Why is Knowledge Learned?
It is reported that Sufyān Al-Thawrī – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
Knowledge is only learned to [apply it and] put into practice the Taqwā of Allāh the mighty and sublime.
Abū Bakr Al-Daynūrī, Al-Mujālasah wa Jawāhir Al-ʿIlm article 943.
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It is reported that Abū Bakr Al-Maṭū’ī said: I sat in the circle of Abū ‘Abdillāh Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal for twelve years while he read the Musnad to his children, and I never wrote a single ḥadīth, I only looked at his behavior, character and etiquette. Ibn Al-Jawzī, Manāqib Aḥmad, article 210. It is reported […]
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