Why did not Shaykh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah get married?

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. We ask Allaah to exalt his mention as well as that of his family and all his companions.

We do not know why Shaykh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allaah have mercy on him, did not get married. He is not the only scholar who did not get married. There is a group of scholars who did not get married for one reason or another. Some scholars have even edited a book entitled 'Al-'Ulamaa' Al-'Uzzaab' (The Single Scholars) in which a great number of scholars are mentioned. Anyway we think good of them and we try to find excuses for them. It might be that each of them had a reason that no one knows, and so on. It is known, however, that Shaykh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah was imprisoned many times, again and again, so this could be one the reasons which prevented him from getting  married.

Allaah knows best.