We used to narrate: Whoever faults his brother for a sin he has repented to Allāh from, Allāh will try him with that very sin.
It is reported that Al-Ḥasan Al-Baṣrī – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
We used to narrate: Whoever faults his brother for a sin he has repented to Allāh from, Allāh will try him with that very sin.
Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Al-Zuhd p342 (Al-ʿIlmīyah ed., 1983).
It is reported that Ibrāhīm b. Adham – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
A person has not been true to Allāh, the mighty and sublime, if he loves recognition (fame).
Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Al-Zuhd article 2240.
It is reported that Masrūq – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
Everyone should have times when they sit alone, remember their sins, and thus seek [Allāh’s] forgiveness for them.
Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Al-Zuhd article 2038.
It is reported that ʿIkrimah – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
Everyone gets happy and gets sad, but you should turn your happiness into gratitude (to Allāh) and your sadness into patience (ṣabr).
Ibn Kathīr, Tafsir of Al-Ḥadīd: 23.
It is reported that Yūnus b. ʿUbayd – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
There is no one who is mindful of what he says except that you will see the good of it in the rest of his actions.
Ibn Abī Al-Dunyā, Al-Ṣamt wa Ādāb Al-Lisān article 60.
It is reported that Ḥudhayfah b. Al-Yamān – Allāh be pleased with him – said:
True misguidance is that you approve now what you used to repudiate before (because it was wrong) and repudiate now what you used to approve before; and be aware of changing colours in the religion, for the religion of Allāh is one.
Ibn Baṭṭah, Al-Ibānatu Al-Kubrā ḥadīth 25, and others.
ʿAlqamah reports:
Ibn Masʿūd and [the rest of] the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ used to say the qunūt supplication before bowing in the witr prayer.
Ibn Abī Shaybah, Al-Muṣannaf ḥadīth 6911, and others.
Al-Muzanī reports: I heard Al-Shāfiʿī say:
A man once asked Ubay b. Kaʿb – Allāh be pleased with him, “Exhort me with something I can benefit by and by which I will be rewarded.” He replied, “Be brotherly with brothers according to how righteous they are, do not expend your speech on those who are not interested in it, do not seek anyone to meet your need who does not care if he does not fulfil it, and do not envy the living except for something you would envy the dead.”
Al-Ājurrī, Juz fīhi Ḥikāyāt ʿan Al-Shāfiʿī article 24.
It is reported that Al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr – Allāh be pleased with him – said during a sermon he was delivering in Homs:
Total destruction lies in doing bad deeds during a time of calamity and tribulation.
Ibn Abī Al-Dunyā, Al-ʿUqūbāt article 327.
It is reported from Anas b. Sīrīn that he said:
It once reached us in Kūfā that Masrūq used to flee from the plague. Muḥammad denied this and said, “Let us go to his wife and ask her.” So we entered upon her and asked her about this, and she replied, “No, by Allāh, he never used to flee, but he would say, ‘These are days of preoccupation, so I like to be alone during them to worship.’ So he used to go aside and be alone to do worship. Sometimes, I would sit behind him and cry because of what I saw him doing to himself; he would pray so much that his feet would swell. I heard him say, ‘the plague, abdominal disease, postpartum bleeding and drowning: whoever dies during any of them will have it in his credit as martyrdom.'”
Ibn Saʿd, Al-Ṭabaqāt Al-Kubrā 8:202 (Al-Khānji)