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Benefits For The Later Generations
EPISODE 3️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣0️⃣1️⃣ ‘Abdullaah Ibn Mas’ood said:
“Let not one of you blindly follow a man in his Religion, if he believes, he believes, and if he disbelieves, he disbelieves. If it is a must that you follow someone then let it be the dead, for indeed the living is not safe from fitnah.”
[Sharh Usoolul-I’tiqaad (1/130) of al-Laalikaa‘ee]
3️⃣0️⃣2️⃣ ‘Uthmaan Ibn Haadir said:
“I said to ‘Abdullaah Ibn ‘Abbaas, ‘Advise me.’ He said, ‘It is upon you to be upright, and follow the first affair (the way of the Prophet and his Companions), and do not innovate.’”
[al-Ibaanah (1/319) by Ibn Battah]
3️⃣0️⃣3️⃣ Imaam Aboo ‘Amr ‘Abdur-Rahmaan Ibn ‘Amr al-Awzaa’ee (d.179H) said:
“Stick to the aathaar of those who have preceded (man salaf), even if the people reject you. And beware of the opinions of men, even if they beautify it for you with speech. So the affair is young and you are upon a Straight Path with regards to it.”
[Saheeh: Related by al-Bayhaqee in al-Madkhal (no. 233), al-Khateeb in Sharaf Ashaabul-Hadeeth (no. 6), Ibn ’Abdul-Barr in al-Jaami’ (1/170)]
3️⃣0️⃣4️⃣ ‘Umar Ibn al-Khattaab said:
“There is no excuse for anyone going astray thinking that he is upon guidance. Nor for abandoning guidance thinking it to be misguidance, since the affairs have been made clear, the proof established and the excuse cut off.”
[Reported by Ibn Battah in “al-lbaantul-Kubraa” (no. 162) by way of al-Awzaa’ee. However, its chain is munqati’ (disconnected)]
3️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ ‘Umar Ibn ‘Abdul-’Azeez said:
“There is no excuse for anyone, after the Sunnah, to be misguided upon error which he thought was guidance.”
[as-Sunnah (no.95) of al-Marwazee]
3️⃣0️⃣6️⃣ Many of the pious predecessors would spend long periods of time in seclusion. When one of them was asked:
“Do you not feel the bite of loneliness?” He replied: “How can I, when He has said that, He is the companion of those who remember Him?”
[Aboo Nu’aym, 8/217]
3️⃣0️⃣7️⃣ One of the Salaf said:
“How can one feel the bite of loneliness when he is with Allaah?”
[Ibn Abee Ad-Dunyaa, Al-‘Uzlah #49]
3️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ One of the Salaf said:
“Whoever feels the bite of loneliness when alone does so because of his lack of solace with his Lord.”
[Ibn Abee Ad-Dunyaa, Al-‘Uzlah #49]
3️⃣0️⃣9️⃣ Yahyaa Ibn Mu’aadh would frequently seclude and isolate himself. His brother censured him saying:
“If you are a man amongst men, you need the company of men!” So he replied: “If you are a man amongst men, you are in need of Allaah!”
[Extracted from “The Journey Of The Strangers” by Ibn Rajab, p. 96]
3️⃣1️⃣0️⃣ Awzaa’ee said, in the explanation of the hadeeth of the strangers:
“Islaam will not disappear, it is Ahlus Sunnah that will disappear to the point that there will only remain one of them in any one country.”
[Laalikaa’ee, #19]
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