حياة السلف بين القول والعمل

Seeking reward: On the authority of Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi, may God have mercy on him, he said: Were it not that I hate that God be disobeyed, I would wish that no one would remain in the city except that he would backbite me! What is more pleasing than a good deed that a man finds in his record that he did not do?! [Al-Siyar (its abridgment) 2/817].

Seeking reward: It was said to Dawud al-Ta’i, may God have mercy on him: If you moved from the shade to the sun, he said: These are steps, and I do not know how they will be recorded. (Ibn Rajab, may God have mercy on him, said: So these people, when their hearts were reformed, and no desire remained in them for other than God, their limbs were reformed and did not move except for God, the Almighty and Majestic, and for what pleases Him, and God knows best. Jami’ al-‘Ulum wa al-Hikam / 100, 101) [Jami’ al-‘Ulum wa al-Hikam / 100-101].

Seeking reward: Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Balkhi, may God have mercy on him, said: “I have not taken a single step for anyone other than God, the Almighty and Majestic, for forty years.” [Jami’ al-‘Ulum wa al-Hikam / 100-101].

Seeking reward: Abu Sulayman al-Darani, may God have mercy on him, said: Whoever does any kind of good deed without intention, his first intention is sufficient, when he chose Islam over all religions, because this deed is one of the Sunnahs of Islam, and one of the rituals of Islam. [Al-Hilya (its abridgment) 3/193].

God’s elevation of the believers and the righteous: Umar, may God be pleased with him, said: Abu Bakr was our master and he freed Bilal, our master (narrated by Al-Hakim). [Sifat Al-Safwa 1/199].