عن زيدِ بنِ ثابتٍ، قال: سمعتُ رسولَ الله ﷺ يقول: «نضَّر اللهُ امرأً سَمِعَ منَّا حديثًا، فحفِظَه حتى يُبلِّغَه؛ فرُبَّ حاملِ فِقهٍ إلى مَن هو أفقهُ منه،ورُبَّ حاملِ فِقهٍ ليس بفقيهٍ».
110 - Retaining and transmitting the Prophet’s hadiths
Zayd ibn Thābit narrated, saying: I heard God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) say:
1. May God grant comeliness to a person who might have heard a hadith from us, and he retained it in memory until he delivered it.
2. It may happen that someone carries real knowledge to one who is a better scholar.
3. And it may happen that someone carries real knowledge, but he himself is not a scholar.
Related Quranic Verses
Let there become of you a nation who invite to all that is good, enjoin the doing of what is right and forbid what is wrong. Such are they who shall prosper.
(3: 104)
If any matter pertaining to peace or war comes to their knowledge, they make it known to all and sundry; whereas, if they would only refer it to the Messenger and to those from among them entrusted with authority, those of them who are engaged in obtaining intelligence would know it.
(4: 83)
Messenger, proclaim what has been revealed to you by your Lord. For, unless you do it fully, you will not have delivered His message.
(5: 67)
Those are the ones who convey God’s messages and stand in awe of Him, and hold none but God in awe. Sufficient is God to reckon all things.
(33: 39)
He does not speak out of his own fancy. (3) That [which he delivers to you] is nothing less than a revelation sent down to him,
(53: 3-4)
