Aboo ‘Umar Yoosuf ibn
Abdullah Ibn Abdul-Barr al-Andalusee [May Allaah have Mercy on him] said:
“Seeking knowledge is to
be sought in stages, it has levels and degrees and it is absolutely essential
that one doesn’t transgress them. If one transgresses any one of them then it
as if he has transgressed all the levels, and by transgressing them, one will
have gone astray from the path of the Salaf
[May Allaah have mercy on them all]. If one contravenes this all on
purpose, then he will be misguided and whoever transgresses these levels by
working too hard, then he will slip.
So the first thing he
must do is to memorise the Book of Allaah, The Glorified and The Exalted, and
to he must understand it. And he must understand and learn everything that is
applicable to him, as this is obligatory upon him. And I don’t say that
memorizing everything this obligatory, rather I say it is obligatory and
binding for the one who wants to be a scholar to do so, this is whom it is
obligatory upon.”
[Jaami’ Bayaan ‘Ilm wa
Fadlihee (pg. 526)]
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