, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from his father, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “May God brighten the face of a person who hears a report from us and conveys it. Perhaps the one to whom it is conveyed will retain it better than the one who heard it.”

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān dictated this to us: Qurrat ibn Khālid narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakrah, from his father, and from another man whom I consider more excellent than ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Bakrah, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, delivered a sermon on the Day of Sacrifice and said: “Let those who are present convey this to those who are absent, for perhaps the one to whom it is conveyed will understand it better than the one who heard it.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Abū Usāmah narrated to us. And Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr narrated to us: al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl informed us, from Bahz ibn Ḥakīm, from his father, from his grandfather Muʿāwiyah al-Qushayrī, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Let those who are present convey this to those who are absent.”

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Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdah informed us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Darāwardī narrated to us: Qudāmah ibn Mūsā narrated to me, from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥuṣayn al-Tamīmī, from Abū ʿAlqamah, the client of Ibn ʿAbbās, from Yasār, the client of Ibn ʿUmar, from Ibn ʿUmar, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Let those of you who are present convey this to those of you who are absent.”

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Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī narrated to us: Mubashshir ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥalabī narrated to us, from Muʿān ibn Rifāʿah, from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Bukht al-Makkī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “May God brighten a servant who hears my words, understands them, then conveys them from me. For perhaps one who carries understanding is not himself learned, and perhaps one carries understanding to someone more learned than he.”

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al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī informed us: Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥumayd narrated to us: Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Anas narrated to us, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Among people are those who are keys to good and locks against evil, and among them are those who are keys to evil and locks against good. Blessed is the one through whose hands God places the keys to good, and woe to the one through whose hands God places the keys to evil.”

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Hārūn ibn Saʿīd al-Aylī Abū Jaʿfar narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Aslam informed me, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “This good is a treasury, and that treasury has keys. Blessed is the servant whom God makes a key to good and a lock against evil, and woe to the servant whom God makes a key to evil and a lock against good.”

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar narrated to us, from ʿUthmān ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from his father, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “Everyone in the heavens and on earth seeks forgiveness for the scholar, even the fish in the sea.”

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Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Miṣrī narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb, from Sahl ibn Muʿādh ibn Anas, from his father, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Whoever teaches some knowledge will have the reward of whoever acts upon it, without diminishing the reward of the one who acts at all.”