Hadith Packages Knowledge

رسول الله (صلی الله علیه و آله):

أعلَمُ النّاسِ مَن جَمَعَ عِلمَ النّاسِ إلى عِلمِهِ.

The Prophet Muhammad (S):

The most knowledgeable of people is he who adds other peoples knowledge to his own.

Source: Kanz al-favaed No299 Sheikh Ṣadūq Vol al-Amālī P

ID: 2181

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رسول الله (صلی الله علیه و آله):

الخضرُ عليه السلام لِموسى عليه السلام: یا موسى، تَفَرَّغْ لِلعِلمِ إن كُنتَ تُريدُهُ، فإنَّ العِلمَ لِمَن تَفَرَّغَ.

The Prophet Muhammad (S):

al-Khidr (as) said to Prophet Moses (as), O Moses, devote yourself exclusively to knowledge if you want it, for verily knowledge is for the one who devotes himself exclusively to it.

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

إنَّ العِلمَ حَياةُ القُلوبِ، و نورُ الأبصارِ مِنَ العَمى، و قُوَّةُ الأبدانِ مِنَ الضَّعفِ.

Imam Ali (as):

Verily knowledge is the life of the hearts, the light of the eyes from blindness and the strength of the bodies against weakness.

Source: Sheikh Ṣadūq Vol al-Amālī P Sheikh Ṣadūq Vol al-Khiṣāl P2

ID: 2147

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

كُلُّ وِعاءٍ يَضيقُ بِما جُعِلَ فيهِ إلّا وِعاءَ العِلمِ؛ فإنَّهُ يَتَّسِعُ بِهِ.

Imam Ali (as):

Every container becomes cramped by what is placed therein, except the container that holds knowledge, for verily it expands because of it.

Source: Nahj al-Balāgha No205

ID: 2145

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رسول الله (صلی الله علیه و آله):

مَن تَعَلَّمَ في شَبابِهِ كانَ بِمَنزِلَهِ الرَّسمِ في الحَجَرِ، و مَن تَعَلَّمَ و هُو كبيرٌ كانَ بمَنزِلَةِ الكِتابِ على وَجهِ الماءِ.

The Prophet Muhammad (S):

Learning something during one's youth is like engraving in stone, and learning something when one is old is like writing on the surface of water.

Source: Bahar alanevar Vol۱ P۲۲۲ al-Nawādir No۱۸

ID: 1628

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رسول الله (صلی الله علیه و آله):

حُسنُ السؤالِ نِصفُ العِلمِ.

The Prophet Muhammad (S):

Productive questioning is half of knowledge.

Source: Kanz al-favaed Vol2 P189

ID: 1392

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رسول الله (صلی الله علیه و آله):

العِلمُ خَزائنُ و مَفاتِيحُهُ السُّؤالُ، فَاسألُوا رَحِمَكُمُ اللّهُ فإنّهُ تُؤجَرُ أربَعةٌ: السائلُ، و المُتَكلِّمُ، و المُستَمِعُ، و المُحِبُّ لَهُم.

The Prophet Muhammad (S):

Knowledge is a treasury, the key to which is the question, so ask questions and Allah will have mercy on you for verily four people are rewarded [for that question]: the questioner, the speaker, the listener, and the one that admires them.

Source: Tuḥaf al-‘Uqūl No41

ID: 1390

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الإمام جعفر الصادق (عليه السَّلام ):

إنَّ لِكُلِّ شَي ءٍ زكاةً، و زكاهُ العِلمِ أن يُعَلِّمَهُ أهلَهُ.

Imam Ja‘far al-Ṣadiq (as):

Verily upon everything is its zakat, and the zakat of knowledge is to teach it to those who are worthy of it.

Source: Tuḥaf al-‘Uqūl No364

ID: 983

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

إنّ لِلجِسمِ سِتَّةَ أحوالٍ: الصِّحّةُ، و المَرضُ، و المَوتُ، و الحَياةُ، و النَّومُ، و اليَقَظَةُ، و كذلكَ الرُّوحُ، فحياتُها عِلمُها، و مَوتُها جَهلُها، و مَرَضُها شَكُّها، و صِحَّتُها يَقِينُها، و نَومُها غَفلَتُها، و يَقَظَتُها حِفظُها.

Imam Ali (as):

The body experiences six different states: health, sickness, death, life, sleep and wakefulness, and so does the spirit. Its life is its knowledge and its death ignorance; its sickness is doubt whereas its health is certainty; its sleep is its negligence and its wakefulness is its consciousness.

Source: Sheikh Ṣadūq Vol al-Towḥīd P

ID: 966

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