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  • The Excellence of Knowledge

    This Small treatise brings to light many amazing and intricate points of benefit with regard to knowledge and discerning between which of its types are beneficial and non-beneficial. The Prophet praised some forms of knowledge while condemning others, at times he would ask Allah to grant him beneficial knowledge while at other times he would seek refuge in Him from non-beneficial knowledge.

    Formation : Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali

    Reveiwers : Muhammad AbdulRaoof

    Translators : Mahmoud Reda Morad Abu Romaisah

    Source : http://www.islamhouse.com/p/339191

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