Sunan ad-Darimi

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Discuss hadith, for one hadith reminds of another hadith.

The above-mentioned narration of Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id Khudri رضي الله عنه through another chain of transmission.

Abu Nadrah reports that Sayyiduna Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Discuss hadith, for one hadith reminds you of another hadith.

Abu Nadrah narrates from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him), and there is more speech in this regard.

Abu Salamah narrates from Abu Nadrah, who reports the same statement from Sayyiduna Abu Sa‘id (may Allah be pleased with him), and in it there is more discussion than that.

It is narrated from Amr bin Muslim that Imam Tawus, may Allah have mercy on him, said to me: Take us to the people, we will sit with them (i.e., for the discussion of hadith).

It is narrated from Saeed bin Jubair (may Allah have mercy on him) that Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Repeat the hadith so that you do not forget, because hadith is not compiled and preserved like the Qur'an. If you do not review it, you will forget it. Also, none of you should say, "I narrated the hadith yesterday, so I will not narrate it today." Rather, even if you narrated the hadith yesterday, narrate it today as well, and narrate it tomorrow too.

It is also narrated from Saeed bin Jubair (may Allah have mercy on him), that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them) said: Repeat and memorize the hadith; if you do not memorize it, you will forget it. And after narrating a hadith, no person should say, "I have narrated it once," because the one who heard the hadith before will have an increase in knowledge, and the one who has not heard it will now hear it.

It is narrated from Yazid bin Abi Ziyad that Abdur Rahman bin Abi Laila said: Engage in discussion; the way to keep the hadith alive is to repeat and discuss it.

It is narrated from Ibrahim that Alqamah said: Discuss the hadith, for remembering it is its life.

It is narrated from Sufyan bin ‘Uyaynah: Ziyad bin Sa’d said: Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri used to narrate hadith to the villagers as well.

A’mash (Sulaiman bin Mehran) said: Ismail bin Raja used to gather the children of scribes and narrate hadith to them, and they would memorize it in this manner.

It is narrated from Abu Abdullah Al-Shaqari that Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Relate your hadith to everyone, whether they desire to listen to it or not, because they will become your source, as if you are reading from the original source."

It is narrated from Ata (ibn Abi Rabah): Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: When you hear a hadith from us, then discuss it among yourselves.

Hashim said: Yunus bin Ubaid informed that we used to go to Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him), and when we would return from him, we would discuss among ourselves.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: When any of you wishes to narrate a hadith, he should repeat that hadith three times.

Abdur Rahman bin Abi Laila said: The way to keep a hadith alive is to discuss it. Abdullah bin Shaddad said to him: May Allah have mercy on you, how many ahadith had disappeared, and you revived them in my heart.

Muhammad bin Fudayl narrated, his father said: Harith bin Yazid Al-Ukli, Ibn Shubruma, and Qaqa’ bin Yazid and Mughira, when they had performed the ‘Isha prayer, would sit for (discussion of) fiqh, and only the call to the morning prayer would separate them.

Malik bin Ismail reported that I heard Shareek say, he narrated from Laith, two among Ata, Tawus, and Mujahid said: There is no harm in staying awake at night for jurisprudential matters.

It is narrated from Laith that Mujahid said: There is no harm in staying awake for a jurisprudential discussion.

It is narrated from Ibn Jurayj that Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: An hour spent studying together is better than worshipping the whole night.

Ata said: We used to go to Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with both of them), and when we would return from him, we would discuss among ourselves. Also, Abu az-Zubair was the most memorizing of hadith among us.

Marwan bin Muhammad reported that I heard from Laith bin Sa'd, he said: Ibn Shihab (Zuhri) was sitting one night after 'Isha making ablution, when he began to recall hadith, then he sat and kept recalling them until morning came. Marwan said: He kept discussing hadith.

It is narrated from Muhammad bin Ishaq, Zuhri said: Whenever I met Ubaidullah bin Utbah, it felt as if I had split the sea.

Uthman bin Abdullah said: Harith Akli and his companions used to sit at night and memorize jurisprudential issues.

It is narrated from Abu Al-Ahwas that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, said: Memorize hadith, for its life is in remembering or discussing it.

It is narrated from Awn bin Abdullah that the students of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) came to him, so he said to them: "Do you hold gatherings?" They replied: "We never abandon it." He asked: "Do you visit one another?" They replied: "Yes, O Abu Abdur Rahman! If any one of us does not see his companion, he goes to the farthest edge of Kufa to see him." Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "As long as you continue to do so, you will remain in goodness."

It is narrated from Imam Awza'i (may Allah have mercy on him), Imam Zuhri (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The calamity of knowledge is forgetfulness and abandoning discussion.

It is narrated from Qasim bin Abdur Rahman Masoodi that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Masood (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The calamity of Hadith is forgetfulness (i.e., to forget it).

It is narrated from Hakim bin Jabir that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Every thing has a calamity, and the calamity of knowledge is forgetfulness.

It is narrated from A’mash that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “The calamity of knowledge is forgetfulness, and its loss is that you teach it to one who is unworthy.”

It is narrated from Abu Hamzah al-Tammar that Hasan al-Basri, may Allah have mercy on him, said: The evil of knowledge is forgetfulness.

It is narrated from Ibn Buraida that Sayyiduna Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, said: Memorize (repeat) this (knowledge of) hadith, visit one another, for if you do not do so, this (knowledge) will disappear.

It is narrated from Sufyan (may Allah have mercy on him), Imam Zuhri (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I used to think that I had completed knowledge, but when I kept the company of Ubaidullah (bin Abdullah bin Mas'ud), I realized that I was only in one of the many valleys or ravines of knowledge (i.e., compared to him, my knowledge was very little).