From a young age, Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen would arrive early each morning, books in hand, to spend the day immersed in a scholar's library.
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Seeking knowledge to act according to it
If a man seeks knowledge to act according to it, his knowledge gratifies him, and if he seeks knowledge for other than acting according to it, then his knowledge [merely] increases him in pride and...
Beautify knowledge
Beautify knowledge [by acting in accordance to it], and do not beautify yourself with it.
So what did you do with that which you knew?
Certainly, that which I fear the most is when I stand [before my Lord] to account [for my deeds], and it is [then] said to me: 'You had knowledge, so what did you do with that which you knew?'
Knowledge
Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorised.
In order to compete with the scholars
Do not acquire knowledge in order to compete with the scholars, nor to argue with the ignorant, nor to gain mastery over the gatherings. Since whoever does that, then: The Fire! The Fire!
Nothing more harmful to the branches of knowledge
There is nothing more harmful to the branches of knowledge and its people than those who enter themselves into it and they are not from its people.
A dedicated fanatic
I do not say this as a dedicated fanatic since he (al-Haafidth Abi 'Ali an-Neesaabooree رحمه الله) was my teacher, but I simply never saw anything comparable to him.
The patient Shaykh
For years Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen patiently taught circles of just one or two students — long before they grew into the hundreds.
Expiation of sins is by good actions
So the expiation [of sins] is by good actions.