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Marwān ibn Muḥammad al-Asadī al-Shāmī رحمه الله said: “Three are not to be trusted regarding the religion: the Ṣūfī, the storyteller (al-Qaṣṣāṣ), and an innovator who refutes the people of desires (Ahl al-Ahwāʾ).” 📚 Tartīb al-Madārik, 3/226

It is reported in Kitāb al-Sunnah of Imām ʿAbdullāh ibn Aḥmad: He said: My father narrated to me: Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us; Thābit al-Bunānī narrated to us, from Anas ibn Mālik, from the Prophet ﷺ, concerning His saying: ﴿فَلَمَّا تَجَلَّىٰ رَبُّهُ لِلْجَبَلِ جَعَلَهُ دَكًّا﴾ “Then, when his Lord manifested Himself to the mountain, He made it crumble.” [al-Aʿrāf 7:143] He ﷺ said: “Like this” — meaning, he extended the tip of his little finger (khِنṣir/pinky). My father [Imām Aḥmad] said: “Muʿādh demonstrated it to us.” And he placed his thumb upon the joint of his right little finger. Then Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl said to him: “What need have you for this, O Abū Muḥammad?” So [Ḥammād ibn Salamah] struck him forcefully upon the chest and said: “Who are you, O Ḥumayd? And what are you, O Ḥumayd? Anas ibn Mālik narrated this to me from the Prophet ﷺ, and you say, ‘What need have you for this?’” My father [Imām Aḥmad] narrated to me, saying: Someone who heard Muʿādh say narrated to me: “I wished that he had detained him for two months” — meaning Ḥumayd.

Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān (may Allah be pleased with him) delivered a Friday sermon, and among what he said was: “Give in charity, and let no man say, ‘I possess only little.’ For indeed, the charity of one who has little is better than the charity of the wealthy.” “Beware of slandering chaste women. A man may say, ‘I heard,’ or ‘It reached me,’ yet he repeats the accusation. By Allah, if one of you were to falsely accuse a woman who lived in the time of Nūḥ (Noah), he would still be questioned about it on the Day of Resurrection.” 📚 Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah

Imām al-Jarḥ wa al-Taʿdīl (the Imam of criticism and authentication of narrators), Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn (may Allah have mercy upon him) said: “Everyone who insults ʿUthmān, Ṭalḥah, or any of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (may Allah be pleased with them all) is a dajjāl. Nothing is written from him, and upon him is the curse of Allah, the angels, and all of mankind.” 📚 Tahdhīb al-Kamāl fī Asmāʾ al-Rijāl

Imam Muḥammad ibn Aslam al-Ṭūsī (may Allah have mercy upon him) — and he was described as being a whole community by himself — said: “No word ever ascended to the heavens that was greater, nor more evil, than three statements: The first of them: The statement of Pharaoh, when he said: ‘I am your Lord, the Most High.’ The second: The statement of Bishr al-Marīsī, when he said: ‘The Qur’an is created.’ The third: The statement of Muḥammad ibn Karrām, when he said: ‘Knowledge (recognition of Allah) is not from faith (īmān).’” 📚 Al-Abāṭīl wa al-Manākīr (274)

“If you see a man avoiding the school of Abū Ḥanīfah and not taking him as his imam, then I hope good for him.” It is narrated from Abū ʿUthmān ʿAmr ibn Maʿmar that Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī (may Allah have mercy on them both) said: “If you see a man avoiding Abū Ḥanīfah, his opinions, and engaging in speculation based on them; if he is not at ease with them nor with those who follow his school—especially those who go to extremes—and he does not take him as his imam, then I hope good for him.” 📚 Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābilah.

The Ruling on Placing the Muṣḥaf (Qur’an) on the Ground Ibn Abī Dāwūd al-Sijistānī devoted a chapter in his book Kitāb al-Maṣāḥif entitled: “Placing the Muṣḥaf on the Ground.” He then narrated, with his chain of transmission, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw a written page containing the remembrance of Allah lying on the ground. He said: ‘Who did this?’ It was said to him: ‘Hishām.’ He said: ‘May Allah curse the one who did this. Do not place the remembrance of Allah anywhere other than its proper place.’” Muḥammad ibn al-Zubayr said: “ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz saw one of his sons writing on a wall, so he struck (disciplined) him.”

Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī said to al-Farazdaq — the well-known poet — while he was burying his wife: “What have you prepared for this day?” Al-Farazdaq replied: “The testimony that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah (Lā ilāha illā Allāh), which I have held for seventy years.” Al-Ḥasan said: “What an excellent provision! However, Lā ilāha illā Allāh has conditions, so beware of accusing chaste women (of adultery).” — 📚Sharḥ Kalimat al-Ikhlāṣ (Explanation of the Statement of Sincerity) by Ibn Rajab

Beware of the books of the people of religious innovation and misguidance Al-Faḍl ibn Ziyād said: “I asked Abū ʿAbdullāh — meaning Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal — about al-Karābīsī and what he had introduced (or what he had made apparent). His face changed with displeasure, then he said: ‘Indeed, their trial and affliction only came from these books that they authored. They abandoned the narrations and teachings of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his Companions, and they turned instead to these books.’” This is the statement of Imām Aḥmad, the Imām of Ahl al-Sunnah. Yet after this, some foolish people come along with the methodology of: “Read from everyone and take knowledge from anyone,” and Allah is the One whose help is sought.

Imam Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ājurrī (may Allah have mercy on him) said: “Allah has always been All-Knowing, Speaking, All-Hearing, and All-Seeing, possessing these attributes before the creation of all things. Whoever says otherwise has committed disbelief (kufr).” Source: Al-Sharīʿah by al-Ājurrī.

Imam Ahmad ibn Sinān (may Allah have mercy on him) said: “I would rather have a neighbor who plays the ṭanbūr (a stringed musical instrument, similar to a lute) than a neighbor who is a person of religious innovation (bid’ah). This is because I can forbid the one who plays the ṭanbūr, and I can break the instrument. But the innovator corrupts the people, the neighbors, and the youth.” Source: Al-Ibānah, 2/469.

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Narrated by ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Indeed, Allah has angels who travel throughout the earth, conveying to me the greetings of peace (salām) from my الأمة (followers).” 📚 [Musnad Ibn al-Mubārak]

Narrated by Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Prophet ﷺ said: “There is no person who goes out except that at his door there are two banners: a banner in the hand of an angel and a banner in the hand of a devil. If he goes out for something that Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, loves, the angel follows him with his banner, and he remains under the banner of the angel until he returns to his home. But if he goes out for something that angers Allah, the devil follows him with his banner, and he remains under the banner of the devil until he returns to his home.” 📚 Musnad Ahmad

It was narrated from Mujāhid that he said: “When a man meets another man and smiles in his face, the sins of both of them fall away like the wind scatters the dry leaves from the trees.” A man said: “Woe to you! This is certainly an easy deed!” Mujāhid replied: “Have you not heard the saying of Allah, the Most High: ﴿If you had spent all that is on the earth, you could not have brought their hearts together﴾ (Qur’an 8:63)?” 📚 Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah

It was narrated from Kurrāz al-Khuzāʿī (رضي الله عنه) that he said: A man said: “O Messenger of Allah, does Islam have an endpoint (a final stage)?” The Prophet ﷺ replied: “Yes. Any household among the Arabs or the non-Arabs (ʿAjam) for whom Allah intends goodness, He will bring Islam into them.” The man asked: “Then what comes after that?” The Prophet ﷺ said: “Then trials (fitan) will occur, like shadows.” The man said: “No, by Allah, if Allah wills (that will not happen).” The Prophet ﷺ replied: “Rather, yes, by the One in Whose Hand is my soul! Then you will return into them (those trials), like black snakes striking forward, and some of you will strike the necks of others.” 📚 Musnad al-Imām Aḥmad

Imām Aḥmad narrated in his Musnad from Abū al-Dardā’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The main camp and gathering place of the Muslims on the day of the great battle (al-Malḥamah) will be in al-Ghūṭah, next to a city called Damascus.” This narration is part of the continuation of the ḥadīth of Dhū Mikhmar al-Ḥabashī (may Allah be pleased with him), in which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The Romans will enter into a peace agreement with you — a secure and peaceful treaty. Then you will fight an enemy (the Jews) together with them while they are your allies against that enemy. You will be granted victory, you will remain safe, and you will acquire spoils of war. Then you will return and continue your journey until you settle at a meadow containing hills and elevated land. There, a man from among the Christians will raise a cross and say: ‘The cross has triumphed!’ A man from among the Muslims will become angry because of this and will rise against him and smash the cross. At that moment, the Romans will break their agreement and betray the Muslims, and they will gather their forces for the great battle (al-Malḥamah).”

Imām Tāwūs Bin Kaysān said: “Removing harm from the road is charity, and your commanding of what is good and your forbidding of what is evil are charity.” Kitāb al-Zuhd by Hannād ibn al-Sarī 2/524