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))
The true essence of life lies in attaching oneself to the religion. Lack of attachment to the religion brings desolation and following the correct path to religion will only bring goodness.
• Reference: [247 (1/203), Sunan ad-Dārimī, Ansarus Sunnah Publications (Ur)]
Translated by Umm Rumayṣā’
• Muṣannaf ibn Abī Shaybah (39989 [38361])
• 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 Ḥusayn Asad (Musnad ad-Dārimī (247 (1/309-310)))
• Isnād ṣaḥīḥ and the narrators are thiqāt by Abul-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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