Sunday is a suitable day for planning the work for the coming week, setting priorities, and reviewing the work of the previous week to ensure that it has been completed.
Category: Time
I do not know
I accompanied Ibn 'Umar رضي الله عنهما for 34 months, and [during this time] whenever he was asked a question, he would respond with: 'I do not know.' He then turned to me and said
A loaf of bread with pickles
We used to pass by [Imaam] al-Baghawee, and ad-Daaraqutnee [who at the time was only] a small boy, would walk behind us - in his hand was a loaf of bread with pickles on it.
He would quietly stand the entire night in prayer
Ayyoob as-Sikhtiyaanee used to quietly stand the entire night in prayer, and in the morning [at the time of Fajr] he would raise his voice as if [giving the impression] he had just awoken at that...
Leading the prayer
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
Potbellied and disgraced
[There was a time] it used to be the case a Muslim would [feel] disgraced if he was told he was potbellied!
Whoever is not concerned with the prayer
'Whoever is not concerned with [preparing for] the prayer before its time, then he has not dignified or venerated it.' And Wakee' [also] said
He who has knowledge does not become tired in protecting it
That he who has knowledge does not become tired in protecting it.
Studying something inferior
Anyone who spends his time studying something inferior, abandoning higher studies of which he is capable, is like someone who sows corn in a field capable of growing wheat, or who plants bushes in...
I found a particular aspect of Arabic grammar difficult
I found a particular aspect of Arabic grammar difficult, so I spent 80,000 dirhams in order to become proficient in it.