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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 Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:11408a –
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السيوطي:١١٤٠٨a –

"الْعِلْم أَفْضَل مِنَ الْعبَادَةِ، وَمِلاكُ الدِّين الوَرعَ ".

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tabarani:10969 – [Chain 1] Yaḥyá b. ʿUthmān b. Ṣāliḥ > Abū Ṣāliḥ ʿAbdullāh b. Ṣāliḥ [Chain 2] ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Muʿallá b. Mahdī al-Mawṣilī > Sawwār b. Muṣʿab > Layth > Ṭāwus ؓ

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The superiority of knowledge is greater than worship, and the angels of religion are piety."

الطبراني:١٠٩٦٩ – حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ ثنا أَبُو صَالِحٍ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا مُعَلَّى بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ الْمَوْصِلِيُّ قَالَا ثنا سَوَّارُ بْنُ مُصْعَبٍ عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنْ طَاوُسٍ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «فَضْلُ الْعِلْمِ أَفْضَلُ مِنَ الْعِبَادَةِ وَمِلَاكُ الدِّينِ الْوَرَعُ»