The Greatest Act of a Scholar
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Muhammad Badr ad-Din ibn Yusuf al-Marakishi al-Hasani ( q.s. ) was one of the great muhaddits . All the scholars and shuyukh of Syria accepted him as their teacher, and those living in Damascus used to attend his daily lessons. He had a photographic memory and knew by heart all the ahadits of Swahih al-Bukhari , Swahih Muslim , and the remainder of the six most famous books of ahadits , including the biography of all narrators of all chains of every hadits , their dates of birth and death, and their status of authenticity. He also used to explain the Qur’an by heart from Imam Naswir ad-Din Abu al-Khayr ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar al-Baydawi’s ( r.a. ) Tafsir . His ijazah was especially besought by ahadits scholars for being the closest one of his age to the Prophet ( s.a.w. ), counting the number of men in the chain. Doctors and engineers who attended his classes used to say, “We exhausted our life learning our profes...