The time for prayer entered upon a group of scholars, so it was said to one of them to lead [the prayer], but he declined. It was said to him: 'What prevents you [from leading the prayer]?' He said
Category: Day of Judgement
If sins had an odour
If sins had an odour, then nobody would be able to sit with me.
Whoever stands the night in prayer
Whoever stands the night in prayer, Allaah will make easy for him his standing on the Day of Judgment.
{you shall be brought back to Allaah}
I heard Sa'eed ibn Jubayr repeat this aayah in the prayer twenty odd times: And fear the Day when you shall be brought back to Allaah - al-Baqarah 2:281
A pen for a deenaar
Muhammad ibn Salaam al-Baykandee's pen broke whilst in the gathering of a Shaykh, so he announced 'a pen for a deenaar', whereupon pens began to fall upon him [from all directions].
All of the children of Aadam make mistakes
All of the children of Aadam make mistakes, and the best of them are those who repent.
Prepare for a day like this
For what reason have they gathered here?
Remembering death
'Umar ibn 'Abdul-'Azeez used to gather the fuqahaa every night and they would [all] remember death, the Day of Judgment and the Hereafter and then they would weep.