by someone else through another chain of transmission, with precisely this wording, as follows.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said (3/153): “Al-Tabarani and al-Daraqutni narrated it through a weak chain.”
It also has another corroborating report with similar wording:
“O people, knowledge is acquired through learning, and understanding of the religion through seeking understanding. Whomever Allah intends good for, He grants him understanding of the religion. Indeed, among His servants, only the scholars truly fear Allah.”
He said in al-Majmaʿ (1/128): “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Kabir from Muʿawiyah as a Prophetic report. Its chain contains an unnamed man, and ʿUtbah ibn Abi Hakim—whom Abu Hatim, Abu Zurʿah, and Ibn Hibban declared trustworthy—was deemed weak by a group of scholars.”
I say: Al-Taqrib states: “He is truthful, but makes many mistakes.”
Al-Manawi said: “Ibn Abi ʿAsim also narrated it. Ibn Hajar said in al-Mukhtasar: ‘Its chain of transmission is good, because it contains an unidentified narrator whose report is strengthened by its having come through another route.’”
I say: It appears that al-Hafiz was referring by that route to the hadith of Abu Hurayrah. Ibn ʿAsakir likewise narrated it in Tarikh Dimashq (6/117/1), through another chain from Ismaʿil ibn Mujalid, with the same wording.
343 — “Restrain your belching in our presence, for those who are most satiated in this world will be the hungriest on the Day of Resurrection.”
It has been narrated on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar, Abu Juhayfah, Ibn ʿAmr, Ibn ʿAbbas, and Salman.
- The hadith of Ibn ʿUmar. It is narrated by ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn ʿAbdullah al-Qurashi: Yahya al-Bakka related to us