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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:٤-٢٢٩٤b –

"عن عليٍّ قال: كُونُوا يَنَابِيعَ الْعِلْمِ، مَصَابِيحَ اللَّيْلِ، خُلْقُ الثِّيَابِ، جُدُدُ القُلُوبِ، تُعْرَفُوا بِهِ فِي السَّمَاءِ، وَتُذْكَرُوا بِهِ فِي الأَرْضِ".  

[حل] أبى نعيم في الحلية وابن النجار

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Collected by Dārimī
darimi:262 –

[Machine] "Be the springs of knowledge, the lamps of guidance, the abodes of houses, the lanterns of the night, the renewers of hearts, the creators of garments. You are known to the people of the heavens and hidden to the people of the earth."  

الدارمي:٢٦٢ – وَبِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ قَالَ

«كُونُوا يَنَابِيعَ الْعِلْمِ مَصَابِيحَ الْهُدَى أَحْلَاسَ الْبُيُوتِ سُرُجَ اللَّيْلِ جُدُدَ الْقُلُوبِ خُلْقَانَ الثِّيَابِ تُعْرَفُونَ فِي أَهْلِ السَّمَاءِ وَتَخْفَوْنَ عَلَى أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ»