Chapter on the necessity to seek knowledge and the recommendations to learn — report 2

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

2ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الله الْعُمَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ طَلَبُ الْعِلْمِ فَرِيضَةٌ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

2. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Hassan from Muhammad ibn ‘Abdallah from ‘Isa ibn ‘Abdallah al-‘Amri that Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام said, “Seeking knowledge is obligatory.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 2, chapter 1, report 2

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/99)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 3

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 0ba21ce42ba17489d6526a33bde138d09921873c7502d369fabc4cd18175cee1

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/2/1/2. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.