When ash-Shāfi’ī sat in front of Mālik

Imām Ibn Al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, mentions:

When ash-Shāfi’ī sat in front of Mālik to read to him, (may Allāh have mercy on both), he was amazed at what he was seeing of ash-Shāfi’ī’s intelligence, wisdom, and complete understanding and comprehension, saying: *“I see that Allāh has placed light in your heart. So, don’t put it out with the darkness of sin.”*

And ash-Shāfi’ī (may Allāh have Mercy on him) said: I complained to Wakī’ of my bad memory *So, he advised me to abandon sins; And said: “Know that knowledge is a blessing and the blessing of Allāh is not accessible to the sinner.”*

📚‘al-Jawāb al-Kāfī’ (p. 54)

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