The Spirit and Wisdom of the Early Muslim

Page :1The Spirit and
Wisdom
of the Early Muslims
Abdulaziz Ibn Nasir Al-Jalil

&
Baha Addin Ibn Fatah Aqeel
Page:2Table of Contents
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Introduction......
Salaf, Sincerity and Truth
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The Salaf and the Fear of Allah
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The Salaf and the Hatred of Fame.
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The Salaf and the Fear of Conceit ......
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The Salaf and Asceticism
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The Salaf and their Renunciation of Leadership........... 35
The Salaf and their Knowledge of Figh
The Salaf and their Adherence to Truth
The Salaf and Fatwa'
The Salaf and the Qur'an
The Salaf and their Worship
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The Salaf and Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil .... 53
The Salaf and Jihad in Allah's Cause
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The Salaf and their Forbearance of Misfortunes............ 60
The Salaf and Fitan in Deen.......
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Page:3The Salaf and Their Reaction to Fitan Among Muslims......
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The Salaf and their Reaction to the Rulers' Fitnah...... 65
The Salaf and the Fitnah of Women
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The Salaf and Kindness to their Mothers
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The Salaf and People's Due
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The Salaf and their Dealing with Mistakes
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The Salaf and their Respect of Scholars
The Salaf and their Manners in Speech
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The Salaf and the way they Valued Time
The Salaf and Moderation in Laughter and Joking....... 81
Conclusion
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Page:4 The Salaf and
their Dealing with Mistakes
Maymun Ibn Mahraan said: "I heard Ibn Abbas say: 'Whenever something bad reaches me from a brother I put him in one of three positions: If he is above me in knowledge, I respect his position; if he is my equal, I make myself superior to him and if he is below me in knowledge, I pay no attention to him. This is how I deal with people, so anyone who does not like it, Allah's land is vast."" 153
Humaid at-Tawil reported that Abu Qulabah said: "If anything bad that you hate reaches you from your Muslim brother, you should forgive him. If you find no excuse for him, you should say to yourself, 'Maybe my Muslim brother has an excuse that I do not know."" 154
Sufyaan Ibn Uyainah reported that Saeed Ibn al- Musayyib said: "This world is depraved and it leans towards any corrupt person. However, worse than this depraved world is someone who illegally takes what is not his, seeks to rule it by unlawful means or judges among its people unjustly."155
153 Ibn al-Jawzi, "Sifat as-Safwah": 1/754.
154 Ibid: 3/238.
155 Ibid: 2/81.
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Page:5 The Salaf and Moderation in Laughter and Joking
and said:
Anas reported that a man came to the Prophet "Messenger of Allah! give me a mount." The Prophet said: "We shall give you a she-camel's child to ride on." The man said: "What shall I do with a she- camel's child?" The Prophet replied: "Do any others than she-camels give birth to camels?" 175
Abdur Rahman Ibn Abu Laila, quoting Usaid Ibn Hudair, a man of the Ansar, said that while he was given to jesting and was talking to the people and making them laugh, the Prophet
poked him under the ribs with a stick. Usaid said: "Let me take retaliation." The Prophet said: "Take retaliation." Usaid said: "You are wearing a shirt but I am not." The Prophet then raised his shirt and the man embraced him and began to kiss his side. Then he said: "This is what I wanted, Messenger of Allah!" 176
Mu'awiya Ibn Jayda al-Qushairi said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah saying: "Woe to him who tells things, speaking falsely, to make people laugh thereby. Woe to him! Woe to him!"177
175 This Hadith is reported by Abu Dawud in his Sunan: 4998, 5/270 and Tirmidhi: 1992,6/207.
176 This Hadith is reported by Abu Dawud in his Sunan: 5224.
177 This Hadith is reported by Abu Dawud in his Sunan: 4990.
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Page:6 About the Book
The Early Generations, i.e 'As Salaf As Salih'; 'The Righteous Predecessors', Islamically speaking, means the first 3 generation of Muslims, as stipulated in the Hadeeth of Rasulullah SAAW:
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَبيدَةَ، عَنْ عَبْد الله : رضى الله عنه ـ عَن النَّبيِّ صلى خَيْرُ النَّاسِ قَرْنِي، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ، الله عليه وسلم قال ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ، ثُمَّ يَجِيءُ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ قَوْمٌ تَسْبِقُ شَهَادَتْهُمْ أَيْمَانَهُمْ وَأَيْمَانُهُمْ شَهَادَتَهُمْ
Narrated Abdullah:
The Prophet () said, "The best people are those of my generation, and then those who will come after them (the next generation), and then those who will come after them (i.e. the next generation), and then after them, there will come people whose witness will precede their oaths, and whose oaths will precede their witness."
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