| Journal of Qur'an and Hadith Studies | The Exquisite Pearl, a translation of al-Durr al-Bahiyyah• al-Sa'di was the first person to introduce loud speakers to the city of Unayzah, which was initially met with some resistance |
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| Upon hearing of his health problems, sent two doctors via his personal jet to attend to sheikh al-Sa'di | al-Sa'di traveled alone to meet the King where he was greeted with hospitality by the King and a number of scholars gathered there |
al-Sa'di did not ultimately publish this book or mention any of the issues it contained in subsequent teaching or written works, though he is not known to have publicly renounced these positions.
16| Fiqh [ ] al-Sa'di was originally trained in the , the predominant of the Najd region in which he lived | He served as the imam and for the largest and director of the religious training school, al-Ma'had al-'Ilmi, of Unayzah |
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| In his youth he wrote a 400 line didactic poem on Hanbali fiqh rulings | Concern for Contemporary Issues [ ] al-Sa'di took interest in a number of contemporary issues |
Tawdheeh al-Kafiyyah al-Shafiyyah, a rewriting of ibn al-Qayyim's Nooniyah poem in prose format• News of al-Sa'di's claims in this work spread throughout Najd, resulting in strong disagreements between those who agreed with al-Sa'di's conclusions and those who opposed them, and al-Sa'di was subject to some abuse and criticism by his peers as a result.