Reference: https://x.com/kunnashaty/status/979118839710519296
https://twitter.com/kunnashaty/status/979118839710519296
said:
“an-Nawawee’s explanation of [Saheeh] Muslim…[is the best book I have read]; I have read* it more than 60 times.”
There are a number of points of benefit [to be noted here]:
- His blindness had not prevented him from reading*;
- His immense zeal and strength of purpose;
- His reverence of the people of knowledge;
- There is no shame in revising knowledge;
- Adhering to reading and seeking knowledge even in old age.
Translator’s note:
* What is meant here is that – as was the Shaykh’s habit – he would have books read to him; as illustrated in this example:
