A Word's Weight

'I have been given comprehensive speech, and speech has been condensed for me to the utmost degree.'Forty sayings in which the Prophet ¿ placed a lifetime of guidance Inside a sentence.Some were spoken to one man in a single moment. To Ibn ¿Abb¿s, riding behind him: be mindful of Allah, and He will preserve you. To Ibn ¿Umar, with a hand upon his shoulder be in this world as though you were a stranger, or a wayfarer travelling on a road. To Ab¿ Dharr, who asked for more and was given more, seven times over. Others are sermons delivered to a whole gathering, urging repentance, warning against avarice, describing the friends of Allah Most High. The collection closes with the Hadith in which he ¿ names the gift that every preceding page has been displaying.Gathered by the Imam and Shaykh ¿Abdullah Sir¿j al-D¿n al-¿usayni of Aleppo, ¿¿fi¿, commentator upon the Qur'an, and teacher of a generation of scholars, and drawn from his Sayyidun¿ Muhammad Rasül All¿h ¿