al-Awzaa'ee was asked about the imaam who forgetfully missed a prostration, and the congregation had [then] departed [after completing the prayer]. He said
Category: Accountability & Self-Reckoning
Accuracy and precision
That day, Ghundar brought out a sack of books, and said: 'Do your best to find an error in them.' So we [strived hard, and] did not find an error in any of them.
Do something about it
From the greatest of catastrophes for a man is that he knows his own shortcomings, but is not concerned, nor does he grieve over them.
The errors of others
Many students of today busy themselves with the errors of others instead of their own.
Forgetting your errors
Whoever forgets his errors, the errors of others [then] become more important to him.
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 [found he] had not made a single mistake [in what he had dictated to us].
He did not make a single mistake
One of the teachers at the Jam'iyyah Tahfeeth al-Qur.aan al-Kareem in Madeenah recited from the beginning of Soorah al-Baqarah to the end of Soorah al-'Israa; [he did so] from memory, without...
I have not memorised anything and then forgotten it
I have not heard anything except that I have memorised it, and I have not memorised anything and then forgotten it.
I did not make a single mistake
I was ill for 2 years, and when I got better, I read the Qur.aan [from memory] and I did not make a single mistake.
Taking delight in the lapse of the scholar his mistake
As for taking delight in the lapse of the scholar and his mistake so as to circulate this amongst the people to cause division, then this is certainly not from the way of the Pious Predecessors.