TheRamadanOfShaykhAl-hadithMuhammadZakariyyaKandhelviAndOurEldersByShaykhDrMuhammadIsmailMemonMadani

the ramadan of shaikh muĤ ammud zakariyyĀAs mentioned previously, buttered chappati and meatballs werecustom and the third important dish was malīda [bread brokeninto small pieces and prepared with sugar and oil]. The commonbelief was that malīda digests slowly and therefore prevented onefrom getting hungry while fasting.After adhān, Fajr was prayed at its beginning time and theneveryone went to sleep. Then some woke early while otherslater. Whenever they woke they recited from the Qur’an untilshortly before ifţār. Some recited the whole Qur’an while othersrepeated the same part for tarāwīĥ. I have written in manyplaces in Fađā’il-e-Ramađān that of all the women of our family,my own daughters [May Allah u increase them in strengthand making effort for the sake of Allah u] recited at least 15or 16 part throughout the day and spent the whole night behindvarious ĥuffāż, despite being occupied the whole day in thekitchen and taking care of their children [they each have morethan two children]. They competed over who completed more.I have also written somewhere that my paternal grandmotherwas also a ĥāfiża. Her routine was to complete the Qur’an inseven days according to the manzil. 88 But in Ramadan, shecompleted forty parts every day i.e. one Qur’an plus ten extraparts; and this was her routine throughout her life. In additionto this, she recited various tasbīĥs hundreds of times each thatamounted to approximately seventeen thousand altogether.The details of her routine of tasbīĥ can be found in Tadhkiratal-Khalīl.And my father’s maternal grandmother’s incident is mentionedpreviously relating her listening to the whole Qur’an from her sonShaikh Ra’ūf al-Ĥasan in one rak‘a. I am grateful to Allah u thatthis tradition [of reciting many part of Qur’an] continues to thisday in the women of our home. They get little sleep in the night88 The manzil is a seven-day plan the Companions l followed to reciteQura’n. It is as follows: 1. Fātiĥa to Nisā 2. Mā’ida to Tauba 3. Yūnus to BanīIsrāīl 4. Maryam to Furqān 5. Shūrā to Yāsīn 6. Śāffāt to Qāf 7. Dhāriyāt to al-Nās [Ibn Māja].164