Gifts of Knowledge

No. 3: Fāṭimah bint ʿAbdur-Razzāq al-Qashʿami [d. 2017]

“Her granddaughter Ibtihāl bint ʾAbdul-Wahhāb al-Manṣūr said, ‘She was illiterate, not being able to read or write. Yet despite that she learned how to recite the Qurān and also finished memorizing it by heart by listening to it on the al-Qurān al-Karīm radio channel [in Saudi]. She would become extremely happy if someone corrected her on a letter or āyah. And she would read Sūrah al-Baqarah every day from memory, once in the morning and once at night. She would recite the Qurān lots, was prone to crying a lot, tears always ready to fall, she would virtually always sit with a muṣhaf in her hands, you can hardly imagine her without it.’

In her early years she would fast the whole of Muḥarram then in her later years Allaah guided her to start doing the best of fasts, that of Dāwūd, even though she was very old by then she would do it, fasting a day on and a day off. Apart from the obligatory prayers, she used to pray a lot of sunnahs and optional ones, many can do this but few keep it up and stick to it in all circumstances and situations. She would endeavour greatly in maintaining ties of kinship and would become very happy with whoever did that with her, and was very good to her parents after they passed away [by supplicating for them etc …]. She passed away in May 2017 at over 100 years old.” رحمها الله
Shadhal-Yāsmīn min Akhbār al-Muʿāṣirīn fī Qirāʾatil-Qurʾānil-Karīm wa Qiyāmil-Lail, vol. 3, p. 456.