Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: "O people! Make it binding on yourselves to acquire knowledge before it is taken away, and its being taken away will be through the departure of the people of knowledge. Make it binding on yourselves to acquire knowledge, for no one knows when he will come to need his knowledge. Make it binding on yourselves to acquire knowledge, but beware of hair-splitting and delving too deep, and make it binding on yourselves to keep to the 'atiq (the old, original way), for soon there will come people who will recite the Book of Allah, but they will cast it behind their backs."
Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, and the narrator named Abu Qilabah did not hear from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب العلم / 526
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