We do not know of anything better than seeking knowledge with [a sincere] intention [for the sake of Allaah].
Category: Words of Wisdom
Reciting the Qur.aan in prayer
Indeed, Tameem ad-Daaree used to recite the [entire] Qur.aan in a [single] rak’ah.
Indeed knowledge departs
Indeed knowledge departs due to forgetfulness and leaving off revising.
Not taking sins lightly
Likewise sins which are treated as being minor and for which the person is taken to account will destroy him.
I used to attend the lessons of Qataadah when I was 14 years old
I used to attend the lessons of Qataadah when I was 14 years old, and there is nothing which I heard in those years except that it is as if it has been written (etched) in (on) my heart.
Divide the night into three parts
And a third [in which] he would do salaah [pray].
What prevented you from travelling to az-Zuhree?
He said: I did not have any (enough) dirhams (money).
The good of hadeeth
Indeed, [knowledge of] hadeeth is the best of [all] the knowledge of this world.
If sins had an odour
If sins had an odour then nobody would be able to sit with me.
From where did you come by this knowledge?
And certainly, when I drunk [it] I asked Allaah for beneficial knowledge.