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What is your profession?

It was said to Anas ibn Maalik رحمه الله: ‘Will you not relay to us [more of this knowledge]?’ And he responded

The disappearance of Islaam will be due to four [factors; that the people]

What does the [following] saying of the Messenger ﷺ mean: «اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ لاَ يَنْفَعُ» – transmitted by Muslim

I have travelled four times between the East and West [in search of knowledge].

The first [stage] of knowledge is to listen [carefully], then [conscientiously] memorise it, then act according to it, then convey it [to others].

‘Abdullaah ibn Yahyaa ibn Abi Katheer رحمه الله said that he heard his father say: ‘It is not possible to attain knowledge while at ease and rest.’

adh-Dhahhaak would teach [the people], but would not take any payment [for doing so].

[Regarding] knowledge, if it does not benefit you, it will harm you.

The tongue [of knowledge] of Ibn Hazm and the sword of al-Hajjaaj were [like] two brothers.