Gems of the Scholars

MODERATION UPON THE SUNNAH It is reported Ibn Masʿūd—may Allāh be pleased with him—said: “Moderation in following the Sunnah is better than exerting oneself upon bidʿah.” [Sunan al-Dārimī, no. 223] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaHVDfO2kNFjO6CnyX3r

THE STUDENT OF KNOWLEDGE MUST BE PATIENT Imām Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī—may Allāh have mercy on him—said: “A student of knowledge must be patient, even if matters and problems accumulate upon him, and he feels tightness in his chest. He may even push himself with memorisation and dedication to seeking knowledge to the extent that he feels hardness in his heart. This should not deter him, for Shayṭān does not want good for you; he wants to turn you away from seeking knowledge. This is because seeking knowledge in this time is the greatest fortress, by the permission of Allāh the Exalted, that protects you from trials.” [Al-Muqtaraḥ fī Ajwibat Baʿḍ Asʾilat al-Muṣṭalaḥ, p. 170] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Abū ʿUrwah Jamāl https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

THE ENEMIES OF ISLĀM WILL SWALLOW US UP Imām Muqbil—may Allāh have mercy on him—said: «أَهْلُ السُّنَّةِ مُحْتَاجُونَ إِلَى تَزَاوُرٍ فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ، وَإِلَى تَعَاوُنٍ، وَإِلَّا، فَوَاللَّهِ سَيَبْتَلِعُنَا أَعْدَاءُ الْإِسْلَامِ». “Ahl al-Sunnah are in need of visiting one another and cooperating with one another (upon goodness), and if not, by Allāh, the enemies of Islām will swallow us up.” [Al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr, 2/571] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Abū Rifq Ādam https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

THE PHRASE “NATURAL DISASTERS” Imām Muqbil—may Allāh have mercy on him—wrote: “As for the one who ascribes these matters (i.e., earthquakes and the likes) to nature and says (they are) natural disasters; if he intends by this that nature itself is the cause, then he is a disbeliever. It is reported in the two authentic ḥadīth compilations (Bukhārī and Muslim) from the ḥadīth of Zayd ibn Khālid al-Juhanī, who said: Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ led the morning prayer in al-Ḥudaybiyah after it had rained the previous night. When the Prophet ﷺ had finished the prayer, he faced the people and said: ‘Do you know what your Lord has said?’ They replied: ‘Allāh and His Messenger know better.’ (The Prophet ﷺ said): ‘Allāh said: “This morning some of My worshippers remained as true believers and some became non-believers; he who said that it had rained due to the blessing and mercy of Allāh is a believer in Me and does not believe in the star, but he who said it had rained because of such-and-such star is a disbeliever in Me and a believer in the star.”’” [Īḍāḥ al-Maqāl fī Asbāb al-Zilzāl, p. 132] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

WHAT TRULY HARMS US Imām Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī—may Allāh have mercy on him—said: “It does not harm us that our clothes become ripped, nor does it harm us that we go hungry. What harms us is that we are stripped of our religion for the perishable goods of this worldly life.” [Al-Fawākih al-Janiyyah, 1/149] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Abū ʿAbdillāh al-ʿAkawī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

THE GREATEST HARM Imām Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī—may Allāh have mercy on him—said: «أَعْظَمُ مَا يَضُرُّ الْمُسْلِمِينَ هُوَ تَنْفِيرُهُمْ عَنْ عُلَمَائِهِمْ». “The greatest matter which harms the Muslims is the matter of pushing them away from their scholars.” [Al-Samāʿ al-Mubāshir, no. 40] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

CALAMITIES MAY BE GOOD FOR YOU Imām Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī—may Allāh have mercy on him—said: “When you are afflicted with a calamity, perhaps that calamity is good for you. Whether that calamity is in your wealth, your body, or in any other thing that pains and worries you. It could be a reason to raise you in this world and in the Hereafter.” [Al-Musāraʿah, 1/533] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

SAFETY FROM FITAN Al-ʿAllāmah, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥajūrī—may Allāh preserve and protect him—said: «الرُّجُوعُ إِلَى أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ أَمَنَةٌ مِنَ الْفِتَنِ». “Returning to the people of knowledge is safety from fitan.” [Fatāwā before the Shaykh’s dars, between Maghrib and ʿIshāʾ, 29/11/1445 AH] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Abū Muqbil al-Benghālī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

THE ACTION OF CHAMPIONS Abū al-Aḥwaṣ Salām ibn Sulaym رحمه الله reported: Sufyān al-Thawrī رحمه الله said to me: “Upon you is the action of champions: earning that which is ḥalāl and spending upon one’s dependants.” [Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ by Abū Nuʿaym al-Aṣbahānī, 6/381] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

NOTHING BREAKS THE BACK OF IBLĪS MORE Sufyān al-Thawrī—may Allāh have mercy on him—said: «لَيْسَ شَيْءٌ أَقْطَعَ لِظَهْرِ إِبْلِيسَ مِنْ قَوْلِ: لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا اللهُ». “There is nothing that breaks the back of Iblīs more than the statement: Lā ilāha illā Allāh.” [Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, 7/260] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Rashīd al-Canadī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

THE GUARDIANS OF THE EARTH Sufyān al-Thawrī—may Allāh have mercy on him—said: “The angels are the guardians of the sky, and Ahl al-Ḥadīth—the people of ḥadīth—are the guardians of the earth.” [Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, 7/274] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Rashīd al-Canadī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

BE PROTECTIVE OF THE DAʿWAH Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Ḥajūrī—may Allāh preserve him—said: “I am notifying my brothers that they should not be pleased with any of them tearing the Salafī daʿwah apart.” [Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī lesson, ḥadīth no. 5060, 22 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1444 AH] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

WHEN WILL I KNOW THAT I AM RIGHTEOUS? It has been narrated that a man came to ʿĀʾishah رضي الله عنها and asked: “When will I know that I am a muḥsin?” She replied: “When you recognise that you are a sinner.” He asked: “And when will I recognise that I am a sinner?” She replied: “When you believe that you are a muḥsin.” [Al-Tārīkh al-Awsaṭ by al-Bukhārī, 1/12, no. 30] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

IMĀM AL-BUKHĀRĪ’S FATWĀ ON BEFRIENDING SHĪʿAHS, JAHMĪS, JEWS AND CHRISTIANS Imām al-Bukhārī declared: “I do not see any difference between praying ṣalāh behind a Jahmī or a Rāfiḍī and a Christian or a Jew. They—the Jahmīs and Rāfiḍīs—are not to be greeted, nor are they to be visited, nor are they to be married, nor is their testimony to be accepted, nor are their sacrifices to be eaten.” [Khalq Afʿāl al-ʿIbād, p. 14] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

FASTING IS A SHIELD Ḥafṣah bint Sīrīn—may Allāh have mercy upon her—said: “Fasting is a shield, so long as one does not make holes in it. And making holes in it means al-ghībah (i.e., backbiting).” [Ibn Ḥazm, al-Muḥallā bi-al-Āthār, 4/307] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

THE BELIEVER YUDĀRĪ AND DOES NOT YUMĀRĪ Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī—may Allāh have mercy on him—said: “The believer yudārī (يُدَارِي: he deals gently with others) and does not yumārī (يُمَارِي: he argues and disputes). He spreads the wisdom of Allāh. If it is accepted, then he praises Allāh; and if it is rejected, he praises Allāh.” [Akhlāq al-ʿUlamāʾ of al-Ājurrī, p. 58] Al-Mudārāh (الْمُدَارَاةُ): A verbal noun of دَارَى يُدَارِي. Its root letters are د ـ ر ـ ي, and it is Form III (فَاعَلَ يُفَاعِلُ). Its basic meaning is treating others gently and tactfully. It also carries the meaning of lowering one’s wing to the people, speaking gently to them, and refraining from harshness in speech. Al-Mirāʾ (الْمِرَاءُ): A verbal noun of مَارَى يُمَارِي. Its root letters are م ـ ر ـ ي, and it is Form III (فَاعَلَ يُفَاعِلُ). Its basic meaning is disputing or arguing. It also carries the meaning of repeatedly disputing with a person in order to expose his error and silence or defeat him through one’s arguments and knowledge. ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī Edited & complied by: Abū Rifq Ādam https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

SAFETY LIES IN THE BOOK AND THE SUNNAH Our Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Ḥajūrī—may Allāh preserve him—said: “So will you all not fear Allāh and not let your lives go to waste, every time falling into traps? We have had enough experience, O gathering of Muslims. So what is after the truth except misguidance? Indeed, the right path has been made distinct from the wrong path. The Book and the Sunnah upon the manhaj of the Salaf—in it is safety and well-being, by Allāh, until a person meets his Lord.” ═══✺✺═══ Relayed & translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

THE MOBILE PHONE WITH INTERNET REQUIRES TWO THINGS Our respected Shaykh Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥajūrī—may Allāh grant him success—said: “The mobile phone that has internet requires two things: • Knowledge to ward off doubts. • Religiousness to resist temptations.” [Akram al-Ghaythī—may Allāh grant him success] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

SINCERITY IS A CAUSE FOR THE AID OF THE DAʿWAH Al-Imām Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī—may Allāh have mercy on him—said: “I advise all of my brothers that they make their actions sincerely for Allāh ʿazza wa-jall. For indeed, the matter of al-ikhlāṣ (sincerity) is magnificent. Al-Ikhlāṣ is a cause for the aid of the daʿwah.” [Website source: http://muqbel.net/fatwa.php?fatwa_id=3073] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G

THE FIRST CREATION ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn—may Allāh be pleased with him—narrated that some people from Yemen asked the Prophet ﷺ about how the matter was from the very beginning. He said: “There was Allāh, and nothing existed before Him, and His Throne was on the water. Then He created the heavens and the earth, and He wrote all things in al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ.” [Al-Bukhārī, no. 7418] Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn—may Allāh have mercy on him—said: “The first thing that Allāh created of the things that are known to us was the ʿArsh, and He rose over it (in a manner befitting His Majesty) after He had created the heavens, as Allāh—may He be Exalted—says: { وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِی خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَ ٰ⁠تِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ فِی سِتَّةِ أَیَّامࣲ وَكَانَ عَرۡشُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلۡمَاۤءِ لِیَبۡلُوَكُمۡ أَیُّكُمۡ أَحۡسَنُ عَمَلࣰاۗ… } ‘He is the One Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days—and His Throne was upon the waters—in order to test which of you is best in deeds.’” [Sūrat Hūd, 11:7] [Fatāwā wa-Rasāʾil al-ʿUthaymīn, 1/62] ═══✺✺═══ Translated by: Riḍwān al-Kīnī https://t.me/gemsofthescholars https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8DZ1zLCoX1ZdFuvm3G