Mishkat al-Masabih #206

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Abu Huraira reported God's messenger as saying, “A word which contains wisdom is the stray beast* of the wise man, so wherever he finds it he is most entitled to it.” Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying that this is a gharib tradition and that Ibrahim b. al-Fadl the transmitter is declared to be weak in tradition. *i.e. something to be sought.

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This hadith is #206 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Knowledge. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.

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