When the Shaykh—may Allah have mercy on him—began teaching in the Prophet’s Mosque and interacting with both commoners and notables, he found adherents of all four legal schools present, ready to debate their doctrines, seek evidence, and demand proof. He also discovered that the study circles in the Prophet’s Mosque were not restricted to any single school. Consequently, anyone who assumed the mantle of teaching in such an environment was obliged to acquaint himself with all the recognized madhhabs, to survey the scholars’ opinions on every issue, and at the same time to be thoroughly grounded in the sciences of the Qur’an and the Sunnah. The Shaykh therefore applied himself diligently to acquiring this breadth of knowledge, a task facilitated by his firm command of the auxiliary disciplines.

The influence just mentioned is plainly visible in his work Adwa’ al-Bayan (Lights of Clarification) whenever he tackles juristic questions.

Ninth: The activities he undertook—may Allah have mercy on him—after settling in the Land of the Two Sanctuaries

1 – Qur’anic exegesis in the Prophet’s Mosque. He completed a full commentary on the entire Qur’an and then began a second cycle, as he noted in some of his lessons, but death overtook him and he—may Allah have mercy on him—passed away before reaching Surat Bara’ah (1). The lessons that were found were transcribed and published under the title al-ʿAdhb al-Namir min Majalis al-Shanqiti fi al-Tafsir in five volumes.

2 – Teaching tafsir in Dar al-ʿUlum in the Prophetic City from the year