بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
🔷QUOTES FROM THE SALAF
Benefits For The Later Generations
EPISODE1️⃣
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1️⃣Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab said:
“Whoever decorates himself by displaying to the people some characteristics that Allaah knows are contrary to his real characteristics, will be disgraced and dishonoured by Allaah.”
[Ad-Daaraqutnee, 4/207]
2️⃣Al-Hasan Al-Basree said:
“To endure short-lived difficulties that are followed by long lasting ease, is better than hurrying for a short-lived ease that is followed by ever-lasting hardship.”
[Al-Hilyah, 2/134]
3️⃣Al-Fadl Ibn Muhammad Ash-Sha’raanee said:
“I never saw ‘Abdullaah Ibn Saalih (137-223H) except that he was narrating ahaadeeth or saying tasbeeh.”
[Siyaar A’laamun Nubulaa, Vol. 10, Pp. 405-416]
4️⃣Ash-Sha’bee said:
“For 20 years I have not heard a man narrate hadeeth except that I know more about it than him. I had forgotten some knowledge, the extent of which if a person were to memorize (it), he would be a scholar.”[]
5️⃣Fudayl Ibn ‘Iyaad (d. 187) said:
“Whoever marries his beloved daughter to an innovator has cut off the ties of relationship with her.”
[Al-Barbahaaree, An Explanation of the Creed, 137]
6️⃣Imaam Adh-Dhahabee said:
“May Allaah have mercy over the person who speaks little, reads the Quraan, weeps over his lost time, constantly gazes into (saheeh) Bukhaaree and (saheeh) Musilm, and worships Allaah before he is surprised by death.”
[At-Tadhkirah, 2/80]
7️⃣Sufyaan Ibn Uyaynah (d. 197) said:
“The Sunnah is ten things, whosoever accepts them has completed the Sunnah, and whosoever abandons anything from them has abandoned the Sunnah….. [and the last one he mentioned was] and not testifying that any Muslim will definitely be in Paradise or Hell (except with a textual proof).”
[Al-Laalakaa’ee, no. 312]
8️⃣Imaam Ahmad said:
“The Companions of the Messenger of Allaah (saw) – after the four caliphs – are the best of the people, and it is not permissible for anyone to … speak ill of any of them, blaming them for deficiencies and shortcomings. It is indeed obligatory upon the ruler to reprimand and punish whoever does that, and he should not be pardoned.”
[Kitaab As-Sunnah, p. 77-78 & Manaaqibul Imaam Ahmad, of Ibnul Jawzee, p. 170]
9️⃣Imaam Al-Awzaa’ee (d.157) said:
“Make yourself patient upon the Sunnah, stop where the people stopped, speak with what they spoke with, and refrain from what they refrained from. And follow the path of your Righteous Predecessors (Salafus Saaliheen) for verily, sufficient for you is that which was sufficient for them.”
[Related in Ash-Sharee’ah, by Al-Aajurree, p. 58]
🔟Imaam Maalik said:
“The shield of the Scholar is, ‘I do not know’, so if he leaves it down, his attacker will strike him.”
[Al-Intiqaa’, p. 37]