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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
tabarani:10969 – [Chain 1] Yaḥyá b. ʿUthmān b. Ṣāliḥ > Abū Ṣāliḥ ʿAbdullāh b. Ṣāliḥ [Chain 2] ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Muʿallá b. Mahdī al-Mawṣilī > Sawwār b. Muṣʿab > Layth > Ṭāwus ؓ

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The superiority of knowledge is greater than worship, and the angels of religion are piety."  

الطبراني:١٠٩٦٩ – حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ ثنا أَبُو صَالِحٍ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا مُعَلَّى بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ الْمَوْصِلِيُّ قَالَا ثنا سَوَّارُ بْنُ مُصْعَبٍ عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنْ طَاوُسٍ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «فَضْلُ الْعِلْمِ أَفْضَلُ مِنَ الْعِبَادَةِ وَمِلَاكُ الدِّينِ الْوَرَعُ»  

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hakim:317 – Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ > al-Haytham b. Khalaf al-Dūrī > ʿAbbād b. Yaʿqūb > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Quddūs > al-Aʿmash > Muṭarrif b. al-Shikhhīr > Ḥudhayfah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The superiority of knowledge is better than the superiority of worship, and the best of your religion is piety."  

الحاكم:٣١٧ – حَدَّثَنَاهُ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحَافِظُ ثنا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ خَلَفٍ الدُّورِيُّ ثنا عَبَّادُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْقُدُّوسِ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ مُطَرِّفِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «فَضْلُ الْعِلْمِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ فَضْلِ الْعِبَادَةِ وَخَيْرُ دِينِكُمُ الْوَرَعُ»  

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السيوطي:١٥٩٢٤a –

"فَضْلُ الْعَلْمِ أَفْضلُ مِنْ فَضْلِ الْعِبَادَةِ، وَخَيرُ دِينِكُم الْوَرعُ".  

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