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: memory
The alert Shaykh
Even after losing track of a page number, Shaykh Ibn Baaz’s son found his father always remembered exactly where they had left off.
Reading from the Qur.aan (mus.haf) without wudhoo
Is it permissible for a person to read from the Qur.aan (mus.haf) without wudhoo?
The fast of the one who has lost his memory
An elderly man who has lost his memory, has suffered a stroke and lost his sense of touch; so is he required to fast or not?
Don’t cheat!
However difficult you find the exam, or if your memory recall is weak, don’t cheat!
Protecting his photographic memory
Shaykh Ihsaan Ilaahee Zaheer رحمه الله informed me about our Shaykh, Muhammad al-Gondalwi رحمه الله that he would not read the newspapers or magazines – so as not to [inadvertantly] memorise them!
He was capable of dictating it all from memory
Abu ‘Ali as-Sadafee رحمه الله said [about Abu Bakr al-Hamawee رحمه الله]: He was pious, and an ascetic. As for [his knowledge of] fiqh, then it used to be said
He memorised an aayah a day
Yahya ibn Waththaab read the entire Qur.aan to ‘Ubayd ibn Nudhaylah – a companion of ‘Alqamah, and with him he memorised an aayah every day.
I read the Qur.aan to ‘Umar
I read the Qur.aan to ‘Umar [ibn al-Khattaab] رضي الله عنه three times.
A strong memory
I have never memorised anything and thereafter forgotten it.