The Link Between Blessings and Gratitude
It is reported that ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
– Allāh be pleased with him – said:
Blessings arrive with gratitude [to Allāh], and
gratitude is connected with more [blessings], and the two are tied together:
more blessings from Allāh will never stop unless gratitude from the servant
stops.
Ibn Abī Al-Dunyā, Al-Shukr article 18.
Source: https://www.sayingsofthesalaf.net/link-blessings-gratitude/
Ibn ‘Abd
Al-Barr said:
They (The
Salaf) said: Whoever is impressed with his opinion will be humiliated, whoever
suffices himself with his own intellect will slip, whoever is arrogant against
people will be demeaned, whoever mixes with scoundrels will be despised, and
whoever sits with scholars will be respected.
Jāmi’ Bayān Al-‘Ilm article 969
Translated
by Owais Al-Hashimi
Three
Things to Satisfy Yourself
With ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAwn – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
There are three things that I like for myself
and for my brothers:
That the Muslim man looks to the Qurān; he
learns it, recites it, ponders it and refers to it. Second,
that he looks to the narrations and the Sunnah; he asks about it and follows it
with all his efforts. Third, that he leaves alone all these people except when
doing good.
Al-Bukhāri,
Al-Ṣaḥīḥ, no. 97 (in annotative, discontiguous form). The chain of transmission
is connected in Al-Marwazī, Al-Sunnah, no. 108.
Translation
source: SayingsoftheSalaf.net
Five
Essential Qualities of a Mufti
Ibn
Battah records that Imām Ahmad – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
No
man should appoint himself to issue verdicts (fatwa) until and unless he
fulfills five characteristics:
First, he should
have a [firm and good] intention; for if he does not, he will have no light
upon him, and nor will his words.
Second, he should be forbearing, tranquil and serene.
Third, he should be strong upon what he is involved in, strong in its knowledge.
Fourth, he should
have sufficient means (wealth), otherwise the people will chew him up.
Fifth, he should
know people and their ways.
Ibn Battah, Ibtāl Al-Hiyal p24.
After
quoting this statement, and before his commentary on it, Ibn Al-Qayyim states:
This
is one of the proofs of the eminence of Imām Ahmad and his lofty status in
knowledge and insight; for these five are the pillars of fatwā, and to the
extent that there is deficiency in any of them, to that extent faults will
appear in the mufti.
I’lām Al-Muwaqi’īn, 6:106
Taken from: https://www.sayingsofthesalaf.net/five-essential-qualities-of-a-mufti/
The Salaf and the Quran in Ramadan
It is reported that
Al-Aswad [b. Yazīd Al-Nakha’ī] used to complete the recitation of the Quran in
Ramadan every two nights; sleeping between al-maghrib and al-‘ishā. Outside of
Ramaḍān, he used to complete a recitation every
six nights. (Abū Nu’aym, Ḥilyatu Al-Awliyā` 1:250.)
It is related from
Al-Rabī’ b. Sulaymān, “Muḥammad b. Idrīs Al-Shāfi’ī used to complete
reciting the Quran in the month of Ramadan sixty times, all in the prayer.” (Ibid.
4:107)
It is reported that
Abul-Ash-hab said, “Abū Al-Rajā` [Al-Aṭārudī] would complete
with us a recitation of the Quran in the night prayers of Ramadan every ten
days.” (Ibid. 1:348)
It is reported that Qatādah used to complete a
recitation of the Quran once every seven nights, and when Ramadan
came, once every three nights. During the last ten nights, he would complete a
recitation every night. (Ibid. 1:364)
It is reported that Al-Bukhārī used to complete a recitation [of
the Quran] once a day in Ramadan, and would pray after Tarāwīḥ every night, completing another recitation every three nights. (Al-Dhahabī,
Siyar A’lām Al-Nubalā` 12:439)
Notes
After mentioning some similar examples from the Salaf, Ibn Rajab
says in Laṭā`if Al-Ma’ārif p319: The prohibition of
reciting the Quran in less than three days [found in some
ahadith] refers to doing so regularly [throughout the year]. As for virtuous
times, like Ramadan – especially the nights in which it is hoped Laylatu
Al-Qadr will occur – or virtuous places, like Makkah – for those who enter it and
are not residents there, then it is recommended to increase in reciting the
Quran, making the most of the time and the place. This is the position of
[Imam] Aḥmad, Isḥāq [ibn Rāhūyah] and
other Imams, and the practice of others [from the Salaf] indicates [they
held the same position].
Translation by Owais Al-Hashimi (hafithahullaah)
https://www.sayingsofthesalaf.net/the-salaf-and-the-quran-in-ramadan/
Greetings of the Companions [a little known Sunnah]
Al-Sha’bī reports, “When the
Companions of Muhammad – Allāh’s peace and blessings be upon him –
used to meet, they would shake hands; and when returning
from travels, they would hug one another.”
Shaykh Al-Albānī states in Al-Sahīhah
Vol. 1 p300, “[This is]
recorded by Al-Bayhaqī Vol. 7 p100 with a sahīh chain of
transmission from Al-Sha’bī.”
Abū Madīnah Al-Dārimī – Allāh be
pleased with him – reports, “When two of the Companions of Allāh’s Messenger –
Allāh’s peace and blessings be upon him – would meet, they would not part until
one would recite to the other “By time, verily man is
in loss…” (Sūrah Al-‘Asr).
Then, one of them would say salām to the
other.”
Recorded by Al-Tabarānī in Al-Awsat,
and others. Shaykh Al-Albānī graded its chain of transmission sahīh.
See Al-Sahīhah, hadīth 2648.
Shaykh Al-Albānī states, “There are two points of benefit in this narration about the practice of our Salaf – Allāh be pleased with them all. The first is that they used to say salām when parting, which has been explicitly mentioned in some statements of the Prophet…The other, we learn from the regular practice of the Companions, is reciting Sūrah Al-‘Asr [when parting], for we believe that they were the farthest of people from introducing into the religion a worship by which they sought to bring themselves closer to Allāh, except with some sanction from Allāh’s Messenger – peace and blessings be upon him, either through a statement from him, or an action of his, or by his tacit approval…”
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Imām Al-Ājurrī said over 1000 years ago:
The most important asset of the
believer is his religion; he goes wherever it goes; he neither leaves it behind
nor entrusts it to men. And know, Allāh have mercy on you, that we are in a time
of many trials from many angles if a person does not have knowledge to escape
every fitnah that faces him, he will be destroyed.
Mukhtaṣar Farḍ Ṭalab Al-‘Ilm
Translated by Owais Al-Hashimi // SayingsoftheSalaf.net
31 January 2019, 6: 19 PM
Ibn Al-Qayyim: Whoever
is inspired (by Allāh) to supplicate (to
Allāh), then a response has already been intended for him, for Allāh has said:
ادعوني أستجب لكم
Call on me, I will answer you
[40:60]
وإذا سألك عبادي عني فإني قريب أجيب
دعوة الداع إذا دعان
And when my servants
ask you about me, then (tell them) I am close, I answer the prayer of the
caller when he calls upon me [2:186]
Al-Dā wa Al-Dawā’ p30
Translated by Owais Al-Hashimi (hafidhahullaah)
Sayingsofthesalaf.net
15 March 2018, 8:59 PM