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‘Uthmān bin Ḥakīm al-Awdī [d. 219H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Befriend the one who is above you in religion and below you in worldly life.”
Ibn al-Qayyim [d. 751H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “… It is recommended to walk a number of steps after eating at night even if it is merely a hundred steps, and he should not sleep right after eating as it causes great harm (to one’s body) …”
Ma’rūf al-Karkhī [d. 200H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “If Allāh intends evil for His servant he locks the door of action upon him and opens for him the door of argumentation.”
Al-Fuḍayl bin ‘Iyāḍ [d. 187H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The best of deeds is that which is most hidden, safest from shayṭān, and furthest from showing-off.”
Ḥabīb Abū Muḥammad (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Do not sit in idleness, for indeed, death is seeking you.”
Sa’īd bin Jubayr [d. 95H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Indeed, fear (of Allāh) is that you fear Allāh to such an extent that your fear becomes a barrier between you and your sin. That is true fear. And remembrance (of Allāh) is obedience to Him. So, whoever obeys Allāh has remembered Him, and...
Muḥammad bin Ka’b al-Quraẓī [d. 120H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “When Allāh – the Exalted – intends good for a servant, he makes three qualities in him: Understanding of the religion, asceticism in this world, and insight into his (own) shortcomings”
Ḥasan [al-Baṣrī] [d. 110H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Know that you will not love Allāh till you love being obedient to Him.”
Imām ibn al-Jawzī [d. 597H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “A woman is an accountable individual just as a man is. She is obliged to seek knowledge of her duties so that she may perform them properly.”
Imām al-Awzā’ī [d. 157H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Adhere to the āthār of the salaf, even if people reject you, and beware of the opinions of men, even if they beautify it in speech. Then indeed, when the matter becomes clear, you will find yourself upon the straight path.”
Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: So these three are necessary: knowledge, kindness and patience: “Knowledge before commanding [good or forbidding evil], kindness while doing it, and patience after it.”
Aḥmad bin Ḥafṣ [d. 258H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) relates about Ismā’īl’s death: I visited Abul-Ḥasan (Ismā’īl), the father of Abū ‘Abdullāh (al-Bukhārī) [d. 256H], when he was dying, and he said: ‘I know of no dirham from my wealth that was earned through unlawful means, nor of any dirham (from my wealth)...
He said: And I heard Abū ‘Abdullāh [i.e., Imām Aḥmad] [d. 241H] say: “Whoever rejects a ḥadīth of Allāh’s Messenger (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) is on the brink of destruction.”
Ibrāhīm bin Adham [d. 162H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “If we used to see the young speaking in the presence of the elders, then we had no hope in his manners or in any goodness for him.”
Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “When a single person possess both good and evil, wickedness and obedience, sunnah and innovation, he deserves allegiance and reward in accordance with the level of good that he has, and he deserves enmity and punishment in...
Abū Bakr bin Abī Dāwūd (may Allāh have mercy upon then) said: “I heard my father say that Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal [d. 241H] is at the forefront of all who ever carried a pen and an inkpot. i.e., in his time”
Bilāl bin Sa’d [d. 110H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Do not look at how small the sin is but rather look at [how Great is] the One that you have disobeyed.”
Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of tawḥīd and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.”
It was said to ‘Abdullāh bin Mubārak [d. 181H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him): “Has there remained anyone who still offers advice?” He responded: “Do you know anyone who accepts it?”
Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Allāh is more merciful to His slaves than the most merciful of mothers to her child, for the One Who made her merciful must be more merciful than her.”
Sufyān ath-Thawrī [d. 161H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “No saying is proper unless accompanied with action and no saying and action is proper unless accompanied with intention, and no saying, action and intention is proper unless they are consistent with the sunnah.”
Sufyān ath-Thawrī [d. 161H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The scholar is [like] a doctor of this nation and the wealth is the sickness. Therefore, when the doctor brings the sickness to himself how can he treat others?!”
Muḥammad bin Sīrīn [d. 110H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “We used to say that the people with the most faults are the quickest of them to mention the faults of others.”
Imām Mālik bin Anas [d. 179H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The sunnah is like the ark of Nūḥ. Whoever embarks upon it reaches salvation and whoever refuses is drowned.”
Hilāl bin Khabbāb (may Allāh have mercy upon him) says: I asked Sa’īd bin Jubayr [d. 95H], “O ‘Abu ‘Abdullāh, what is a sign of the destruction of people?” He replied: “When their ‘ulamā [learned ones] pass away.”
Sufyān ath-Thawrī [d. 161H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “It is befitting for a man to persuade his child to acquire knowledge because he will be asked about this.”
Ḥāfiẓ ibn Ḥajr al-‘Asqalānī [d. 852H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The one who constantly reads the Qurān, gets his tongue used to it and so reading becomes easy for him, but when he abandons it, reading it becomes very heavy for him and difficult.”
Ma’rūf al-Karkhī [d. 200H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Hoping to receive the mercy of the one who you insist on being disobedient to, is a kind of betrayal and foolishness.”
Sufyān ath-Thawrī [d. 161H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “If you know yourself, then you will not be harmed by whatever is said about you.”
Ibn Shubrumah [d. 144H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “I find it strange how people hold back from (certain) foods out of fear of falling sick, while they don’t hold back from sins out of fear of the Fire!”
Shaykh Muḥammad bin Ṣāliḥ al-‘Uthaymīn [d. 1421H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Each time an opportunity offers itself for the propagation of the Sunnah, do spread it, and you will certainly have the rewards and that of the one who acts upon it till the day of Resurrection.”
Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azīz bin Bāz [d. 1420H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “(Your) time is (your) life, and whoever wastes his time wastes his life, and whoever wastes his life will be regretful and this regret will not benefit him (or her).”
‘Umar bin ‘Abdul-‘Azīz [d. 101H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) wrote to a man: “If you think often about death, you will detest everything that is temporary and you will obtain the love for everything that is eternal.”
Mālik bin Dīnār [d. 130H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Look, O brother. Every brother, friend and companion you do not benefit from in your religion flee from him!”
‘Abdullāh bin Mubārak [d. 181H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The isnād (chain of narration) is part of the dīn. If it were not for the isnād, then any person would have said (about Islām) whatever he wished.”
Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azīz bin Bāz [d. 1420H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “There is no doubt that Islām came to give honour to the woman, guard her, protect her from the wolves of mankind, secure her rights and raise her status.”
Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Whoever speaks about the religion [al-Islām] without knowledge is a liar. Even if he had not intended to lie.”
Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azīz bin Bāz [d. 1420H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “This era is an era of gentleness, patience and wisdom, not an era of harshness. The majority of people are in ignorance, heedlessly preferring the dunyā. So we must be patient and we must be gentle until the da’wah spreads, until...
‘Abdullāh bin Mubārak [d. 181H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Perhaps a small deed becomes multiplied due to its [sincere] intention. Perhaps a great deed becomes small due to its [insincere] intention.”
‘Abdullāh bin Mubārak [d. 181H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) reported: Ja’far bin Sulaymān [d. 178H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Concern about the world is a darkness in the heart, and concern about the Hereafter is a light in the heart.”
Sufyān ath-Thawrī [d. 161H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “We do not know of anything better than seeking knowledge with (a sincere) intention (for the sake of Allāh).”
Sufyān ath-Thawrī [d. 161H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Three qualities are from patience: Not speaking about your misfortune, (not speaking about) your pain, and not praising yourself.”
Sufyān ath-Thawrī [d. 161H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Safety lies in not wanting to be known.”
Shaykh Muḥammad bin Ṣāliḥ al-‘Uthaymīn [d. 1421H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “If the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him and his progeny) were commanded to wear the ḥijāb and they were the most rigorous in chastity and the farthest from temptation, then those less than them are even more...
Imām Shāfi’ī [d. 204H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Whoever does not love knowledge, there is no good in him. So there should not be any acquaintance between you and him, nor any friendship.”
Sufyān ath-Thawrī [d. 161H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Sometimes a man will narrate a ḥadīth to me that I knew before his mother gave birth to him. However, out of good manners, I will listen to him (as though I did not know it).”
‘Abdullāh bin Mubārak [d. 181H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “It is right that an intelligent person does not undervalue three (types of people): The Scholars, the Rulers, and (his Muslim) brothers. Whoever undervalues the Scholars will lose his afterlife, whoever undervalues the rulers will lose...
Al-Fuḍayl bin ‘Iyāḍ [d. 187H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The scholar who works in teaching is regarded a great man in the domain of the heavens.”
Sufyān ath-Thawrī [d. 161H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “When a servant renounces the world, Allāh will cause wisdom to grow in his heart and to come forth from his tongue. He will grant him insight into the faults of the world, its diseases, and its cures.”
Ḥasan al-Baṣrī [d. 110H] (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: The life of this world is made up of three days: “Yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.”
