Gardens of Virtue

Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan said: (Imām) Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal was brought before the caliph (Muʿtaṣim) and Ibn Abī Duwād (ie: the Muʿtazilī) and Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shāfīʿī were there too.
أخبرنا إسماعيل بن أحمد، ومحمد بن أبى القاسم، قالا: أخبرنا حَمْد بن أحمد، قال: حدثنا أحمد بن عبد الله الحافظ، قال: حدثنا الحسين بن محمد، قال: حدثنا عبد الرحمن بن الفيض، قال: سمعت إبراهيم بن محمد بن الحسن، يقول: أُدخل أحمد بن حنبل على الخَليفة وعنده ابن أبى دُؤاد وأبو عَبد الرحمن الشافعى،

(Imām Aḥmad) was seated in front of the caliph.
فأُجلس بين يدى الخليفة،

They (the audience) were frightened and they (the executioners) had just finished beheading two men.
وكانوا هوَّلوا عليه، وقد كانوا ضَربوا عُنق رجلين؛

Aḥmad looked at Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shāfīʿī and asked: “Do you have anything (ie: any aḥadīth) from al-Shāfīʿī on al-masaḥ (ie: wiping over one's footwear)?”
فَنظر أحمد إلى أبى عبد الرحمن الشافعى، فقال: أىّ شىءٍ تَحفظ عن الشافعى فى المسح؟

Upon this Ibn Abī Duwād said: “Look at this man! He is brought here to be beheaded and he is discussing fiqh!”
فقال ابن أبى دُؤاد: انظروا رجلًا هو ذا يُقدم به لضربِ العنق يُناظر فى الفِقه!

Ibn al-Jāwzī, Manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad 1/433
ابن الجوزي، مناقب الإمام أحمد ١/٤٣٣
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*[DO NOT BELITTLE ANY GOOD DEED]*

Shaykh Abdul Azeem Madani حفظه الله ( an indian Salafī scholar from south India) said in one of his videos explaining why we shouldn't deem any good deed to be insignificant & then he narrated the story of Imām Muqbil the Imām belonged to a poor family so in order to earn money he came to Makkah so he started working at a lodge & worked as a sweeper there, so a person who had come for umrah or hajj a sincere man he gifted the young muqbil a small book of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab's Kitab At Tawhīd, so that haji gave this young man named Muqbil a small copy of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab's Kitab At Tawhīd, so that small copy of the book affected the young muqbil so much that he said all types of shirk that are widespread in our society have been refuted by evidence, Tawhid & the conditions of Tawhid everything has been explained & understood very well by the author, so he read it once, twice, thrice so this small copy of Kitab At Tawhid became a means & inspired him to being his journey of seeking knowledge he thought to him myself, it is not my job to work here at this lodge as a cleaner/sweeper but rather i should seek knowledge, so that small copy created the love for seeking knowledge in his heart & developed the passion for seeking knowledge so much so that he got inspired by it then he sought knowledge, studied in the Madinah University & then attained such a high status in the field of Hadith that today the 2nd most Reliable & Trustworthy name in the field of Hadith after Imām Al-Albani is his name Imām Muqbil رحمه الله, in the end Shaykh Abdul Azeem حفظه الله said We can say that, that small gift of 1 riyal given with passion & sincerity gave the Ummah a sincere Alim although that man probably doesn't even know that the young man whom he gave this was Imam Muqbil & he'll come to know about it on Day of Judgement, the shaykh ended his speech with the hadith of our Beloved Nabī ﷺ: Do not belittle any good deed. So Do not belittle any good deed & try to perform every good deed with passion & sincerity.

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