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.
Summary of Meaning
The Prophet (peace be upon him) encourages Muslims to memorize hadiths and narrate them to people. He prays for whoever does this, because the Muslim community is always in need of knowing what God makes lawful or unlawful. It may be that a person who listens to a hadith but does not understand its purport will report it to someone who will understand its meaning and what it entails, thereafter teaching it to people.
