Shaqeeq Al-Balkhee (rahimahullaah) said:There is none more beloved to me than a guest because his provision and food is due fromAllaah and its reward is for me.
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[Source:سير السلف الصالحين لإسماعيل بن محمد الأصبهاني1/1126. Maktabah Shaamilah]
Maymoon Bin Mehraan (rahimahullaah) said: “The nobility of a believer is found in performing prayer during the darkness of night and not despairing for what is in the possession of the people.”
Thaabit Al-Bunaanee (rahimahullaah) used to pray at night and fast during the day. He used to say: “There is nothing I find more pleasing to my heart than the night prayer.”
“Indeed, such and such person does not admonish anyone and he says, ‘I am afraid of saying something that I do not do.'”
Al-Hasan said: ”So when will he do what he says? Shaytaan desires to overcome this person, so that he neither enjoin good upon anyone nor forbid anyone from evil.”
Alqamah Ibn Murthid (rahimahullaah) said: Aamir Bin Abdi Qais (rahimahullaah) wept when death came upon him; so it was said to him, “Do you despair because of death, so you weep?” He said, “Why should I not weep and who is more worthy of that than I?! By Allaah! Neither am I weeping out of despairing because of death nor out of eagerness for your dunyah and being desirous of it; but I weep due to the thirst of the midday heat (i.e. will miss fasting) and the night prayer during winter.”
”And (remember) the Day when the Zalim (wrong-doer) will bite at his hands, he will say: “Oh! Would that I had taken a path with the Messenger ( Muhammad ). Ah! Woe to me! Would that I had never taken so-and-so as a friend! He indeed led me astray from the Reminder (this Qur’an) after it had come to me. And Shaitaan (Satan) is ever a deserter to man in the hour of need.”
The best of deeds is the fulfillment of what Allaah has made obligatory, refraining from what Allaah has forbidden out of fear of Him and having a truthful intention in (hoping) for what Allaah has with Him (of reward in the hereafter).
Sulaymaan At-Taymi (rahimahullaah) wept severely when he became ill; so it was said to him, “What makes you weep, it is out of distress (because) of death?” He said: No, rather I went pass a Qadariy and gave him salaam, so I fear that my Lord will call me to account for that.