Muhammad Hussein Yacoub
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| Abu ‘Alala’ Muhammad ibn Hussein ibn Yacoub | |
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 Sheikh Muhammad during a TV lecture
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| Born | 1956 Giza, Egypt |
| Occupation | Islamic scholar , Da'ee |
Muhammad Hussein Yacoub (Arabic: محمد حسين يعقوب) Yacoub is one of the most recognized salafi Sheikhs/islamic scholars in Egypt[citation needed]. He has given hundreds of lectures in Da’wah. A number of his books are currently being published.
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[edit] Birth and Family
(b. 1956) in the Matimdiyah area of Imbaba, in the Al Jizah Governorate in Egypt. His father was one of the founders of The Matimdiyah Islamic Association for Muslims to Unite Efforts to Act according to the Qur’an and the Prophet Muhammad’s Sunnah .He continued to give the Friday Khutbah (sermon) in the different the governorates of Egypt for fifty years and gave a regular class in Fiqh .
Sheikh Yaqcoub is the oldest of four brothers and has one older sister . He obtained a Teaching Diploma in 1967 and married before he was twenty years of age .
[edit] Seeking Islamic knowledge
Sheikh Yaqcoub memorized the whole Qur’an at an early age in the local Kutaab .He participated in the entering the data of the Prophet’s Hadith onto computers which increased greatly his religious knowledge . He then traveled to Saudi Arabia from 1980 to 1985 . This period was the time when the Sheikh truly started seeking Islamic knowledge .
[edit] Certifications
1)Sheikh Yaqcoub gained an Islamic Ijazah in the Six Books of the Sunnah from Sheikh Hassan Abu Al-Ashbal Al-Zuhayri.
2)Also in the Six Books of the Sunnah, from Sheikh Muhammad Abu Khubzah Al-Tattwani
3)A third certificate in the Qur’an and the Six Books of Sunnah from Sheikh Abu Khalid Al-Wakil Al-Makki.
[edit] His Sheikhs
- ‘Abdul ‘Aziz ibn Baz
- Muhammad ibn Salih ‘Uthaymin
- ‘Abdallah ibn Qa’ud
- ‘Abdallah ibn Ghudayyan
- ‘Abdallah ibn ‘Abdul Rahman Al-Jibrin
- Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shanqiti
- ‘Abdallah ibn Muhammad Al-Amin Al-Shanqiti
- ‘Atiyah Salim
- Abu Bakr Al-Jaza’iri
- ‘Abd Al-Muhsin Al-Aba’d
- Raja’i Al-Masri Al-Makki
- ‘Usamah Muhammad ‘Abd Al-‘Athim
- ‘Abd Al-Qadir Shaybat Al-Hamad
[edit] Academic Writings and Efforts
- How do I Repent? A group of lectures
- Nasa’ih lil-Shabab Tahtheeb Ghatha’ Al-Albab Lisafareni. book
- Ila Al-Huda I’tinah. A collection of lectures
- The Brotherhood, O Brothers.
- The Sure Remedy for Discarding the Secret Habit.
- The War against Smoking.
- The Qualities of a Righteous Sister. (Book)
- To Those who Abandoned the Prayer. (These lessons were given in the 1990s )
- Seriously Devoted (Book)
- From Inside the Grave.
- Khutbah.
- The Basics for a Student of Knowledge . ( The methodology is about obtaining knowledge and filtering out a group of the most important works in each area. )
- Diseases of the Ummah . (Paper)
- Basics of Getting Closer to Allah .
- A Story of Steadfastness and Dispensing with the Residue of Jahiliyah.
- The Loved One’s Secrets in Ramadan.
Over 3,000 of the Sheikh’s lessons have been recorded on cassette and many of them are on CD and video.
[edit] Sheikh’s Travels
The Sheikh has traveled to all the Arab countries, without exception, and also to many European and western countries. The Sheikh attended the first Salafi conference in Sweden and many conferences in America, Spain, and other countries.
