[Only the one] who [truly] knows [about] Allaah will [be able to] love Him, and when he does love Him, he shall obey Him.
Category: Words of Wisdom
There was no day that anyone wept more than him
We arrived in ash-Shaam along with ‘Umar, and [when] Bilaal [ibn Rabaah] called the adhaan, the people remembered the Prophet ﷺ, and there was no day that anyone wept more than him (Bilaal).
Sincere and genuine trust in Allaah alone
at-Tawakkul (complete and total trust) in Allaah [alone] is intertwined with eemaan.
Patience in supplicating to Allaah
I haven’t ever been consumed by anger, and for the past twenty years I have sought [a cure for] a need from Allaah, and [in His ultimate wisdom] He hasn’t cured me, yet I have not tired in supplicating [to Him].
Engaged in supplicating to Allaah
I saw Taawoos and his companions; having prayed the ‘asr [prayer], they faced the [direction of] the qiblah and did not speak to anyone, [instead] they [engaged individually in] supplicating [to Allaah].
The Prophet’s prayer for Sa’d ibn Abee Waqqaas
«O Allaah, respond to [the supplication of] Sa’d when he supplicates to you»
The power of supplication
I entered upon al-Jarraah, and he raised his hands, and [likewise] the leaders [around him too] raised their hands – and they remained [like this] for a long while.
He would fast every other day
Muhammad ibn Seereen would fast every other day.
The missed fast of ‘Aashooraa cannot be made up
Why do you fast [today], yet do not fast when you are also travelling in Ramadhaan?
None more knowledgeable of the Sunnah
There was none more knowledgeable of the Sunnah in Iraq than Ibn ‘Own.