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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:430-431b – Ibn Masʿūd
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٤٣٠-٤٣١b –

"عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: كَفَى بِخَشْيَةِ اللهِ عِلْمًا وَكَفَى بِالاغْتِرَارِ بِاللهِ جَهْلًا".

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tabarani:8927 – ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Abū Nuʿaym > al-Masʿūdī > al-Qāsim

[Machine] Abdullah: "Fear of God is enough knowledge, and overconfidence in God is enough ignorance."

الطبراني:٨٩٢٧ – حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ ثنا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ قَالَ

عَبْدُ اللهِ «كَفَى بِخَشْيَةِ اللهِ عِلْمًا وَكَفَى بِاغْتِرَارٍ بِاللهِ جَهْلًا»

ahmad-zuhd:864 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > Yazīd > al-Masʿūdī > al-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman

[Machine] Abdullah said: Sufficient is the fear of Allah as knowledge, and sufficient is arrogance as ignorance.

الزهد لأحمد:٨٦٤ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ

قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ كَفَى بِخَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ عِلْمًا وَكَفَى بِالِاغْتِرَارِ جَهْلًا