رياض الصالحين
Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 1392
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- 17
Chapter 1
Chapter context: Virtues of Knowledge which is Learnt and Taught for the sake of Allah
- باب فضل العلم تعلما وتعليما لله
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Original Arabic
وعن عبد الله بن عمرو بن العاص رضي الله عنهما قال: سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: "إن الله لا يقبض العلم انتزاعًا ينتزعه من الناس ولكن يقبض العلم بقبض العلماء حتى إذا لم يبقِ عالمًا، اتخذ الناس رءوسًا جهالا، فسئلوا فأفتوا بغير علم، فضلوا وأضلوا: ((متفق عليه)).
Translation
English translation
'Abdullah bin 'Amr bin Al-'As (May Allah be pleased with them) reported:
I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: "Verily, Allah does not take away knowledge by snatching it from the people, but He takes it away by taking away (the lives of) the religious scholars till none of the scholars stays alive. Then the people will take ignorant ones as their leaders, who, when asked to deliver religious verdicts, will issue them without knowledge, the result being that they will go astray and will lead others astray." [Al- Bukhari and Muslim].
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This is Hadith 1392 in Riyad as-Salihin. It appears in Book 13, The Book of Knowledge, as in-book entry 17 under the chapter “Virtues of Knowledge which is Learnt and Taught for the sake of Allah.”
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