Knowledge & Islamic Scholarship

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

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 Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for a tradition that...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The 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 (ﷺ)

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

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 genealogy.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

When he was sitting with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and a Jew was also with him, a funeral passed by him. He (the Jew) asked (Him): Muhammad, does this funeral speak? The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allah has more knowledge....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) 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...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

I used to write everything which I heard from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). I intended (by it) to memorise it. The Quraysh prohibited me saying: Do you write everything that you hear from him while the Messenger of Allah...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

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 Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered us not to write any of his...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

When Mecca was conquered, the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) stood up. He (Abu Hurairah) then mentioned the sermon of the Holy Prophet (ﷺ). He said: A man of the Yemen, who was called Abu Shah, got up and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

"We used not to write anything but the Tasha-hud and the Qur'an."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

I asked Abu `Amr: What are they writing? He said: The sermon which he heard that day.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

I asked al-Zubair : What prevents you from narrating traditions from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as his Companions narrate from him? He said: By Allah I was very close to him. But I heard him (ﷺ) say: He who...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone interprets the Book of Allah in the light of his opinion even if he is right, he has erred.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

AbuSallam said on the authority of a man who served the Holy Prophet (ﷺ) that whenever he talked, he repeated it three times.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

Abu Hurairah sat beside the apartment of `A’ishah while she was praying. He then began to say: Listen, O lady of the apartment, saying it twice (in quick succession). When she finished her prayer, she said: Are you not surprised...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

Are you not surprised at AbuHurayrah? He came and sat beside my apartment, and began to narrate traditions from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) making me hear them. I was saying supererogatory prayer. He got up (and went away) before...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Holy Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the discussion of thorny questions.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Prophet (ﷺ) 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...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Prophet (ﷺ) 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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: You hear (from me), and others will hear from you; and people will hear from them who heard from you.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) 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...