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darimi:332 – Muḥammad b. Kathīr > al-Awzāʿī > Baḥīr b. Saʿd > Khālid b. Maʿdān

People are ˹of two types˺: the scholar and the student, and between that is ignorance, with no goodness in it.  

الدارمي:٣٣٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ عَنِ الْأَوْزَاعِيِّ عَنْ بَحِيرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ قَالَ

«النَّاسُ عَالِمٌ وَمُتَعَلِّمٌ وَمَا بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ هَمَجٌ لَا خَيْرَ فِيهِ»  

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darimi:252 – Aḥmad b. Asad Abū ʿĀṣim > ʿAbthar > Burd > Sulaymān b. Mūsá > Abū al-Dardāʾ

[Machine] "People are knowledgeable and educated, and there is no good in anything after that."  

الدارمي:٢٥٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَسَدٍ أَبُو عَاصِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْثَرٌ عَنْ بُرْدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَى عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ

«النَّاسُ عَالِمٌ وَمُتَعَلِّمٌ وَلَا خَيْرَ فِيمَا بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ»