Sunan Abi Dawud · Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)
باب الْحَثِّ عَلَى طَلَبِ الْعِلْمِ
Chapter: Regarding the virtue of knowledge.
3 hadith · references 3641–3643
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Abu Dawud · 3641كُنْتُ جَالِسًا مَعَ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ فِي مَسْجِدِ دِمَشْقَ ، فَجَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ ، فَقَالَ : يَا أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ ، إِنِّي جِئْتُكَ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ الرَّسُولِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لِحَدِيثٍ بَلَغَنِي أَنّNarrated Kathir ibn Qays: Kathir ibn Qays said: I was sitting with Abud Darda in the mosque of Damascus. A man came to him and said: Abud Darda, I have come to you from the town of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for a traditio6 narratorsAbu Dawud · 3642حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْوَزِيرِ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ ، حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ ، قَالَ : لَقِيتُ شَبِيبَ بْنَ شَيْبَةَ فَحَدَّثَنِي بِهِ ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي سَوْدَةَ ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ يَعْنِي ، عَنThe tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu al-Darda through a different chain of narrators to the same effect from the Holy Prophet ﷺ5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 3643مَا مِنْ رَجُلٍ يَسْلُكُ طَرِيقًا يَطْلُبُ فِيهِ عِلْمًا إِلَّا سَهَّلَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِهِ طَرِيقَ الْجَنَّةِ ، وَمَنْ أَبْطَأَ بِهِ عَمَلُهُ لَمْ يُسْرِعْ بِهِ نَسَبُهُAbu Hurairah reported the Prophet ﷺ as saying: If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge, Allah will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise; and he who is made slow by his actions will not be speeded by his g5 narrators