قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ: إن أحدا لا يولد عالما، والعلم بالتعلم

‘Abdullāh bin Mas’ūd (may Allāh be pleased with him) said:

“Indeed, no one is born a scholar. Rather, knowledge is gained by learning.”

Reference: Abī Khaythamah [d. 234] in Kitāb al-‘Ilm (116)

• Wakī’ bin Jarrāḥ [d. 197H] in Zuhd (518 (1/831-832))
• Abū Bakr bin Abī Shaybah [d. 235H] in Muṣannaf ibn Abī Shaybah (27804 [26647])
• Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal [d. 241H] in Zuhd (901 (1/208))
• Ibn ‘Abdul-Barr [d. 463H] in Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa-Faḍlihi (615 (1/420))

Grade:

• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Dr. Sa’d bin Nāṣir ash-Shathrī (Muṣannaf ibn Abī Shaybah (27804 (14/365)))
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Dr. Riyāḍ Ḥusayn ‘Abdul-Laṭīf (Kitāb al-‘Ilm (116 (1/105)))
• Isnād ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Dr. ‘Abdur-Raḥmān ‘Abdul-Jabbār (Zuhd (518 (1/831-832)))
• Isnād ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Abul-Ashbāl az-Zuhayrī (Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa-Faḍlihi, published by Dar ibn al-Jawzi)
• Isnād ḥasan by Shaykh Sayyid ‘Imrān (Muṣannaf ibn Abī Shaybah (26647 (8/87)))

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