twelfth year of his life. He then devoted himself to seeking and acquiring knowledge with great determination, studying under the scholars of his town and others who came there. The most prominent of them were:
- Ibrāhīm ibn Hamd ibn Jāsir, d. 1338 AH.
- Ibrāhīm ibn Sālih ibn Īsā, d. 1343 AH.
- Sālih ibn Uthmān al-Qādī, d. 1351 AH.
- Sa‘b ibn Abd Allah al-Tuwayjirī, d. 1339 AH.
- Abd Allah ibn Āyid al-Uwaydī al-Harbī, d. 1322 AH.
- Alī ibn Muhammad al-Sinānī, d. 1339 AH.
- Alī ibn Nāsir Abū Wādī, d. 1361 AH.
- Muhammad al-Amīn Mahmūd al-Shinqītī, d. 1351 AH.
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Azīz ibn Māni, d. 1385 AH.
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karīm al-Shibl, d. 1343 AH.
His teachers admired him for his intelligence, nobility, uprightness, dedication to learning, and lofty character. He had memorized many didactic texts by heart, and quoting them caused him no difficulty: he would recite them rapidly, for he reviewed them continually.
The Shaykh was greatly influenced by the intellectual tradition of two eminent scholars: Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyya and his student Ibn al-Qayyim. He read, summarized, and explained their books, and encouraged students to read them. The influence of his study of their works was clearly evident in his discourse, his juristic choices, his method of deriving rulings, his freedom from the constraints of uncritical imitation, and his commitment to following the evidence.