Partial Translation
of Sunan Abu-Dawud:
Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)
Book 25, Number 3634:
Narrated AbudDarda':
Kathir ibn Qays said: I was sitting with AbudDarda'
in the mosque of Damascus.
A man came to him and said: AbudDarda, I have come to
you from the town of the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) for a tradition that I have heard
you relate from the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him). I have come for no other purpose.
He said: I heard the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) say: If anyone travels on a road in
search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on
one of the roads of Paradise. The angels will lower
their wings in their great pleasure with one who seeks
knowledge, the inhabitants of the heavens and the Earth
and the fish in the deep waters will ask forgiveness for
the learned man. The superiority of the learned man over
the devout is like that of the moon, on the night when
it is full, over the rest of the stars. The learned are
the heirs of the Prophets, and the Prophets leave
neither dinar nor dirham, leaving only knowledge, and he
who takes it takes an abundant portion.
Book 25, Number 3637:
Narrated AbuNamlah al-Ansari:
When he was sitting with the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) and a Jew was also with him, a
funeral passed by him. He (the Jew) asked (Him):
Muhammad, does this funeral speak? The Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) said: Allah has more knowledge. The
Jew said: It speaks.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said:
Whatever the people of the Book tell you, do not verify
them, nor falsify them, but say: We believe in Allah and
His Apostle. If it is false, do not confirm it, and if
it is right, do not falsify it.
Book 25, Number 3638:
Narrated Zayd ibn Thabit:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) ordered me
(to learn the writing of the Jews), so I learnt for him
the writing of the Jews. He said: I swear by Allah, I do
not trust Jews in respect of writing for me. So I learnt
it, and only a fortnight passed that . I mastered it. I
would write for him when he wrote (to them), and read to
him when something was written to him.
Book 25, Number 3639:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
I used to write everything which I heard from the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). I intended (by it)
to memorise it. The Quraysh prohibited me saying: Do you
write everything that you hear from him while the
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) is a human being:
he speaks in anger and pleasure? So I stopped writing,
and mentioned it to the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him). He signalled with his finger to him
mouth and said: Write, by Him in Whose hand my soul
lies, only right comes out from it.
Book 25, Number 3640:
Narrated Zayd ibn Thabit:
Al-Muttalib ibn Abdullah ibn Hantab said: Zayd ibn
Thabit entered upon Mu'awiyah and asked him about a
tradition. He ordered a man to write it. Zayd said: The
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) ordered us not to
write any of his traditions. So he erased it.
Book 25, Number 3644:
Narrated Jundub:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone
interprets the Book of Allah in the light of his opinion
even if he is right, he has erred.
Book 25, Number 3645:
Narrated A man:
AbuSalam said on the authority of a man who served
the Holy Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) that whenever he
talked, he repeated it three times.
Book 25, Number 3647:
Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:
Are you not surprised at AbuHurayrah? He came and sat
beside my apartment, and began to narrate traditions
from the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) making me
hear them. I am saying supererogatory prayer. He got up
(and went away) before I finished my prayer. Had I found
him, I would have replied to him. The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) did not narrate traditions quickly
one after another as you narrate quickly.
Book 25, Number 3648:
Narrated Mu'awiyah:
The Holy Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) forbade the
discussion of thorny questions.
Book 25, Number 3649:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone is
given a legal decision ignorantly, the sin rests on the
one who gave it. Sulayman al-Mahri added in his version:
If anyone advises his brother, knowing that guidance
lies in another direction, he has deceived him. These
are the wordings of Sulayman.
Book 25, Number 3650:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who is asked
something he knows and conceals it will have a bridle of
fire put on him on the Day of Resurrection.
Book 25, Number 3651:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: You hear (from
me), and others will hear from you; and people will hear
from them who heard from you.
Book 25, Number 3652:
Narrated Zayd ibn Thabit:
I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say:
May Allah brighten a man who hears a tradition from us,
gets it by heart and passes it on to others. Many a
bearer of knowledge conveys it to one who is more versed
than he is; and many a bearer of knowledge is not versed
in it.
Book 25, Number 3654:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: relate
traditions from the children of Isra'il; there is no
harm.
Book 25, Number 3655:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) used to relate to us
traditions from the children of Isra'il till morning
came; he would not get up except for obligatory prayer.
Book 25, Number 3656:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone
acquires knowledge of things by which Allah's good
pleasure is sought, but acquires it only to get some
worldly advantage, he will not experience the arf, i.e.
the odour, of Paradise.
Book 25, Number 3657:
Narrated Awf ibn Malik al-Ashja'i:
I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say:
Only a ruler, or one put in charge, or one who is
presumptuous, gives instructions.
Book 25, Number 3658:
Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri:
I was sitting in the company of the poor members of
the emigrants. Some of them were sitting together
because of lack of clothing while a reader was reciting
to us. All of a sudden the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
came along and stood beside us. When the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) stood, the reader stopped and
greeted him.
He asked: What were you doing? We said: Apostle of
Allah! We had a reader who was reciting to us and we
were listening to the Book of Allah, the Exalted.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then said:
Praise be to Allah Who has put among my people those
with whom I have been ordered to stay. The Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then sat among us so as to be
like one of us, and when he had made a sign with his
hand they sat in a circle with their faces turned
towards him.
The narrator said: I think that the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) did not recognize any of them except
me.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then said:
Rejoice, you group of poor emigrants, in the
announcement that you will have perfect light on the Day
of Resurrection. You will enter Paradise half a day
before the rich, and that is five hundred years.
Book 25, Number 3659:
Narrated Anas ibn Malik:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: That I sit in
the company of the people who remember Allah the Exalted
from morning prayer till the sun rises is clearer to me
than that I emancipate four slaves from the children of
Isra'il, and that I sit with the people who remember
Allah from afternoon prayer till the sun sets is dearer
to me than that I emancipate four slaves.
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