His Work and Teaching:

When the Shaykh’s exceptional ability became apparent while he was still in the prime of youth, his peers began turning to him and benefiting from his knowledge. At the age of twenty-three, he began teaching while continuing his own pursuit of knowledge. From 1350 AH onward, he became the authority to whom the people of his town turned for instruction and fatwas, and the principal scholar upon whom they relied for acquiring knowledge. His students included:

1. Ibrāhīm ibn Abd al-Azīz al-Ghurayr, d. 1401 AH.
2. Ibrāhīm ibn Muhammad al-Āmūd, d. 1394 AH.
3. Hamd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Qādī, d. 1395 AH.
4. Hamd ibn Muhammad al-Bassām.
5. Hamd ibn Muhammad al-Marzūqī.
6. Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Bassām, d. 1377 AH.
7. Sulaymān ibn Muhammad al-Shibl, d. 1386 AH.
8. Sālih ibn Abd Allah al-Zughaybī, imam of the Prophet’s Mosque, d. 1372 AH.
9. Abd al-Azīz ibn Alī ibn Musāid, d. 1411 AH.
10. Abd al-Azīz ibn Muhammad al-Salmān, author of well-known works, d. 1422 AH.
11. Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahmān al-Bassām, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars and the Islamic Fiqh Academy.