Many students of today busy themselves with the errors of others instead of their own.
Category: Knowledge
Seize the opportunity to study
Seize opportunity to study at [Madeenah] University, and don’t give anything precedence over it, even if it is jihaad.
The very reason why they succeed
Very mistaken is he who thinks that encouraging children to memorise the Qur.aan preoccupies them or delays their achievement at school.
Signs of happiness and success
From the signs of happiness and success is the more a worshipper is increased in [beneficial] knowledge, the more he is increased in humility and compassion [towards others].
He would discard it entirely
If [Imaam] Maalik had doubt in a hadeeth, he would discard it entirely.
Did not make a single mistake
Ishaaq ibn Raahawayh dictated 11,000 hadeeth to us from memory. He then read them (what he had dictated) to us and did not make a single mistake (in what he had dictated).
A strong memory
I have never memorised anything and then forgotten it.
He is certainly mad
Indeed, he who issues a ruling on everything a ruling is sought for, [then he] is certainly mad.
The excellence of the scholar
…and like this it is incumbent upon the student to recognise the excellence of the jurist (scholar), and acknowledge the knowledge he (the scholar) possesses is that which he (the student) has acquired, and from him (the scholar) he (the student) has taken.
Good manners and knowledge
…it is with good manners that knowledge is understood.