أَخْبَرَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ ، أَخْبَرَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ حُبَابٍ ، أَخْبَرَنِي رَجَاءُ بْنُ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنِي خَالِدُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ الْقُرَشِيِّ ، قَالَ : كُنْتُ مَعَ ابْنِ مُحَيْرِيزٍ، بِمَرْجِ الدِّيبَاجِ فَرَأَيْتُ مِنْهُ خَلْوَةً، فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ مَسْأَلَةٍ، فَقَالَ لِي : مَا تَصْنَعُ بِالْمَسَائِلِ؟، قُلْتُ : " لَوْلَا الْمَسَائِلُ، لَذَهَبَ الْعِلْمُ، قَالَ :" لَا تَقُلْ ذَهَبَ الْعِلْمُ، إِنَّهُ لَا يَذْهَبُ الْعِلْمُ مَا قُرِئَ الْقُرْآنُ، وَلَكِنْ لَوْ قُلْتَ : يَذْهَبُ الْفِقْهُ "

Al-Abbas bin Sufyan told us, Zaid bin Hubab told us, Raja bin Abi Salamah told me, he said: Khaled bin Hazim told me, on the authority of Hisham bin Muslim Al-Qurashi said: I was with Ibn Muhayriz in Marj Al-Debaj, and I saw him alone, so I asked him about a matter, and he said to me: What? What do you do with questions? I said: “If it were not for the questions, knowledge would have disappeared.” He said: “Do not say, ‘Knowledge has gone,’ for knowledge does not disappear as long as it is read.” The Qur’an, but if you say: jurisprudence goes away.”