Our Salaf: Taawoos Ibnu Kaysaan
Ibraaheem Ibn Maysarah (rahimahullaah) said:
Taawoos (rahimahullaah) said to me: You either get married or else I will say to you what Umar Ibnul Khattaab (radiyallaahu-anhu) said to Abee Zawaa-id: Nothing prevents you from marriage except impotency or evil deeds. [Hilyatul Awliyaa: 4/6]
Ibn Taawoos narrated from his father (Taawoos) who said:
Miserliness is that a person is miserly with what he has in his hand; and greediness is that a man loves to have what people have in their hands through unlawful means. He is not contented. [Hilyatul Awliyaa: 4/6]
Our Salaf- Ash-shabee
Abee Jaabiyah Al-Firaa’ee (rahimahullaah) narrated from Ash-shabee (rahimahullaah) who said: Indeed, we are not learnt men of understanding; rather we listen to hadeeth and transmit it. But the learnt men of understanding are those who act after knowing. [Siyar A’laam Nubulaa: 4/303]
Maalik Bin Maghool (rahimahullaah) said: It was said to Shabee (rahimahullaah): ” scholar”. He said: The scholar is the one who fears Allaah. [Hilyatul awliyaa: 4/311]
Abee Ishaaq (rahimahullaah) narrated from Ash-shabee (rahimahullaah) who said: ”None abandons something of the worldly life for the sake of Allaah, except that Allaah will grant him what is better for him in the afterlife. [Hilyatul Awliyaa: 4/312]
I witnessed when a woman came to Shuraih (rahimahullaah) complaining about a man…
Majaalid (rahimahullaah) narrated from Ash-shabee who said: I witnessed when a woman came to Shuraih (rahimahullaah) complaining about a man and started weeping. So I said: O father of Umayyah: I do not think except that she is oppressed. So he (Shuraih) said to me: O Shabee, indeed the brothers of Yoosuf (alayhis-salaam) came to their father weeping.’’ Tahdheebul Kamaal:14/36]
Our Salaf–Masrooq
Masrooq Ibn Ajda-i (rahimahullaah) said:
”In reality, a person should have secluded sittings in which he remembers his sins and then seeks Allaah’s Forgiveness.” [Tabaqaat Ibn Sad: 6/80]
From Ibraaheem Bin Muhammad Al-Muntashir (rahimahullaah) that Masrooq (rahimahullaah) said: ”There is not anything better for the believer than Allaah’s legislated boundaries of the lawful and unlawful; for indeed it is a source of peace of mind from the distress of the worldly life and a safety from the punishment of Allaah. [Hilyatul Awliyaa: 2/97]
A believer is like a pearl
Imaam Maalik (rahimahullaah) said:
The believer is like a pearl; wherever he is, his beautiful (qualities) are with him. [Hilyatul Al-Awliyaa:2/377]
One of the Signs of a Heart Upon Tranquillity as Opposed to a Restless Heart
Imaam Ibnul Qayyim [rahimahullaah] said: ”When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is plentiful. And when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.”
[Madaarij As-saalikeen: 1/463]
Our Salaf: The believer speaks little!
Al-Waleed Ibn Yazeed (rahimahullaah) said:
I heard Al-Awzaa’ee (rahimahullaah) saying: ”The believer speaks little and acts a lot; and the hypocrite speaks a lot and acts little” [Siyar A’laam Nubulaa: 7/125]
Our Salaf: I don’t want to see the humilaition on your face!
Muttarrif Bin Abdillaah (rahimahullaah) said to one of his brothers:
”O Father of such and such! If you have a need, then do not speak to me; rather write it down on a piece of paper because I fear seeing the humiliation of asking on your face.” [Siyar A’laam Nubulaa: 4/194]
He (rahimahullaah) also said: To be thankful to Allaah whilst I am in a state of welbeing is more beloved to me than excercising patience when put to trial” [Siyar A’laam Nubulaa: 4/195]
I am a woman with hair on hands…….
Question:
I am a woman with hair on my two hands and some on my face, and I am unable to remove all of it; so I colour it with a colour that is of the same colour of (my) skin; is this impermissible?
Answer:
There is no harm in this. It is neither impermissible nor something (one) is withheld from. The likes of these affairs do not cause (something blameworthy). It is permissible regardless whether you colour it with what matches the colour of skin.
[Al-Fataawaa Wad-duroos Fil-Masjidil Haraam of shaikh Abdullaah bin Muhammad Bin Humaid: page: 159-160]