Ḥasan [al-Baṣrī] (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 (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 (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 (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 (may Allāh have mercy upon him) relates about Ismā'īl's death: “I visited Ismā'īl, the father of Abī 'Abdullāh (al-Bukhārī), 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) that was earned through dubious means.’ When he said that: I thought very disparagingly about myself.”
He said: And I heard Abā 'Abdullāh [i.e., Imām Aḥmad] 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 (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 (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 accordance with the level of evil that he has, so he receives from both of these. This is the basic rule concerning which Ahlus-Sunnah Wal-Jamā'ah are agreed, while the khwāraij, the muta'zilah, and those who agree with them oppose them in it.”
Abū Bakr bin Abū Dāwūd (may Allāh have mercy upon then) said:“I heard my father say that Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal is at the forefront of all who ever carried a pen and an inkpot. i.e., in his time”
Bilāl bin Sa’d (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.”
