 أَبِی ره قَالَ حَدَّثَنِی عَلِیُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِیمَ عَنْ أَبِیهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَیْمُونٍ الْقَدَّاحِ عَنْ أَبِی عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ آبَائِهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَنْ سَلَکَ طَرِیقاً یَطْلُبُ فِیهِ عِلْماً سَلَکَ اللَّهُ بِهِ طَرِیقاً إِلَی الْجَنَّهِ وَ إِنَّ الْمَلَائِکَهَ لَتَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ رِضًی بِهِ وَ إِنَّهُ یَسْتَغْفِرُ لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ مَنْ فِی السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ مَنْ فِی الْأَرْضِ حَتَّی الْحُوتُ فِی الْبَحْرِ وَ فَضْلُ الْعَالِمِ عَلَی الْعَابِدِ کَفَضْلِ الْقَمَرِ عَلَی سَائِرِ النُّجُومِ لَیْلَهَ الْبَدْرِ وَ إِنَّ الْعُلَمَاءَ وَرَثَهُ الْأَنْبِیَاءِ وَ إِنَّ الْأَنْبِیَاءَ لَمْ یُوَرِّثُوا دِینَاراً وَ لَا دِرْهَماً وَ لَکِنْ وَرَّثُوا الْعِلْمَ فَمَنْ أَخَذَ مِنْهُمْ أَخَذَ بِحَظٍّ وَافِرٍ.
1.  Imam Ja’far Sadiq  narrates from his ancestors that the  Holy  Prophet  (s.a.w.s.)  said,  “One  who  walks  on  the way to seek knowledge, Allah will make him walk on the way to Paradise. Angels spread their wings for the pleasure of a  student and every  thing  in the  earth and the  heaven including the fishes of oceans repent for him. A scholar is better than a worshipper much in the same way as a full moon is compared to stars. The scholars are inheritors of the prophets  and  the  value  of  inheritance  of  prophets  is measured   in   terms   of   knowledge   instead   of   wealth. Whoever got a little of their inheritance has achieved a lot.”