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English translation
2685. Abū Umāmah Al-Bāhilī narrated: "Two men were mentioned before the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ. One of them a worshipper, and the other a scholar. So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'The superiority of the scholar over the worshipper is like my superiority over the least of you.' Then the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'Indeed Allāh, His Angels, the inhabitants of the heavens and the earths – even the ant in his hole, even the fish – say Salāt upon the one who teaches the people to do good.'" (Hasan)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Gharīb Ṣaḥīḥ. [He said:] I heard Abū 'Ammār Al-Ḥusain bin Ḥuraith Al-Khuzā'i saying: "I heard Al-Fudail bin 'Iyād saying:
‘The scholar who works in teaching is regarded a great man in the domain of the heavens.’”
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[1] See Aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah no. 278 where it was graded Ṣaḥīḥ.
Commentary
It is proven from these Aḥādīth that the knowledge of which the virtues and merits are mentioned in the Aḥādīth is the knowledge of the Book, the Sunnah and Islam.
