Knowledge & Islamic Scholarship

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...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

I swear on Allah, it will be better for you that Allah should give guidance to one man through your agency than that you should acquire the red ones among the camels.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: relate traditions from the children of Isra'il; there is no harm.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Prophet (ﷺ) used to relate to us traditions from the children of Isra'il till morning came; he would not get up except for obligatory prayer.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone acquires knowledge that should be sought seeking the Face of Allah, but he acquires it only to get some worldly advantage, he will not experience the arf, i.e. the fragrance, of Paradise.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Only a ruler, or one put in charge, or one who is presumptuous, gives instructions.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

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 Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: That I sit in the company of the people who remember Allah the Exalted from morning prayer till the sun rises is dearer to me than that I emancipate four slaves from the children of Isma`il,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: recite Surat al-Nisa’. I asked: Shall I recite to you what was sent down to you? He replied: I like to here it from someone else. So I recited (it) until I...

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

Chapters on Knowledge

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "For whomever Allah wants good, he gives him understanding in the religion.

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

Chapters on Knowledge

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Whoever takes a path upon which to obtain knowledge, Allah makes the path to Paradise easy for him."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

Chapters on Knowledge

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Whoever goes out seeking knowledge, then he is in Allah's cause until he returns."

Jami' al-Tirmidhi

Chapters on Knowledge

narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Whoever seeks knowledge, he is atoning for what has passed (of sins while doing so)."