Abu Al-’Aaliyah reports that a man once asked `Ubay bin K`ab – may Allah be pleased with him – for advice.
He said:
“Take the Book of Allah as your leader (imam) and be pleased with it as a judge and ruler.
It is what your Messenger left amongst you.
It will be an intercessor for [...]
Bakr al Muzani said, “If you want your prayer to be of benefit to you, say to yourself, ‘I might not have a chance to perform another prayer.’” [Jami` al `Ulum wal Hikam, p 466.]
Shubrumah said, “We accompanied Karz al Harithi on a journey. Whenever he wanted to set camp in an area, he used [...]
For forty years, the Adhan was never called but Sa`id bin al-Musayyab radhiallahu `anhu was in the mosque before it was called. [Tabaqat al Hanabilah 1/141, Hilyat al Awliya 2/163, Sifat as Safwah 2/80]
After ar-Rabi` bin Khaytham became partially paralyzed, he used to go to the mosque helped by two men. He was told: “O [...]
The father of Abee Aasim said: I heard my son narrate from Abu Abdullah al-Kasa`i; I heard ibn Abee Aasim say:
When the affair of al-Alawee occurred in Basrah all of my books were lost, so I re-wrote fifty thousand ahadith from memory. I used to go to the greengrocers’ shop and write using the light [...]
“I was with ibn al-Mubarak and Mu’tamir bin Sulayman in Tarsus and suddenly people were called to arms (for war). When the two armies (the muslim and the roman) took their positions, a roman fighter came forward and asked for a one-to-one fight. A muslim fighter went forward to fight the roman but was killed. [...]
Yunus as-Sadafi’ said:
I have never seen a wiser man than ash-Shafi`ee, I was arguing with him one day about an issue and I left him.
One day, he met me, held my hand and said:
‘Cannot we be brothers, even if we disagree about something?’ “
[Siyar a'laam an-Nubalaa' 10/16]
Abu `Abdur Rahman said
“We learned the Qur’an from some people who told us that they used to memorise 10 verses of the Qur’an and never exceeded them, til they had understood their meaning and acted upon them; however, other people would come after them and would learn the whole Qur’an easily but they would [...]
Imam ash-Shafi’ee said :
If you fear falling into conceit through your deeds, remember
Whose pleasure you seek(that is Allah),
what kind of grace you are looking for,
and what kind of punishment you are afraid of.
So, if you remember all these, your pious deeds will look small in your eyes.
Siyar a’laam an-Nubalaa’
‘Ataa. said:
‘Umar ibn ‘Abdul-‘Aziz used to gather the fuqahaa every night and they would all remember death, the Day of Judgment and the Hereafter and then they would weep.
Siyar a’laam an-Nubalaa’
