Sayings of the salaf

Trying to spread beautiful quotes from the pious predecessors.

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"The one who repents from sin is like one who did not sin, and if the sin is removed, then the punishment and consequences are also removed."

- Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah [Sharh al-‘Umdah 4/39] 

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The days of Eid are days of thankfulness, seeking forgiveness and pardoning others.

Ibn Rajab (rahimahullah) [Lataaif, (page: 384)] (via sayingsofthesalaf)

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Everything that preoccupies you away from Allaah, be it (your) family, wealth and children, then indeed it is misfortune.

Abu Sulaymaan (rahimahullah) [Jaami-ul Uloom Wal-Hikam: page: 315-316]

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Do not let your love be obsessive and do not let your hatred be destructive. When you love, do not go to a level of obsession as a child does with the things he loves, and when you hate, do not hate in such way that you want your opponent to be destroyed and doomed.

Umar Ibn Al-Khattab (radiallahu’anhu) [Narrated by Abd ar-Razzaq in al-Musannaf, 20]

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Avoid the enemies of Allah on their festivals.

Umar Bin Al-Khattab (radiallahu’anhu) [Ahkaam Ahl Al-Dimmah, 1/723-724] (via sayingsofthesalaf)

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There is no goodness in people who don’t give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don’t like to be advised.

Umar ibn al-Khattaab (radiallahu’anhu) [Risaalat Al-Mustarshideen, 71]

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The best muslim is a man who revives a practice, from the practices of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), that has died out.

Imam Al-Bukhari (rahimahullah) [Adaab Talib Al-Hadith, pg. 214]

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Befriend the one who is above you in the religion and below you in the worldly life.

Uthmaan Ibn Hakeem (rahimahullaj) [As-Samt, of Ibn Abee Dunyaa, p.45]

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If you find a darkness in your heart after you sinned , know then that in your heart there is light, because of this light you felt the darkness.

Imam Abdur Rahman al-Jauzi (rahimahullah) [Rowdathul Muhibeen, 2/112]

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One doesn’t become noble with any type of knowledge if he doesn’t beautify his knowledge with good conduct.

Abdullah Ibn al-Mubarak (rahimahullah) [Adab Shar’iyyah 4/208]

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Indeed, the believer has a good suspicion of his Lord and then (strives to) perfect his deeds. And indeed, the hypocrite has an evil suspicion of his Lord and then (engages) in evil deeds.

Hasan Al-Basri (rahimahullah) [Hilyatul Awliyaa 2/144]

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'Abdullaah Ibn Mas'ood (radhiAllaahu 'anhu) said: "The people will continue to be upon goodness so long as they take knowledge from the companions of the Messenger (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), and from their elders. But if they take knowledge from the young ones, they will be destroyed."

[Saheeh, reported by ‘Abdullaah ibn Mubarak in Az-Zuhd, and Ibn ‘Abdul-Barr in Jami’ Bayanul-‘Ilm: 1/616-617] (via pearlsofislam)

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The jihaad with decisive proofs [from the Book and the Sunnah] and the tongue takes precedence over the jihaad with the sword and the spear.

Ibn Al-Qayyim (rahimahullah) [Reported in Al-Jawaab As-Saheeh of Ibn Taymiyyah, 1/237]

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I have not seen someone like Ahmad ibn Hanbal; we accompanied him for fifty years and he never boasted to us about anything of good he was upon.

Yahyah Ibn Ma’een (rahimahullaah) [Siyar A’laam Nubulaa: 11/214]

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Bid'ah is associated with splitting, just as Sunnah is associated with the Jamaa'ah. So it is said: Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah, just as it is said: Ahlul-Bid'ah wal-Furqah (the People of innovation and division).

Shaykh-ul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullah) [Al-Istiqaamah 1/42]

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Patience is to swallow bitterness without frowning.

al-Junaid al-Baghdadi, Madarij al-Salikeen, (2/120). (via wayofthesalaf)