أَخْبَرَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَ ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ جَمِيلٍ ، عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ ، قَالَ : كُنْتُ جَالِسًا مَعَ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ فِي مَسْجِدِ دِمَشْقَ ، فَأَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ، فَقَالَ : يَا أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ ، إِنِّي أَتَيْتُكَ مِنْ الْمَدِينَةِ ، مَدِينَةِ الرَّسُولِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لِحَدِيثٍ بَلَغَنِي عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ : فَمَا جَاءَ بِكَ تِجَارَةٌ؟، قَالَ : لَا، قَالَ : وَلَا جَاءَ بِكَ غَيْرُهُ؟، قَالَ : لَا، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ :" مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَلْتَمِسُ بِهِ عِلْمًا، سَهَّلَ اللَّهُ بِهِ طَرِيقًا مِنْ طُرُقِ الْجَنَّةِ، وَإِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ لَتَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا رِضًا لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ، وَإِنَّ طَالِبَ الْعِلْمِ، لَيَسْتَغْفِرُ لَهُ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ حَتَّى الْحِيتَانُ فِي الْمَاءِ، وَإِنَّ فَضْلَ الْعَالِمِ عَلَى الْعَابِدِ كَفَضْلِ الْقَمَرِ عَلَى سَائِرِ النُّجُومِ، إِنَّ الْعُلَمَاءَ هُمْ وَرَثَةُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ، إِنَّ الْأَنْبِيَاءَ لَمْ يُوَرِّثُوا دِينَارًا، وَلَا دِرْهَمًا، وَإِنَّمَا وَرَّثُوا الْعِلْمَ، فَمَنْ أَخَذَ بِهِ أَخَذَ بِحَظِّهِ، أَوْ بِحَظٍّ وَافِرٍ "

Nasr bin Ali told us, Abdullah bin Dawud told us, on the authority of Asim bin Raja bin Haywa, on the authority of Dawud bin Jamil, on the authority of many Ibn Qays said: I was sitting with Abu al-Darda’, may God be pleased with him, in the Damascus Mosque, when a man came to him and said: O Abu al-Darda’, I have come to you. From Medina, the city of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, because of a hadith that I heard from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said: What business has brought you? He said: No. He said: Did no one else bring you? He said: No. He said: I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, say: “Whoever follows a path seeking knowledge, God has made easy for him one of the paths of Paradise, and the angels lower their wings to please the seeker of knowledge, and the seeker of knowledge seeks forgiveness. To Him belongs whoever is in the heavens and the earth, even the whales in the water, and the superiority of the scholar over the worshiper is like the superiority of the moon over all the stars. Indeed, the scholars are The heirs of the prophets. The prophets did not leave behind a dinar or a dirham. Rather, they left behind knowledge. Whoever takes it will take his share, or the share of “abundant”