Gifts of Knowledge

No. 4: ʿAbdul-Karīm bin ʿAbdur-Raḥmān al-Faddā [d. 2010]

“He learnt the Qurān and its recitation well and memorised it all by the time he was five years old under his father before he passed away. He used to recite it lots, was very attached to it, always praying the night prayer, praying whatever Allaah willed all nights of the year. He used to become extremely happy at the advent of Ramaḍān and would prepare for it by increasing in worship, trying extra hard to deal well with people, and to say a good word, also by giving more in charity and zakāh and helping those in need and feeding the poor. He would distance himself from the people and worldly pleasures and travelling during Ramaḍān such that he would spend most of his time in the mosque praying and reciting the Qurān and sometimes would finish it in one day, and would increase in his tahajjud and duʿā.”
Shadhal-Yāsmīn min Akhbār al-Muʿāṣirīn fī Qirāʾatil-Qurʾānil-Karīm wa Qiyāmil-Lail, vol. 3, pp. 238-239.