On seeking, transmitting and acting on knowledge — the standing of the scholar, the duty to ask, and the warnings against speaking without it.
Chapters
- 1. Chapter on the necessity to seek knowledge and the recommendations to learn 9 hadith
- 2. Chapter on Giving Knowledge as Charity 4 hadith
- 3. Prohibition on Speaking without Knowledge. 9 hadith
- 4. Chapter on Those who Act without Knowledge 3 hadith
- 5. Chapter on Utilization of Knowledge 7 hadith
- 6. Chapter on Those who use their Knowledge to Fill their Stomach and are Boastful for it 6 hadith
- 7. Chapter on the Need for the Existence of a Divine Authority in the World and the Seriousness of this Matter 4 hadith
- 8. Chapter on Miscellaneous Issues 15 hadith
- 9. Chapter on narrating books and Hadith (The virtue of writing and its preservation) 15 hadith
- 10. Chapter on Taqlid, following the opinions of someone 3 hadith
- 11. Chapter on Innovations, Personal Opinions and Analogies 22 hadith
- 12. Chapter on the quality of knowledge its virtue and the virtue of the scholars 9 hadith
- 13. Chapter on the need to refer to the book and Sunnah 10 hadith
- 14. Chapter on the Differences in al-Hadith 10 hadith
- 15. Chapter on Following the Sunnah and Evidence of the Book 12 hadith
- 16. Chapter on Kinds of People 4 hadith
- 17. Chapter on the reward for the scholars and those who seek knowledge 6 hadith
- 18. Chapter on the Qualities of the Scholars 7 hadith
- 19. Chapter on the Rights of the scholars 1 hadith
- 20. Chapter on the Loss of a Scholar 6 hadith
- 21. Chapter on Meeting the Scholars and Associating with Them 5 hadith
- 22. Chapter on Asking the Scholar and Discussing with him 9 hadith