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161 – Abu Jaʿfar narrated to me: Yazīd ibn Madhkūr said, “I saw al-Awzāʿī in a dream and asked, ‘Abū ʿAmr, show me a deed through which I may draw nearer to Allah, exalted is He.’ He replied, ‘I have never seen a rank loftier than that of the scholars; after them come the sorrowful.’”
١٦١ - حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ يَزِيدُ بْنُ مَذْكُورٍ: رَأَيْتُ الْأَوْزَاعِيَّ، فِي مَنَامِي فَقُلْتُ: أَبَا عَمْرٍو دُلَّنِي عَلَى أَمْرٍ أَتَقَرَّبُ بِهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى؟ قَالَ: «مَا رَأَيْتُ دَرَجَةً أَرْفَعُ مِنْ دَرَجَةِ الْعُلَمَاءِ وَمِنْ بَعْدِهَا الْمَحْزُونِينَ»