Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Ink on the clothes of a student of knowledge is like a mark of perfume on the chest of a virgin girl."

Al-Fadl bin al-Hasan bin Amr bin Umayyah al-Damri narrates from his father, who said: I narrated a hadith on the authority of Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) and he denied it. I said: "I heard it from you yourself." He said: "If you heard it from me, then it will be written down with me." Then he took me by the hand to his house and showed me some of his books containing the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he found that hadith. He said: "I told you that if I had narrated this hadith to you, then it would be written down with me."

It is narrated from Muhammad bin Sirin that Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "When you hear in a hadith 'He used to say', then the one meant is the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)."