Shu-aib (rahimahullaah) narrated: I said to Ibn Seereen: ‘’what is your view concerning listening to the people of desires (i.e. ahlul bidah)? He said: ”We neither listen to them nor honour (them).”
[Siyar A’laam Nubulaa: 4/611]
Yoosuf Bin Asbaat (rahimahullaah): I heard Sufyaan (rahimahullaah) saying: ”I have not seen lesser abstinenence in anything besides (love) of leadership; you see a man abstaining from food, drink, wealth and clothing, but when leadership is presented, he becomes passionate about it and turns towards (it).
Not silently listening and not giving an attentive ear
Misunderstanding or wrong understanding
Lack of memorisation
Not disseminating and teaching it; for whoever accumulates [and keeps knowledge as a secret] and does not disseminate it, Allaah will afflict him by making him forget it- as a just recompense.
Not acting upon it, for indeed acting upon [knowledge] compels one to remember and ponder upon it, guard and examine it. But if he does not act upon it, he will forget it.
[Source: (غذاء الألباب) – page 33’ By Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Saalim As-Safaareeniy Al-Hanbali (rahimahullaah). Abridged & slightly paraphrased]
Shaykh Ubayd Al Jaabiree: The Sunnah is a call to that which rectifies the present and the future.
Tabsaratul Khalaf bi Sharh At-Tuhaf fee Madhaahib As Salaf Pg 70
Sheikh Rabee says: One must aid the haqq and warn against baatil; if not, you are dead. Not recognising khayr and rejecting evil is a sign of a hard heart.