عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، كَانَ يَقُولُ إِذَا أَصْبَحَ حِينَ يَسْأَلُ : “ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ عِلْمًا نَافِعًا وَرِزْقًا طَيِّبًا وَعَمَلا مُتَقَبَّلا ” .
Umm Salamah (Radhiallâhu anha) narrated that the Prophet(Sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) used to say after the dawn prayer, “O Allâh, I ask You for beneficial knowledge, acceptable action, and good provision.”
Tirmidhi 2487
Al-Imaam ash-Shaatibee, may Allah have mercy upon him, mentioned two
ways of obtaining knowledge:
Al-Imaam ash-Shaatibee, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:
One Way: Is taking knowledge orally (directly from the scholars) which
is the most beneficial of the two ways and the safest of them…
Second Way: Browsing over books of writers and authors of (Islamic)
literatures. Whereas it (this way of obtaining knowledge) is also
beneficial in relation to its field with two conditions:
Firstly: That he obtains an understanding of what was intended
regarding that requested science and (that) he becomes familiar with
the terminologies of its authors, which will complete for him his
comprehension of the books, (in reality) that occurs through the first
way of taking knowledge from the scholars orally or it returns to
it… whereas books on its own without the guideline of the scholars
does not benefit the student anything, which is something usually
observed.
Secondly: That he strives for the books of the early scholars for
verily they are more established in it (knowledge) than other than
them of the later scholars and the basis for that is by experience and
by narrations.
Reference: al-Muwaafaqaat (1/96).
Abu Darda said:
“Indeed my greatest fear concerning standing on the Day of Judgement is that it will be said to me: You have learned, hence what have you done with your knowledge?!”
[Jaami’ Bayaan al ‘Ilm Wa Fadlih, #647]
‘Umar ibn Abdil-’Aziz said:
“Become a scholar if you are able. If you are not able, then be a student. If you can not, then show love for them. If you are unable to do that,then (at least) do not hate them.”
[Ibn Abdil-Barr in Jaami’u Bayaanil-‘Ilmi wa Fadhlihi, #143]
Shaykh Muqbil ibn Haadee al-Waadi’ee رحمه الله تعالى :
يا أبنائي لو كان العلم يسقى في كأس لأسقيتموه، و لكن لا يتحصل عليه إلا بكد و حك الركب
“Oh my children, if knowledge could be poured into a glass, I would pour it for you, but it is not obtained except by hard work, exhaustion and scraping of the knees.”
{Nubdhah Mukhtasarah, 44}
Al-Imaam ash-Shaatibee, may Allah have mercy upon him, mentioned two ways of obtaining knowledge: Where Al-Imaam ash-Shaatibee, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:
One Way: Is taking knowledge orally (directly from the scholars) which is the most beneficial of the two ways and the safest of them… Second Way: Browsing over books of writers and authors of (Islamic) literatures. Whereas it (this way of obtaining knowledge) is also beneficial in relation to its field with two conditions: Firstly: That he obtains an understanding of what was intended regarding that requested science and (that) he becomes familiar with the terminologies of its authors, which will complete for him his comprehension of the books, (in reality) that occurs through the first way of taking knowledge from the scholars orally or it returns to it… whereas books on its own without the guideline of the scholars does not benefit the student anything, which is something usually observed. Secondly: That he strives for the books of the early scholars for verily they are more established in it (knowledge) than other than them of the later scholars and the basis for that is by experience and by narrations.
Reference: al-Muwaafaqaat (1/96).
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