عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عليه السلام قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله لَا خَيْرَ فِي الْعَيْشِ إِلَّا لِرَجُلَيْنِ عَالِمٍ مُطَاعٍ أَوْ مُسْتَمِعٍ وَاعٍ.

from 'Ali, peace be upon him, who said: The Messenger of God — may God bless him and his family — said: There is no good in living save for two men: a scholar who is obeyed, or a listener who retains.

«13»- نَوَادِرُ الرَّاوَنْدِيِّ، بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ آبَائِهِ عليهم السلام عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله قَالَ: لَا خَيْرَ فِي الْعَيْشِ إِلَّا لِمُسْتَمِعٍ وَاعٍ أَوْ عَالِمٍ نَاطِقٍ.

«13»- Nawadir al-Rawandi, with his chain from Musa b. Ja'far, from his forefathers, peace be upon them, from the Prophet — may God bless him and his family — who said: There is no good in living save for a listener who retains or a scholar who speaks.

«14»- وَ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله أَرْبَعٌ يَلْزَمْنَ كُلَّ ذِي حِجًى وَ عَقْلٍ مِنْ أُمَّتِي قِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا هُنَّ قَالَ اسْتِمَاعُ الْعِلْمِ وَ حِفْظُهُ وَ نَشْرُهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِهِ وَ الْعَمَلُ بِهِ.

«14»- And by this chain he said: The Messenger of God — may God bless him and his family — said: Four are binding upon every possessor of discernment and intellect of my community. It was said: Messenger of God, what are they? He said: The hearing of knowledge, and the keeping of it, and the spreading of it among its people, and the acting by it.

«15»- ل، الخصال مَاجِيلَوَيْهِ عَنْ عَمِّهِ عَنِ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عِدَّةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ يَرْفَعُونَهُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عليه السلام أَنَّهُ قَالَ: مَنْهُومَانِ لَا يَشْبَعَانِ مَنْهُومُ عِلْمٍ وَ مَنْهُومُ مَالٍ.

«15»- l, al-Khisal: Majilawayh, from his uncle, from al-Barqi, from his father, from a number of his companions, raising it to Abu 'Abd Allah, peace be upon him, that he said: Two greedy ones are never sated: one greedy for knowledge and one greedy for wealth.

بيان: قال الجوهري النهمة بلوغ الهمة في الشي ء و قد نهم بكذا فهو منهوم أي مولع به و

Elucidation: al-Jawhari said: al-nahma is the reaching of one's aim in a thing; and nahima with such a thing, so he is manhum — that is, addicted to it. And

فِي الْحَدِيثِ مَنْهُومَانِ لَا يَشْبَعَانِ مَنْهُومٌ بِالْمَالِ وَ مَنْهُومٌ بِالْعِلْمِ.

in the tradition: two greedy ones are never sated: one greedy for wealth and one greedy for knowledge.

«16»- ل، الخصال سَيَجِي ءُ فِي مَكَارِمِ أَخْلَاقِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ أَنَّهُ عليه السلام كَانَ إِذَا جَاءَهُ طَالِبُ عِلْمٍ قَالَ مَرْحَباً بِوَصِيَّةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله ثُمَّ يَقُولُ إِنَّ طَالِبَ الْعِلْمِ إِذَا خَرَجَ مِنْ مَنْزِلِهِ لَمْ يَضَعْ رِجْلَهُ عَلَى رَطْبٍ وَ لَا يَابِسٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا سَبَّحَتْ لَهُ إِلَى الْأَرَضِينَ السَّابِعَةِ.

«16»- l, al-Khisal: it will come among the noble characters of 'Ali b. al-Husayn, God's blessings be upon him, that he, peace be upon him, when a seeker of knowledge came to him, would say: Welcome to the testament of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family. Then he would say: When the seeker of knowledge goes out from his dwelling, he does not set his foot upon anything moist or dry of the earth but that it glorifies for him down to the seventh earths.

بيان: يمكن أن يكون المراد بتسبيح الأرض تسبيح أهلها من الملائكة و الجن و يحتمل أن يكون المراد أنه يكتب له مثل ثواب هذا التسبيح الفرضي و قيل بشعور ضعيف في الجمادات لكن السيد المرتضى قال إنه خلاف ضرورة الدين ١و يحتمل أن يكون المراد بتسبيح الجمادات و الحيوانات ما يصل إلى العالم بإزائها من المثوبات إذ للعالم مدخل في بقائها و انتظامها و انتفاع سائر الخلق بها فيثاب العالم بإزاء كل منها فكأنها تسبح له و اللّٰه يعلم.

Elucidation: it is possible that what is meant by the glorification of the earth is the glorification of its people among the angels and the jinn. And it is possible that what is meant is that there is written for him the like of the reward of this supposed glorification. And it has been said that there is a weak perception in inanimate things; but al-Sayyid al-Murtada said that that is contrary to a necessary tenet of religion (1). And it is possible that what is meant by the glorification of inanimate things and of animals is what reaches the scholar of rewards in exchange for them, since the scholar has a part in their subsisting and their ordering and the profiting of the rest of creation by them; so the scholar is rewarded in exchange for each of them, as though they glorified for him. And God knows.

«17»- ن، عيون أخبار الرضا عليه السلام بِإِسْنَادِ التَّمِيمِيِّ عَنِ الرِّضَا عَنْ آبَائِهِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عليه السلام أَنَّهُ قَالَ: الْعِلْمُ ضَالَّةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ.

«17»- n, 'Uyun Akhbar al-Rida, peace be upon him, with the Tamimi chain, from al-Rida, from his forefathers, from 'Ali, peace be upon him, that he said: Knowledge is the believer's lost thing.