Amr Bin Thaabit (rahimahullaah) said: When Ali Ibnul Husayn (rahimahullaah) passed away and was being given a bath, they (i.e. those giving him a bath) looked at a black mark that was on his back; so they said, ”What is this (black mark)?” They (i.e. some other people who were present) said, ”He used to carry a sack of flour at night to give to the poor people of Madeenah.”
[Sifatus Safwa: 2/96]
Maalik Ibn Deenaar (rahimahullaah) said, ”The people (i.e. some of them) exit the worldly life without tasting the most tasteful thing in it”; so they (i.e. the people) asked, ‘What is it O father of Yahya?’ He said, ”Knowledge and awareness of Allaah”.
[Source: Maktabah Shaamilah- Seeratus Salaf As-Saaleh’ by Imaam Ismaaeel Bin Muhammad Bin Fadl Al-Asbahaanee (535AH: Chapter: A mention of those who followed the companions in righteousness]
Knowledge and Awareness of Allaah: knowledge and awareness that makes the person accept whatever He (Allaah) has prescribed and laid down, and causes him to submit to that, and to judge by the Prescribed laws which the Messenger (sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam) came with…..[For further details see: Translation of the Explanation of the three fundamental principles page 38 – By Ustaadh Abu Talhah Daawud Burbank (may Allaah have mercy on him and his wife. Aameen]
Ataa Ibn Deenaar (rahimahullaah) narrated from Saeed Bin Jubayr (rahimahullaah) who said: Indeed reverential fear is that you fear Allaah until it becomes a barrier between you and disobedience. This reverential fear is Dhikrul Allaah (Remembrance of Allaah) and obedience to Allaah. Therefore, whoever obeys Allaah is one who (truly) remembers Him, and whoever does not obey Allaah is not one who (truly) remembers Him even if he utters a lot of Tasbeeh (Glorification of Allaah) and recites the Qur’aan a lot.’’
[Hilyatul Awliyaa: 4/276]
The Prophet (sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam) said:
”The Most beloved deeds to Allaah are that which (a person does) continuously even if little”. [Ref 1]
Short Faa’idah from Imaam Abdul Azeez Bin Baaz (rahimahullaah):
Righteous deeds (i.e. supererogatory deeds) -even if little- performed regularly are better than performing a lot of deeds that are not regular. [Ref 2]
Faa’idah from Shaikh Muhammad Baazmool (may Allaah preserve him):
The hadeeth shows that a Muslim should limit himself to the acts of worship he is able perform (i.e. supererogatory deeds) and what is understood from this is a prohibition against imposing on himself (supererogatory deeds) which he is not able to perform. [Ref 3:]
[Ref 1: Part of a Hadeeth in Sahih Muslim Number 782]
[Ref 2: Al-Hulalul Ibreeziyyah Min At-Taleeqaat Al-Baaziyyah Alaa Saheeh Al-Bukhaari. Vol 1 footnote number 2. Page 24. Abridged & slightly paraphrased]
[Ref 3: Bugh’yah Al-Muta’tawwi Fee Salaah At-Tatawwu’ page198. Abridged & slightly paraphrased]
Author: Shaikh Abdus Salaam Burgess (rahimahullaah)
Publisher: Daar Al-Minhaaj 1st Edition 1429AH (Year 2008)
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The Messenger of Allaah (sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam) said:
Whoever says [سُبْحَانَ اللّهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ ] a hundred times when he reaches the morning and evening, none will come on the Day of Judgement with anything better than what he comes with, except someone who has said the same as he said or more. [Sahih Muslim 2692]
Al-Qawaa’il Al-Fiqhiyyah al-Khamsah Al-Kub’raa
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Number of pages: 112
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It was narrated from Abu Hurairah (radiyallaahu-anhu) who said: “My Khalil [close friend – i.e. the Messenger of Allaah (Sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam)] advised me with three (affairs and) I will not leave them until I die: “To fast three days every month. To offer the Duhaa prayer and to pray the Witr prayer before sleeping”. [Bukhari 1124]
