Abu Taymiyyah – ‘What Should a Student Memorize & Read First’ w Jeylaani
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If someone wants to start sick in the
algoid, how should they feel about it?
Well, I guess this is a very, very
common question. I've had so many young brothers,
sisters
contact me. What should we start with? Okay?
I'm going to talk about the makhawlat,
what a person should memorize because that's vital.
And then also some of the books maybe
to go through. Because guys, you have to
understand and I always bang on about this
and I actually began to think that
I'm maybe becoming a bit too extreme,
going overboard in advising the people to memorize.
And I began to think as well maybe,
you know, some brothers that I was advising,
they're beginning to get offended. Okay.
Because, well, I this is knowledge.
Let's go back to the kibar, you know,
the scholars
that are from the elite of our time.
And even though if they're not from the
elite, those who, subhanAllah,
when the students of knowledge look at them,
they see them to be from the most
amazing of those who, you know, they have
sat with
the likes of Sheikh Salal Al Usaymi. And
I heard this from him when he recently
came and he taught 16 books in 8
days. Okay.
Sheikh Al Usaymi, he mentioned his
Because you have to memorize. Whoever thinks he's
going to obtain knowledge
without memorizing, then this person is chasing the
impossible.
Okay?
And the very nice,
speech that he heard from Sheikh Salih,
Mohammed bin Salih al Uthaimin. He heard this
from Uthaimin, the great scholar
who has,
I don't think, who are Ghaneen al Anitaref.
He doesn't need me to or he's, you
know, he's he's too good to be known,
or me to give a definition or to
talk to you about who he is.
Sheikh Salih al Ussaymi said that he heard,
and I heard it from Sheikh Salih al
Ussaymi. He said,
You know,
he said we benefited more from that which
we memorized
more than that which we,
Yani benefited from that which we read.
Okay? So, you have Sheikh Salih al Husayn
in our time saying this,
you have him, you know, quoting Sheikh Salih
al Uthayim.
Mohammed Nasal al Uthayim.
Okay. So you have the kibar of the
the the the scholars
of our time.
Sheikh Sala Usaymi is also, you know, a
member of the Hayat Kibar Al Ullama, the
major scholars of our time. I also heard
this from Sheikh Mohammed bin Hizam,
one of my masha'ikh
in,
in the Maj. Okay?
He said very nice and I was sitting
in his lesson when he mentioned this he
was like YaTul Labilaim, students of knowledge
memorize.
You know, attending lessons
is something that everybody can do. The old
one, the young one,
the,
the granny,
the granddad.
Every person can attend lessons
because it's easy. As for memorization, it's hard.
And that's why the majority of people don't
do it.
Okay?
And he's a person who has memorized Bukhari,
Muslim, Riyad Salehin, Bulugul Maram, Janal Sahih, Mimalis
of Sahihin of the Kitab Sheikh Mubil, Bin
Adil Wadi aye, Aliyrahmatullah
was from the Sheikh Hashukhina.
And he also remembers Alfi al Namiq, Alfi
al Iraqi, Mandu Mat al Ameriti.
He's a bahar when it comes to memorization.
And if you look at the books he's
authored, you'll understand why. Okay.
Also my other Sheikh Abdul Hamid Al Hajuri,
Hafidullah Ta'ala, who's currently in Mecca. He memorized
Sahih Muslim.
Okay? And something very nice that I saw
was because he taught me akhida. He taught
me a chain of books in akhida.
Him and Sheikh Salih Asindi, they're very similar.
Sheikh Salih Cindy who currently teaches me,
in the Prophet's Masjid. Okay.
He's teaching he was teaching as wasi. I
studied Akhida through wasi from them both, which
is a risala a treat is from. I'm
not saying Muhammadu Ta'ala.
Both of them are very similar in such
a way where they come to the lesson
and everything they say is from the top
of their heads.
A Hadith, Badha Hadith, Ayat, Badha Aayat. Comes
to a Nuqtah in the book, and he's
just explaining so many Hadith. Likewise with Sheikh
Abdul Hamid Al Hajjuri.
Okay.
And when you look at it, they're both
memorized,
you know. And SubhanAllah, one time I went
to Sheikh Salih,
Cindy.
I said to him, Sheikh, do you have
all your proofs and evidences written down somewhere
so I can benefit from it because I
want to memorize it? And also the lines
of poetry that you always quote from Nuni
of Ibn Qayyim
And, and he looked at me and he
said, no.
I don't I don't have one. So I
said to him, Sheikh, I've compiled some, you
know.
And he said,
what an excellent thing that you've done, you
know. And, oh, it just totally amazed me.
Like, Sheikh just comes and is already in
the back of his head and he's just
given it.
I thought maybe he would have something on
paper where he revises before he comes to
the lesson.
And Sheikh Abdul Hamid, remember, is saying Muslim.
And, even though,
you know, Sheikh Abdul Hamid, I love him
more, but I actually think that Sheikh Salih
al Sendi is a bit more, you know,
stronger when it comes to giving different ojo,
you know,
when it comes to speaking about
the topics and the doubts that might be
brought by the Mulhiddin, the atheists and the
people of innovation. Is Mashallah very good at
Aza?
Okay.
SubhanAllah.
So, you know, these, you know, Masha'iQ guys,
they advise us to memorize.
Okay. I'm just going off again.
But,
there's some very nice lines of poetry that,
Sheikh Salih al Husayim, he mentioned of what
a person should firstly start memorizing.
Okay?
And within it, I will mention books because
he advises with the azo.
And the first thing that a person should
memorize
is the Quran. He mentions
Okay. The first thing that a person should
start with is the Quran. And he should
also try to master it
and become solidified
in mastering the alfad.
Because you find that in the Quran there's
mushabihat, right? There's ayaat are very similar to
one another. Okay?
So if a person doesn't know the similarities
of aya, he might come to one and
he's reading a Ayat from, you know, another.
So one thing that really helped me, what
I would do when I finished, I would
write on the side of the Quran the
Mu'tesh Abihad, the very similar Ayat. Sometimes you
find,
In another ayah, you find,
Okay? So at the end and at the
end. Okay? So you write the side of
the page, okay, in this surah, you have
this word.
Okay? And he also then said
In the beginning, one should try to memorize
a small comprehensive,
you know, a book
from the different funun. Like for example, when
you go to Khawad Al Fakhihyah,
you have the Mandoom of Imam Sayadir Rahimullah
Ta'ala where which goes
until the end of the ayat. You come
to a Sira. You have,
the lines of poetry which was compiled by,
ibn Abdul 'iz Al Hanafi,
called Arjuzatul Mi'iya,
which goes Alhamdulillahiilqadeemalbari
from masala to Al Muhtari
Also, then when it comes to Tawhid, you
have,
you know, different books that one can study,
Kaway al Arba, or Surah Al Salata, or
Surah Sita,
you know, Kashfi Shubahat, Fadlul Islami,
Kitabatur hid, these books that were done. You
have in Aqeedah,
you know, Aqeedulawasil,
umatuliatikhad,
Aqeedur Toreziyin, or Sollu Sunilimam Al Khameedirahimahallahu
ta'ala. We've gone through some of these books
on the channel. Ustad Abdel Rahman has gone
through many books as well, you can find
on his channel. Then, akhirah to tahawiya.
Okay. That's when it comes to that type.
When it comes to that which one should
memorize,
from the books of hadith,
okay,
Shasal al Usseimi,
he mentions in some other lines of poetry
says
Because the first thing you should remember is
Arba'in Nawi. The second thing is Umdasil Hakam.
The third thing, Bulugan Maram. And the fourth
thing, Riadu Salihim.
Riadu Salihim. And this will build
a very strong student of knowledge. And is
very true. Okay? And one thing that I
might want to add today is
a
Free,
Al Mu'takkad Al Sahih.
Okay?
This kitab Al Muhtar, brothers and sisters, is
360
hadith
related to Tawhid and Aqeedah, which my Sheikh
Mohammed bin Hazam that I taught, spoke to
you about earlier, or memorized all them books,
Yani, he compiled,
and you can find Indar al Naseih here
in Madin, which is in front of the
Jamia. And he talks subhanah about many different
Abu'ab and I've tried to promote as much
as possible. You come to the asma'at with
Sifaat. You come to the Tawhid. It gives
you a bunch of a hadith and, you
know, gives you a very good foundation when
it comes to knowing the textual evidences from
the sunnah. You come to the Khilafa, it
gives you the hadith. You come to Horuj
Al Hakim, exiting, revolting Israel, he gives you
a bunch of hadith.
Gives another hadith.
And many different, you know, the Ashraat to
Sa'a. You know, what happens when Yomar Qiam,
Shafa'a Al Qadr Al Iman, gives you a
bunch of hadith.
So when a person he teaches now, let's
just say Aqeedah,
he comes now where,
the Sahib al Mattin might talk about using
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Yom Rakhi. What's the
proof? Hadith Jaleer.
Okay. So I wanna add them to that
inshallah. Then after that,
he mentioned some other lines of poetry.
If Allah, you know, makes you reach that,
let's just try maybe do the basics first.
But if you do, you go through Kutub
As Sita. Sorry, the 4 books after Bukhari,
Qutb e Sittinam. Bukhari, Muslim, Sunun Abi Dawud,
then Tirmidi,
then Nasai, and then Ibn Maja. What happens
after that? You start going through Zawaid, Ma'ajim,
Tabarani, you know, and all these other books.
Okay?
You know, to benefit more,
I'll conclude with some lines of poetry he
mentions.
He says to you memorize the Nasih hab
al Usayni. And all this that we mentioned,
he has many lines of poetry. Memorize it,
you will come to realize one day.
And the person,
the disappointed individual
who knows he should have done something but
now he's come to realization,
he will think to himself
and he will appreciate,
the person who
excelled
him in knowledge, that which he done was
the right thing to do, you know. The
disappointed individuals not thinking only I wish I
done this, you know. And we want khair
for the people. We want the people to
memorize, to really benefit. There's many people,
they take the wrong path when it comes
to
seeking knowledge.
And they're all over the place. I remember
in the Maja I saw this and I
see it now as well.
Fahad, one of the first things we should
start with is the Quran.
A person, he might jump into other things.
He might be running around trying to get
different lessons.
I'm not saying to you don't get these
lessons, but we have only yet.
Everything goes back to the Quran and the
sunnah. When you study Tawhid now, the majority
of the ayat that the imam is going
to mention in the book is ayat. You
have it inside the Quran. You've already got
it, you know, locked down,
you know.
And likewise all other funun, likewise a hadith,
when you're studying a hadith now in Khaleel
Hadith,
you know, to have a good foundation is
something great. And all the other funun, it
always somehow goes back to the Quran. Fahadahou
al Aslu.
You know, guys, so we ask Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala to benefit us from what we
heard and to make us from the huffad,
those who benefit. And also, most importantly, guys,
to make us sincere. Guys, wallahi, no matter
what we do, if we're not sincere in
what we learn and we do, you know,
then wallahi,
nothing is going to be a benefit of
us rather. There's going to be a hujya
against us in Yomul Khayyam. We're going to
come on Yomul Khayyamah
and we have absolutely nothing.
We thought we were doing something, but what?
We have actions that are nullified.
We don't have any actions.
Okay? And also,
Sheikh Salih al Usaymi, he mentioned in his
kitabt Adhim al-'in,
he says that, fa'inaal mara yanaaloola'ilma,
anakadil
I khalase. A person who obtains knowledge in
accordance to his sincerity.
Okay.
And I'll conclude with this something that I
saw from Sheikh Soleiman al Raheli when I
was studying with him here. He was sitting
on the chair and he was advising the
people of,
first advising the people of sincerity. He said
me sitting on this chair, me sitting on
this chair, you know, I'm striving against myself
to keep myself sincere.
You know, and who's safe? If this is
like from what we see from the apparent
the most righteous,
of people in our time
Then where do any of us ever stand?
So if you want to throw it, what
do we say?
I haven't tried to work on and cure
more, you know, I you severely tried so
hard more than my attention. Why?
Why? Because it keeps turning from side to
side.
You know, also Sayyman al Hashimi
he mentioned that
I might narrate a hadith and I have
an intention.
And then I reach a part of the
hadith
and I have another intention so I need
to work on the intention.
Okay? So then he mentioned
One hadith requires multiple intentions.
You to keep being sincere,
you know.
So
all my sincerity is something important.
Something very important that we need to keep
reminding ourselves with all the time. And I'll
make us also say