أَخْبَرَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الصَّمَدِ الْعَمِّيُّ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيُّ ، عَنْ هَرِمِ بْنِ حَيَّانَ ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ : "إِيَّاكُمْ وَالْعَالِمَ الْفَاسِقَ، فَبَلَغَ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ، فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ وَأَشْفَقَ مِنْهَا، مَا الْعَالِمُ الْفَاسِقُ؟، قَالَ : فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ هَرِمٌ : يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، وَاللَّهِ مَا أَرَدْتُ بِهِ إِلَّا الْخَيْرَ : يَكُونُ إِمَامٌ يَتَكَلَّمُ بِالْعِلْمِ، وَيَعْمَلُ بِالْفِسْقِ، فَيُشَبِّهُ عَلَى النَّاسِ، فَيَضِلُّونَ "

Bishr ibn al-Hakam told us, Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Samad al-Ammi told us, Abu Imran al-Juniy told us, on the authority of Haram ibn Hayyan. He said: “Beware of the immoral scholar. Then the news reached Omar ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, and he wrote to him and felt compassion for her. What is the immoral scholar? He said Then Harum wrote to him: O Commander of the Faithful, by God, I only intended good for him. There will be an imam who speaks with knowledge and works with immorality, so he resembles against people, so they go astray.”