The Virtues of Ulama...

Imam Ahmad Raza (AlaihirRahma) commented about the topic:

“Qiyamah is near and all the good people are being taken away by Allah Ta’ala. Nowadays, when a great scholar departs, he does not leave behind a true Successor. But when Imam Al-Bukhari radi Allahu anhu passed away, he left behind 90 000 students and all were great Muhadditheen (Specialist Scholars of Hadith). When Imam Al-A’zam Abu Hanifa radi Allahu anhu left this world, he left behind one thousand Mujtahids (Specialist Jurists) as a contribution to this Ummah. To become a Muhaddith is actually the first step of knowledge and the last step is when one becomes a Mujtahid. Ijtihaad (specialised science of Islamic Jurisprudence) is the final and highest step one can acquire in Islamic knowledge.

Once Imam Al-Bukhari dreamt that he was driving away flies from the body of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم . The next morning he was very disturbed and worried because he knew that a fly never sat on the sacred body of Nabi صلى الله عليه و سلم . His contemporary Ulama interpreted this dream as follows: “Glad tidings to you. You will rectify all those Ahadith which are wrongly attributed to the Beloved Habib صلى الله عليه و سلم