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ahmad-zuhd:820ʿAbdullāh from my father > Wakīʿ > Sufyān > ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib > Abū 125 al-Bakhtarī > Salmān ؒ

[Machine] "People will continue to prosper as long as the first one remains until the last one learns. But when the first one goes before the last one learns, that is when they are doomed."  

الزهد لأحمد:٨٢٠حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ أَبِي [125] الْبَخْتَرِيِّ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ قَالَ

لَا يَزَالُ النَّاسُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا بَقِيَ الْأَوَّلُ حَتَّى يَتَعَلَّمَ الْآخَرُ فَإِذَا ذَهَبَ الْأَوَّلُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الْآخَرُ فَذَاكَ حِينَ هَلَكُوا  


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darimi:248Mālik b. Ismāʿīl

[Machine] "People will continue to be in good as long as the first one remains to learn or teach the other. But if the first one dies before teaching or learning from the other, people perish."  

الدارمي:٢٤٨أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا مَسْعُودُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ الْجُعْفِيُّ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ رُبَيِّعَةَ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ قَالَ

لَا يَزَالُ النَّاسُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا بَقِيَ الْأَوَّلُ حَتَّى يَتَعَلَّمَ أَوْ يُعَلِّمَ الْآخِرَ فَإِذا هَلَكَ الْأَوَّلُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُعَلِّمَ أَوْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الْآخِرُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ  

darimi:255ʿAmr b. ʿAwn > Khālid > ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib > ʿAbdullāh b. Rubayyiʿah

[Machine] Salman said, "People will continue to be in good as long as the first person learns, and when the first person dies before the last person learns, people will perish."  

الدارمي:٢٥٥أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍ أَنبَأَنَا خَالِدٌ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ رُبَيِّعَةَ قَالَ قَالَ

سَلْمَانُ «لَا يَزَالُ النَّاسُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا بَقِيَ الْأَوَّلُ حَتَّى يَتَعَلَّمَ الْآخِرُ فَإِذَا هَلَكَ الْأَوَّلُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الْآخِرُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ»