Do Not Beautify Yourself with Knowledge
It is reported that Ḥabīb b. ʿUbayd – Allāh have mercy on him – said: Learn knowledge, understand it and benefit from it (live by it); and do not study…
It is reported that Ḥabīb b. ʿUbayd – Allāh have mercy on him – said: Learn knowledge, understand it and benefit from it (live by it); and do not study…
It is reported that Sufyān Al-Thawrī – Allāh have mercy on him – said: Whoever hears of a bidʿah, let him not tell it to those who are with him,…
It is reported that ʿAbdullāh b. Al-Mubārak – Allāh have mercy on him – said: How fast these days are in doing away with our lifespans, and how fast this…
It is reported that Muʿādh b. Jabal – Allāh be pleased with him – said: “O people, there are four characteristics to come, whoever can avoid reaching them should do…
It is reported from Anas b. Sīrīn that he said: It once reached us in Kūfā that Masrūq used to flee from the plague. Muḥammad denied this and said, “Let…
It is reported that Al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr – Allāh be pleased with him – said during a sermon he was delivering in Homs: Total destruction lies in doing bad deeds…
Al-Muzanī reports: I heard Al-Shāfiʿī say: A man once asked Ubay b. Kaʿb – Allāh be pleased with him, “Exhort me with something I can benefit by and by which…
ʿAlqamah reports: Ibn Masʿūd and [the rest of] the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ used to say the qunūt supplication before bowing in the witr prayer. Ibn Abī Shaybah, Al-Muṣannaf…
It is reported that Ḥudhayfah b. Al-Yamān – Allāh be pleased with him – said: True misguidance is that you approve now what you used to repudiate before (because it…
It is reported that Yūnus b. ‘Ubayd (d. 139H) – Allāh have mercy on him – said: I only liken the worldly life (dunyā) to a man who, whilst sleeping,…