Shaykh Ahmad Saad will be in Singapore shortly inshaAllah and here’s a short low-down on this young & dynamic Imam.

Name: Sheikh Ahmad Muhammad Saad Ash-Shafi’ie Al-Azhari Al-Hasani
Family & 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.

Milestones:

10 years old: Completed memorization of the Holy Qur’an

13 years old: Led his first prayer. Completed memorisation of Al-alfiyyah of Ibn Malik.

15 years old: Delivered his first khutbah. Completed memorisation of Riyad As-Saliheen of Imam An-Nawawi.

Education:

• Studied basic Arabic and Islamic sciences with focus on Arabic grammar and balaghah (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.
• 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’ah.
• committed to memory thousands of lines of poems and other poetry and prose mutun (texts) including Al-Jazariyyah, At-Tuhfah in Tajweed, Ash-Shatibiyyah in Qira’aat
• Also studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Erfurt, Germany.

Ijazah:

• Ijazah in the narrations of Hafs and Shubah from Asim, Warsh and Qaloon from Nafi’ and Khalaf and Khallad from Hamzah in addition to many other Tajweed texts.
• Sheikh Saad holds one of the highest chains nowadays for his peers, there is 29 people between the Prophet (PBUH) and him.
• Ijazahs in the books of hadith, the musalsalat, Shafi’ie Fiqh and all books of Tafsir, Tasawwuf, Shama’il and biographies from various Shuyukh

His teachers:

• The Grand Mufti of Egypt Imam Shaykh Ali Gom’ah
• Shaykh Ahmed Ali As-Surti of India
• Shaykh Usamah As-Sayyid Al-Azhari of Egypt
• Shaykh Muhammad Abdel-Ba’ith Al-Kittani (the muhaddith of Alexandria)
• Habib Ali Al-Jifri
• Shaykh Muhammad Sadiq Al-Alawi
• As-Sayyed Yusuf Ar-Rifa’ie
• Habib Muhammad Sa’ied Al-Beidh
• Shaykh Muhammad Qasim Al-Washali of Yemen
• Shaykh Salman An-Nadawi of India
• Shaykh Subhi As-Samurra’ie of Iraq
• Shaykh Dr. Ayman Suwaid of Damascus
• Shaykh Mu’adh Safwat
• Shaykh Ali An-Nahhas
• Shaykh Shibl Matar
• Shaykh Abdel-Basit Hashim
• Shaykh Abdel-Fattah Madkour (the last living student of Shaykh Ali Ad-Dabba’ and the colleague of Shaykh Al-Husari)
• and many others.

He teaches:

• Shafi’ie Fiqh
• Tasawwuf
• Usul Al-Fiqh
• `Aqeedah
• `Ulum Al-Quran
• Tajweed

Here’s a video testimonial from one of his students:

This is a video of Shaykh Ahmad Saad describing the importance of dealing with Allah with a clean and pure heart:

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’s here inshaAllah!