Hadith Thirty
41 – Judge Niẓām al-Dīn informed us; Ibn al-Muḥibb informed us; Judge Sulaymān informed us; Judge Shams al-Dīn Ibn Abī ʿUmar informed us; Shaykh ⦗53⦘ al-Islām Muwaffaq al-Dīn informed us; Abū al-Fatḥ Ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī informed us; Abū al-Faḍl Ibn Khayrūn informed us; Judge Abū Saʿīd al-Sarakhsī informed us; my father, Judge Abū Bakr, informed us; Abū Aḥmad al-Isfarāʾīnī informed us; Abū ʿAlī Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Abū Isḥāq al-Marwazī narrated to us, saying: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣalt informed us; Bishr ibn al-Walīd the judge informed us; Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm the judge informed us; Abū Ḥanīfah reported: I heard Anas ibn Mālik say that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,
“Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim.”