What Would Shaykh Muqbil Say If He Saw the Smartphones We Have Today!
Shaykh Muqbil ibn Hadi al-Wadi‘i (rahimahullah) was asked thirty years ago:
“If you have a telephone, then inform us of its number.”
He replied:
“We do not have a telephone, nor do we desire one, because it wastes our time.”
(Gharat al-Ashritah 1/279)
Fatima al-Baghdadiyyah (d. 714 AH)
A female Hanbali scholar who was known in her time as the leading lady of the women of her time, she enjoined good and forbade, spoke against deviant groups in her time such as the "Ahmadiyyah", and accomplished things men could not in that regard.
She was a student of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Taymiyyah used to prepare himself for her questions due to how many she used to ask him, how good they were, and her quick understanding.
Many women have completed their memorisation of the Qur’an between her hands, such as the mother of Ibn Kathīrs wife, ‘Aisha bint Siddīq, who was the wife Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mizzi (d. 742 AH).
And she [Fatima] also taught ‘Aishas daughter, Ibn Kathīrs wife, Amat al-Rahīm Zaynab.
May Allah ﷻ have mercy upon them all.
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