The Perfume-Seller & the Blacksmith

Concise Words on Good and Bad Companionships

Shaykh Abdur-Rahman As-Sa’di, Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan, Shaykh Zayd Al-Madkhali, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Hadi

A compilation of small treatises regarding companionship, collected from the works and speeches of some of the noble scholars of our times.

Al-Hāfiz Abū Hātim Muhammad bin Hibbān Al-Bustī (rahimahullah) said: “Indeed; from the greatest indications upon understanding what it is a person is upon by way of his fluctuations and his dormancy is: taking into consideration who it is that he converses with and loves. Since a person is upon the religion of his close friend; and the birds of the sky converge on their own likeness.”

(Rawdatul ‘Uqalā wa Nuzhatul Fudalā)

Al-‘Allāmah Muhammad bin Şālih al-‘Uthaimīn (rahimahullah) said:

“Strive to keep company with a people who are people of good. They show you the right way if you err. They guide you if you are misled. They remind you if you forget. They teach you if you do not know. All of these are from the factors for the increase in Ēmān.”

(Sharh Şahīh al-Bukhārī)