Imam ash-Shafiʿi {May Allah have mercy upon him} said:
“I grew up in Sham and my mother would prepare me to seek knowledge in Mecca from the age of ten.
She didn’t own anything, so I had to use bones of animals as pen and paper.”
{Siyar A’lam an-Nubala}
Imam Sufyan At-Thawri {716–778} said: “I know that a man loves this life when I see him greet its people often!” {Hilyatul-Awliyah, Volume 7, pg. ...
Imam al-Qarafi al-Maliki رحمه الله said: “And beware of doing what some students do when they reason directly from the Hadith, and yet they don’t ...
Imam Abu Hanifah {May Allah have mercy upon him} said: “The Stories of the Scholars and al-Muhsinin {the good doers}, are more beloved to me ...
Shaqiq al-Balkhi {May Allah have mercy upon him} said: علامة التوبة البكاء على ما سلف والخوف من الوقوع في الذنب وهجران إخوان السوء وملازمة الأخيار ...
