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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:19855a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١٩٨٥٥a –

"مثَلُ الَّذِي يُعَلِّمُ النَّاس الخَيرَ وينْسَى نَفْسهُ، مثَلُ الفَتيلَةِ تُضِئُ للنَّاسِ وتَحْرقُ نَفْسَهَا".

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suyuti:19836a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١٩٨٣٦a –

"مَثلُ الْعَالِمِ الَّذِي يُعَلِّمُ النَّاسَ الْخَيرَ ويَنْسَى نَفْسَهُ، كَمَثَلِ السِّرَاجِ يُضِئُ للنَّاس، وَيَحْرقُ نَفْسَهُ".

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير وسمويه، [ض] ضياء المقدسي في مختاره عن جندب بن عبد الله