Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37392 — The words of Salman

Musa bin Yasar relates that Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote a letter to Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with him): "In the shade of the Throne will be a just ruler; a wealthy man who, when he gives charity, conceals his right hand from his left hand; a man whom a beautiful woman of noble lineage invites to herself, and he says: 'I fear the Lord of the Worlds'; a man who grows up in such a way that his health, his youth and his strength are spent in deeds that Allah loves and that please Him; a man whose heart remains attached to the mosques because of his love for them; a man who remembers Allah and his eyes overflow out of fear of Allah; and two men who meet, and one of them says to the other: 'I love you for the sake of Allah.'" He also wrote in the letter: "Knowledge is like springs, and through it Allah Almighty benefits whomever He wills. Wisdom that is not spoken is like a body without a soul. Knowledge that is not acted upon is like a treasure from which nothing is spent. And the scholar is like a man for whom a lamp is lit on the road, so people take light from it, and each one prays for him."