Alkarbala
Sunnah Category
Giving Knowledge As Charity
NARRATION 1
1ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ حَازِمٍ عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ
قَرَأْتُ فِي كِتَابِ علي (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) إِنَّ الله لَمْ يَأْخُذْ عَلَى الْجُهَّالِ عَهْداً بِطَلَبِ الْعِلْمِ حَتَّى أَخَذَ عَلَى الْعُلَمَاءِ عَهْداً بِبَذْلِ الْعِلْمِ لِلْجُهَّالِ لانَّ الْعِلْمَ كَانَ قَبْلَ الْجَهْلِ.
Ja'far al-Sadiq(as) said:
“I read in the book of Ali ibn Abi Talib(as):
‘Indeed, Allah did not take a covenant from the ignorant to seek knowledge until He first took a covenant from the scholars to give knowledge to the ignorant — because knowledge existed before ignorance.’”
“I read in the book of Ali ibn Abi Talib(as):
‘Indeed, Allah did not take a covenant from the ignorant to seek knowledge until He first took a covenant from the scholars to give knowledge to the ignorant — because knowledge existed before ignorance.’”
NARRATION 2
عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام)
قَالَ زَكَاةُ الْعِلْمِ أَنْ تُعَلِّمَهُ عِبَادَ الله.
Muhammad al-Baqir said: “The zakāt (due charity) of knowledge is that you teach it to the servants of Allah.”
NARRATION 3
قَالَ قَامَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) خَطِيباً فِي بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَقَالَ يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ لا تُحَدِّثُوا الْجُهَّالَ بِالْحِكْمَةِ فَتَظْلِمُوهَا وَلا تَمْنَعُوهَا أَهْلَهَا فَتَظْلِمُوهُمْ.
Isa ibn Maryam(as) stood to address the Children of Israel and said:
“O Children of Israel, do not speak wisdom to the ignorant, lest you wrong it; and do not withhold it from those worthy of it, lest you wrong them.”
“O Children of Israel, do not speak wisdom to the ignorant, lest you wrong it; and do not withhold it from those worthy of it, lest you wrong them.”
More narrations will be added soon, InshaAllah.