Talk is Easy
ʿAbdullah b. Mas’ūd – Allah be please with him – said: Everyone speaks of good things. It is those whose words and deeds match who have acquired their share. Those…
ʿAbdullah b. Mas’ūd – Allah be please with him – said: Everyone speaks of good things. It is those whose words and deeds match who have acquired their share. Those…
Al-Hasan Al-Basrī – Allah have mercy on him – said: When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight,…
It is reported from Abū Idrīs Al-Khawlānī – Allah have mercy on him – that he used to say: I would rather hear of a fire in the masjid than…
Al-Hasan Al-Basrī – Allah have mercy on him – said: Do not sit with an adherent of bid’ah for he will cause a disease in your heart. Ibn Waddāh, Al-Bida’…
It is reported from Sufyān Al-Thawrī – Allah have mercy on him – that he said: A person who sits with a heretic (an adherent of bid’ah) will not escape…
It is reported from Maymūn b. Mahrān – Allah be please with him – that he said: A person cannot be a taqīy (pious man of taqwā) until he takes…
A man came to Maymūn b. Mahrān – Allah be please with him – to ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage. Maymūn said, “I do not approve of her…
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…
During his Caliphate, ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib – Allah be pleased with him – saw some armor of his with a Christian. He decided to take the matter up legally,…
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…