I met the best of people, all of them people of the Sunnah and they used to forbid from accompanying the people of innovation.
Category: Words of Wisdom
In search of knowledge
I heard Mak.hool say ‘I have travelled the entire earth in search of knowledge.’
Do not waste this knowledge
‘Do not waste this knowledge [over] which we have laboured.’
I know more
For 20 years I have not heard from any man who narrates hadeeth except that I know more about it than him.
So I asked Allaah for more than that
I drank some [Zam Zam water] once, whilst I was [just] beginning my studies in hadeeth, and asked Allaah to bless me with [strength of memory of] the calibre of ath-Thahabee in memorising hadeeth.
A servant who fasts a day in the way of Allaah
There is not a servant who fasts a day in the way of Allaah, except that Allaah removes his face from the Fire by the distance of seventy years because of that.
Fasting is a shield
Fasting is a shield with which a servant protects himself from the Fire.
{you shall be brought back to Allaah}
I heard Sa’eed ibn Jubayr repeat this aayah in the prayer twenty odd times…
Take to fasting, there is nothing like it
O Messenger of Allaah tell me of an action by which I may enter Paradise?
Backbiting of the layman ranks amongst the major sins
If backbiting of the layman ranks amongst the major sins, then backbiting of the scholar is much greater.