Above all other things, the one thing that I found to benefit a person most in this world and the Hereafter is a suitable brother (friend).

—Sufyān al-Thawrī [d. 161H/778CE]

(Read on pg 143, Salaahud-Deen ibn ‘Alee ibn ‘Abdul-Maujood, The Biography of Sufyaan Ath-Thauree. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2005.)