Sheikh Saleh Muhammad Al-Luhaidan ( ar, صالح بن محمد اللحيدان; 1932 – 5 January 2022) was a Saudi scholar, judge, imam, preacher, and member of the Council of Senior Scholars. He was also a teacher of Sharia sciences.

Biography

Al-Luhaidan was born in 1932 in Al Bukayriyah in the

Al-Qassim Province The Qassim Province ( ar, منطقة القصيم ' , Najdi Arabic: ), also known as the Qassim Region, is one of the 13 provinces of Saudi Arabia. Located at the heart of the country near the geographic center of the Arabian Peninsula, it ha ...

, Hejaz and Nejd. He graduated from the College of Sharia in

Riyadh Riyadh (, ar, الرياض, 'ar-Riyāḍ, lit.: 'The Gardens' Najdi pronunciation: ), formerly known as Hajr al-Yamamah, is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of th ...

in 1959 and obtained a master's thesis from the Higher Institute of the Judiciary in 1969. From 1992 on, he was considered the first influential person in the Supreme Judicial Council and his name was associated with the Saudi judiciary. He held the position of President of the Supreme Judicial Council until 2009. He also worked as a secretary and judicial lieutenant to

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh Muḥammad ibn ʾIbrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhāb Al Shaykh Al-Tamīmī (1890–1969), was a Saudi Arabian religious scholar who was the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to ...

, the former Saudi

Grand Mufti The Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state. The office originated in the early modern era in the Ottoman empire and has been later adopted in a num ...

in Iftaa after his graduation until he was appointed in 1963 as an assistant to the president of the Grand Court in Riyadh, and then became president of the court in 1964. He continued as president of the Great Court until he was appointed in 1970 as a judge of cassation and a member of the Supreme Judicial Council. In 1982, he was appointed Chairman of the Permanent Committee of the Supreme Judicial Council and continued to do so as vice-president of the Council in his absence until he was appointed in 1992 as Chairman of the Council in the General and Permanent Council. He was also a member of the Council of Senior Scholars since its establishment in 1971 AD and a member of the

Muslim World League The Muslim World League (MWL; ar, رابطة العالم الاسلامي, Rabitat al-Alam al-Islami, ) is an International Islamic NGO based in Mecca, Saudi Arabia that promotes what it calls the true message of Islam by advancing moderate ...

, and was active in the Islamic Al-Raya magazine; as its director and editor-in-chief, and he gave lessons in the Grand Mosque which were broadcast, and

fatwas A fatwā ( ; ar, فتوى; plural ''fatāwā'' ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (''sharia'') given by a qualified '' Faqih'' (Islamic jurist) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist i ...

on the Noor on the Path program. He also lectured, gave seminars and participated in the discussion of master's and doctoral theses. He was removed from the presidency of the judiciary in 1430 AH. Al-Luhaidan died on 5 January 2022, at the age of 90.

References

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