: He would sit outside classrooms he couldn't afford to enter, memorizing everything the teacher said to the paying students.
The story of Imam ash-Shafi’i (767–820 AD) is fundamentally a story of despite a life of intense poverty. While "skachat knigi" (downloading books) is a modern convenience, the Imam's life shows the incredible value of the knowledge contained within them. The Boy Who Wrote on Bones skachat knigi imama ash shafii
: He scavenged for flat shoulder-bones of camels and pieces of clay to use as tablets for writing. : He would sit outside classrooms he couldn't