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Benefits For The Later Generations
EPISODE 3️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ Al-Hasan would say to his colleagues:
“O Ahlus Sunnah! Be gentle with each other, may Allaah have mercy upon you, for you are from the fewest of people!”
[Laalikaa’ee, #19]
3️⃣1️⃣2️⃣ Yoonus Ibn ‘Ubayd said:
“There is nothing stranger than the Sunnah and stranger still is the one who knows it.”
[Laalikaa’ee, #21 & Ibn Batta, #20]
3️⃣1️⃣3️⃣ Yoonus Ibn ‘Ubayd also said:
“It has come to the point that one who knows the Sunnah will think it is something strange, and stranger than this person is who finds the Sunnah something familiar.”
[Laalikaa’ee, #21 & Ibn Batta, #20]
3️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ Sufyaan Ath-Thawree said:
“Treat Ahlus Sunnah well, for they are the strangers.”
[Laalikaa’ee, #49]
3️⃣1️⃣5️⃣ Ahmad ibn Harb stated:
“I worshipped Allaah for fifty years, I wasn’t able to find the sweetness of worship until I forsook three things: (1) I forsook seeking the acceptance of people, so I was able to speak the truth. (2) I forsook the companionship of the sinner, so I was able to accompany the righteous. (3) I forsook the sweetness of the life of this world, so I was able to find the sweetness of the afterlife.”
[Adh-Dhahabee, Siyar]
3️⃣1️⃣6️⃣ ‘Alee said in describing the strangers:
“They are then able to bear with ease what the opulent find burdensome, meaning that the person accustomed to a luxurious life will find it difficult to leave the comforts and lusts of this world. This is because he has nothing to replace his worldly life where he to abandon it and as such cannot bear the thought of losing it.”
[Quoted by Ibn Rajab in “The Journey Of The Strangers”, translated by Shaykh Aboo Rumaysah]
3️⃣1️⃣7️⃣ The Prophet (ﷺ) said:
“Convey (knowledge) from me even if it is just one aayah, . . .”
[Sahih al-Bukhari, 3461]
3️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab said:
“Whoever decorates himself by displaying to the people some characteristics that Allaah knows are contrary to his real characteristics, will be disgraced and dishonoured by Allaah.”
[Ad-Daaraqutnee, 4/207]
3️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Al-Hasan Al-Basree said:
“To endure short-lived difficulties that are followed by long lasting ease, is better than hurrying for a short-lived ease that is followed by ever-lasting hardship.”
[Al-Hilyah, 2/134]
3️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ Al-Fadl Ibn Muhammad Ash-Sha’raanee said:
“I never saw ‘Abdullaah Ibn Saalih (137-223H) except that he was narrating ahaadeeth or saying tasbeeh.”
[Siyaar A’laamun Nubulaa, Vol. 10, Pp. 405-416]
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