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tabarani:18459 – [Chain 1] Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Najdah al-Ḥawṭī > Yaḥyá b. Ṣāliḥ al-Wuḥāẓī [Chain 2] Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Ḥamzah al-Dimashqī > Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm Abū al-Naḍr > Rabīʿah b. Yazīd al-Raḥabī > Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Whoever seeks knowledge and attains it, Allah will write for him two rewards. And whoever seeks knowledge and does not attain it, Allah will write for him a reward."

الطبراني:١٨٤٥٩ – حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ بْنِ نَجْدَةَ الْحَوْطِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ صَالِحٍ الْوُحَاظِيُّ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَمْزَةَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ ثنا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَبُو النَّضْرِ قَالَا ثنا رَبِيعَةُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الرَّحَبِيُّ عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «مَنْ طَلَبَ عِلْمًا فَأَدْرَكَهُ كَتَبَ اللهُ لَهُ كِفْلَيْنِ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ وَمَنْ طَلَبَ عِلْمًا فَلَمْ يُدْرِكْهُ كَتَبَ اللهُ كِفْلًا مِنَ الْأَجْرِ»

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darimi:347 – Marwān b. Muḥammad > Yazīd b. Rabīʿah al-Ṣanʿānī > Rabīʿah b. Yazīd > Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Whoever seeks knowledge and attains it, will have a specific portion of reward. And if he does not attain it, he will have a portion of reward."

الدارمي:٣٤٧ – أَخْبَرَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ رَبِيعَةَ الصَّنْعَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا رَبِيعَةُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ وَاثِلَةَ بْنَ الْأَسْقَعِ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «مَنْ طَلَبَ الْعِلْمَ فَأَدْرَكَهُ كَانَ لَهُ كِفْلَانِ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يُدْرِكْهُ كَانَ لَهُ كِفْلٌ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ»

bayhaqi:20369 – Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Dāwud al-ʿAlawī ؒ > Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Dallūwayh al-Daqqāq > Abū al-Azhar al-Salīṭī > Marwān b. Muḥammad > Yazīd b. Rabīʿah > Rabīʿah b. Yazīd > Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Whoever seeks knowledge and obtains it, he will have such and such reward. And if he does not obtain it, he will have such and such reward."

البيهقي:٢٠٣٦٩ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ دَاوُدَ الْعَلَوِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ دَلُّوَيْهِ الدَّقَّاقُ ثنا أَبُو الْأَزْهَرِ السَّلِيطِيُّ ثنا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ثنا يَزِيدُ بْنُ رَبِيعَةَ حَدَّثَنِي رَبِيعَةُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ وَاثِلَةَ بْنَ الْأَسْقَعِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَنْ طَلَبَ عِلْمًا فَأَدْرَكَهُ كَانَ لَهُ كِفْلَانِ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يُدْرِكْهُ كَانَ لَهُ كِفْلٌ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ

suyuti:22217a –
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السيوطي:٢٢٢١٧a –

"مَنْ طَلَبَ عِلْمًا فَأَدْرَكَهُ كُتِبَ لَهُ كِفْلانِ مِنَ الأَجْرِ، وَمَنْ طَلَبَ عِلْمًا فَلَمْ يُدْرِكْهُ، كُتِبَ لَهُ كِفْلٌ مِنَ الأَجْرِ".

[ع] أبو يعلى والحاكم في الكنى، [طب] الطبرانى في الكبير [ت] الترمذي وتمام، وابن عساكر عن واثلة