Students of Knowledge During the Time of Ibn Baaz’s Teacher, Muftī Muḥammad ibn Ibrahīm
May 16, 2025 § Leave a comment
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.
The Level of Caution Ibn Baaz’s Teacher and the Mufti Before Him, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm, Would Go to When Asked Questions, Unlike Today’s Juhhāl who Don’t Even Reach the Level of Students of Knowledge
May 20, 2024 § Leave a comment
Shaikh Ḥamad al-Farhūd said, “In 1958 in Jeddah I injured my leg and it got put in a cast, I couldn’t move so I used to perform tayammam [dry-ablution] and then pray not facing the qiblah. When I came to Riyad I asked the Shaikh [Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm] as to whether my prayer was valid or whether I should make it up. So he spent a few days looking into it and then never gave me a fatwā on the issue.”
Sīrah Samāḥatish-Shaikh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, point no. 15.
The Humility of Shaikh Ibn Baaz’s Teacher and the Mufti Before him, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm
May 18, 2024 § Leave a comment
وكان إذا أثنى عليه أحد أو مدحه يقاطعه بقوله: اللهُ يَتُوْبُ عَلَيْنَا، اللهُ يَعْفُو عَنَّا
“When someone would praise or compliment him he would cut him off by saying, ‘May Allaah turn in Mercy to us, may Allaah pardon us.’”
Sīrah Samāḥatish-Shaikh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, p. 23.
Ibn Baaz’s Teacher’s Humility, Shaikh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm. Compare it to Today’s Juhhāl who Don’t Mind Having Titles They Don’t Deserve Before Their Names
May 17, 2024 § Leave a comment
The Muftī of Saudi Arabia before Ibn Baaz was Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, may Allaah have mercy on them both. Shaikh Ḥamad al-Farhūd said about him:
“I accompanied him for more than eighteen years and never once did I hear him refer to himself as ‘Shaikh’ or ‘Mufti,’ … when he would mention his [own] name he would mention it without any titles, except for one time only. And that was when he hosted a dignitary from the Gulf who was a good man. So he wanted me to call the hotel so that he [could speak to them and] make a reservation for the guest [from the Gulf]. When he spoke to the receptionist, who was Egyptian [and he asked for his name], he told him, ‘Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm,’ but he never recognised him. So he said, ‘Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Āl ash-Shaikh,’ but he still didn’t recognise him. So he repeated it a number of times but with the same result. So then he said, ‘The Mufti [of Saudi Arabia].’ Then when he ended the call he said, ‘May Allaah grant him guidance, he forced me to say that word [i.e., Mufti’].’”
Sīrah Samāḥatish-Shaikh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, p. 23.
Ibn Baaz the Generous Teenager
February 17, 2014 § Leave a comment
“Shaikh Muhammad al-Musa said to me, ‘Shaikh Ibn Baaz had a relative whose name was Sa’d ibn ’Abdul-Muhsin and he was a hundred years old, His Eminence [Shaikh Ibn Baaz] used to say that this man was ten years older than him.
This [old] man told me about Shaikh [Ibn Baaz’s] generosity and that it was something implanted in his nature from when he was young, he said, ‘When Ibn Baaz was a teenager he would attend the lessons of His Eminence, the Shaikh, the ’Allaamah Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim, may Allaah have mercy on him. After the lesson would be over and he would be on his way home, if he would find someone on his way, a student of knowledge, or a stranger/foreigner [who was new to the area], or a guest, or a neighbour, then he would insist on him coming in and ask him to eat despite being poor and despite the sparsity of food [that he had].’
And he continued with his amazing generosity, may Allaah have mercy on him, for all his life and would in fact feel pain if he did not find guests to share his food with him.”
Imaamul-’Asr, p. 100.
Also see here.
Gifts of Knowledge 