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Shalat today we have a short chatra introduced 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 life 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 tabirioon or themselves levels depending on their

era so you have the great era of the tabirioon 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 zood, of asceticism and he was known for not

only ill but primarily for ibadah, for worship. He was an icon of the city in

terms of his lifestyle very simple, very frugal in terms of constant

worshipping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala always being in the misjid.

Anybody wanted to see him he would go to the misjid find him there. He once famously remarked

had it not been for the fact that I have to break my wudu and do wudu outside. I would be sitting

here day and night. He would want to stay in the misjid and there are many beautiful

anecdotes about him. You can look up in any book I'll just mention some of them. Once it is

narrated that a thief came and broke into the house of Malik Ibn Dinar and he was in the

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