حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى الصَّنْعَانِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَلَمَةُ بْنُ رَجَاءٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْقَاسِمُ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيِّ قَالَ: ذُكِرَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَجُلَانِ: أَحَدُهُمَا عَابِدٌ، وَالْآخَرُ عَالِمٌ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: فَضْلُ الْعَالِمِ عَلَى الْعَابِدِ كَفَضْلِي عَلَى أَدْنَاكُمْ. ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ، وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ، وَأَهْلَ السَّمَاوَاتِ، وَالْأَرَضِينَ، حَتَّى النَّمْلَةَ فِي جُحْرِهَا، وَحَتَّى الْحُوتَ؛ لَيُصَلُّونَ عَلَى مُعَلِّمِ النَّاسِ الْخَيْرَ

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ غَرِيبٌ. سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَمَّارٍ الْحُسَيْنَ بْنَ حُرَيْثٍ الْخُزَاعِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ الْفُضَيْلَ بْنَ عِيَاضٍ يَقُولُ: عَالِمٌ عَامِلٌ مُعَلِّمٌ يُدْعَى كَبِيرًا فِي مَلَكُوتِ السَّمَاوَاتِ

Book [41]: Chapters on knowledge
Chapter [19]: What has been related about the superiority of fiqh over worship

Ḥadīth [2685]: It is narrated on the authority of Abī ‘Umāmah al-Bāhilī (may Allāh be pleased with him) that he said: Two men were mentioned before the Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him). One of them a worshiper, and the other a scholar. So, the Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said: “The superiority of the scholar over the worshiper is like my superiority over the least of you.” Then the Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said: “Indeed Allāh, His Angels, the inhabitants of the heavens and the earths – even the ant in his hole, even the fish – say ṣalāt upon the one who teaches the people to do good.”

Abū ‘Īsā said: This ḥadīth is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ gharīb. [He said:] I heard Abū ‘Ammār al-Ḥusayn bin Ḥurayth al-Khuzā’ī saying: I heard al-Fuḍayl bin ‘Iyāḍ saying: ‘The scholar who works in teaching is regarded a great man in the domain of the heavens.’

It is proven from these aḥādīth that the knowledge of which the virtues and merits are mentioned in the aḥādīth is the knowledge of the Book, the sunnah and Islām.

• Reference: [2685 (5/80-81), Sunan at-Tirmidhī, Dārussalām (Eng)]

• Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb (81 (1/144))
• Al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr (7911-7912 (8/278))
• Sharḥ as-Sunnah (1/278)
• Kanzul ‘Ummāl (28740 (10/145))
• Tārīkh ad-Dimashq (10072 (46/327))
• Al-Musnad al-Jāmi’ (5322 (7/449-450))
• Tuḥfatul Ashrāf (4907 (4/29))
• Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (213)
• Al-Jāmi’ aṣ-Ṣaghīr [Suyūṭī] (5859 (1/362))
• Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmi’ (4213 (2/776))
• Al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil (1136 (2/647))
• Talkhīṣ al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil (1136 (1/354))
• Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa-Faḍlihi (183 (1/174-175))

Grade:

• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh al-Albānī (Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2685 (1/605)) & Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmi’ (4213 (2/776)))
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Imām as-Suyūṭī (Al-Jāmi’ aṣ-Ṣaghīr)
• Ḥasan by Ḥāfiẓ Zubayr ‘Alī Za’ī (Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (213 (1/107-108)))
• Ḥasan by Shaykh Dr. Ḍiyā’-ur-Raḥmān al-‘Aẓamī (Al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil)
• Isnād ḥasan by Ḥāfiẓ Zubayr ‘Alī Za’ī (Jāmi’ at-Tirmidhī (2685 (1/800))
• Isnād ḥasan by Shaykh Abū al-Ashbāl az-Zuhayrī (Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa-Faḍlihi, published by Dar ibn al-Jawzi)
• Ḥadīth ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Muḥammad bin ‘Alī bin Ādam al-Ithyūbī (Al-Baḥrul Muḥīṭ ath-Thajjāj fī-Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Imām Muslim bin al-Ḥajjāj (42/161))
• Ḥasan li-ghayri by Shaykh al-Albānī (Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb (81 (1/144)))
• Ḥasan li-ghayri by Shaykh ‘Eṣām Mūsā Hādī (Jāmi’ al-Kabīr (2685 (1/805)))
• Ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ gharīb by Imām at-Tirmidhī
• Gharīb by ibn ‘Asākir (Tārīkh ad-Dimashq)

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