It is reported that Hishâm b. Urwah said, reporting from his father, Urwah b. Al-Zubayr Allâh have mercy on him , He used to say to us when we were youths, Why do you not seek knowledge? Even though [today] you are the youngsters, you are about to be the elders [in the future]. What is the use of being a shaykh when the shaykh is ignorant? Four years before the death of Â`ishah, I would say, if she died today, I would not feel regret about a single hadîth she had, for I had gathered them from her. I would hear that a Companion had a hadîth and would go to him. I might find that he was napping, so I would sit at his door and wait, and then ask him about it [later when he woke]. Al-Dhahabî, Siyar Alâm Al-Nubalâ`, in his biography of Urwah b. Al-Zubayr. Source: ift.tt/1rK01sG
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