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tabarani:8591Abū Khalīfah al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥubāb > Muḥammad b. Kathīr > Shuʿbah > Abū Isḥāq > Zayd b. Wahb > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "People will always be in goodness as long as knowledge comes to them from their elders and those who came before them. But when it comes to them from their juniors, they will be destroyed." This is narrated by Shu'bah from Abu Ishaq from Zaid ibn Wahb, and it was also followed by Zaid ibn Hibban.  

الطبراني:٨٥٩١حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَلِيفَةَ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

«لَنْ يَزَالَ النَّاسُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا أَتَاهُمُ الْعِلْمُ مِنْ قِبَلِ أَكَابِرِهِمْ وَذَوِي أَسْلَافِهِمْ فَإِذَا أَتَاهُمْ مِنْ قِبَلِ أَصَاغِرِهِمْ هَلَكُوا» هَكَذَا رَوَاهُ شُعْبَةُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ وَتَابَعَهُ زَيْدُ بْنُ حِبَّانَ  


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tabarani:8592Muḥammad b. al-Sarī b. Mihrān al-Nāqid > al-Ḥakam b. Mūsá > Maʿmar b. Sulaymān > Zayd b. Ḥabbān > Abū Isḥāq > Zayd b. Wahb > Ibn Masʿūd

[Machine] "People will continue to be in goodness as long as knowledge comes to them from the companions of Muhammad ﷺ and their elders. But when knowledge comes to them from their young ones, they will be ruined."  

الطبراني:٨٥٩٢حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ النَّاقِدُ ثنا الْحَكَمُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا مَعْمَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ حَبَّانَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

«لَا يَزَالُ النَّاسُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا أَتَاهُمُ الْعِلْمُ مِنْ قِبَلِ أَصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ وَأَكَابِرِهِمْ فَإِذَا أَتَاهُمْ مِنْ قِبَلِ أَصَاغِرِهِمْ هَلَكُوا»