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• “الدين عربي فأتقنوا لغتكم”

  أبو الأسود الدؤلي (603–688) said by 688 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It was narrated that 'Aishah said: "The Messenger of Allah married me when I was seven years old, and he consummated the marriage with me when I was nine." (Sahih)”

  Aisha (614–678) said by 678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Al-Nasa'i

• “Do not try to search outside yourself, which [only] leads to the suffering of saṃsāra. Maintain the same state of mind in every moment of thought, in every phase of mental activity.”

  Daman Hongren (601–674) said by 674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You will follow the ways of those who came before you, inch by inch and cubit by cubit, even if they were to enter the hole of a monitor lizard, you would follow them." We asked, "O Messenger of Allah! Do you mean the Jews and Christians?" He said, "Who else?”

  Abu Said Al-Khudri (612–693) said by 693 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “God is everywhere; he is immense and everywhere present, according to what he said about himself: I am a God nearby and not a God far away (cf. Jer 23, 23).”

  Columbanus (543–615) said by 615 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “وروي أنّ عائشة سُئلت : أيّ الناس كان أحبُّ إلى رسول الله ؟ قالت : فاطمة. قيل : ومن الرجال ؟ قالت : زوجها”

  فاطمة الزهراء (604–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “من قنع بما هو فيه قرت عينه.”

  النعمان بن حميضة البارقي (died 600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[لابنه شيرويه] ليكن من تختاره لولايتك امرءا كان في ضعة فرفعته، أو ذا شرف كان مهملا فاصطنعته. ولا تجعله امرءا أصبته بقعوبة فاتضع لها، ولا امرءا اطاعك بعد ما أذللته. ولا أحدا ممن يقع بقلبك أن إزالة سلطانك أحبّ إليه من ثبوته؛ وإياك أن تستعمله ضرعا غمرا كثيرا اعجابه بنفسه، قليلا تجربته في غيره. ولا كبيرا مدبرا قد أخذ الدهر من عقله كما أخذت السنّ من جسمه.”

  كسرى الثاني (570–628) said by 628 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O people, the first day is difficult but if I live I shall deliver a proper speech.”

  Uthman (574–656) said by 656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “عند وفاته دَعَا بِشَرَابٍ فَأُتِيَ بِقَدَحٍ مِنْ لَبَنٍ فَشَرِبَ مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: ، ثُمَّ قَالَ:”

  عمار بن ياسر (570–657) said by 657 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “How wretched are those in the sight of God who disobey Him.”

  Abu Bakr (573–634) said by 634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Abdul Jaleel Qureshi, Hazrat Abu Bakr Nay Farmaya (Ferozesons, 2011), p.64)

• “ومن أقوالها أيضا أنها عندما خرجت من مكة متوجهة للطائف ومعها معاوية صغيرا، رآه رجل من الأعراب فقال: "شدي يدك بهذا الغلام وأكرميه فإنه سيد كرام". فقالت هند: "بل ملك همام، كبار عظام، ضروب وهام، ومفيض أنعام". ووصفت ابنها معاوية:”

  هند بنت عتبة (576–635) said by 635 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Multiply half the difference of the tabular differences crossed over and to be crossed over by the residual arc and divide by 900’. By the result so obtained increase or decrease half the sum of the (two) differences, according as this (semi-sum) is less or greater than the difference to be crossed over. We get the true functional differences to be crossed over.”

  Brahmagupta (598–670) said by 670 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189

• “وَقَدْ هَرَّتْ كِلاَبُ الحَيِّ مِنَّـا............ وَشَـذَّبْنَا قَتَـادَةَ مَنْ يَلِيْنَـا”

  عمرو بن كلثوم (526–600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He glutted black ravens on the rampart of the stronghold, though he was no Arthur.”

  Aneirin (525–600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Vox, philomela, tua curarum semina pellit, Recreat et blandis anxia corda sonis.”

  Eugenius II of Toledo (died 657) said by 657 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Vox philomela (Carmen philomelaicum), ll. 5–6 (tr. Gerald Brenan, 1951)

• “If you neither believe in religion nor fear the hereafter, then at least be free from tyranny and arrogance”

  Husayn ibn Ali (626–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I love to live among the poor people.”

  Uwais al-Qarani (594–657) said by 657 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “كان يقول في التهجد:”

  معاذ بن جبل (600–638) said by 638 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “البخاري، صحيح البخاري (٣٢٧)”

  أم حبيبة (594–665) said by 665 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I shall not now speak of the knowledge of the Hindus … of their suitable discoveries in the science of astronomy—discoveries even more ingenious than those of the Greeks and Babylonians, of their rational system of mathematics, or of their method of calculation which no words can praise strongly enough; I mean the system using nine symbols.”

  Severus Sebokht (575–667) said by 667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Severus Sebokht, quoted in The Wonder That Was India, A.L. Basham. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.

• “If you truly love the life of solitude, you should desire purity of heart more than anything else, and direct to it all your aim and your course. Enquire, learn, read and understand what is this purity of heart, and whence it is acquired, and which passions engender which passions, and by what labours and exertions a man is able to overcome them in the length of the time of his solitude.”

  Dadisho Qatraya (died 690) said by 690 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I stood asking news of the ruins concerning their lovely habitants; but what avail my questions to dreary rocks, who answer them only by their echo?”

  Labīd (560–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “وقال معاوية لعبد الرحمن بن الحكم: يا ابن أخي إنّك قد لهجت بالشعر فإيّاك والتشبيب بالنساء فتعيّر الشريفة؛ والهجاء فتعيّر كريمًا وتستثير لئيمًا؛ والمدح فإنه طعمة الوقاح ولكن افخر بمفاخر قومك وقل من الأمثال ما تزيّن به نفسك وتؤدّب به غيرك...”

  معاوية بن أبي سفيان (603–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source