Steps to Knowledge
Sufyān b. ‘Uyainah – Allah have mercy on him – said: The first step in knowledge is to listen, then to be quiet and attentive, then to preserve it, then…
Sufyān b. ‘Uyainah – Allah have mercy on him – said: The first step in knowledge is to listen, then to be quiet and attentive, then to preserve it, then…
Abū ʿUmar Al-Shaybānī reports: I would sit with Ibn Mas’ūd a whole year without him saying “Allah’s Messenger – Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him – said…” When he…
Whenever asked about a matter, Zayd b. Thābit – Allah be pleased with him – would himself ask, “Has this happened?” If they told him that the matter had not…
It is reported from ‘Alī b. Abī Tālib –Allah be pleased with him – that he said: The thing I fear for you most is following desires and having extensive…
Abū Hurayrah – Allah be pleased with him – said: There is no illness that afflicts me more beloved to me than fever: it enters every part of me and…
ʿAbdullāh b. Mas’ūd – Allah be pleased with him – went to visit someone who was ill, and a group of people went with him. In the house (where they…
Ibn Abī Mulaykah – Allah have mercy on him – said: I met thirty of the Prophet’s Companions – Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him – and every one…
Zayd b. Wahb reports: We were once sitting in the masjid with Ḥudhayfah (ibn Al-Yamān) – Allah be pleased with him, when a man entered from the gates of Kindah…
Al-Qāsim b. Muhammad, the grandson of Abū Bakr – Allah have mercy on him – said: In my time the people were not impressed by speech, they were impressed by…
‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib – Allah be pleased with him – said: Narrate to people what they can understand; do you want Allah and His Messenger to be disbelieved? Quoted…