When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself.
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The most noble branches of knowledge
The most noble branches of knowledge are those which bring you close to the Creator and help you to be pleasing to Him.
A miser with his knowledge
A man who is a miser with his knowledge is worse than a man who is a miser with his money, for the money-miser is afraid of using up what he possesses but the knowledge-miser is being mean with...
“The is so-and-so who said such-and-such about you”
Rather than let his students speak ill of a guest who had criticised him, Shaykh Ibn Baaz silenced them and honoured him regardless.
I do not know
We were with Maalik ibn Anas رحمه الله when a man came saying: 'O Abu 'Abdullaah, I have travelled a distance of six months. The people of my land sent me to ask you about a matter.' So he said: 'Ask!
I have not experienced anything like it for memorising
I have never seen Wakee' with a book in his hands, rather, he has everything memorised. So I asked him about the remedy for memorising, and he said
Seeking knowledge with a sincere intention
We do not know of anything better than seeking knowledge with [a sincere] intention [for the sake of Allaah alone].
Indeed knowledge departs
Indeed knowledge departs due to forgetfulness, and leaving off revising.
I used to attend the lessons of Qataadah when I was 14 years old
I used to attend the lessons of Qataadah when I was 14 years old, and there is nothing which I heard in those years except that it is as if it has been written (etched) in my heart.
Study 'Buloogh al-Maraam'
Is the book 'al-Muharrar' of Ibn 'Abdil-Haadee not better than 'Buloogh al-Maraam' [of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalaanee]?