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Sunan Ibn Majah 4048

“The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) mentioned something and said: ‘That will be at the time when knowledge (of Qur’an) disappears.’ I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, how will knowledge disappear…

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ لَبِيدٍ

قَالَ ذَكَرَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ شَيْئًا فَقَالَ: «ذَاكَ عِنْدَ أَوَانِ ذَهَابِ الْعِلْمِ». قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَكَيْفَ يَذْهَبُ الْعِلْمُ وَنَحْنُ نَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ وَنُقْرِئُهُ أَبْنَاءَنَا وَيُقْرِئُهُ أَبْنَاؤُنَا أَبْنَاءَهُمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ قَالَ: «ثَكِلَتْكَ أُمُّكَ زِيَادُ إِنْ كُنْتُ لأَرَاكَ مِنْ أَفْقَهِ رَجُلٍ بِالْمَدِينَةِ أَوَلَيْسَ هَذِهِ الْيَهُودُ وَالنَّصَارَى يَقْرَءُونَ التَّوْرَاةَ وَالإِنْجِيلَ لَا يَعْمَلُونَ بِشَىْءٍ مِمَّا فِيهِمَا»

“The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) mentioned something and said: ‘That will be at the time when knowledge (of Qur’an) disappears.’ I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, how will knowledge disappear when we read the Qur’an and teach it to our children, until the Day of Resurrection?’

He said: ‘May your mother be bereft of you, Ziyad! I thought that you were the wisest man in Al- Madinah. Is it not the case that these Jews and Christians read the Tawrah and the Injil, but they do not act upon anything of what is in them?’”

যিয়াদ ইবনে লাবীদ (রাঃ) থেকে বর্ণিত। তিনি বলেন, নবী সাল্লাল্লাহু আলাইহি ওয়াসাল্লাম একটি বিষয় উল্লেখ করে বললেনঃ এটা এলেম বিলুপ্ত হয়ে যাওয়ার সময়ের কথা। আমি বললাম, হে আল্লাহর রাসূল! এলেম কিভাবে বিলুপ্ত হবে? অথচ আমরা কুরআন পড়ি, আমাদের সন্তানদের তা পড়াই এবং আমাদের সন্তানরাও তাদের সন্তানদের কিয়ামত পর্যন্ত তা শিক্ষা দিবে।

তিনি বলেনঃ হে যিয়াদ! তোমার মা তোমার জন্য বিলাপ করুক! আমি তোমাকে মদীনার শ্রেষ্ঠ বুদ্ধিমান ব্যক্তি মনে করতাম। এই যে ইহূদী ও খৃস্টানরা কি তাওরাত ইনজীল পড়ে না? কিন্তু তারা তো এই দু’টি কিতাবে যা আছে তদনুযায়ী কাজ করে না।

زیاد بن لبید رضی اللہ عنہ کہتے ہیں کہ نبی اکرم صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے کسی بات کا ذکر کیا اور فرمایا: یہ اس وقت ہو گا جب علم اٹھ جائے گا ، میں نے عرض کیا: اللہ کے رسول! علم کیسے اٹھ جائے گا جب کہ ہم قرآن پڑھتے اور اپنی اولاد کو پڑھاتے ہیں اور ہماری اولاد اپنی اولاد کو پڑھائے گی اسی طرح قیامت تک سلسلہ چلتا رہے گا؟

آپ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا: زیاد! تمہاری ماں تم پر روئے، میں تو تمہیں مدینہ کا سب سے سمجھدار آدمی سمجھتا تھا، کیا یہ یہود و نصاریٰ تورات اور انجیل نہیں پڑھتے؟ لیکن ان میں سے کسی بات پر بھی یہ لوگ عمل نہیں کرتے ۱؎۔

Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Abu Bakar bin Abu Syaibah] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Waki'] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Al A'masy] dari [Salim bin Abu Al Ja'd] dari [Ziyad bin Labid] dia berkata, "Nabi shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam pernah menyebutkan sesuatu, lalu beliau bersabda: "Dan itulah saat hilangnya ilmu."

Aku bertanya, "Wahai Rasulullah, bagaimana ilmu bisa hilang? Sedangkan kami masih membaca Al Qur'an dan kami juga membacakannya (mengajarkannya) kepada anak-anak kami, dan anak-anak kami juga akan membacakannya kepada keturunannya sampai hari kiamat datang."

Beliau bersabda: "Kebangetan kamu ini wahai Ziyad, padahal aku melihatmu adalah orang yang paling memahami agama di Madinah ini! Bukankah orang-orang Yahudi dan Nashrani juga membaca Taurat dan Injil, namun mereka tidak mengamalkan sedikitpun apa yang terkandung di dalamnya

Ziyad bin Lebid (r.a.)'den; şöyle demigtir: Nebi (Sallallahu Aleyhi ve Sellem) bir şey anlatarak: Bu, ilmin gitmesi (yok olması) zamanında olur, buyurdu. Ben: Ya Resulallah! Kur'an'i okuduğumuz, evladımıza onu okuttuğumuz ve evladımız da kıyamete kadar kendi evladına onu okutacağı halde ilim nasıl gider (yok olur)? dedim. Resul-i Ekrem (Sallallahu Aleyhi ve Sellem) : Anan seni kaybedesiye Ziyad!

Ben muhakkak seni Medine'de fıkhı en iyi bilen adamlardan görürdüm. şu yahudiler ve hristiyanlar Tevrat ve incil'i okuyup da bu iki kitapta bulunan hükümlerden hiç bir şeyle amel etmez değiller mi?

buyurdu. Not: Zevaid'de şöyle denilmiştir: Bunun senedi sahlh olup ravilerl güvenillr zatlardır. Fakat sened munkatidir (yanl raviler zinciri kopuktur). Çünkü Buhari, et-Tarihu's-Sağir'de: Ravi Salim bin Ebil-Ca'd, Ziyad bin Lebld'den hadls işitmemiş, demiştir. Zehebl de eI-Kaşifte bu hususta Buharl'ye uyarak: İbn-l Maceh yanında bu hadlsinden başka Ziyad'ın başka hadlsi yoktur. Kalan Kütüb-I Sitte'de Ziyad'ın hiç bir hadlsi yoktur, demiştir

Sunan Ibn Majah 4048, Book 36, Tribulations, Hadith 123. 1 min read

What it means

As the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was sitting among his Companions, he said: This is the time at which knowledge will disappear and be taken away from people. Thereupon, Ziyād ibn Labīd al-Ansāri (may Allah be pleased with him) wondered and asked the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him): How will knowledge be taken away from us and we lose it, whereas we recite and memorize the Qur’an?!

By Allah, we will recite it and make our women and children and our children's children recite it. In response, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said in wonder: May your mother be bereaved of you, O Ziyād! I considered you to be among the knowledgeable people of Madīnah. Then, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) pointed out that knowledge will not be lost by the loss of the Qur’an, but knowledge will be lost by the loss of acting upon it.

A case in point is the Jews and the Christians, who have the Torah and the Gospel, yet they did not derive benefit from them or their objective, namely acting upon what they have learned.

What it teaches

  • Having copies of the Qur’an and books in people's hands is of no avail unless they are acted upon.
  • Knowledge is taken away by several things, including the death of the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him), the death of the scholars, and the failure to act upon the knowledge.
  • One of the portents of the Hour is the disappearance of knowledge and failure to act upon it.
  • The Hadīth urges us to act upon knowledge, for this is the main objective.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Ibn Majah back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Ibn MajahCompiler, died 273 AH
  2. 2Abu Bakr ibn Abi ShaybahTold us, Fourth generation, died 235 AH
  3. 3Waki ibn al-JarrahTold us, Third generation, died 196 AH
  4. 4Sulayman al-AmashTold us, Successor, died 147 AH
  5. 5Salim ibn Abi al-JadFrom, Successor, died 99 AH
  6. 6Ziyad ibn LabidFrom, Companion, died 41 AH

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