al-Aql wa Fadluh 88

Ibn Abi al-Dunya

وَقِيلَ لِبَعْضِ الْحُكَمَاءِ: مَا الْحُمْقُ؟، قَالَ: «قِلَّةُ الْإِصَابَةِ وَوَضْعُ الْكَلَامِ فِي غَيْرِ مَوْضِعِهِ وَكُلَّمَا مُدِحَ بِهِ الْعَاقِلُ كَانَ مَفْقُودًا فِي الْأَحْمَقِ» .

The text as printed

وَقِيلَ لِبَعْضِ الْحُكَمَاءِ: مَا الْحُمْقُ؟، قَالَ: «قِلَّةُ الْإِصَابَةِ وَوَضْعُ الْكَلَامِ فِي غَيْرِ مَوْضِعِهِ وَكُلَّمَا مُدِحَ بِهِ الْعَاقِلُ كَانَ مَفْقُودًا فِي الْأَحْمَقِ» .

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. 88 Page