What if I told you that one village, one family, and one waqf shaped the Hanbali madhhab for 800+ years? Most people think waqf means just a masjid or a well — but our scholars built entire engines of learning, justice, and social resilience with profit-generating waqf that paid teachers, fed students, and preserved knowledge for centuries. This is the story of As-Sāliḥiyyah in Damascus: how the Banū Qudāmah’s waqf turned a hillside into a fortress of scholarship and gave us scholars like Imām Ibn Qudāmah who would impact Islamic scholarship even today. A single waqf — a river of reward that still flows today. Read how it worked, and why reviving it is our Ummah’s real sustainability plan.