Selection of friend and whom to make friendship with and whom to take advice from?

Al-’Amash (م سنة 148هـ) – said, *“They (the Salaf) did not used to ask anything more about a person after having asked three affairs, whom he walks with, whom he enters upon, and whom he associates with amongst the people.”*

[Reported by Imaam ‘Ubaydullaah bin Muhammad Ibn Battah al-‘Unkbaree (م سنة 387هـ) in his book, Ash-Sharh wal-‘Ibaanah ‘ala ‘Usoolis-Sunnah wad-Diyaanah, (vol.2, page.478).]