Al Salam alukom
Will first. The profit said"خير القرون قرني ثم الذين يلونهم ثم الذين يلونهم" which means that the best people at all times are the people at the time of the profit, then the people who followed them at the second century and then the third.
Allah said:
{والسابقون الأولون من المهاجرين والأنصار والذين اتبعوهم بإحسان رضي الله عنهم ورضوا عنه وأعد لهم جنات تجري تحتها الأنهار خالدين فيها أبدا ذلك الفوز العظيم}
The vanguard (of Islam) the first of those who forsook (their homes) and of those who gave them aid, and (also) those who follow them in (all) good deeds, well pleased is God with them, as are they with him: for them hath he prepared gardens under which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever: that is the supreme felicity
قال مالك رحمه الله
#1604;ا يُصلح آخر هذه الأمة إلا ما أصلح أولَها
Al Imam Malik Said:Nothing is good for the latter generations of this ummah except that which was good for its first generations.
Which means that the religion is complete, and that the ancestors have told us all the religion, and that before we say or do something at religion we should see what they did first.
And as you see here we aren't speaking about life issues, when the profit said كل بدعة ضلالة "All innovations are innovations of misguidance". which means innovations at religion not life issues.
I wasn't speaking about the nick name specifically, but about a method and a way.
Allah said "ادع إلى سبيل ربك بالحكمة والموعظة الحسنة وجادلهم بالتي هي أحسن إن ربك هو أعلم بمن ضل عن سبيله وهو أعلم بالمهتدين"
Invite (all) to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best, who have strayed from his path, and who receive guidance
And regarding our relationship between us and Allah, it isn't a relation between a student and a teacher, it is a relation between a slave and a creator, the profit the best man at all, said i am only a slave of Allah and his profit.
Allah said:
هُوَ الَّذِي بَعَثَ فِي الْأُمِّيِّينَ رَسُولًا مِّنْهُمْ يَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِهِ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَإِن كَانُوا مِن قَبْلُ لَفِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ
It is He Who has sent amongst the Unlettered an apostle from among themselves, to rehearse to them His Signs, to sanctify them, and
to instruct them in Scripture and Wisdom,- although they had been, before, in manifest error;(Jumah62:2)
So as you can see that Allah sent to us a profit, and the profit is the one who instructed and taught us.
finally
قال ربيعة الرأي و هو ابن أبي عبد الرحمن الناس في حجور علمائهم كالصبيان في حجور أبائهم شرح الطحاوية ص ١٠٥ تحقيق الألباني رحمه الله
which means people to their scholars like kids to their fathers.
