أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ ، حَدَّثَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ ، عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ ، عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ ، قَالَ : كَانَ مَنْ مَضَى مِنْ عُلَمَائِنَا يَقُولُونَ :" الِاعْتِصَامُ بِالسُّنَّةِ نَجَاةٌ، وَالْعِلْمُ يُقْبَضُ قَبْضًا سَرِيعًا، فَنَعْشُ الْعِلْمِ ثَبَاتُ الدِّينِ وَالدُّنْيَا، وَفِي ذَهَابِ الْعِلْمِ ذَهَابُ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ "

Abu Al-Mughirah told us, Al-Awza’i told us, on the authority of Yunus bin Yazid, on the authority of Al-Zuhri, he said: Our past scholars used to say: Holding fast to the Sunnah is salvation, and knowledge is quickly seized, for the life of knowledge is the stability of religion and the world, and in the disappearance of knowledge is the disappearance of that. "Eat it"