1985 — And Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd al-Sijistānī narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ⦗2496⦘ ibn Ismāʿīl al-Sulamī narrated to us, saying: Nuʿaym—that is, Ibn Hammād—narrated to us, saying: Ismāʿīl ibn Zakariyyā al-Madāʾinī narrated to us, saying: ʿAnbasa ibn ʿAbd al-Rahmān al-Qurashī narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir, from the Prophet—peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—who said:

“When the latter generations of this nation curse its earliest generations, let whoever possesses knowledge make known what he has learned; for one who conceals knowledge is like one who conceals what Allah—Glorious and Exalted—has revealed.”