Imam ash-Shafiʿi {May Allah have mercy upon him} said:
“I grew up in Sham and my mother would prepare me to seek knowledge in Mecca from the age of ten.
She didn’t own anything, so I had to use bones of animals as pen and paper.”
{Siyar A’lam an-Nubala}
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