حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، حَدَّثَنَا هِلَالٌ هُوَ: ابْنُ خَبَّابٍ، قَالَ : سَأَلْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ قُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، مَا عَلَامَةُ هَلَاكِ النَّاسِ؟ قَالَ: إِذَا هَلَكَ عُلَمَاؤُهُمْ

Book: Introduction
Chapter [26]: The departure of knowledge

Ḥadīth [241]: Hilāl bin Khabbāb says: I asked Sa’īd bin Jubayr, “O ‘Abu ‘Abdullāh, what is a sign of the destruction of people?” He replied: “When their ‘ulamā [learned ones] pass away.”

Reference: Sunan ad-Dārimī (241 (1/55))

To be updated.

• Reference: [247 (1/203), Sunan ad-Dārimī, Ansarus Sunnah Publications (Ur)]

• Muṣannaf ibn Abī Shaybah (39989 (21/226))
• Shu’ab al-Īmān (1542 (3/193))
• Ḥilyatul Awliyā’ (4/276)
• Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa-Faḍlihi (1023 (1/595-596))

Grade:

• Isnād ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh ‘Abdul-Mannān Rāsikh (247 (1/203); Sunan ad-Dārimī, published by Ansarus Sunnah Publications, Lahore)
• Isnād ṣaḥīḥ and the narrators are thiqāt by Abū al-Ashbāl az-Zuhayrī (Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa-Faḍlihi, published by Dar ibn al-Jawzi)
• Ḥasan mawqūf by Sayyid ‘Imrān (Muṣannaf ibn Abī Shaybah (38361 (11/390)), published by Dārul Ḥadīth)
• Trustworthy narrators except al-Faḍl bin Muḥammad by Mukhtār Aḥmad an-Nadwī (Shu’ab al-Īmān)

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