{"id":3208,"date":"2012-06-12T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2012-06-15T13:52:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T05:52:18","slug":"who-is-shaykh-ahmad-saad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/who-is-shaykh-ahmad-saad\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Shaykh Ahmad Saad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shaykh Ahmad Saad will be in Singapore shortly inshaAllah and here&#8217;s a short low-down on this young &amp; dynamic Imam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sh-ahmad-saad.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3210\" title=\"sh ahmad saad\" src=\"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sh-ahmad-saad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sh-ahmad-saad.jpg 271w, https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sh-ahmad-saad-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Name:\u00a0<strong>Sheikh Ahmad Muhammad Saad Ash-Shafi\u2019ie Al-Azhari Al-Hasani<\/strong><br \/>\nFamily &amp; Lineage: Lineage goes back to the Prophet (salla Allahu alayh wa sallam) through Sayyidna Al-Hasan ibn Ali (radia Allahu anhu) in the northern Egyptian governorate of Monofiyyah, in the Nile Delta. He is the father of 3 sons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Milestones:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>10 years old: Completed memorization of the Holy Qur&#8217;an<\/p>\n<p>13 years old: Led his first prayer. Completed memorisation of\u00a0<em>Al-alfiyyah<\/em> of\u00a0<em>Ibn Malik.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>15 years old: Delivered his first khutbah. Completed memorisation of\u00a0Riyad As-Saliheen of\u00a0<em>Imam An-Nawawi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Education:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Studied basic Arabic and Islamic sciences with focus on Arabic grammar and\u00a0<em>balaghah<\/em> (rhetoric) before enrolling into Al-Azhar system of schools where he spent almost 17 years of his life graduating with a B.A. Honours in Islamic Studies in English.<\/li>\n<li>Studied traditional Islamic sciences at the hands of senior scholars and specialists in Egypt, the most notable of whom is the Grand Mufti of Egypt Sheikh Ali Gom\u2019ah.<\/li>\n<li>committed to memory thousands of lines of poems and other poetry and prose mutun (texts) including\u00a0<em>Al-Jazari<\/em>yyah,\u00a0<em>At-Tuhfah<\/em> in\u00a0<em>Tajweed<\/em>, Ash-Shatibiyyah in Qira\u2019aat<\/li>\n<li>Also studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Erfurt, Germany.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ijazah:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ijazah in the narrations of Hafs and Shubah from Asim, Warsh and Qaloon from Nafi\u2019 and Khalaf and Khallad from Hamzah in addition to many other Tajweed texts.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sheikh Saad<\/em> holds one of the highest chains nowadays for his peers, there is 29 people between the Prophet (PBUH) and him.<\/li>\n<li>Ijazahs in the books of hadith, the\u00a0<em>musalsalat<\/em>, Shafi\u2019ie Fiqh and all books of Tafsir, Tasawwuf, Shama\u2019il and biographies from various\u00a0<em>Shuyukh<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">His teachers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Grand Mufti of Egypt Imam Shaykh Ali Gom\u2019ah<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Ahmed Ali As-Surti of India<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Usamah As-Sayyid Al-Azhari of Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Muhammad Abdel-Ba\u2019ith Al-Kittani (the muhaddith of Alexandria)<\/li>\n<li>Habib Ali Al-Jifri<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Muhammad Sadiq Al-Alawi<\/li>\n<li>As-Sayyed Yusuf Ar-Rifa\u2019ie<\/li>\n<li>Habib Muhammad Sa\u2019ied Al-Beidh<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Muhammad Qasim Al-Washali of Yemen<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Salman An-Nadawi of India<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Subhi As-Samurra\u2019ie of Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Dr. Ayman Suwaid of Damascus<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Mu\u2019adh Safwat<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Ali An-Nahhas<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Shibl Matar<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Abdel-Basit Hashim<\/li>\n<li>Shaykh Abdel-Fattah Madkour<em> (<\/em>the last living student of Shaykh Ali Ad-Dabba\u2019 and the colleague of Shaykh Al-Husari<em>)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>and many others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He teaches:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shafi\u2019ie Fiqh<\/li>\n<li>Tasawwuf<\/li>\n<li>Usul Al-Fiqh<\/li>\n<li>`Aqeedah<\/li>\n<li>`Ulum Al-Quran<\/li>\n<li>Tajweed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video testimonial from one of his students:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LEKxkVHaGQw?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LEKxkVHaGQw?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a video of Shaykh Ahmad Saad\u00a0describing the importance of dealing with Allah with a clean and pure heart:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4e8VB_G7Y6k?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4e8VB_G7Y6k?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Alhamdulillah, Shaykh Ahmad Saad will be conducting a workshop and 2 lectures during his visit to Singapore from 22nd to 24th June 2012. We will also be having a video interview with the Shaykh when he&#8217;s here inshaAllah!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shaykhahmadsaad.eventbrite.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3209\" title=\"banner_MBUZZ4\" src=\"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/banner_MBUZZ41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/banner_MBUZZ41.jpg 500w, https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/banner_MBUZZ41-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaykh Ahmad Saad will be in Singapore shortly inshaAllah and here&#8217;s a short low-down on this young &amp; dynamic Imam. 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