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Sahih Muslim
كتاب العلم
The Book of Knowledge
" إِنَّ اللَّهَ لاَ يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ انْتِزَاعًا يَنْتَزِعُهُ مِنَ النَّاسِ وَلَكِنْ يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ بِقَبْضِ الْعُلَمَاءِ حَتَّى إِذَا لَمْ يَتْرُكْ عَالِمًا اتَّخَذَ النَّاسُ رُءُوسًا جُهَّالاً فَسُئِلُوا فَأَفْتَوْا بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ فَضَلُّوا وَأَضَلُّوا "
Verily, Allah does not take away knowledge by snatching it from the people but He takes away knowledge by taking away the scholars, so that when He leaves no learned person, people turn to the ignorant as their leaders; then they are asked to deliver religious verdicts and they deliver them without knowledge, they go astray, and lead others astray.
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- Hadith 157h
" Miserliness would be put (in the hearts of the people)."
- Hadith 2673b
, I met 'Abdullah b. 'Amr at the end of the year and I asked him about it, and he narrated to us the hadith as he had narrated before that he had heard Allah's…
- Hadith 157g
The time would draw close to the Last Hour and knowledge would decrease. The rest of the hadith is the same.
- Hadith 2673c
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah b. Amr b. al-'As through another chain of transmitters.
- Hadith 157f
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira with a slight variation of wording.
- Hadith 2673d
This news has reached me that 'Abdullah b. 'Amr al-'As would pass by us during the Hajj season, so you meet him and ask him (about religious matters) as he has…