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Shaykh Bakr ibn ‘Abdillaah Aboo Zayd (rahimahullaah) in his book “Hilyah Taalib al-‘Ilm” summarized the signs of beneficial knowledge and he mentioned:
Ask yourself about how much you share from the signs of beneficial knowledge, which are as follows:
1. Implementing it.
2. Hatred of being praised, complemented, or displaying haughtiness over others.
3. Increasing your modesty with the increase of your knowledge
4. Fleeing from the love of leadership, fame, and worldly pleasures.
5. Abandoning the claim to have knowledge.
6. Having bad suspicions about oneself, and good suspicion about other people, so as to steer clear from disparaging them.
‘Abdullaah ibn al-Mubarak used to say, in poetry the following lines when the manners of the Salaf were mentioned:
“Do not compare us to them … For the healthy person, who walks, is not the same as the crippled one.”
Source: “Hilyah Taalib al-‘Ilm” of Shaykh Bakr ibn ‘Abdillaah Aboo Zayd (rahimahullaah), Chapter 6, page 191.
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al-Hafidh Ibn Rajab al Hanbali (may Allah have mercy on him) wrote in his treatise “Fadhl ‘Ilm as-Salaf ‘ala ‘Ilm ul-Khalaf” (The virtue of knowledge of the Salaf over the Khalaf):
From the signs of beneficial knowledge is that it will teach one to flee from the worldly effects, the greatest of which is the desire for leadership, fame, and praise. It will teach one to avoid these and to expend effort in staying away from them. If any of this does occur, without his choice or desire, he is in a state of extreme fear of his end because it could just be a divine plan and a means of gradually leading him to perdition (istidraj). It was because of this that Imam Ahmad (rahimahullaah) used to be in a state of fear when he became famous.
From the signs of beneficial knowledge is that one does not lay claim to having knowledge or become boastful of it. He does not accuse others of ignorance unless they oppose the Sunnah and its people, in which case he speaks against him out of anger for the sake of Allah, not out of personal anger or the desire of gaining ascendancy over him.
As for he whose knowledge is not beneficial, he has no concern but to show his supremacy over the rest of the people by means of his knowledge, to accuse them of ignorance, and to demean them. This is from the meanest of traits to be found in people!
It is possible that this person even accuse the scholars who came before him of ignorance and negligence; such a person loves his self and desires to promote it, he has a good opinion of himself and a bad opinion of the salaf (those who came before him).
The People of beneficial knowledge are the exact opposite; they have a bad opinion of themselves and have a good opinion of the scholars of the past. Their hearts accept the nobility and excellence of their predecessors and their inability to come close to their ranks, let alone actually reach them!
Excellent indeed is the saying of Abu Hanifah (rahimahullaah) when he was asked as to which of the two was better, ‘Alqamah or al-Aswad, he replied, ‘By Allah we are not even deserving of mentioning them let alone determining which of them is better!’
When the manners of the Salaf were mentioned to ‘Abdullaah ibn al-Mubarak, he would say the following lines of poetry,
Do not compare us to them … For the healthy person, who walks, is not the same as the crippled one.
Source: “Fadl ‘Ilm as-Salaf ‘ala ‘Ilm ul-Khalaf” of Ibn Rajab, Pages 46-48
http://www.islamictreasure.com/the-signs-of-beneficial-knowledge
Ask yourself about how much you share from the signs of beneficial knowledge, which are as follows:
1. Implementing it.
2. Hatred of being praised, complemented, or displaying haughtiness over others.
3. Increasing your modesty with the increase of your knowledge
4. Fleeing from the love of leadership, fame, and worldly pleasures.
5. Abandoning the claim to have knowledge.
6. Having bad suspicions about oneself, and good suspicion about other people, so as to steer clear from disparaging them.
‘Abdullaah ibn al-Mubarak used to say, in poetry the following lines when the manners of the Salaf were mentioned:
“Do not compare us to them … For the healthy person, who walks, is not the same as the crippled one.”
Source: “Hilyah Taalib al-‘Ilm” of Shaykh Bakr ibn ‘Abdillaah Aboo Zayd (rahimahullaah), Chapter 6, page 191.
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al-Hafidh Ibn Rajab al Hanbali (may Allah have mercy on him) wrote in his treatise “Fadhl ‘Ilm as-Salaf ‘ala ‘Ilm ul-Khalaf” (The virtue of knowledge of the Salaf over the Khalaf):
From the signs of beneficial knowledge is that it will teach one to flee from the worldly effects, the greatest of which is the desire for leadership, fame, and praise. It will teach one to avoid these and to expend effort in staying away from them. If any of this does occur, without his choice or desire, he is in a state of extreme fear of his end because it could just be a divine plan and a means of gradually leading him to perdition (istidraj). It was because of this that Imam Ahmad (rahimahullaah) used to be in a state of fear when he became famous.
From the signs of beneficial knowledge is that one does not lay claim to having knowledge or become boastful of it. He does not accuse others of ignorance unless they oppose the Sunnah and its people, in which case he speaks against him out of anger for the sake of Allah, not out of personal anger or the desire of gaining ascendancy over him.
As for he whose knowledge is not beneficial, he has no concern but to show his supremacy over the rest of the people by means of his knowledge, to accuse them of ignorance, and to demean them. This is from the meanest of traits to be found in people!
It is possible that this person even accuse the scholars who came before him of ignorance and negligence; such a person loves his self and desires to promote it, he has a good opinion of himself and a bad opinion of the salaf (those who came before him).
The People of beneficial knowledge are the exact opposite; they have a bad opinion of themselves and have a good opinion of the scholars of the past. Their hearts accept the nobility and excellence of their predecessors and their inability to come close to their ranks, let alone actually reach them!
Excellent indeed is the saying of Abu Hanifah (rahimahullaah) when he was asked as to which of the two was better, ‘Alqamah or al-Aswad, he replied, ‘By Allah we are not even deserving of mentioning them let alone determining which of them is better!’
When the manners of the Salaf were mentioned to ‘Abdullaah ibn al-Mubarak, he would say the following lines of poetry,
Do not compare us to them … For the healthy person, who walks, is not the same as the crippled one.
Source: “Fadl ‘Ilm as-Salaf ‘ala ‘Ilm ul-Khalaf” of Ibn Rajab, Pages 46-48
http://www.islamictreasure.com/the-signs-of-beneficial-knowledge
