In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
The life of the predecessors between words and deeds
Humility and condemnation of arrogance
Omar, may God be pleased with him, went out on a hot day
He put his robe on his head
He said
Then a boy passed by him on a donkey
And he said
Boy, carry me with you
He said
The boy jumped off the donkey
And he said
Ride, O Commander of the Faithful
He said
No
Ride
And I ride behind you
You want to take me to the rough place?
And ride on the low place
But you ride
And I will be behind you
He said
So he entered the city with him behind him
And people look at him
And when he, may God be pleased with him, came to Syria
I offered him a ford
Any place with shallow water
People enter it on foot or riding
So he got off his camel
And he took his pieces
And he took off his miter
So he took them with his hands and waded into the water
Abu Ubaida, may God be pleased with him, said
Today I did a great deed to the people of the land
Omar sighed in his chest and said
If someone else says this
You were the least of people, the most humiliated, and the weakest of people
May God bless you with Islam
No matter how much you seek glory in anything else, it will humiliate you
He said, may God be pleased with him, on the pulpit
If a servant humbles himself before God, God will elevate his wisdom
In himself, he is young or poor
And in people's souls it is great
If a servant is arrogant and out of character
God placed it
He is big in himself and small in people's eyes
He is even more despicable and smaller in people's eyes than a pig
On the authority of Abu Al-Minhal, may God have mercy on him, he said:
I asked Al-Baraa bin Azib and Zaid bin Arqam, may God be pleased with them, about morphology
Each one of them says this is better than me
Utbah bin Ghazwan, may God be pleased with him, said
I seek refuge in God to be great in myself
And God is small
Abu Hurairah, may God be pleased with him, came to the market
He carries a bundle of firewood
At that time, he was Marwan's successor
He said, “The best way is for the prince.”
Abdullah bin Masoud, may God be pleased with him, went out one day
So people followed him
He said to them, “Do you need anything?”
They said no
But we wanted to walk with you
He said go back
It is humiliation for the follower and temptation for the followed
He said, may God be pleased with him
Whoever is arrogant, you will exhort him whom God will lower
He who humbles himself out of humility
God Almighty raised him
On the authority of Aisha, may God be pleased with her, she said
You neglect the best worship
Humility
A man said to Ibn Omar, may God be pleased with him
O best of people and son of the best of people
And he said
I am not the best of people and I am not the son of the best of people
But I am a servant of God
I hope and fear God
By God, you will not deviate from the man until you destroy him
A man came to him and asked him about his homework
And he said to him
Eti Saeed bin Jubair
He knows the account better than me
On the authority of Mujahid he said:
I accompanied Ibn Omar, may God be pleased with him
And I want to serve him
So he served me
On the authority of Ibn Abbas, may God be pleased with them both, he said
I was reading men who were immigrants
Among them is Abdul Rahman bin Awf
Ibn al-Jawzi, may God have mercy on him, said
It is a warning to take knowledge from its people
Even if their teeth are small
Or their destinies were less
He was Hakim bin Hizam
It is read to Muadh bin Jabal, may God be pleased with them both
So he was told
Read about this Khazraji boy
And he said
We have only destroyed arrogance
Some of the predecessors, may God have mercy on him
He buys something from the market and carries it
It is said
Let us carry it
He refuses and says
He does not like arrogant people
Al-Rabi’ bin Khathim, may God have mercy on him
He sweeps the lawn himself
So he was told
You are enough of this
He said
I like to do my part in the profession
When Omar bin Abdul Aziz was buried, may God have mercy on him, Suleiman bin Abdul Malik
And he came out of his grave
He heard the earth rumbling or shaking
And he said
What is this?
So it was said
These are the ships of the Caliphate, O Commander of the Faithful
It comes close to you so you can ride it
And he said
What is mine and hers?
About me
Bring my mule closer to me
Then his mule approached him and he mounted it
Then the policeman's companion came to him, carrying the war in front of him
And he said
Step aside from me
What do you and I have?
But I am a Muslim man
On the authority of Abdul Aziz bin Omar, he said:
Raja bin Haywa told me
How perfect is your father's chivalry
I was nailed to him
Then the lamp came
And next to him is Waseef Al-Nam
I said
Should I not warn?
He said no
Let
I said
I'm getting up
He said
No
It is not honorable for a man to use a female guest
So he went to the oil pan and fixed the lamp
Then he came back
And he said
I rose and I was Omar bin Abdul Aziz
And I came back as Omar bin Abdul Aziz
He also said, may God have mercy on him
Whose sin was in lust
Please ask him to repent
Adam disobeyed out of desire
So he forgave him
If his disobedience is arrogant
I fear that its owner will be cursed
If Satan disobeyed and was arrogant, he was cursed
Aoun bin Abdullah, may God have mercy on him, said
Enough of your arrogance
To see you as superior to someone below you
It has been said
Who is arrogant in his guardianship?
Humiliated in his isolation
Ayoubni Al-Sakhtiani, may God have mercy on him, said
People want to rise
God refuses to do anything but place them
Others want to be humble
God refuses to raise them
He was Khalil bin Ahmed, may God have mercy on him
If it benefits someone
He did not see it as being useful to him
Where did anyone benefit from anything?
I think he benefited from it
On the authority of Ubaid bin Junad, he said:
I have never seen anyone like Bin Al-Mubarak, may God have mercy on him
If he mentions his companions, how noble they are
He says where is like so-and-so
He saw Saeed bin Jubair, may God have mercy on him
People follow
He forbade them and said
This problem is humiliating for the follower
And a trial for the follower
Yusuf bin Asbat, may God have mercy on him, was asked
How humble
He said not to meet anyone
Unless you see that he has the advantage over you
On the authority of Al-Shafi’i, may God have mercy on him, he said:
Humility is one of the morals of honorable people
Arrogance is a trait of meanness
Humility begets love
Contentment brings comfort
And he said
I hold people in high esteem
Who does not see destiny
And most of them are good
Who does not see his virtue?
Yahya bin Ma'in said
I have never seen anyone like Ahmed bin Hanbal, may God have mercy on him
We accompanied him for fifty years
We are proud of something
Which was good
Ahmed bin Al-Hasan Al-Tirmidhi, may God have mercy on him, said
I saw Imam Ahmed, may God have mercy on him
He buys bread from the market
He carries himself in the dungeon
I saw him buy bakla more than once
And put it in a bowl or something else
He carries him while holding the hand of Abdullah, his son
Saleh said
My father might have gone out to the grocery store
He buys a bundle of firewood and carries it
Al-Fudayl Ibn Iyad, may God have mercy on him, was asked about humility
And he said
He submits to the truth and submits to it
And he accepts it from whomever he says
Some of them said
Do not despise a person because of it
And I am the God of the worlds, and you do not know
The one who has destiny in the sight of God is afraid of falling behind
The Night of Decree was also hidden from their knowledge