صحیح ابن حبان
Ibn Hibban
كتاب التاريخBook of History
باب إخباره صلى الله عليه وسلم عما يكون في أمته من الفتن والحوادث - ذكر البيان بأن قوله صلى الله عليه وسلم حتى يقبض العلم أراد به ذهاب من يحسن علمه صلى الله عليه وسلم لا أن علمه يرفع قبل قيام الساعة-
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Hadith 6719
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو يَعْلَى مِنْ كِتَابِهِ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ الزَّهْرَانِيُّ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " إِِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ انْتِزَاعًا مِنَ النَّاسِ ، وَلَكِنْ يَقْبِضُ الْعُلَمَاءَ بِعِلْمِهِمْ ، حَتَّى إِِذَا لَمْ يَبْقَ عَالِمٌ اتَّخَذَ النَّاسُ رُؤَسَاءَ جُهَّالا ، فَسُئِلُوا ، فَأَفْتَوْا بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ ، فَضَلُّوا وَأَضَلُّوا " .
Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik Ashja'i (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) looked towards the sky and said: "This is the time when knowledge will be taken away." A man from the Ansar, whose name was Labeed bin Ziyad, said to him: "O Messenger of Allah! Will knowledge be taken away even though it has been established and minds have preserved it?" The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "I used to think that you were the most intelligent person among the people of Madinah." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) mentioned that the Jews and Christians had the Book of Allah (yet they still went astray).
The narrator says: Then I met Sayyiduna Shaddad bin Aws (may Allah be pleased with him), so I narrated to him the hadith transmitted by Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him). He said: "Sayyiduna Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) has spoken the truth. Shall I guide you to the thing which will be the first to be taken away from knowledge? The first thing to be taken away will be humility and submissiveness (khushu' and khudu'), and then you will not find a single person who possesses humility and submissiveness."
The narrator says: Then I met Sayyiduna Shaddad bin Aws (may Allah be pleased with him), so I narrated to him the hadith transmitted by Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him). He said: "Sayyiduna Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) has spoken the truth. Shall I guide you to the thing which will be the first to be taken away from knowledge? The first thing to be taken away will be humility and submissiveness (khushu' and khudu'), and then you will not find a single person who possesses humility and submissiveness."
