Gifts of Knowledge

His memorisation of numerous texts was exemplary, more to come on that, but we will start with what he said here:

“I saw the Prophet ﷺ in a dream when I was small and he was teaching me Sūrah al-Fātiḥah. After that whenever I looked at a page I memorised it easily and didn’t find it difficult.”
Ṣafaḥāt Muḍīʾah min Ḥayātil-ʾAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, Durūsun wa Mawāqif, p. 61.

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