[15] The Valuable knowledge...
[15] The Valuable knowledge: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الدِّهْقَانِ عَنْ دُرُسْتَ الْوَاسِطِيِّ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ دَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) الْمَسْجِدَ فَإِذَا جَمَاعَةٌ قَدْ أَطَافُوا بِرَجُلٍ فَقَالَ مَا هَذَا فَقِيلَ عَلَّامَةٌ فَقَالَ وَ مَا الْعَلَّامَةُ فَقَالُوا لَهُ أَعْلَمُ النَّاسِ بِأَنْسَابِ الْعَرَبِ وَ وَقَائِعِهَا وَ أَيَّامِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ وَ الْأَشْعَارِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ Muhammad Bin Al Hassan, and Ali Bin Muhammad, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ubeydullah Bin Abdullah Al Dihqan, from Dorost Al Wasity, from Ibrahim Bin Abdul Hameed, (It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan Musa -asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww entered the Masjid, so there was a group which had encircled a man.
So he -saww said: ‘What is this one?’ So it was said: ‘(He is an) Allama ’. So he -saww said: ‘And what is an Allama ?’ So they said to him -saww , ‘The most knowledgeable of the people with the lineages of the Arabs and their events, and the days of the Ignorance (pre-Islamic period), and the poetry of the Arabs’.
قَالَ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ذَاكَ عِلْمٌ لَا يَضُرُّ مَنْ جَهِلَهُ وَ لَا يَنْفَعُ مَنْ عَلِمَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) إِنَّمَا الْعِلْمُ ثَلَاثَةٌ آيَةٌ مُحْكَمَةٌ أَوْ فَرِيضَةٌ عَادِلَةٌ أَوْ سُنَّةٌ قَائِمَةٌ وَ مَا خَلَاهُنَّ فَهُوَ فَضْلٌ . He -asws said: ‘So the Prophet -saww said: ‘That is a knowledge neither harming the one who is ignorant of it, nor does it benefit the one who knows it’.
Then the Prophet -saww said: ‘But rather, the knowledge is of three (types) – A Decisive Verse, or a just Obligation, or an established Sunnah; and whatever is besides these, so it is ‘فَضْلٌ’ useless’ .
[16] Opinions can never find the Sunnah: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ مُثَنًّى الْحَنَّاطِ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) تَرِدُ عَلَيْنَا أَشْيَاءُ لَيْسَ نَعْرِفُهَا فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ لَا سُنَّةٍ فَنَنْظُرُ فِيهَا فَقَالَ لَا أَمَا إِنَّكَ إِنْ أَصَبْتَ لَمْ تُؤْجَرْ وَ إِنْ أَخْطَأْتَ كَذَبْتَ عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ .
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