When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself.
Category: Knowledge
The most noble branches of knowledge
The most noble branches of knowledge are those which bring you close to the Creator and help you to be pleasing to Him.
A miser with his knowledge
A man who is a miser with his knowledge is worse than a man who is a miser with his money.
I do not know
What shall I tell the people of my land when I return to them?
I have not experienced anything like it for memorising
I have never seen Wakee’ with a book in his hands, rather, he has everything memorised. So I asked him about the remedy for memorising.
Seeking knowledge with a sincere intention
We do not know of anything better than seeking knowledge with [a sincere] intention [for the sake of Allaah].
Indeed knowledge departs
Indeed knowledge departs due to forgetfulness and leaving off revising.
I used to attend the lessons of Qataadah when I was 14 years old
I used to attend the lessons of Qataadah when I was 14 years old, and there is nothing which I heard in those years except that it is as if it has been written (etched) in (on) my heart.
What prevented you from travelling to az-Zuhree?
He said: I did not have any (enough) dirhams (money).
The good of hadeeth
Indeed, [knowledge of] hadeeth is the best of [all] the knowledge of this world.