Gifts of Knowledge

Shaikh Ṣāliḥ Al-Luḥaidān, may Allaah have mercy on him and forgive him, was asked about the state of the students of knowledge during the time of Shaikh Muḥammad ibn Ibrahīm [who was the Mufti before Shaikh Ibn Baaz and his teacher also] so he said:

“After ʿIshā you would hardly find anyone staying up late, acting upon the ḥadīth, “He ﷺ disliked sleeping before it and speaking after it.” At 10 pm you wouldn’t find anyone in the streets. The eager ones would get up before fajr and go to their mosques, the negligent one would only get up with the call to prayer. And rarely would you find someone missing the ṣalāh, in fact, if he missed a rakʿah, you would find him loosening his head covering so that [people] wouldn’t recognize him.”
Sharḥ Kitāb at-Tawḥīd, tape 1.

Also see here, here and here for more posts on Muftī Muḥammad ibn Ibrahīm.

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