Mishkatul Masabih — Hadith #39695

On the authority of Kathir ibn Qays, he said: I was sitting with Abu al-Darda’ in the Damascus Mosque, when a man came to him and said, “O Abu al-Darda’, I came to you from The city of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, because of a hadith that I heard that you were narrating on the authority of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. I did not come for a need. He said, “For I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, say Whoever follows A path in which knowledge is sought. God will take him on a path from the paths of Paradise. Indeed, the angels lower their wings to please the seeker of knowledge, and the All-Knowing So that whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth and the fish in the depths of the waters will ask forgiveness for him, and the favor of the scholar over the worshiper is like the favor of the moon. The night of the full moon on all the planets, and that the scholars are the heirs of the prophets, and that the prophets did not leave behind a dinar or a dirham, but rather they left behind Knowledge, whoever acquires it will receive abundant luck. It was narrated by Ahmad, Al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, and Al-Darimi, and he named it Al-Tirmidhi Qais bin Kathir