Sufyān ibn ʽUyaynah رحمه الله said:

It would be said:

“The believer is in need of patience like his need for food and drink!”

[As-Sabr: 61]

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Ash-Sha’bī رحمه الله said:

“No innovation has been committed in Islām except there is [an āyah] in the Book of Allāh that contradicts it!”

[As-Sunnah Li Al-Khallāl: 914]

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Ahmad ibn ‘Āsim رحمه الله said:

“If you seek to rectify your heart, then seek it through preserving your tongue!”

[Tabaqāt Al-Awliyā: 46]

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Ash-Sha’bī رحمه الله said:

“The hour will not be established until knowledge is perceived as ignorance and ignorance is perceived as knowledge!”

Ibn Rajab رحمه الله comments on this statement by saying:

“And all this is from distortion of realities and the backwardness of affairs that will occur at the end of time!”

[Jāmi’ Al-Ulūm: 144]

- The reality is we are living in these deceptive times. This speech of Ash-Sha’bī is based on the hadīth of the Messenger ﷺ when he said:

إن بين يدي الساعة سنين خوادعة يصدق فيها الكاذب ويكذب فيها الصادق ويؤتمن فيها الخائن ويتكلم فيها الرويبضة قالوا: يارسول الله وما الرويبضة قال الفويسق يتكلم في أمر العامة

“Indeed, near to the hour are deceptive years: the liar is considered truthful, the truthful a liar and the treacherous entrusted, and al-ruwaybiḍah will speak.  They said, O Messenger of Allah, and what is al-ruwaybiḍah?  He said: The base wicked-doer speaking in relation to general affairs.”

A person will devote himself to Islamic knowledge and will be considered an ignoramus. Yet the one who fully devotes himself to academic studies - whilst being ignorant of his religion - is considered intelligent?

{ يَعْلَمُونَ ظَاهِرًا مِنَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَهُمْ عَنِ الْآخِرَةِ هُمْ غَافِلُونَ }
[Ar-Room: 7]

(They know what is apparent of the worldly life, but they, of the Hereafter, are heedless.)

نسأل الله العافية والسلامة

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Maymūn ibn Mihrān رحمه الله said:

Do not enter upon a woman even if you claim: “I will teach her the Book of Allāh!”

[Al-Ādāb Ash-Shar’iyyah: 2/18]

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Ibn Mas’ūd رضي الله عنه said:

“Let none of you blind-follow another man in his religion. If he believes, he believes, and if he disbelieves, he disbelieves. And if you must emulate someone, then follow [the ways of] someone who has passed away, for the living is not safe from fitnah!”

[At-Tabarāni Al-Kabīr: 8764]

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Sufyān Ath-Thawrī رحمه الله said:

“Be content with what Allāh has apportioned for you and you will be rich. And have full reliance upon Allāh [alone] and you will be powerful!”

[Hilyatul Awliyā: 7/85]

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Al-Fuḍayl ibn ʻIyāḍ رحمه الله said:

“The best form of Jihād is consistency upon the prayers!”

[Tārīkh Dimishq: 48/429]

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Ash-Shāfi’ī رحمه الله said:

“If you have a companion that will assist you upon [the] obedience [of Allāh], then hold tight to him! For indeed, keeping a friend is difficult and losing him is easy!”

[uHilyatul Awliyā: 4/101]

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Abu Hurairah رضي الله عنه said:

“My friend (the Prophet ﷺ) advised me to do three things and I shall not leave them till I die, these are: To fast three days every month, to offer the Duha prayer, and to offer witr before sleeping.”

[Sahih Bukhari: 1178]

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Al-Hasan رحمه الله said:

“Had it not been for forgetfulness [of the Hereafter] and [extensive] hope [in the worldly life], the Muslims would not walk in the streets!”

[Mawsū’ah Ibn Abī Dunyā: 3/309]

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Al-Fudayl bin Iyad رحمه الله said:

“According to how insignificant the sin is in your eyes, the greater it is in the sight of Allāh! And the greater the sin is in your eyes, the smaller it is in the sight of Allāh!”

[Shu’ab al-Iman: 428/5]

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Yahyā ibn Muādh رحمه الله said:

“He who claims to love Allāh yet he doesn’t observe the limits He has set, then he is not truthful [in his claim]!”

[Kitābul Ikhlās: 32]

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Yahyā ibn Yamān رحمه الله said:

“I have not seen the likes of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī nor has Sufyān seen the likes of himself! The Dunyā presented itself to him and he turned his face away from it!”

[Musnad Ibn Ja’d: 1766]

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Mu’adh bin Jabal رضي الله عنه said:

“There is nothing that brings more salvation from the punishment of Allāh than the remembrance of Allāh!”

[Jami’ At-Tirmidhi: 3377]

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‘Umar ibn ‘Abdil-‘Azīz رحمه الله said:

“Do not be from those who curse Iblīs in public and obey him in private!”

[Zuhrul Ādāb: 1/64]

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‘Umar رضي الله عنه said:

“I have never competed with Abū Bakr except he surpassed me!”

[Sahīh Ibn Khuzaymah: 2/119]

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Yahya Al-Barmakī رحمه الله said:

“If the honourable one seeks knowledge, he humbles himself! And if the lowly one seeks knowledge he becomes arrogant!”

[Rawdatul Uqalā: 92]

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Ibn Mas’ūd رضي الله عنه said:

“Verily it is from Īmān to love your [Muslim] brother without knowing him, without being related to him, or without any money he has given you. Do not love him except for the sake of Allāh!”

[Sunan Sa’īd Ibn Mansūr: 5843]

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Muhammad ibn ‘Alī Al-Bāqir رحمه الله said:

“Whoever does not know the virtue of Abū Bakr and ‘Umar رضي الله عنهما, then he is certainly ignorant of the Sunnah!”

[Hilyatul Awliyā: 3/185]

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Makhūl رحمه الله said:

“Whoever does not benefit from his knowledge will be harmed by his ignorance!”

[Hilyatul Awliyā: 5/177]

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