A traveller was invited into the Shaykh's car on two simple conditions: no smoking, and more remembrance of Allaah.
Tag: wisdom
When you compare yourself with others
When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself.
Not concerned about his salary
Shaykh Ibn Baaz never once asked about his own salary, only ever making sure others were paid on time.
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.
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.
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 definition of the term "jaahiliyyah"
Shaykh Hammaad al-Ansaaree defines the term “jaahiliyyah” as the period before the Prophethood of Muhammad ﷺ.
“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!
The authenticity of a hadeeth
Shaykh al-Albaanee explains why calling a hadeeth's narrators trustworthy is not the same as declaring its chain of narration authentic.