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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
hakim:5809 – Muḥammad b. al-Muʾammal b. al-Ḥasan > al-Faḍl b. Muḥammad > Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > ʿAlī b. Zayd b. Judʿān > Ibn ʿAbbās Lammā Dufin Zayd b. Thābit Ḥathā ʿAlayh al-Turāb Thum

[Machine] "This is how knowledge is buried."  

الحاكم:٥٨٠٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُؤَمَّلِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ ثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ ثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ جُدْعَانَ أَنَّ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ لَمَّا دُفِنَ زَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ حَثَا عَلَيْهِ التُّرَابِ ثُمَّ قَالَ

«هَكَذَا يُدْفَنُ الْعِلْمُ»  

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hakim:5807 – Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm > al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād > Abū Hammām > Ḍamrah > Qāl Ibn Shawdhab And Samiʿtuh Yadhkur

[Machine] "And he said, 'This is how knowledge disappears.'"  

الحاكم:٥٨٠٧ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْفَضْلِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ ثَنَا أَبُو هَمَّامٍ ثَنَا ضَمْرَةُ قَالَ قَالَ ابْنُ شَوْذَبٍ وَسَمِعْتُهُ يَذْكُرُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الصَّلْتَ بْنَ بَهْرَامَ وَنَحْنُ فِي جِنَازَةٍ فَقَالَ حَدَّثَنِي صَاحِبُ السَّرِيرِ أَنَّهُ شَهِدَ جِنَازَةَ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ فَلَمَّا دُفِنَ دَمَّعَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ عَلَى قَبْرِهِ

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