طَلَبُ الْعِلْمِ فَرِيضَةٌ عَلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ
Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim.
Hadith
A curated selection from the six books, with narrator and reference for each.
3 hadiths
أَعْطُوا الأَجِيرَ أَجْرَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَجِفَّ عَرَقُهُ
Give the worker his wages before his sweat dries.
ازْهَدْ فِي الدُّنْيَا يُحِبَّكَ اللَّهُ
A man came and said: Messenger of Allah, show me a deed that if I do it Allah will love me and people will love me. He said: Be detached from this world and Allah will love you; be detached from what people have and people will love you.
Wording follows widely used English renderings. For study, check each hadith against a published edition of its collection.