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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 Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:18006a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١٨٠٠٦a –

"لَوْ يَعْلَمُ صَاحِبُ المَسألَةِ مَا لهُ فِيها لَمْ يَسْألْ".

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير [ض] ضياء المقدسي في مختاره عن ابن عباس

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tabarani:12616 – Aḥmad b. Dāwud al-Makkī > Ḥarmalah b. Yaḥyá > Ibn Wahb > Jarīr b. Ḥāzim > Qābūs b. Abū Ẓabyān from his father > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "If the questioner knew what he has in it, he wouldn't ask."

الطبراني:١٢٦١٦ – حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْمَكِّيُّ ثنا حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى ثنا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ ثنا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ عَنْ قَابُوسَ بْنِ أَبِي ظَبْيَانَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَوْ يَعْلَمُ صَاحِبُ الْمَسْأَلَةِ مَا لَهُ فِيهَا لَمْ يَسْأَلْ»