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darimi:250Muḥammad b. Asʿad > Abū Bakr > ʿĀṣim > Abū Wāʾil > Ḥudhayfah Atadrī Kayf Yunqaṣ al-ʿIlm > Kamā Yunfaḍ al-Thawb And Kamā Yaqsū al-Dirham

[Machine] I said, "Like how a garment is shaken off and how a coin is hardened." He said, "No, and indeed this is the way the knowledge is seized from the scholars."  

الدارمي:٢٥٠أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَسْعَدَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ قَالَ قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ «أَتَدْرِي كَيْفَ يُنْقَصُ الْعِلْمُ؟» قَالَ

قُلْتُ كَمَا يُنْفَضُ الثَّوْبُ وَكَمَا يَقْسُو الدِّرْهَمُ قَالَ «لَا» وَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَمِنْهُ قَبْضُ الْعِلْمِ قَبْضُ الْعُلَمَاءِ