Make room for the little shaykh!

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Asalaamu Calaykum WR WB Yaa Ikhwaani

 

Here’s something inspiratonal... it’s a poem by the great muhaddith Sufyaan ibn ‘Uyaynah (may Allah have mercy on him), describing himself as a young boy:

 

O Nadr, if you had only seen me when I was ten years old, and I was only five feet tall;

my face was like a dinar, I was like a spark of fire!

My clothes were small, my sleeves were short, my sandals were like the ears of a mouse

I would go to the scholars of the various lands – az-Zuhri and ‘Amr ibn Dinar

I would sit amongst them like a peg,

My inkpot was like a walnut,

My pen case like a banana,

My pen like an almond.

When I came they would say, “Make room for the little shaykh!”

 

 

May Allah make us all such devoted students of (beneficial) knowledge, ameen!