Friday, May 31, 2013

Do not entertain the people of desires:

بـسـم الله والحـمـد لله والـصلاة والـسـلام عــلى رسـول الله، وبـعـد

Abu Qilaabah said: “Do not let the people of desires sit with you, as I do not feel safe (i.e. I fear) that they will plunge you into their misguidance and would cause confusion in some of the things which you already know (to be the truth).”

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Two men, from the people of desires (i.e. innovators), entered upon Muhammad Ibn Sireen and they said to him: ‘O Abu Bakr! Shall we narrate to you a Hadeeth?’

He said: “No!”

They said: ‘Should we recite to you an Aayah (from the Qur’aan)?’

He said: “No! You should both leave or I will leave.”

So they both left.

Some of the people said to him: ‘O Abu Bakr! What was the matter with you if they had recited to you an Aayah?’

He said: “I feared that they would recite an Aayah and distort it, and that distortion would linger in my heart.”


[Siyar A`laam al-Nubalaa’ of Imaam al-Dhahabee (11/285)]

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