The Sufficient (Vol 1) · Hadith 652 (#Ḥadīth #2)
Chapter 43 | Would the Imams not receive new knowledge their previous know would be Exhausted
2ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ ذَرِيحٍ الْمُحَارِبِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ الله يَا ذَرِيحُ لَوْ لا أَنَّا نَزْدَادُ لانْفَدْنَا.
2. Muhammad ibn Yabya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from an-Nadr ibn Suwayd from Yahya al-Halabi from Dharih al-Muharibi who has said that abu ‘Abdallah has said to him the following. “O Dharih, “Would we not receive (new knowledge) we will diminish (in knowledge).”said:
Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).