I have never seen Wakee’ with a book in his hands, rather, he memorised. So I asked him about the remedy for memorising and he said: ‘If I taught you the remedy would you use it?’ I said
Tag: sincerity
I have never said to a muhaddith ‘repeat it to me’
I have never said to a muhaddith ‘repeat it to me’ and nor have my ears ever heard anything except that it has settled upon my heart (i.e. I have memorised it).
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].
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.
I narrated 50,000 hadeeth from memory
When Abu ‘Abdullaah ‘Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Ahmad al-Khuttootee (d. 335AH) arrived in al-Basrah (Iraq), he had no books with him. He remained in al-Basrah for some months until his books arrived.
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.
Whenever I voice my opinion
The Sunnahs of the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ reach, as well as escape from every one of us.
I will not remain silent
I heard the Imaam, Abu Ismaa’eel ‘Abdullaah ibn Muhammad al-Ansaaree saying, whilst in Haraah:
The sword was put to my neck five times [and each time] it was not said to me
When I say something contradicting the Book of Allaah
When I say something contradicting the Book of Allaah سبحانه و تعالى or what is narrated from the Messenger ﷺ, then ignore my saying.