Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2656
حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، مِنْ وَلَدِ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ أَبَانَ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ خَرَجَ زَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ مِنْ عِنْدِ مَرْوَانَ نِصْفَ النَّهَارِ قُلْنَا مَا بَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ فِي هَذِهِ السَّاعَةِ إِلاَّ لِشَيْءٍ سَأَلَهُ عَنْهُ فَقُمْنَا فَسَأَلْنَاهُ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ سَأَلَنَا عَنْ أَشْيَاءَ سَمِعْنَاهَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ " نَضَّرَ اللَّهُ امْرَأً سَمِعَ مِنَّا حَدِيثًا فَحَفِظَهُ حَتَّى يُبَلِّغَهُ غَيْرَهُ فَرُبَّ حَامِلِ فِقْهٍ إِلَى مَنْ هُوَ أَفْقَهُ مِنْهُ وَرُبَّ حَامِلِ فِقْهٍ لَيْسَ بِفَقِيهٍ " . وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ وَمُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ وَجُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍ وَأَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ وَأَنَسٍ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Aban ibn ‘Uthman reported from his father: ‘Zayd ibn Thabit left Marwan’s presence at midday. We said, “He must have summoned him at this hour to ask him something.” We went to ask him, and he said, “Yes, he asked us about things we heard from the Messenger of Allah. I heard the Messenger of Allah say: ‘May Allah brighten the face of a person who hears a hadith from us and memorizes it until he conveys it to someone else. Perhaps someone conveys understanding to one more learned than himself, and perhaps the one who carries understanding is not himself learned.’”’ Abu ‘Isa said: ‘The hadith of Zayd ibn Thabit is hasan.’ Reports on this topic are also related from ‘Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud, Mu‘adh ibn Jabal, Jubayr ibn Mut‘im, Abu al-Darda’, and Anas.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The saying نضّر الله is rendered as a supplication for Allah to brighten the person’s face. The source’s contrast between transmitting fiqh and personally being a faqih is retained.