Narrations from the Salaf Concerning Judging One by His Companionship
Aboo Qilaabah (d.104H) rahimahullaah, “May Allaah fight the poet who said,
‘Do not ask about a person, ask about his associate; Since every person follows his associate.”
I say, it was as if Aboo Qilaabah admired the one who recited the poetry, that was ’Adee
Ibn Zayd al-’Ibaadee. Stated al-Asma’ee, ‘I have never seen a piece of poetry resembling the Sunnah, more than this statement of ’Adee.”
BENEFIT Said al-A’mash (d.148H) - rahimahullaah,
“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,”
al-Ibaanah (2/478).
Refer to al-Ibaanah (2/439).
Translated by Maaz Qureshi