Wisdom is the believer's lost treasure; he takes it wherever he finds it.
Arabic proverb
Arabic proverb

“Wisdom is the believer's lost treasure; he takes it wherever he finds it.”

The explanation

What does Arabic proverb mean?

This is worth being precise about. The sentence circulates as a saying of the Prophet (peace be upon him), and it does appear in the Sunan of al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah — but al-Tirmidhi himself called the report unusual, and hadith critics grade the chain very weak because of a narrator the specialists agreed was unreliable. It is kept here as wisdom literature rather than as an established hadith.

Written from Written from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir and Tafsir Ibn Kathir.

Where it sits