0. Introduction

٠۔ المقدمة

0.33 [Machine] Whoever seeks knowledge without intention, knowledge returns to intention

٠۔٣٣ بَابُ مَنْ طَلَبَ الْعِلْمَ بِغَيْرِ نِيَّةٍ فَرَدَّهُ الْعِلْمُ إِلَى النِّيَّةِ

darimi:370ʿAbdullāh b. ʿImrān > Yaḥyá b. Yamān > Sufyān Mundh Arbaʿīn Sanah

[Machine] "The request for conversation today was not better than it. They (the people) said to Sufyan, 'Indeed, they seek it without intent?' He said, 'Their seeking it is with intent.'"  

الدارمي:٣٧٠أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَمَانٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ مُنْذُ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً قَالَ

«مَا كَانَ طَلَبُ الْحَدِيثِ أَفْضَلَ مِنْهُ الْيَوْمَ» قَالُوا لِسُفْيَانَ إِنَّهُمْ يَطْلُبُونَهُ بِغَيْرِ نِيَّةٍ؟ قَالَ «طَلَبُهُمْ إِيَّاهُ نِيَّةٌ»  

darimi:371ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd > ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ajlaḥ from my father > Mujāhid

[Machine] "We have sought this knowledge, and we do not have a great intention in it. Then Allah provided us with the intention."  

الدارمي:٣٧١أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْأَجْلَحِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ

«طَلَبْنَا هَذَا الْعِلْمَ وَمَا لَنَا فِيهِ كَبِيرُ نِيَّةٍ ثُمَّ رَزَقَ اللَّهُ بَعْدُ فِيهِ النِّيَّةَ»  

darimi:372Bishr b. Thābit al-Bazzār > Ḥassān b. Muslim > Yūnus b. ʿUbayd > al-Ḥasan

[Machine] "People have sought knowledge for the sake of Allah and not for what they can gain from it. He (the Prophet) said, 'Knowledge has remained with them until they sought it for the sake of Allah and not for what they can gain from it.'"  

الدارمي:٣٧٢أَخْبَرَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْبَزَّارُ حَدَّثَنَا حَسَّانُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ

«لَقَدْ طَلَبَ أَقْوَامٌ الْعِلْمَ مَا أَرَادُوا بِهِ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى وَلَا مَا عِنْدَهُ» قَالَ «فَمَا زَالَ بِهِمُ الْعِلْمُ حَتَّى أَرَادُوا بِهِ اللَّهَ وَمَا عِنْدَهُ»