قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ: لا يكون تقيا حتى يكون عالما، ولن يكون بالعلم جميلا حتى يكون به عاملا

Abū Dardā’ (may Allāh be pleased with him) said:

“A person does not attain taqwā until he becomes knowledgeable, and he will never be adorned by knowledge until he acts upon it.”

To be updated in shaa Allah…

• Reference: [301 (1/224-225), Sunan ad-Dārimī, Ansarus Sunnah Publications (Ur)]

• Abū Nu’aym al-Aṣbahānī [d. 430H] in Ḥilyatul Awliyā’ (1/213).

It was also mentioned by ibn ‘Abdul-Barr [d. 463H] in Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa-Faḍlihi (1239 (1/698)). And it was also mentioned in a longer version by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdullāh ad-Dārimī [d. 255H] in Sunan ad-Dārimī (292 (1/62)).

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• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Abul-Ashbāl az-Zuhayrī (Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa-Faḍlihi, published by Dar ibn al-Jawzi)

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