of the questions, issuing rulings in only a few cases (1).

Mālik also said: I heard that Muʿādh ibn Jabal will be ahead of the scholars by a ratwah (2)—that is, on the Day of Resurrection he will precede them by the distance a stone can be thrown (3).

Mālik further stated: Ibn ʿUmar lived for sixty years after the Prophet ﷺ, giving legal verdicts to the people during the pilgrimage season and at other times, and he was one of the imams of the religion (4).

ʿUmar said to Jarīr, “May Allah have mercy on you! In the Age of Ignorance you were a leader, and in Islam you are a jurist!”

Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir remarked, “No one better than ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn ever came to Basra (5).”

Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allah had a study circle in the Mosque of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ from which knowledge was transmitted.

Knowledge spread to every horizon only through the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. They opened lands by jihad and opened hearts with knowledge and the Quran; they filled the world with goodness and learning, and people today subsist on the remnants of their scholarship (6).

Al-Shāfiʿī said in his Risalah—after mentioning the Companions, exalting and praising them—