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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
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السيوطي:١٩٨٥٥a –

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

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن أَبي برزة

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suyuti:19836a –
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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