09-22-2005, 02:07 PM
bismiilah
MODERATION IN GIVING SERMON
'Abdullah bin Mas'ud's Hadith, may Allah be pleased with him.
Shaqiq bin Salamah reported: We were sitting at the door of 'Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) waiting for him (to come out and deliver a sermon to us). It was at this time that there happened to pass by us Yazid bin Mu'awiah Al-Nakha'i. We said: Inform him ('Abdullah bin Mas'ud) of our presence here. He went in and 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud lost no time in coming out to us and said: I was informed of your presence here but nothing hindered me to come out to you but the fact that I did not like to bore you (by stuffing your minds with sermons (every day)) and follow the example of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) who used to preach us on certain days lest it might be boring for us.