Characteristics of the Day of Judgment, Paradise, and Hell

كتاب صفة القيامة والجنة والنار

Chapter 19: Moderation In Preaching

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah through other chains of transmitters.

Shaqiq b. Wi'il reported that 'Abdullah used to give us sermon on every Thursday. A person said

Abu 'Abd al-Rahman, we love your talk and so we yearn (to listen to you) and earnestly desire that you should deliver us lecture every day. Thereupon he said: There is nothing to hinder me in giving you talk (every day) but the fact that you may be bored. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) did not deliver sermons on certain days (fearing that we might be bored).