*A Sheik must be humble.
*Some of the Salaf (Pious Predecessors) disliked and hated students of knowledge to follow their Sheiks and kiss their heads.
*One should encourage the sincere students in the sessions of knowledge to gain knowledge.
*One should not claim that they have unlimited knowledge.
*One should listen attentively during the session of knowledge and not preoccupy himself with something else.
*One should not interrupt the Sheik while he is delivering his speech.
*One should organize and arrange the lessons throughout the course of a week. Ibn Masood () used to teach Hadeeth every Thursday.
Ibn Abbas () used to begin teaching Tafseer (i.e. exegesis of the Qur'an), then Hadeeth, then Fiqh (jurisprudence) and poetry and so on.
*One should not ask minors to take leadership roles. The Sheik should advise his students to be sincere. One student let out a sigh and his Sheik said to him: 'If you did this for the sake of Allah, you will have cleansed and purified yourself, but if you did this for other than the sake of Allah, you will have destroyed yourself.'
*Lessons should generally instruct people to uphold good manners, and to do good. Ibn Masood () used to say: 'I hold Allah as a witness that there be no severer of relations among us, for we want to ask Him and want Him to answer us.' *Lessons should include reminders that remind one of Allah, the Last Day, and general heart softeners.
