imam malik aur adab e rasool.
Kabeer Siddiqui
On the Importance of Adab (etiquette) over Knowledge
Ibn al-Mubarak said, ‘We are in need of a little Adab more than a lot of knowledge”. Imam asy-Syafi’i said, ‘Imam Malik said to me, ‘O Muhammad, make your knowledge good and adab fine’”
‘Abdurrahman bin al-Qasim said, “I served Imam Malik for 20 years, 2 of which I took knowledge from him while the remaining 18 years I learnt adab. How I wish that I spent all the years learning adab only.”
It is related that Abu Yazid al-Bustomi r.a. went out to find a man who was well known for his piety. Abu Yazid waited for him outside the mosque and soon saw the man exit the mosque and spat at the outer-wall of the mosque. Abu Yazid immediately left without meeting the man. He said, “A person who is not careful of the adab of the Law, will not be entrusted to the secrets of Allah.”