A summary of the life of the Salaf between words and deeds | Episode (52)

0:00 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

0:04 The life of the salaf between speech and action.

0:11 Hastening to perform good deeds.

0:16 Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, said:

0:19 The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

0:22 used to spend the night conversing with Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him,

0:27 regarding the affairs of the Muslims.

0:30 One night, he was conversing with him while I was with them.

0:34 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, went out,

0:37 and we went out with him.

0:39 Suddenly, there was a man standing in the mosque praying.

0:44 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, stood

0:47 to listen to his recitation.

0:49 When we recognized him,

0:52 the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said:

0:56 "Whoever wishes to recite the Qur'an fresh as it was revealed,

1:00 let him recite it according to the recitation of Ibn Umm 'Abd."

1:04 He said:

1:06 Then the man sat down to supplicate.

1:08 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, began

1:12 saying to him, "Ask, and you shall be given."

1:17 Umar said:

1:19 I said, "By Allah, I will go to him early in the morning

1:22 to give him the good news."

1:24 He said:

1:25 So I went to him early and gave him the good news,

1:28 only to find that Abu Bakr had already preceded me and given him the good news.

1:33 By Allah, I have never raced him to a good deed

1:37 but that he has beaten me to it.

1:40 He also said, may Allah be pleased with him:

1:43 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, commanded us

1:46 to give charity.

1:48 This coincided with me having some wealth,

1:51 so I said:

1:53 "Today I will surpass Abu Bakr,

1:55 if I am ever to surpass him."

1:58 Then I brought half of my wealth.

2:01 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said to me:

2:05 "What have you left for your family?"

2:07 I said, "The same amount."

2:09 Then Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, came with everything he had.

2:14 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said to him:

2:18 "What have you left for your family?"

2:20 He said:

2:22 "I have left them Allah and His Messenger."

2:25 I said:

2:26 "I will never compete with you in anything again."

2:31 Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, used to say:

2:35 "When you reach the evening, do not wait for the morning,

2:39 and when you reach the morning, do not wait for the evening.

2:43 Take from your health for your illness,

2:46 and from your life for your death."

2:48 Sa'id ibn Marjanah said,

2:51 a companion of Ali ibn Husayn, may Allah have mercy on him:

2:55 I heard his father, Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, say:

2:59 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said:

3:03 "Any Muslim who frees a Muslim slave,

3:07 Allah will ransom every limb of his with a limb of his from the Fire."

3:13 He said:

3:14 I left as soon as I heard the hadith from Abu Hurayrah,

3:18 and I mentioned it to Ali ibn Husayn,

3:21 so he freed a slave of his

3:23 for whom Ibn Ja'far had offered him ten thousand dirhams,

3:28 or a thousand dinars.

3:30 Khalid ibn Ma'dan, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

3:35 "If one of you opens a door to good, let him hasten to it,

3:40 for he does not know when it will be closed to him."

3:43 A poet said:

3:45 "If you do not sow and you see a harvester,

3:49 you will regret your negligence during the time of sowing."

3:53 It was said to a man from 'Abd al-Qays:

3:57 "Give us some advice."

3:59 He said:

4:00 "I warn you against 'later'."

4:02 Some of them said:

4:04 "Whoever delays an opportunity beyond its time,

4:07 let him be certain of its loss."

4:12 Some poets said:

4:14 "When the winds of your fortune blow, seize them,

4:17 for every gust is followed by a calm.

4:21 Do not be heedless of doing good during them,

4:24 for you do not know when the calm will come."

4:28 Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

4:32 "Everything of good should be hastened into."

4:36 A man consulted him about going to the frontier,

4:40 and he said to him, "Hasten, hasten."

4:43 A poet said:

4:46 "The best of good for people is the most immediate,

4:50 and there is no benefit in good that is delayed."

4:54 The state of the salaf regarding food and drink.

5:00 Eating less and the encouragement to do so.

5:05 Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, said:

5:08 "O people,

5:10 beware of overeating,

5:13 for it causes lethargy in prayer,

5:16 corrupts the body,

5:18 and breeds illness.

5:20 Rather, you must be moderate in your sustenance,

5:24 for it is closer to righteousness,

5:27 further from extravagance,

5:29 and stronger for the worship of Allah.

5:32 No servant will perish

5:34 until he prefers his desires over his religion."

5:39 Uthman ibn Affan, may Allah be pleased with him,

5:43 used to prepare the food of princes for the people,

5:46 while he would enter his house and eat vinegar and oil.

5:50 Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, said:

5:54 "Two hollow things destroy the son of Adam:

5:57 the stomach and the private parts."

6:00 Sa'id ibn Jubayr, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

6:03 I prepared for Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them both,

6:07 and his companions various types of food and khabis (a sweet dish).

6:11 He said to me:

6:12 "O Sa'id,

6:14 we are an Arab people;

6:16 prepare for us instead of these dishes, tharid (bread and broth),

6:20 and instead of these sweets, hais (a date and ghee dish).

6:23 Were it not that you are one of us, the people of the house,

6:27 I would not have said this to you."

6:29 'Ubadah ibn al-Samit, may Allah be pleased with him, said:

6:33 "The stomach is insatiable;

6:36 let what suffices you be enough."

6:39 Abdullah ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both, was brought a digestive aid.

6:45 He asked, "What is this?"

6:48 They said, "This helps digest food."

6:52 He replied, "A month passes by me in which I do not eat my fill;

6:57 what would I do with this?"

7:01 Abu Ja'far, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

7:05 "When the stomach is full, the body becomes rebellious."

7:09 Malik ibn Dinar, may Allah have mercy on him, said to a man:

7:13 "Do not sleep while you are full."

7:16 "Leave food while you still desire it."

7:19 The man said:

7:21 "This is the prescription of the physicians of this world."

7:25 Muhammad ibn Wasi', may Allah have mercy on him, said:

7:28 "Yes, and the prescription of the physicians of the path to the Hereafter."

7:33 Malik said, "It is a medicine for both religion and the world."

7:39 Some of them said:

7:41 "Whatever you give your stomach of its demands,

7:45 and your private parts, you will attain the ultimate blame."

7:49 Al-A'mash, may Allah have mercy on him, said to a man:

7:52 "Do you see this stomach?

7:54 If you humiliate it, it will honor you,

7:56 and if you honor it, it will humiliate you."

7:59 Umar ibn Qays al-Mula'i, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

8:03 "Beware of overeating, for it hardens the heart."

8:08 Shaykh Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him,

8:14 consumed little food and drink,

8:17 and would often recite:

8:19 "She has hadiths from your remembrance that occupy her,

8:23 away from drink, and distract her from food."

8:27 Eating the lawful and caution against eating the unlawful.

8:33 Wuhayb ibn al-Ward, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

8:38 "If you stood in prayer as long as this pillar,

8:41 it would not benefit you until you look at what enters your stomach:

8:45 is it lawful or unlawful?"

8:47 Avoiding affectation and showing off in hosting people.

8:54 A man invited Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, to a meal.

9:00 He said, "I will come to you on the condition that you do not go to trouble for what you do not have,

9:06 and do not withhold from us what you do have."

9:09 Shu'ayb ibn al-Habhab said:

9:13 Abu al-'Aliyah, may Allah have mercy on him, came to our house one day,

9:18 and we wanted to go to trouble for him.

9:21 He said, "Feed us from the food of the house,

9:25 and do not go to trouble."

A summary of the life of the Salaf between words and deeds | Episode (52) | Hasten to do good deeds

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