Abdullah ibn Abdur-Rahman al-Ghudayyan (1926 – 1 June 2010) was a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, a leading proponent of the Salafi form of

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and a member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars. His ancestry was of the tribe of Banu Anbar.

Career

In 1971 he was appointed as a member of the

Council of Senior Scholars (Saudi Arabia) The Council of Senior Scholars (''Hay'at Kibar al-‘Ulama -'' هيئة كبار العلماء, also known as the Senior Council of Ulama) is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's highest religious body, and advises the king on religious matters.

. In addition to his work with the

Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta (also the General Presidency of Scholarly Research and Ifta, ar, اللجنة الدائمة للبحوث العلمية والإفتاء, al-Lajna ad-Dāʾima lil-Buḥūṯ al-ʿIlmiyya wa ...

in 1975 he began giving lessons to students at

Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) (), commonly known as Al-Imam University, is a public university in Baladiyah al-Shemal in northern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was founded in 1953. represented by the College of Sharia Sciences (n ...

within the Faculty of

Sharia Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam and is based on the sacred scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and the H ...

and Faculty of

Fiqh ''Fiqh'' (; ar, فقه ) is Islamic jurisprudence. Muhammad-> Companions-> Followers-> Fiqh. The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...

. When Abdullah ibn Humayd died in 1981, he overtook the role of giving Fatwa on the radio program Nur Ala Al-Darb, which has been described as "one of the oldest and most famous programs broadcast on the Quran radio channel, where a number of major scholars answer questions and give fatwas."

Students

Abdullah al-Ghudayyan had a number of notable students, including: * Saleh Aal al-Sheikh, Minister of Islamic Affairs for Saudi Arabia * Abdur-Rahman al-Sudais, Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and President of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques *

Saud al-Shuraim Saud ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Shuraim (Arabic: سعود بن ابراهيم بن محمد الشريم; born 19 January 1964), is one of the prayer leaders and Friday preachers at the Grand Mosque Masjid al-Haram in Makkah. A Quranic reciter, ...

, imam and

khatib In Islam, a khatib, khateeb or hatib ( ar, خطيب ''khaṭīb'') is a person who delivers the sermon (''khuṭbah'') (literally "narration"), during the Friday prayer and Eid prayers. The ''khateeb'' is usually the prayer leader (''imam''), ...

of the Grand Mosque in Mecca * Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr, a member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars *

Saad al-Shithri Saad ibn Nasser al-Shathri rabic سعد بن ناصر الشثري(born 1964/65) is an Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia. Since 2015, he has been a member of the country's Council of Senior Scholars and an advisor to the royal court of King Sal ...

, a member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars

Death

Abdullah ibn Abdur-Rahman al-Ghudayyan died on Tuesday 1 June 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghudayyan, Abdullaah al- 1926 births 2010 deaths Saudi Arabian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Saudi Arabian Salafis People from Riyadh Province Academic staff of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University