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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:٢-١٥٤٣b –

"عن عمر قال: كونُوا أَوْعِيةَ الكتابِ وينابيَع العلمِ، وعُدُّوا أنْفُسَكم مع الموَتْى، وأسلِموا للَّه رزْقَ يومٍ بيومٍ، ولا يَضُرّكُمْ أن لا يكثُر لكم".  

سفيان بن عيينة في جامعه، [حم] أحمد فيه، [حل] أبى نعيم في الحلية

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ahmad-zuhd:632 – ʿAbdullāh > Bī > Sufyān > Ibn Abū Khuld

[Machine] Umar, may Allah have mercy on him, said: "Be vessels of the book and sources of knowledge, and ask Allah for sustenance day by day, and it will not harm you if He reduces it for you."  

الزهد لأحمد:٦٣٢ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أبِي حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي خُلْدٍ قَالَ

قَالَ عُمَرُ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ «كُونُوا أَوْعِيَةَ الْكِتَابِ وَيَنَابِيعَ الْعِلْمِ وَسَلُوا اللَّهَ رِزْقَ يَوْمٍ بِيَوْمٍ وَلَا يَضُرُّكُمْ أَنْ لَا يُكْثِرَ لَكُمْ»