What is the method for beginning the pursuit of knowledge?

Question:
Our final question tonight, Your Eminence the Shaykh, among the many questions. A questioner says: It would be desirable if Your Eminence would tell us about the beginning of your life and your pursuit of knowledge?

Answer:
I do not remember it well, except regarding the students of knowledge when I was young. I memorized the Qur'an before the age of fifteen, as I recall, and a few surahs remained for which I had not mastered them; I mastered them afterwards at the age of sixteen, in my general opinion. As for completing the recitation of the Qur'an, that was in my youth, either at the age of ten or eleven, approximately. As for my beginning in the pursuit of knowledge, it was in the year forty-four, as I do not remember; it may have been before that, but I do not remember that except in my general opinion. What I mean is that, in my general opinion, it began in the year forty-four of the Hijrah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and I was fourteen years old, because I was born in Dhul-Hijjah of the year thirty. I resided with our Shaykh, the distinguished scholar, the Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him). I stayed with him a great deal from the year forty-five or the beginning of forty-six until I assumed the judgeship in the year fifty-seven of the Hijrah, in the final matter of the year fifty-seven of the Hijrah, in the Al-Khazaf region. I do not remember much of my life as it was well, but this is what I remember, and Allah is the Helper. Yes.