“Renew your hearts with the remembrance”

“There is nothing more beneficial to a Muslim’s heart than to mix with the righteous and to watch their actions, while nothing is more harmful to the heart than mixing with the sinners and watching their actions”

~ Attributed to Ahmad ibn Harb rahimahul-Lah

“The world is the believer’s prison. The best action in the prison is patience and control of one’s anger. The believer has no country in the world, His land will be there tomorrow in the Afterlife.”

~ Attributed to ‘Abdullah ibn Mubarak rahimahul-Lah

 

Self Auditing

Abu Darda radiyaAllahu ‘anhu is reported to have said

No one can achieve complete understanding of Islam until he condemns people for the sake of Allah and then returns home and condemns himself even more.

Quoted from http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/purification/0037.htm

waAllahu ta’aala a’alem.

 

Mudtarib hadith

From Tafsir Ibn Kathir for Surat-Hud

Abu `Isa At-Tirmidhi recorded from Ibn `Abbas that Abu Bakr said, “O Messenger of Allah, verily your hair has turned gray.” The Prophet [sallahAllahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] replied,  “Surahs Hud, Al-Waqi`ah, Al-Mursalat, `Amma Yatasa’lun [An-Naba’] and Idhash-Shamsu Kuwwirat [At-Takwir] have turned my hair gray.” In another narration he said, “Surah Hud and its sisters…”

*********From “An Introduction to the Science of Hadith” by Dr. Suhaib Hasan:

According to Ibn Kathir, if reporters disagree about a particular shaikh, or about some other points in the isnad or the text, in such a way that none of the opinions can be preferred over the others, and thus there is uncertainty about the isnad or text, such a hadith is called mudtarib (shaky).

For example, with regard to idtirab in the isnad, it is reported on the authority of Abu Bakr that he said, “O Messenger of Allah!  I see you getting older?”  He (sallahAllahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) is reported to have replied, “What made me old are Surah Hud and its sister surahs.”  Al-Daraqutni says,