From the greatest of catastrophes for a man is that he knows his own shortcomings, but is not concerned, nor does he grieve over them.
Tag: mistake
The errors of others
Many students of today busy themselves with the errors of others instead of their own.
Forgetting your errors
Whoever forgets his errors, the errors of others [then] become more important to him.
Did not make a single mistake
Ishaaq ibn Raahawayh dictated 11,000 hadeeth to us from memory. He then read them (what he had dictated) to us and [found he] had not made a single mistake [in what he had dictated to us].
The sincere and humble Shaykh
Shaykh al-Albaanee on how readily he would retract a mistake once it was pointed out to him — his re-printed books bearing witness to it.
He did not make a single mistake
One of the teachers at the Jam’iyyah Tahfeeth al-Qur.aan al-Kareem in Madeenah recited from the beginning of Soorah al-Baqarah to the end of Soorah al-‘Israa; [he did so] from memory, without…
He reminded the Shaykh
Reminded after the khutbah that he had named the wrong verse, Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen corrected himself before the congregation had even left.
The Shaykh didn’t want to seek revenge
Even after learning a man had slandered him, Shaykh Ibn Baaz stopped his assistant taking notes, unwilling to appear to seek revenge.
I did not make a single mistake
I was ill for 2 years, and when I got better, I read the Qur.aan [from memory] and I did not make a single mistake.
Taking delight in the lapse of the scholar his mistake
As for taking delight in the lapse of the scholar and his mistake so as to circulate this amongst the people to cause division, then this is certainly not from the way of the Pious Predecessors.