سنن دارمي
Sunan ad-Darimi
مقدمهIntroduction
باب اتِّبَاعِ السُّنَّةِ:Chapter: Following the Sunnah
Hadith 97
أَخْبَرَنَا أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ، حَدَّثَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ، قَالَ: كَانَ مَنْ مَضَى مِنْ عُلَمَائِنَا يَقُولُونَ: "الِاعْتِصَامُ بِالسُّنَّةِ نَجَاةٌ، وَالْعِلْمُ يُقْبَضُ قَبْضًا سَرِيعًا، فَنَعْشُ الْعِلْمِ ثَبَاتُ الدِّينِ وَالدُّنْيَا، وَفِي ذَهَابِ الْعِلْمِ ذَهَابُ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ".
Imam Zuhri, may Allah have mercy on him, said: Our predecessors used to say that following the Sunnah is a means of salvation, and knowledge will rapidly diminish. The survival of knowledge is the survival of religion and the world, and with the disappearance of knowledge, everything will disappear.
