His Upbringing

He grew up among eminent scholars and noble seekers of knowledge. From the earliest softness of his nails, he was a seeker of knowledge and a companion of the pen. He spent his childhood between books and notebooks, between inkwells and lines, surrounded by an environment replete with scholars and the righteous. He began seeking knowledge at a young age and continued in it into maturity; at his beginning he was a learner, in his course a jurist striving in ijtihād, and in his end a teacher, an authoritative juristic reference, and a mufti.