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2682. Qais bin Kathīr said: "A man from Al-Madinah came to Abū Ad-Dardā' when he was in Dimashq. So he said: 'What brings you O my nephew?' He replied: 'A Hadīth has reached me which you have narrated from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ.' He said: 'You did not come for some need?' He said: 'No.' He said: 'Did you come for trade?' He said: 'No.' 'I did not come except seeking this Hadīth.' So he said: 'Indeed, I heard the
Messenger of Allāh ﷺ saying: "Whoever takes a path upon which he seeks knowledge, then Allāh makes a path to Paradise easy for him. And indeed the angels lower their wings in approval to the one seeking knowledge, Indeed forgiveness is sought for the knowledgeable one by whomever is in the heavens and whomever is in the earth, even the fish in the waters. And superiority of the scholar over the worshipper is like the superiority of the moon over the rest of the celestial bodies. Indeed the scholars are the heirs of the Prophets, and the Prophets do not leave behind Dīnār or Dirham. The only legacy of the scholars is knowledge, so whoever takes from it, then he has indeed taken the most able share."[1] (Da'if)
[Abū 'Īsā said:] We do not know of this Hadīth except through the narration of 'Āsim bin Rajā' bin Hāiwah, and to me, its chain is not connected. This is how Maḥmūd bin Khidāsh narrated this Hadīth to us. While this Hadīth has only been related from 'Āsim bin Rajā' bin Hāiwah, from Dāwūd bin Jamīl, from Kathīr bin Qais, from Abū Ad-Dardā' from the Prophet ﷺ. This is more correct than the narration of Maḥmūd bin Khidāsh. [Muḥammad bin Ismā'īl saw this as more correct].
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[1] Whatever it contains is also narrated in other authentic Aḥādīth. See Chapter 10 in the Book of Knowledge of Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī, no. 2685 which follows, 2856 Al-Bukhārī, 2643 of At-Tirmīdhī, and this Hadīth - Al-Ḥāfīz said there are chains to strengthen it - in Faṭḥ Al-Bārī, chapter 10 of the Book of Knowledge, and it was graded Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaikh Al-Albānī.
Commentary
Although the light of stars is dim in the presence of the moon light, yet the light of the moon is not its own, it is the reflected light from the sun; similarly the knowledge of the scholars is extracted from the light of Prophethood (i.e. Qur'an and the Sunnah) due to it being radiant and glittering.
