Abdullah ibn Abdur-Rahman al-Ghudayyan (1926 – 1 June 2010) was a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, a leading proponent of the
Salafi
The Salafi movement or Salafism () is a reform branch movement within Sunni Islam that originated during the nineteenth century. The name refers to advocacy of a return to the traditions of the "pious predecessors" (), the first three generat ...
form of
Islam 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 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 ...
within the Faculty of
Sharia 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
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 ...
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, 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 Sa ...
, a member of the Saudi
Council of Senior Scholars
Death
Abdullah ibn Abdur-Rahman al-Ghudayyan died on Tuesday 1 June 2010.
References
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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