Bayan Al-Hadith › Riyad as-Salihin › The Book of Knowledge
Riyad as-Salihin 713رياض الصالحين 713
وعن عبد الله بن عمرو بن العاص رضي الله عنهما قال: سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: "إن الله لا يقبض العلم انتزاعًا ينتزعه من الناس ولكن يقبض العلم بقبض العلماء حتى إذا لم يبقِ عالمًا، اتخذ الناس رءوسًا جهالا، فسئلوا فأفتوا بغير علم، فضلوا وأضلوا: ((متفق عليه)).
'Abdullah bin 'Amr bin Al-'As (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: "Verily, Allah does not take away knowledge by snatching it from the people, but He takes it away by taking away (the lives of) the religious scholars till none of the scholars stays alive. Then the people will take ignorant ones as their leaders, who, when asked to deliver religious verdicts, will issue them without knowledge, the result being that they will go astray and will lead others astray.".
Grading
Sahih
- Al-Nawawi's citation: Abu Dawud and At- Tirmidhi
Chain of narrators
عبد الله بن عمرو
Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As
