Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37032 — Reports from our Prophet

Al-Aswad said: Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If the people of knowledge were to safeguard their knowledge and spread it only among those worthy of it, they would through it rule over the people of their time. But they squandered that knowledge among the people of the world, so as to obtain through it their worldly goods (wealth, riches and benefits) from them. So they became disgraced among the people of the world. I heard your Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: Whoever adopts, out of all his concerns, a single one (concern for the religion), Allah Almighty will suffice him in the matter of his Hereafter. And whoever is (entangled and) scattered (into various desires and hopes) by (worldly) concerns and the conditions of the world, Allah Almighty will not care into which valley (of calamities and misguidance) he falls.