I was sitting with Abud Darda in the mosque of Damascus. A man came to him and said: Abud Darda, I have come to you from the town of the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم for a tradition that I have heard you relate from the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. I have come for no other purpose. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise. The angels will lower their wings in their great pleasure with one who seeks knowledge, the inhabitants of the heavens and the Earth and the fish in the deep waters will ask forgiveness for the learned man. The superiority of the learned man over the devout is like that of the moon, on the night when it is full, over the rest of the stars. The learned are the heirs of the Prophets, and the Prophets leave neither dinar nor dirham, leaving only knowledge, and he who takes it takes an abundant portion.

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu al-Darda رضی اللہ عنہ through a different chain of narrators to the same effect from the Holy Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم .

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge, Allah will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise; and he who is made slow by his actions will not be speeded by his genealogy.

When he was sitting with the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم and a Jew was also with him, a funeral passed by him. He (the Jew) asked (Him): Muhammad, does this funeral speak? The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Allah has more knowledge. The Jew said: It speaks. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Whatever the people of the Book tell you, do not verify them, nor falsify them, but say: We believe in Allah and His Messenger. If it is false, do not confirm it, and if it is right, do not falsify it.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ordered me (to learn the writing of the Jews), so I learnt for him the writing of the Jews. He said: I swear by Allah, I do not trust Jews in respect of writing for me. So I learnt it, and only a fortnight passed that. I mastered it. I would write for him when he wrote (to them), and read to him when something was written to him.

I used to write everything which I heard from the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. I intended (by it) to memorize it. The Quraysh prohibited me saying: Do you write everything that you hear from him while the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم is a human being: he speaks in anger and pleasure? So I stopped writing, and mentioned it to the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. He signaled with his finger to him mouth and said: Write, by Him in Whose hand my soul lies, only right comes out from it.

Zayd ibn Thabit رضی اللہ عنہ entered upon Muawiyah and asked him about a tradition. He ordered a man to write it. Zayd رضی اللہ عنہ said: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ordered us not to write any of his traditions. So he erased it.

"We used not to write anything but the Tasha-hud and the Qur'an."

When Mecca was conquered, the Holy Prophet (ﷺ) stood up. He (Abu Hurairah رضی اللہ عنہ ) then mentioned the sermon of the Holy Prophet (ﷺ). He said: A man of the Yemen, who was called Abu Shah, got up and said: Messenger of Allah! Write it for me. He said: Write it for Abu Shah.

I asked Abu Amr: What are they writing? He said: The sermon which he heard that day.

I asked al-zubair رضی اللہ عنہ : What prevents you from narrating traditions from the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as his Companions narrate from him. But I heard him say: He who lies about me deliberately will certainly come to his abode in Hell.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: If anyone interprets the Book of Allah in the light of his opinion even if he is right, he has erred.

Abu Salam said on the authority of a man who served the Holy Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم that whenever he talked, he repeated it three times.

Abu Hurairah رضی اللہ عنہ sat beside the apartment of Aishah رضی اللہ عنہا while she was praying. He then began to say: Listen, O lady of the apartment, saying twice. When she finish her prayer, she said: Are you not surprised at him and his narrate traditions from the Messenger of the Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم gave a talk, a man could count it if he wished to count.

Are you not surprised at Abu Hurairah رضی اللہ عنہ ? He came and sat beside my apartment, and began to narrate traditions from the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم making me hear them. I am saying supererogatory prayer. He got up (and went away) before I finished my prayer. Had I found him, I would have replied to him. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم did not narrate traditions quickly one after another as you narrate quickly.

The Holy Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم forbade the discussion of thorny questions.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: If anyone is given a legal decision ignorantly, the sin rests on the one who gave it. Sulayman al-Mahri added in his version: If anyone advises his brother, knowing that guidance lies in another direction, he has deceived him. These are the wordings of Sulayman.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: He who is asked something he knows and conceals it will have a bridle of fire put on him on the Day of Resurrection.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: You hear (from me), and others will hear from you; and people will hear from them who heard from you.

I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: May Allah brighten a man who hears a tradition from us, gets it by heart and passes it on to others. Many a bearer of knowledge conveys it to one who is more versed than he is; and many a bearer of knowledge is not versed in it.

The prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: I swear on Allah, it will be better for you that Allah should give guidance to one man through your agency than that you should acquire the red ones among the camels.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: relate traditions from the children of Isra'il; there is no harm.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم used to relate to us traditions from the children of Isra'il till morning came; he would not get up except for obligatory prayer.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: If anyone acquires knowledge of things by which Allah's good pleasure is sought, but acquires it only to get some worldly advantage, he will not experience the arf, i.e. the odour, of Paradise.

I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: Only a ruler, or one put in charge, or one who is presumptuous, gives instructions.