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A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Ismail Bin Mihran, from Abu Saeed Al Qammat and Salih Bin Saeed, from Aban Bin Taghlub, from: Abu Ja’far -asws was asked a question, and he -asws answered with regards to it. So the man said, ‘The jurists are not saying this!’ So he -asws said: ‘O woe be unto you!

And have you ever seen a jurist at all?’ A jurist who is rightfully a jurist is the one ascetic in the world, the desirous regarding the Hereafter, the one attached with the Sunnah of the Prophet -saww ’ (Ahadith).

[9] محمد بن محمد بن النعمان المفيد في ( الاختصاص ) عن جعفر بن محمد بن قولويه ، عن الحسين بن محمد بن عامر ، عن معلى ابن محمد ، عن محمد بن جمهور ، عن عبد الرحمن بن أبي نجران ، عن بعض أصحابه ، رفعه إلى أبي عبدالله (عليه السلام ) ، قال : من حفظ من أحاديثنا أربعين حديثاً ، بعثه الله يوم القيامة فقيها عالما .

Muhammad Bin Muhammad Al Numan Al Mufeed in ‘Al Ikhtisaas’ from Jafar Bin Muhammad Bin Qulawayh, from Al Husain Bin Muhammad Bin Aamir, from Ma’aly Ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Jamhour, from Abdul Rahmaan Bin Abu Najraan, from a companions of his, with a chain up to Abu Abd Allah -asws : Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘One who memorises from our -asws Ahadith, forty Ahadith, Allah -azwj will Send him on the Day of Judgement as ‘فقيها عالما’ a Faqeeh, a knowledgeable one’.

[10] وبهذا الاسناد قال : قال رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) : من حفظ من امتي أربعين حديثا ، ينتفعون بها، بعثه الله يوم القيامة فقيها عالما . And by the above chain: ‘The Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘One who from my -saww community memorises forty Ahadith, benefits the people by them (Ahadith), Allah -azwj will Send him on the Day of Judgement as a Faqeeh, a knowledgeable one’.