Fuqahâ-i sab’a means the seven great savants. It is written in the thirty-fourth page of the first volume of the translation of Tejrîd-i-sarîh, which is an abridged edition of Bukhârî, “These seven great savants of the blessed city of Medina were Sa’îd ibni Musayyab, Qâsim bin Muhammad bin Abî Bakr-inis-Siddîq, Urwatabni-Zubayr, Khârijatabni-Zaid, Abû Salama-tabni-Abdurrahmân bin Awf, Ubaydullah ibni Utba and Abû Ayyûb Suleimân” Radıyallahu anhum.

Merits of earning by way of halâl, and thawâb for doing so: The fifty-second [52] âyat-i-kerîma of Mu’minûn Sûra purports: “O My Prophets ‘salawâtullâhi ’alaihim ajma’în’. Eat what is pure and halâl and worship Me in due manner!” For this reason, Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “It is farz for every Muslim to earn by way of halâl.” At another occasion the Most Blessed Prophet stated: “If a person eats (only) whatsoever is halâl without mixing any harâm with it for forty days running, Allâhu ta’âlâ will fill his heart with nûr (spiritual lights). He will make Hikmat flow like rivers into his heart. He will remove worldly love from his heart.” [It is not sinful to work in order to earn what is worldly. What is sinful is to love what is worldly and to attach one’s heart to the world.] Sa’d bin Abî Waqqâs ‘radiyAllâhu ’anh’, (a Sahâbî, the seventh earliest Muslim, and one of those most fortunate ten Muslims who are called the ’Ashara-imubash-shara because they were given the glad tidings that they would enter Paradise after death,) one day entreated: “Yâ Rasûlallah (O Messenger of Allah)! Please invoke a blessing on me so that Allâhu ta’âlâ will accept all my prayers!”