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Shalatudiyu have a short chat to introduce you to

one of the main famous figures of early Islam

and he is one of the ascetics that is known in the books of history

and his name is Malik Ibn Dinar and his story is a beautiful story and there are

certain benefits and for what we can derive from it.

Who is Malik Ibn Dinar? Malik Ibn Dinar is a tabiri.

He's not a sahabi, he's a tabiri.

He was born in the era of the sahaba and he studied under some of the sahaba.

It is said that maybe even he saw Ibn Abbas as a child

but he studied with anas ibn Malik and he studied with the senior

tabiroon of Basra and he became a middle-level tabiroon.

Tabirooner themselves levels depending on their era.

So you have the great era of the tabiroon like Hassan al-Basli

then you have the next generation like Malik Ibn Dinar.

So this is Malik Ibn Dinar.

After the death of Al-Hassan al-Basri, the famous scholar of Basra,

Malik Ibn Dinar became the main icon of religiosity,

of zud, of asceticism.

And he was known for not only in but primarily for ibadah, for worship.

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