

The
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "There
are three whose prayers do not go any further than their ears:
a runaway slave until he returns, a woman who spent the night
with her husband being angry with her, and one who leads people
in prayer when they dislike him."
Narrated
and classed as hasan by al-Tirmidhi.
"…The
superiority of the knowledgeable man over the worshipper in Islam,
is like the superiority of the full moon over the rest of the
planets. And the scholars are the inheritors of the Prophets,
but the Prophets did not leave behind wealth but they left behind
knowledge. And whoever takes firm hold of this is a very fortunate
man."
"The
upright in every generation will carry the knowledge, rejecting
the distortion of the extremists, the false claims of the liars,
and the false interpretation of the ignorant."
Classed
as Hasan by Shaykh Saleem al-Hilaalee