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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

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The life of the salaf between speech and action.

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Seeking reward from Allah (al-ihtisab).

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Mu'adh Ibn Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) said:

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"As for me, I sleep and I rise for prayer."

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"I seek the reward of Allah for my sleep just as I seek it for my rising."

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On the authority of al-Tufayl Ibn Abi Ka'b:

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He used to visit Abdullah Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both).

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And he would go with him to the marketplace in the morning.

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He said: "When we would go to the market,"

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"Abdullah Ibn Umar would not pass by a merchant, a poor person, or anyone else,"

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"But that he would greet them with peace."

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"I said to him, 'What do you do in the market when you do not stop to trade,'"

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"'Nor ask about goods, nor bargain for them,'"

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"'Nor sit in the gathering places?'"

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"He replied, 'We only go out for the sake of offering the greeting of peace.'"

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"So greet whomever you meet."

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Makhul (may Allah have mercy on him) once visited a sick man.

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He said to him, "Do you consider yourself a guardian of the frontier (murabit) this year?"

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The man replied, "How can you ask me this when I am in this state?"

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He said, "What prevents you from intending that?"

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"For if Allah heals you, you will proceed on your way,"

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"And if your appointed time comes between you and that goal,"

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"Your intention will be recorded for you."

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On the authority of Zubayd Ibn al-Harith al-Yami (may Allah have mercy on him), he said:

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"It pleases me to have an intention for everything,"

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"Even for eating and sleeping."

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Al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

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"I have not cast my gaze, nor spoken with my tongue,"

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"Nor struck with my hand, nor risen upon my feet,"

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"Without first considering whether it is an act of obedience or disobedience."

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"If it is obedience, I proceed,"

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"And if it is disobedience, I refrain."

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Muhammad Ibn al-Fadl al-Balkhi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

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"For forty years, I have not taken a single step for other than the sake of Allah, the Almighty and Majestic."

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Allah’s elevation of the believers and the righteous.

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Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said:

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"Abu Bakr is our master,"

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"And he freed Bilal, our master (may Allah be pleased with them both)."

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When Harun al-Rashid arrived in al-Raqqah,

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The people rushed behind Abdullah Ibn al-Mubarak (may Allah have mercy on him).

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Sandals were torn and dust rose into the air.

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A slave-mother of the Commander of the Faithful looked out from a tower of the wooden palace.

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When she saw the people, she asked, "What is this?"

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They said, "A scholar from the people of Khurasan has arrived in al-Raqqah,"

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"He is called Abdullah Ibn al-Mubarak."

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She said, "By Allah, this is the true kingdom,"

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"Not the kingdom of Harun, which only gathers people through conditions and aides."

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Salim Ibn Abdullah (may Allah have mercy on him) entered upon Sulayman Ibn Abd al-Malik.

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Salim was wearing coarse, worn-out garments.

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Sulayman kept welcoming him and honoring him,

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Until he seated him beside him on his throne.

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Umar Ibn Abd al-Aziz was present in the gathering.

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A man from the back of the assembly said to him,

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"Could your uncle not afford to wear finer clothes than these,"

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"To enter upon the Commander of the Faithful?"

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The speaker himself was wearing expensive, elegant clothes.

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Umar said to him,

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"I have not seen these clothes on my uncle lower him to your position,"

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"Nor have I seen your clothes raise you to my uncle’s position."

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The miracles (karamat) of the scholars and the righteous.

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And Allah’s protection of them.

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On the authority of Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him), he said:

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"The likeness of the believer in this world is like a sick person,"

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"Who has with him his physician, who knows his ailment and his cure."

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"If he desires what harms him,"

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"He forbids him and says, 'Do not go near it,'"

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"'For if you approach it, it will destroy you.'"

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"He continues to restrain him until he recovers from his pain."

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"Likewise is the believer,"

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"He desires many things,"

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"Many of the worldly comforts that others have been favored with,"

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"But Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, denies them to him and protects him,"

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"Until He takes his soul and admits him into Paradise."

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Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said:

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"Allah, the Exalted, protects the believer from the world,"

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"Just as the family of a sick person protects their patient from food."

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Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said:

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"A servant may intend to pursue a matter of trade or authority,"

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"Until it is made easy for him,"

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"Then Allah looks at him,"

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"And says to the angels,"

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"'Turn him away from it,'"

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"'For if I make it easy for him, I will cast him into the Fire.'"

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"So Allah turns him away from it,"

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"And he remains feeling unlucky,"

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"Saying,"

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"'So-and-so has outpaced me,'"

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"'So-and-so has deceived me,'"

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"Yet it is nothing but the grace of Allah, the Almighty and Majestic."

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On the authority of Muhammad Ibn Ka'b (may Allah have mercy on him), he said:

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"Whoever recites the Qur'an, his intellect remains sharp,"

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"Even if he reaches two hundred years of age."

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Al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

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"Whoever perfects his worship of Allah in his youth,"

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"Allah will grant him wisdom in his old age."

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That is the meaning of His saying:

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﴾ And when he attained his full strength ﴿

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“And when he reached his full strength and was ripe, We gave him wisdom and knowledge. Thus do We reward the good.” (28:14)

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﴾ And thus do We reward the doers of good. ﴿

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On the authority of Muhammad Ibn al-Munkadir (may Allah have mercy on him), he said:

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"Verily, Allah rectifies the children and grandchildren of a servant through that servant's righteousness,"

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"And He protects him in his own home,"

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"And the homes around him, as long as he is among them."

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On the authority of Khaythamah (may Allah have mercy on him), he said:

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"Glad tidings to the believer,"

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"For how he is protected in his offspring after him."