مسند امام احمد بن حنبل · Hadith 449

'Ubaid bin Abi Qurrah said: I heard Malik bin Anas say: "We raise whom We will in degrees" [al-An'am 6:83]. He said: [i.e.] by means of knowledge. I said: Who told you that? He said: Zaid bin As lam said that.

Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020