Our Salaf: Utbah Ibn Ghazwaan
Utbah Ibn Ghazwaan (radiyallaahu-anhu) said:
”I seek the protection of Allaah from (considering) myself great, whilst being diminished in the Sight of Allaah.” [Saheeh Muslim 7625]
Tag: Salaf
Our Salaf: Urwa Ibn Az-zubayr
”It may be that being forbearing with a belittling statement would bring me honour for a long time.” [Siyar 4/436]
Father qadari and maternal Uncles rawaafid (shia)
Yusuf Ibn Asbaat (rahimahullaah) said:
”My father was a qadari and my maternal uncles were rawaafid (shia), and Allaah saved me through Sufyaan (i.e. guided him to the Sunnah through Sufyaan)”
[Quoted by Shaikh Jamaal Ibn Fareehaan al-Haarithi (may Allaah preserve him) in لم الدر المنثور page 142, and its original reference is in Taareekh Dimashq 8/79]
A test for the false claimants and illegal partisans!
Zakariyyah Ibn Yahyah (rahimahullaah) said:
I heard Abu-Bakr Ibn Ayyaash (when) a man said to him: ”O AbuBakr! Who is the Sunni?” He said: Is the one that when the desires are mentioned (i.e. when the innovations are mentioned and criticized), he does not become bigoted (in defending or following) any of it.”
[Source: Al-Itisaam 1/114]
Follow and Do Not Exaggerate!
Shaikhul Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah) said:
Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthmaan, Ali and all those who were foremost to embrace Islaam of the Muhaajiroon and the Ansaar used to depart from Madeenah to Makkah to perform Hajj and Umrah, and as travellers; but it is not stated that a single one of them strove to pray at (any particular) spots in which the Prophet (sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam) prayed. And it is well-known that if this (practice) was something they considered recommended, they would have been more worthy to precede in it; because they were more knowledgeable about his Sunnah and followed it more than others.
[Source: Iqtidaa Siraat Al-Mustaqeem 2/748]
[3] Reminder: Rebellion
Harb Al-Kirmaani (rahimahullaah) stated regarding the creed transmitted from all the Salaf that: ”If the ruler commands you an affair in which there is disobedience to Allaah, then you do not obey him at all; but you are not allowed to rebel against him nor deny him his rights.” [حادي الأرواح of Imaam Ibnul Qayyim: page: 104]
The Haal of the Salaf with the Qur’aan by Shaikh Abdullaah Al-Bukhaari
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A characteristic of the Salafi
Imaam Dhahabi (rahimahullaah) stated about Imaam Daaraqutni (rahimahullaah):
”The man never entered into philosophical rhetoric, or debate (that has no basis or benefit), nor absorbed in that; rather he was a Salafi.”
[Siyar: 16/457]
A Book in Arabic by Al-Allaamah Rabee Bin Haadi (may Allaah preserve him)
Title:
الذريعة إلى بيان مقاصد كتاب الشريعة للإمام المحدث ابي بكر محمد الحسين الآجري
Four Volumes
Vol 1 (672pages); Vol 2 (696 pages); Vol 3 (700); Vol 4 (523 pages)
May Allaah grant the Shaikh good in this life and the next. Aameen
Our Salaf: The Night prayer-Thaabit Al-Bunaanee and Maymoon Ibn Mehraan
Thaabit Al-Bunaanee (rahimahullaah) used to pray at night and fast during the day. He used to say: ‘’There is nothing I find more pleasing to my heart than Qiyaamul Layl (i.e. Tahajjud)’’ [Sifatus Safwah 3/262]
Maymoon Ibn Mehraan (rahimahullaah) said:
”The nobility of a Muslim is in performing the prayer in the darkness of night and not being desperate for what is in the hands of the people (i.e. their possessions) [Shu’ab Al-Imaan 3/171]
We ask Allaah to grant us the tawfeeq to follow the example of our Salaf. However, if Allaah grants you the Tawfeeq to wake up for the night prayer, do not stand up all night and then oversleep and miss fajr; rather ask Allaah for tawfeeq to wake up in the last third of the night until the beginning of Fajr.