Abu Darda Al Ansari (radiyAllahu'anhu):
“Whoever knocks on the door then it is on the brink of it being opened up for him, and whoever makes a lot of du’aa then his supplication is on the verge of being answered.”
(Ash-Shu'ab, 2/1142)
Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jauziyyah:
“A person who acts without knowledge is like someone who travels without a guide, and it is known that a person like this will more likely be destroyed than saved.”
(Miftah Daar As-Sa'ada, 1/82-83)
I have never struggled to rectify something that is more difficult to overcome than my soul; sometimes I win, and sometimes I lose.
—Sufyān al-Thawrī [d. 161H/778CE]
(Read on pg 86, Salaahud-Deen ibn ‘Alee ibn ‘Abdul-Maujood, The Biography of Sufyaan Ath-Thauree. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2005.)
The first stage of knowledge is silence; the second is listening and memorizing; the third is applying what one learned; and the fourth is teaching and spreading the knowledge that one learned.
—Sufyān al-Thawrī [d. 161H/778CE]
(Read on pg 43, Salaahud-Deen ibn ‘Alee ibn ‘Abdul-Maujood, The Biography of Sufyaan Ath-Thauree. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2005.)
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself.
—Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah [d. 751H/1350CE]
(Madarij as-Saalikeen, Volume 1, p.183, Maktabah Dar al-Bayyan)
“If you don’t fear for the possibility of God’s punishment for the greatest of your deeds, then you are destroyed.”
—Ḥudhayfah b. Qatādah al-Marʿashīyy [d. 207AH]
Imām al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ
I am amazed by the eye which sleeps while it knows the length of the sleep within the darkness of the graves.
—Mu’adhah bint ‘Abdillah Al-Basriyyah
(Read on pg 102, Shaykh Mashhur Hasan al Salman, The Noble Women Scholars of Hadith. Jamiah Media. 2010.)
The major sins are the sins one commits, then considers them insignificant and underrates them.
—al-Awza’i
(Read on pg 51, Talib Ibn Tyson al-Birtani, Purify My Heart. Dar-us-Salam Publications. Riyadh:2012.)
Seventy sins are forgiven for an ignorant man, before one sin is forgiven for a scholar.
—al-Fuḍayl b. ‘Iyāḍ [d. 187H]
Hilyatu’l-Auliyaa by Abu-Nu’aym (8/110) & (7/286)
Are those who know equal to those who do not know? (Qur’an S. az-Zumar 39, v 9)
(Read on pg 38, Ibn al-Jawzi, Awakening From The Sleep of Heedlessness. Daar as-Sunnah Publishers. Birmingham: 2012.)
If a man worships Allah for one thousand years, and then he turns away from him for one moment, then what he missed in this moment is more than what he gained [in the one thousand years of worship].
—al-Junaid al-Baghdādī [d. 297 AH]
Hilyatu’l-Auliyaa by Abu-Nu’aym (10/278)
Regret for wasted time should be deep, for time passes quickly and it is difficult to make up what you have missed.
Time for the worshiper is a time for worship and reciting awraad, and for the devoted Muslim it is time for turning to Allah and focusing on Him with all his heart.
Time is the dearest thing to him and he would feel very sad if time passes without him doing what he is meant to do. If he misses time, he can never make it up, because a second time has its own duties. So if he misses time, there is no way he can bring it back.
—Ibn al-Qayyim [d. 751H/1350CE] (Madaarij al-Saalikeen 3/49)
The basis of corruption in boys is the influence of other boys on each other.
—Ibrahim al-Harbi
(Read on pg 25, Ibn al-Jawzi, Awakening From The Sleep of Heedlessness. Daar as-Sunnah Publishers. Birmingham: 2012.)
Imam Az-Zuhree:
“The people of knowledge who came before us used to say, ‘Salvation lies in clinging to the Sunnah.’ ”
(Ad-Daarimee, 96)
‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab (radiyAllahu'anhu) would write to his governors during his caliphate and say: “The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.” (At-Taareeqah Al-Hakamiyah, p.240)
Imam Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali:
“All blessings are from Allah and His virtue, so whoever ascribes any of these blessings to other than Allah with the belief that it is not from Allah is a real Mushrik! And whoever ascribes these blessings to other than Allah with the belief that they are from Allah has committed hidden shirk.”
(Lataa'if Al-Ma'aarif, p. 70)
‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab (radiyAllahu'anhu):
“Do not put off today’s work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.”
(Munaaqib Ameer Al-Mu'mineen, by Ibn Al-Jawzee, p.129)
‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab (radiyAllahu'anhu):
“There is no relationship between Allah and anyone except through obedience to Him.”
(Taareekh At-Tabaree, 4/306)
Imam Malik:
“I do not view that one should stand by the grave of the Prophet (ﷺ) and make du’aa, rather one should give salaam and then pass by.”
[Saheeh. Siyaanatul Insaan (p.264). Also see Fath Al-Mannaan, p.358]
Qaasim al-Joo’ee said:
“I advise you with five matters:
(1) when you are treated unjustly, do not behave unjustly;
(2) when you are praised do not become happy;
(3) when you are criticised, do not become upset;
(4) when you are not believed, do not become angry;
(5) and if the people act deceitfully towards you, do not act deceitfully towards them.”
(Related by Ibn al-Jawzee in Sifatus-Safwaa, 2/200)
Abu Al-Ashhab said:
” ‘Umar passed by a garbage dump and stopped there, and it was as if his companions were bothered by it (the smell). He said, ‘This is the world of yours which you are so eager for and you weep over.’ ”
('Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab, His Life And Times, By 'Ali Muhammad As-Sallaabi, Vol. I, p. 288)
Once ‘Umar Ibn ‘Abdul ‘Azeez was advised:
“O ‘Umar, beware of being the ally of Allâh in open, while being His enemy in secret. If one’s nature in open and secret do not equate then he is a hypocrite, and the hypocrites occupy the lowest level in Hellfire.”
(Al-Bayhaqi, Al-Zuhd Al-Kabeer, p.100)
Al-Hasan Al-Basree:
“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)
Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jauziyyah:
"Calamities, trials and tests are signs of love from Allah for the believers. They are comparable to a cure; although it may be bitter, you accept it because it is from the one whom you love; and to Allah belongs the best example."
(Ighaathatul Lahfan” p. 286.)
Ali Ibn Abi Talib (radiyAllahu'anhu):
“Verily knowledge is more precious than wealth. Knowledge preserves you, while you preserve wealth. Knowledge judges while wealth is judged upon. The possessors of wealth have died, while the possessors of knowledge live on. Their (the scholars) bodies have passed away, but they are still present in the hearts of the people.”
(Adab Al-Dunya Wa Al-Deen, p.48)
Talq ibn Habeeb:
“Indeed the rights of Allaah are far greater than the servant can fulfill, and indeed the blessings of Allaah are far more than can be counted, however, be repentful in the morning and evening (i.e. throughout the day).”
(Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa, 4/622)
Hide your good deeds (from the people) just like you hide your evil deeds.
—Abu Hazim Salamah b. Dinar
(Abu Nu’aym, Bayhaqi)
It is enough an honor for knowledge that even those who are not proficient in it claim it and are happy whenever they are addressed as knowledgeable. And it is enough a condemnation for ignorance that even an ignorant person despises being called ignorant.
—’Alī b. Abī Ṭālib [d.40AH/661CE]
(Read on pg 44, Salaahud-Deen ibn ‘Alee ibn ‘Abdul-Mawjood, Imam Sa’eed bin Al-Musayyab (Biography). Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2006.)
“Whoever knocks on the door then it is on the brink of it being opened up for him, and whoever makes a lot of du’aa then his supplication is on the verge of being answered.”
(Ash-Shu'ab, 2/1142)
Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jauziyyah:
“A person who acts without knowledge is like someone who travels without a guide, and it is known that a person like this will more likely be destroyed than saved.”
(Miftah Daar As-Sa'ada, 1/82-83)
I have never struggled to rectify something that is more difficult to overcome than my soul; sometimes I win, and sometimes I lose.
—Sufyān al-Thawrī [d. 161H/778CE]
(Read on pg 86, Salaahud-Deen ibn ‘Alee ibn ‘Abdul-Maujood, The Biography of Sufyaan Ath-Thauree. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2005.)
The first stage of knowledge is silence; the second is listening and memorizing; the third is applying what one learned; and the fourth is teaching and spreading the knowledge that one learned.
—Sufyān al-Thawrī [d. 161H/778CE]
(Read on pg 43, Salaahud-Deen ibn ‘Alee ibn ‘Abdul-Maujood, The Biography of Sufyaan Ath-Thauree. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2005.)
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself.
—Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah [d. 751H/1350CE]
(Madarij as-Saalikeen, Volume 1, p.183, Maktabah Dar al-Bayyan)
“If you don’t fear for the possibility of God’s punishment for the greatest of your deeds, then you are destroyed.”
—Ḥudhayfah b. Qatādah al-Marʿashīyy [d. 207AH]
Imām al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ
I am amazed by the eye which sleeps while it knows the length of the sleep within the darkness of the graves.
—Mu’adhah bint ‘Abdillah Al-Basriyyah
(Read on pg 102, Shaykh Mashhur Hasan al Salman, The Noble Women Scholars of Hadith. Jamiah Media. 2010.)
The major sins are the sins one commits, then considers them insignificant and underrates them.
—al-Awza’i
(Read on pg 51, Talib Ibn Tyson al-Birtani, Purify My Heart. Dar-us-Salam Publications. Riyadh:2012.)
Seventy sins are forgiven for an ignorant man, before one sin is forgiven for a scholar.
—al-Fuḍayl b. ‘Iyāḍ [d. 187H]
Hilyatu’l-Auliyaa by Abu-Nu’aym (8/110) & (7/286)
Are those who know equal to those who do not know? (Qur’an S. az-Zumar 39, v 9)
(Read on pg 38, Ibn al-Jawzi, Awakening From The Sleep of Heedlessness. Daar as-Sunnah Publishers. Birmingham: 2012.)
If a man worships Allah for one thousand years, and then he turns away from him for one moment, then what he missed in this moment is more than what he gained [in the one thousand years of worship].
—al-Junaid al-Baghdādī [d. 297 AH]
Hilyatu’l-Auliyaa by Abu-Nu’aym (10/278)
Regret for wasted time should be deep, for time passes quickly and it is difficult to make up what you have missed.
Time for the worshiper is a time for worship and reciting awraad, and for the devoted Muslim it is time for turning to Allah and focusing on Him with all his heart.
Time is the dearest thing to him and he would feel very sad if time passes without him doing what he is meant to do. If he misses time, he can never make it up, because a second time has its own duties. So if he misses time, there is no way he can bring it back.
—Ibn al-Qayyim [d. 751H/1350CE] (Madaarij al-Saalikeen 3/49)
The basis of corruption in boys is the influence of other boys on each other.
—Ibrahim al-Harbi
(Read on pg 25, Ibn al-Jawzi, Awakening From The Sleep of Heedlessness. Daar as-Sunnah Publishers. Birmingham: 2012.)
Imam Az-Zuhree:
“The people of knowledge who came before us used to say, ‘Salvation lies in clinging to the Sunnah.’ ”
(Ad-Daarimee, 96)
‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab (radiyAllahu'anhu) would write to his governors during his caliphate and say: “The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.” (At-Taareeqah Al-Hakamiyah, p.240)
Imam Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali:
“All blessings are from Allah and His virtue, so whoever ascribes any of these blessings to other than Allah with the belief that it is not from Allah is a real Mushrik! And whoever ascribes these blessings to other than Allah with the belief that they are from Allah has committed hidden shirk.”
(Lataa'if Al-Ma'aarif, p. 70)
‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab (radiyAllahu'anhu):
“Do not put off today’s work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.”
(Munaaqib Ameer Al-Mu'mineen, by Ibn Al-Jawzee, p.129)
‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab (radiyAllahu'anhu):
“There is no relationship between Allah and anyone except through obedience to Him.”
(Taareekh At-Tabaree, 4/306)
Imam Malik:
“I do not view that one should stand by the grave of the Prophet (ﷺ) and make du’aa, rather one should give salaam and then pass by.”
[Saheeh. Siyaanatul Insaan (p.264). Also see Fath Al-Mannaan, p.358]
Qaasim al-Joo’ee said:
“I advise you with five matters:
(1) when you are treated unjustly, do not behave unjustly;
(2) when you are praised do not become happy;
(3) when you are criticised, do not become upset;
(4) when you are not believed, do not become angry;
(5) and if the people act deceitfully towards you, do not act deceitfully towards them.”
(Related by Ibn al-Jawzee in Sifatus-Safwaa, 2/200)
Abu Al-Ashhab said:
” ‘Umar passed by a garbage dump and stopped there, and it was as if his companions were bothered by it (the smell). He said, ‘This is the world of yours which you are so eager for and you weep over.’ ”
('Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab, His Life And Times, By 'Ali Muhammad As-Sallaabi, Vol. I, p. 288)
Once ‘Umar Ibn ‘Abdul ‘Azeez was advised:
“O ‘Umar, beware of being the ally of Allâh in open, while being His enemy in secret. If one’s nature in open and secret do not equate then he is a hypocrite, and the hypocrites occupy the lowest level in Hellfire.”
(Al-Bayhaqi, Al-Zuhd Al-Kabeer, p.100)
Al-Hasan Al-Basree:
“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)
Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jauziyyah:
"Calamities, trials and tests are signs of love from Allah for the believers. They are comparable to a cure; although it may be bitter, you accept it because it is from the one whom you love; and to Allah belongs the best example."
(Ighaathatul Lahfan” p. 286.)
Ali Ibn Abi Talib (radiyAllahu'anhu):
“Verily knowledge is more precious than wealth. Knowledge preserves you, while you preserve wealth. Knowledge judges while wealth is judged upon. The possessors of wealth have died, while the possessors of knowledge live on. Their (the scholars) bodies have passed away, but they are still present in the hearts of the people.”
(Adab Al-Dunya Wa Al-Deen, p.48)
Talq ibn Habeeb:
“Indeed the rights of Allaah are far greater than the servant can fulfill, and indeed the blessings of Allaah are far more than can be counted, however, be repentful in the morning and evening (i.e. throughout the day).”
(Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa, 4/622)
Hide your good deeds (from the people) just like you hide your evil deeds.
—Abu Hazim Salamah b. Dinar
(Abu Nu’aym, Bayhaqi)
It is enough an honor for knowledge that even those who are not proficient in it claim it and are happy whenever they are addressed as knowledgeable. And it is enough a condemnation for ignorance that even an ignorant person despises being called ignorant.
—’Alī b. Abī Ṭālib [d.40AH/661CE]
(Read on pg 44, Salaahud-Deen ibn ‘Alee ibn ‘Abdul-Mawjood, Imam Sa’eed bin Al-Musayyab (Biography). Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2006.)
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