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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
bazzar:5880 –
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البزّار:٥٨٨٠ – وَبِإِسْنَادِهِ؛

أَنَّ النَّبِيّ ﷺ قَالَ مَنْ خَرَجَ فِي طَلَبِ الْعِلْمِ فَهُوَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ لا نَعْلَمُهُ يُرْوَى بِهَذَا اللَّفْظِ عَن النَّبِيّ ﷺ إلاَّ مِنْ هَذَا الوجه

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tirmidhi:2647 – Naṣr b. ʿAlī > Khālid b. Yazīd al-ʿAtakī > Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī > al-Rabīʿ b. Anas > Anas b. Mālik

that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Whoever goes out seeking knowledge, then he is in Allah's cause until he returns."

الترمذي:٢٦٤٧ – حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْعَتَكِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الرَّازِيِّ عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَنْ خَرَجَ فِي طَلَبِ الْعِلْمِ فَهُوَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ وَرَوَاهُ بَعْضُهُمْ فَلَمْ يَرْفَعْهُ

suyuti:21458a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٢١٤٥٨أ –

"مَنْ خَرَجَ في طَلَبِ العِلمِ فَهُوَ في سَبِيلِ اللهِ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ".

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