Usaama bin Abdullah al Khayyat, whose full name is Usaamah Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulghani bin muhammad bin Abdel Ghani bin Ibrahim Khayyaat, was born in Mecca in 1951 and memorized the Qur’an at the hands of his father. He took knowledge from many of the scholars of hadith and received from them an ijaazah (religious teaching certification) in the six books. In 1997 Usaama bin Abdullah al Khayyat was appointed imam and khatib of the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) in Mecca.[1]
He is the son of Abdullah Khayyat, a well-known scholar and Imam of the Sacred Mosque himself.