وَلَا تَكُونُوا۟ كَٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوا۟ سَمِعْنَا وَهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ
Wa laa takoonoo kallazeena qaaloo sami'naa wa hum laa yasma'oon
And do not be like those who say, "We have heard," while they do not hear.
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8:21Ayah 175
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And do not be as those who say ‘We hear’ and they hear not in such a way as to reflect and heed admonition — these are either the hypocrites or the idolaters.
Related Hadiths
" Nor of those who err, say Amin" and added:" And don't rise up ahead of him."
‘Know that a man who relates everything he hears is not safe, and he can never be an Imām, as long as he narrates everything he hears’.
“The likeness of the one who sits and listen to wisdom then only
speaks of the bad things that he had heard, is that of a man who
comes
to a shepherd and says: “O shepherd, give me one of your
sheep to
slaughter,” and (the shepherd) says: “Go and grab the
ear of the best
of them.” Then he goes and grabs the ear of the
sheepdog.’”
Another chain reports a similar hadith.
I heard from Jundub, but I did not hear him say this: "I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying this."
‘A man cannot be an Imām whose example is followed until he withholds from some of what he hears’.
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