Responsibilities of Knowledge Seekers

 

 

Sufyān b. ‘Uyainah – Allah have mercy on him – said:

 

The first step in knowledge is to listen, then to be quiet and attentive, then to preserve it, then to put it into practice and then to spread it.

 

Abū Nu’aym, Hilyah Al-Awliyā` Vol.3 p283

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