Gifts of Knowledge

“What a lot of students of knowledge don’t know is that when Shaikh Muḥammad, Allaah have mercy on him, came to Saudi from his country he was already a profound scholar well-versed in many disciplines, and he was [only] in his thirties [at the time]. In fact, he had books that he had written in Ethiopia only that he was unable to bring them with him to Saudi—and when he would remember that he would cry and become sad, more than one person has mentioned this.”
Ṣafaḥāt Muḍīʾah min Ḥayātil-ʾAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, Durūsun wa Mawāqif, p. 78.