حياة السلف بين القول والعمل

Kindness to parents and maintaining kinship ties: Ja`far al-Khuldi said: Al-Abbar, may God have mercy on him, was one of the most ascetic people. He asked his mother for permission to travel to Qutaybah, but she did not give him permission. Then she died, so he went out to Khorasan, then he arrived in Balkh and Qutaybah had died. They were consoling him for this, so he said: This is the fruit of knowledge, I chose to please my mother. [Al-Siyar (its abridgment) 2/1101].

Kindness to parents and maintaining kinship ties: On the authority of Bishr bin Al-Harith, he said: A man asked Ibn Al-Mubarak, may God have mercy on him, and said: My mother kept saying: Get married until I got married, and now she told me: Divorce her. He said: If you have done all the good deeds and this is all that remains for you, then divorce her. But if you are going to divorce her and go to argue with your mother and harm her, then do not divorce her. [Al-Hilya (its abridgment) 3/95].

The way of the early Muslims with trials and tribulations: Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, may God be pleased with him, said: God expiates a Muslim’s sins even through a mishap and the breaking of his sandal strap, and through goods that he puts in his shirt sleeve and loses. [Ibn Abi Al-Dunya Encyclopedia 4/23].

The situation of the predecessors with trials and tribulations: Umar ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, said: We found the best of our lives to be patience. [Al-Hilya (its abridgment) 1/71].

The way of the early Muslims with trials and tribulations: Umar ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, said: If a man is negligent in his deeds, he is afflicted with worry so that his sins may be expiated. [Ibn Abi al-Dunya Encyclopedia 3/292].