al-Aql wa Fadluh 102

Ibn Abi al-Dunya

«قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: «الصَّمْتُ نَوْمُ الْعَقْلِ وَالْمَنْطِقُ يَقَظَتُهُ»»

Its text does not say these are the Prophet’s words ﷺ, so they are not framed in gold.

The chain

  1. Ibn Abi al-Dunya
  2. حدثنا أبو بكر ثقة حافظ، صاحب تصانيف
The text as printed

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ: ثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ، ثَنَا أَبُو يَحْيَى الرَّزَّازُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا حَسَنَةَ الْعَابِدَ، قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: «الصَّمْتُ نَوْمُ الْعَقْلِ وَالْمَنْطِقُ يَقَظَتُهُ»

Rulings on it

The early critics’ verdicts on this hadith have not been extracted from their books yet: they are in their texts, and their extraction is coming.

In its editions

  • طبعة مكتبة القرآن - مصر No. 102 Page