Gifts of Knowledge

The Shaikhah, Mūḍī bint ʿAbdullah al-Jalham, Allaah have mercy on her, d. 2016, she was born in ʿUnaizah. Her father passed away before she got married, so she took on the responsibility of raising her seven younger brothers. A short while after she got married she suffered burns [in a fire] in which a great part of her body was burnt and due to which she had to stay in hospital for a number of months. Yet despite these problems and difficulties she kept on studying and outdoing others. She had memorized the Qurʾān and the two Ṣaḥīḥs. Then she started following the lectures of the major scholars, Ibn Bāz, Ibn ʿUthaimīn and al-Fawzān. She was sharp and intelligent, quoting Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim by heart, citing the volume and page [she was taking from]. Then she started to give daily lectures to women except on Fridays, doing so for twenty-two years, even when ill. Such that in 2013 she got gangrene in her foot which had to be amputated half way up to her shin, then she started gradually losing her sight and had to stay in hospital for a number of months, but that didn’t stop her from giving her lectures since she used to leave the hospital every Sunday to give a dars on ʿaqīdah and then go back to the hospital. They counted the number of books that she taught and it came to seventy-five, amongst which were explanations of chapters from Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Kitāb at-Tawḥīd a number of times, al-Wāsiṭiyyah three times, and Sharḥ as-Sunnah of al-Barbahārī.

She passed away and she hadn’t even turned sixty.

ʿAjāʾib wa Asrār min Siyar al-ʿUlamā maʿal-ʿIlm, p. 30.