Who are the Scholars and from Whom should Knowledge be taken?

The Prophet ﷺ said: “Indeed for the ‘Aalim (scholar) everything in the heavens and the earth seek forgiveness for him and the fish in the sea, and the virtue of an ‘Aalim over the servant is like the virtue of the moon on a full-moon night over the rest of the heavenly bodies and the Scholars are the inheritors of the Prophets.”

This article details the criteria by which a person of knowledge can be evaluated, and warns against taking knowledge from the unqualified.