فَطُوبَى لِلْغُرَبَاءِ

Al-Allamah Sulayman bin Abdullah said:

"If someone were to pronounce the two shahadas without understanding its (correct) meaning, and he performed acts of worship like salah, fasting, and hajj merely because they observed others doing so, and (he) refrained from any act of shirk, there would be no doubt about the absence of his Islam. So, what about those who worship graves? Those who are ignorant of its meaning AND engage in actions that contradict the shahada? Their kufr is more severe due to their belief in multiple deities"



📚: الفروق بين العقيدة السلف وعقيدة المرجئة

Difference between the Aqīdah of Salaf and the Aqīdah of the Murji'ah by Saleh al-Suwaih, evaluated & forwarded by Sheikh Salih al Fawzān pg 127

❝If you had seen the Sahabah, you would’ve said: They’re crazy!
If the Sahabah had seen you, they’d say: They’re not Muslims!❞

— Hasan al-Basri
Source: al-Hilyah 2/1324

I had tried to find the source for this, didn't come across anything, however, the closest to this quotation is the one I have shared above. Please circulate the right thing. And there is no book as "Al Hilyah" it is, "حلية الأولياء وطبقات الأصفياء" may Allah grant us sincerity and forgive us all Ameen. It is Friday, May Allah grant us all protection and wellbeing and defeat the enemies of His religion and not make us from amongst them.

"By Allah, I met seventy of those who fought at Badr, most of whom wore wool. If you saw them, you would say they were madmen. If they saw the best of you, they would say, 'These people have no portion [in the Hereafter].' If they saw the worst of you, they would say, 'These people do not believe in the Day of Judgment.' I saw people for whom the world was less valuable than the dust under their feet. I saw people who would walk, having only enough provisions for one day, yet they would say, 'I will not put all of this in my stomach; I will give part of it to Allah,' and they would give some of it in charity, though they were in more need than the one they gave it to."

حلية الأولياء وطبقات الأصفياء
Volume 2 Page 134

Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated: “When the Prophet (peace be upon him) became gravely ill, he began to lose consciousness. Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) said, ‘Oh, the distress of my father!’ He said to her, ‘There will be no distress for your father after today.’

When he passed away, she said, ‘Oh my father, he has responded to the call of his Lord. Oh my father, whose abode is the Garden of Paradise. Oh my father, we announce your departure to Gabriel.’

When he was buried, Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) said, ‘Oh Anas, how could you bring yourselves to throw earth on the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)?’”

Shaykh Al-Islām Ibn Taymīyyah رحمه الله said:

“The remembrance of Allāh for the heart is like water for the fish, what happens to the fish when it is taken out of water?”

📚:الوابل الصيب

Ahmad bin 'Isā رحمه الله, one of the students of Shaykh 'Abdullāh Abā Butayn رحمه الله told about about what was rumored regarding the people of Najd, that they don't ask Allāh to send salawāt upon the Prophet ﷺ nor that they love him:

He replied:

"Exalted are you, (O Allāh); this is a great slander."

(📚: Qur'ān 24:16)

Our 'Aqīdah and madhab is that he who does not send salawāt upon the Prophet (ﷺ) in the last tashahud in the salāh, then his prayer is invalid and he who does not love him (ﷺ) is a Kāfir.

What we, people of Najd, deny, is raising people above their status which the Prophet (ﷺ) had warned about, as well as seeking help and aid from the dead, and we devote to Allāh alone."

Hudhayfah رضي الله عنه was asked:

“Which trial is the worst?”

He said:

“That your heart is presented with good and evil while you do not know which one of the two to embark on"

📚:الفتن لنعيم بن حماد ١\٦٥

Shaykh Al-Islām Ibn Taymīyyah رحمه الله:

"No one should speak without knowledge. Rather, one must beware of those who speak about religious matters without understanding and those who address intellectual matters without insight. Some people, claiming to support religion with their deficient intellects and flawed reasoning, end up doing more harm; their actions have given atheists, the enemies of religion, a reason to criticize. Thus, they neither supported Islām nor defeated its enemies."

📚:Refutation of the Logicians ● 1/273

Ḥasan al-Baṣrī رحمه الله said:

"The most clever amongst you is the one who remembers the day of resurrection & the judgement."

📚:الزهد الكبير اللإمام البيهقي صحفة ٦٧

The Prophet ﷺ said:

"If anyone behaves insolently or walks with an arrogance, he will meet Allāh Almighty covered with His anger."

📚:Al-Adab Al-Mufrad ● 549

Ibn Aqīl al-Hanbali رحمه الله said:

"If you want to know the state of Islam among people of this time, don't look at them how they crowd the doors of the masaajid, or how they raise their voices in talbiyah. Rather look at how they interact with the enemies of the Shariah."

📚:Al Adāb ash-Shar'īyyah by ibn Muflih ● 1/268

Imām Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

“Drink patience, for if it kills you, you'd die a martyr, and if it spares you, it'll leave you strong.”

📚:مدارج السالكين 2/159

Abu Talhah رضي الله عنه reported:

The Prophet ﷺ said:

“The angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog, nor an image in a likeness.”

Abu Talhah رضي الله عنه said:

“The Prophet(ﷺ) means by likeness an image of living souls.”

📚: S‌ah‌īh‌ Al-Bukhāri ‌3225, S‌ah‌īh Muslim 2106

Ibn al-Jawzī said :

قال ابن الجوزي : ﻭﺭُﺏَّ زوَاجٍ ﺣﺪَﺙَ ﻣﻨﻪ ﻭﻟﺪٌ ﻣﺜﻞ ﺍﻟﺸﺎﻓﻌﻲ ﻭﺃﺣﻤﺪ ﺑﻦ ﺣﻨﺒﻞ ؛ ﻓﻜﺎﻥَ ﺧﻴﺮﺍً ﻣﻦ ﻋﺒﺎﺩﺓ ﺃﻟﻒ ﺳﻨﺔ

Perhaps a marriage might result in a child like Ash-Shāfi'i or Ahmad ibn Hanbal; such an outcome would be better than a thousand years of worship.

‏ﺗﻠﺒﻴﺲ ﺇﺑﻠﻴﺲ (263)

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyyah رحمه الله said:

"Whoever thinks that he can take from the Book and the Sunnah, without taking the Companions as an example and follows other than their path, then he is from the people of innovation."

📚:Mukhtasar al-Fatāwa al-Misriyyah

عَنْ أَوْسِ بْنِ أَوْسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

"إِنَّ مِنْ أَفْضَلِ أَيَّامِكُمْ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ فِيهِ خُلِقَ آدَمُ وَفِيهِ قُبِضَ وَفِيهِ النَّفْخَةُ وَفِيهِ الصَّعْقَةُ فَأَكْثِرُوا عَلَيَّ مِنْ الصَّلَاةِ فِيهِ فَإِنَّ صَلَاتَكُمْ مَعْرُوضَةٌ عَلَيَّ"

Aws ibn Aws reported:

The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said:

“Verily, the best of your days is Friday. Ādam was created on it, on it he died, on it the trumpet will be blown, and on it the shout will be made. Thus, send blessings upon me often, for your blessings are presented to me.”

📚: Sunan Abī Dāwūd 1047

“When Friday arrives, angels are over the door of every mosque to record those who arrive one by one. When the Imam sits to begin, they close their scrolls and come to listen to the reminder. The parable of one who comes early is that of one who offers a fine camel, the next like one who offers a cow, the next like one who offers a ram, the next like one who offers a chicken, the next like one who offers an egg.”

📚: S‌ah‌i‌h‌ al-Bukha‌ri‌ 887, S‌ah‌i‌h‌ Muslim 850 (mutafaqqun alayhi)

Jumu'ah:

Imām ‎Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

‎"Friday is the day of worship, its comparison to other days like the comparison of the month of Ramadan to other months and the hour in it is like the Night of Decree in Ramadan."

‎📚:Zaad Al-Ma’aad 1398

عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ مَنْ قَرَأَ سُورَةَ الْكَهْفِ فِي يَوْمِ الْجُمُعَةِ أَضَاءَ لَهُ مِنَ النُّورِ مَا بَيْنَ الْجُمُعَتَيْنِ

5996 السنن الكبرى للبيهقي كتاب الجمعة ومن جماع أبواب الهيئة للجمعة باب ما يؤمر به في ليلة الجمعة

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri رضي الله عنه reported the Prophet ﷺ said:

“Whoever recites Surat al-Kahf on Friday, a light will shine for him between this Friday and the next.”

📚: al-Sunan al-Kubra‌ lil-Bayhaqi‌ 5996

عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَكْثِرُوا الصَّلَاةَ عَلَىَّ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ وَلَيْلَةَ الْجُمُعَةِ فَمَنْ صَلَّى عَلَىَّ صَلَاةً صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ عَشْرًا

5854 السنن الكبرى كتاب الجمعة ومن جماع أبواب الهيئة للجمعة باب ما يؤمر به في ليلة الجمعة ويومها

Anas رضي الله عنه reported:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Increase your supplications for me on the day and night of Friday. Whoever blesses me once, Allah will bless him ten times.”

📚: al-Sunan al-Kubra‌ 5854

Narrated by Jaabir ibn ‘Abdillah رضي الله عنه who said:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:

“The day of Friday has twelve hours, in which there is no Muslim slave who asks Allah for anything but He will grant it to him, so seek it in the last hour after ‘Asr.”

📚:Reported by Abu Dawood (1048) and an-Nasaa’i (1389); classed as saheeh by an-Nawawi in al-Majmoo‘, 4/471

The Prophet ﷺ said:

"There is such an hour on Friday, that if any Muslim makes Du’ā during it, his Du’ā will be accepted."

📚:صحيح البخاري ٥٢٩٥، صحيح مسلم ٨٥٢

Imām Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

“A time when Du’ās will be accepted is during the last hour of ‘Asr on Jumu’ah.”

📚:زاد المعاد ١/١٠٤

Narrated Salman Al-Farsi: Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) said,

“Anyone who takes a bath on Friday and cleans himself as much as he can and puts oil (on his hair) or scents himself; and then proceeds for the prayer and does not force his way between two persons (assembled in the mosque for the Friday prayer), and prays as much as is written for him and remains quiet when the Imam delivers the Khutba, all his sins in between the present and the last Friday will be forgiven.”

📚:Sahih Bukhari ● Volume 2 book 13 number 33

Imām  Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

"The Friday prayer is from the greatest of congregations of the Muslims."

📚:Zaad al-Ma'ad ● 1/364-365

عَنْ أَوْسِ بْنِ أَوْسٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: “مَنِ اغْتَسَلَ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ وَغَسَّلَ وَبَكَّرَ وَابْتَكَرَ وَدَنَا وَاسْتَمَعَ وَأَنْصَتَ كَانَ لَهُ بِكُلِّ خَطْوَةٍ يَخْطُوهَا أَجْرُ سَنَةٍ صِيَامُهَا وَقِيَامُهَا”
496 سنن الترمذي كتاب الجمعة باب ما جاء في فضل الغسل يوم الجمعة

Aws ibn Aws reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“Whoever performs a thorough ritual bath on Friday, proceeds at the earliest to the mosque, sits below the Imam and listens carefully without talking, he will have a reward for each step he took a year’s worth of fasting and praying.”

📚:Sunan al-Tirmidhi‌ 496

عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْجُمُعَةِ كَانَ عَلَى كُلِّ بَابٍ مِنْ أَبْوَابِ الْمَسْجِدِ مَلَائِكَةٌ يَكْتُبُونَ الْأَوَّلَ فَالْأَوَّلَ فَإِذَا جَلَسَ الْإِمَامُ طَوَوْا الصُّحُفَ وَجَاءُوا يَسْتَمِعُونَ الذِّكْرَ وَمَثَلُ الْمُهَجِّرِ كَمَثَلِ الَّذِي يُهْدِي الْبَدَنَةَ ثُمَّ كَالَّذِي يُهْدِي بَقَرَةً ثُمَّ كَالَّذِي يُهْدِي الْكَبْشَ ثُمَّ كَالَّذِي يُهْدِي الدَّجَاجَةَ ثُمَّ كَالَّذِي يُهْدِي الْبَيْضَةَ
887 صحيح البخاري كتاب الجمعة باب الاستماع إلى الخطبة

Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

Al-Hasan Al-Basrī رحمه الله:

"Joking too much takes away one's manhood."

📚:المجالسة وجواهر العلم ٣٣٣/٢