Sheikh Riyadh Ul Haq talks about his meeting with a neo-salafi brother, and the conversation that took place.
Ibn Abidin (رحمه الله) writes, "The knowledge of fiqh is as indispensable for everybody as food is. Abdullah ibn Mas'ood (رضي الله عنه), who sowed the seeds of this knowledge, was one of the greatest and best learned ones of the Sahaba (رضي الله معهم). Alqama (رحمه الله), his disciple, watered these seeds and turned them into crops, and Ibrahim an-Nakha'i (رحمه الله), his disciple, reaped the harvest, that is, gathered the pieces of this knowledge together. Hammad Kufi (رحمه الله) threshed it, and his disciple, Imam A'zam Abu Hanifa (رحمه الله), ground it, that is, he classified the knowledge into sections; Abu Yusuf (رحمه الله) made dough from it, and Imam Muhammad (ibn Hasan al-Shaybani) (رحمه الله) baked it. Muslims have been eating the morsels prepared in this procedure."
