And here, I recall something novel which occurred…and that was about twenty years ago; [I held lessons where] I explained the Forty [Hadeeth of al-Imaam an-Nawawee] in one of the masaajid.
Tag: memorisation
The way of the scholars in seeking knowledge
Shaykh Sultaan al-‘Eed حفظه الله said about the way of the scholars in seeking knowledge: ‘The first thing with which the student [of knowledge] begins with [is] memorisation of the Qur.aan.
Beware of being taken by appearances!!
Quite possibly, this brother and his like could be better than me and you in front of Allaah. Beware of being taken by appearances!!
He did not make a single mistake
One of the teachers at the Jam’iyyah Tahfeeth al-Qur.aan al-Kareem in Madeenah recited from the beginning of Soorah al-Baqarah to the end of Soorah al-‘Israa; [he did so] from memory, without…
I have never revised a hadeeth
I have never revised a hadeeth, and nor have I ever had any doubt in [the memorisation of] a hadeeth, except one hadeeth; and when I questioned my colleague about it, [I found] it was [exactly] as I…
Accuracy in memorisation
A student confidently quoted a hadeeth from Buloogh al-Maraam — only to be firmly corrected by the Shaykh, who knew the book by heart.
He would memorise 500 hadeeth in a single sitting
None of our companions were better at memorising hadeeth than him (Yahyaa ibn Yamaan); He would memorise 500 hadeeth in a single sitting.
I narrated 50,000 hadeeth from memory
When Abu ‘Abdullaah ‘Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Ahmad al-Khuttootee (d. 335AH) arrived in al-Basrah (Iraq), he had no books with him. He remained in al-Basrah for some months until his books arrived.