Shaikh Muḥammad Ādam the Ethiopian when He was a Kid
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One of the greatest ḥadīth scholars of this time was Shaikh Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, may Allaah have mercy on him, he was from Ethiopia and migrated to Makkah where he taught for decades, he passed away in 2020.
He said, “One of Allaah’s blessings on me was that he made me love the science of ḥadīth from a young age. When I was small and my father used to read Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī I would hide behind a wall and listen to the person reading it, and upon hearing Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī being read my heart would yearn [for it] …” Ṣafaḥāt Muḍīʾah min Ḥayātil-ʾAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿĀlī ibn Ādam al-Ityūbī, Durūsun wa Mawāqif, p. 23.
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In the biography of the Imaam Ghaalib ibn Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Ghaalib ibn Tamaam ibn Atiyyah al-Muhaaribi (d. 517) [which is mentioned] in the book Al-Ghunyah of al-Qaadi Iyaad, and in As-Silah of Ibn Bashkuwaal there occurs that he said:
“I read what one of my companions had written in his own handwriting [where he said] that he heard Abu Bakr [Ghaalib ibn Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Ghaalib ibn Tamaam] ibn Atiyyah mention that he had read Sahih Bukhaari seven hundred times.”
And in [the book] Inbaa’ul-Ghamr in the biography of Sulaimaan ibn Ibrahim ibn Umar Nafeesud-Deen al-Alawi (d. 825) [there occurs]:
“So he mentioned to me that he went over Sahih Bukhaari one hundred and fifty times, [whether that was] by reading it himself, listening to his Shaikh read it, reading it himself to his Shaikh [or someone else] or comparing it against a manuscript.”
And in Fahrisul-Fahaaris quoting from Tabaqaatul-Khawaas of as-Sharji that he went over The Sahih [of Bukhaari] two hundred and eighty times, reading it himself, listening to others read it to him or reading it himself to his Shaikh [or someone else].”
And in the biography of Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Abdullaah ibn Muqbil al-Qaahiri al-Hanafi, well-known as ‘At-Taajir [The Trader]’ (d. 805) [which is mentioned] in [the book] Ad-Daw al-Laami’, [there occurs]:
“Al-Burhaan al-Halabi, his student, said that he [i.e., his teacher Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad] informed him that up until the year 780ah he had read Sahih Bukhaari ninety-five times, and he read it after that many times [too].”
And in the biography of Al-Burhaan al-Halabi [d. 840] [which is mentioned] in Ad-Daw al-Laami’, [it is stated that]:
“He read [Sahih] Bukhaari more than sixty times and [Sahih] Muslim about twenty times, this is not including the times he read it when he was a student [of knowledge and not yet a Shaikh] or the times other people read the two collections to him as he listened on.”
ِAnd Abul-Arab at-Tamimi mentioned in Tabaqaat Ulemaa Ifriqiyyah wa Tunis in the biography of Abbaad ibn al-Walid al-Faarisi [d. 218] that at the end of one of his books [there was written]:
“I studied it a thousand times.”
Al-Mushawwiq ilaa Qiraa’ah wa Talabil-Ilm, pp. 90-95.
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