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Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen
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Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen
Islamic scholar
Al Uthaymeen
Title
Shaykh
Born
March 9, 1925
Unaizah, Saudi Arabia
Died
January 5, 2001 (aged 75)
Unaizah, Saudi Arabia
Ethnicity
Arab
Region
Saudi Arabian scholar
Maddhab
Hanbali
School tradition Salafi
Main interests
Fiqh
Influences
Abd ar-Rahman as-Saa'di Muhammad Ash-Shanqeeti 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baaz
Sheikh Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen at-Tamimi (Arabic: ﺪﺒﻋ ﻮﺑﺃ
ﻲﻤﻴﻤﺘﻟﺍ ﻦﻴﻤﻴﺜﻌﻟﺍ ﻦﻤﺣﺮﻟﺍ ﺪﺒﻋ ﻦﺑ ﻥﺎﻤﻴﻠﺳ ﻦﺑ ﺪﻤﺤﻣ ﻦﺑ ﺢﻟﺎﺻ ﻦﺑ ﺪﻤﺤﻣ ﻪﻠﻟﺍ
) (March 9, 1925 – January 10, 2001) was one of the most
prominent Sunni Islamic scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century. Born in Saudi Arabia, he memorised the
Qur'an at an early age and studied under well known scholars of the time including: Abd ar-Rahman as-Saa'di,
Muhammad Ash-Shanqeeti, and 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baaz. During his many years of study, he became renowned for
his knowledge in fiqh, eventually compiling over fifty books on the subject.

Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen
99
Biography
Birth
His full name was Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen at-Tamimi . Sheikh
Uthaymeen, as he was most known, was born in the city of Unayzah to a family in the Banu Tamim clan of the
Quraysh tribe, in the Qaseem Region of Saudi Arabia on 27th Ramadan 1347 AH (1925 CE).
Education
He received his education from a number of well known scholars such as: 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Naasir as-Saa'di,
Muhammad Amin ash-Shanqeeti, and 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baaz.
Career
When he entered into teaching, a great number of students from inside and outside Saudi Arabia studied under him.
He was known for his own unique style of interpretation and explanation of religious points. He is regarded by
Salafis as being from among those scholars who served Islam without any type of religious prejudice and kept
themselves away from the limitations of blind-following.
According to Salafis, in giving religious verdicts Uthaymeen's Fataawa (i.e., rulings/verdicts) are based on the
methodology of the Salaf which is evidenced from Qur'an and Sunnah. He has roughly fifty compilations to his
credit.
Uthaymeen delivered lectures in the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca for over thirty-five years. His lectures encompassed
various subjects including Aqidah, Fiqh, Hadith and Tafsir as well as books of theology by scholars such as Ibn
Taymiyya and Ibn al-Qayyim. Before his death, he taught at the Sharia Faculty of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud
Islamic University, Qaseem branch. He was also a member of the Senior Scholars Committee of Saudi Arabia, and
was the imam and Khatib of the grand Mosque of Unayzah.
Uthaymeen is regarded as one of the most influential scholars during the later part of the twentieth century, along
with Muhammad Nassir ad-Deen al-Albani and Abdul 'Azeez ibn Abdullaah ibn Baaz.
He was awarded the King Faisal International Award in the service to Islam on February 8, 1994.
Character and Death
He had many students from many countries over the years. Many students from all over the world still continue to
benefit from his books and tapes.
Uthaymeen died on Wednesday 15 Shawwal, 1421 AH (January 10, 2001 CE) at the age of seventy-five. He was
buried in Mecca along with his peers among the scholars, including Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz.
Works
Shaikh Uthaymeen's well known works include:

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Tafsir (Explanation of the meanings of the Qur'an)
•• Tafsir Ayat al-Kursi
•• Tafsir Juz Amma
• Tafsir Surah al-Baqarah
• Tafsir Surah al-Kahf
Hadith (Sayings and Deeds of the Prophet Muhammad)
•• Kitab al-Ilm
• Sharh Riyadh as-Saaliheen
•• Mustalahah Hadeeth
Aqeedah (Islamic Creed)
•• Qawaa'id Muthla fi Sifaati Allah wa Asmaa'ihil Husna
•• Qawl Mufiid ala Kitab al-Tawhid
• Sharh al-Aqeedat Al-Hamawiyyah (link to English translation) 
[1]
•• Sharh al-Aqeedat Al-Waasittiyah
•• Sharh Kashf ash-Shubuhaat
•• Sharh Lum'at al-I'tiqad
• Sharh Usool al-Iman (link to English translation) 
[2]
• Sharh Usool al-Thalaathah (link to English translation) 
[3]
• What you must believe about your Creator (Sharh Hadeeth Jibra'eel) 
[4]
• How do we believe in the Last Day? (Sharh Hadeeth Jibra'eel) 
[5]
• Are We Forced or do we have Free Will? (Sharh Hadeeth Jibra'eel) 
[6]
Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence)
•• Fataawa Arkan Islam
•• Majmoo' al-Fataawa
• Ash-Sharh al-Mumti, an explanation of Zaad al-Mustaqni'
•• Umdat al-Ahkam
External links
• Shaykh Uthaymeen's Website 
[7]
 (Arabic language)
• Some videos of Shaykh Uthaymeen 
[8]
• Assorted Images and Press Clippings Regarding the Death of Shaykh Uthaymeen 
[9]
• Interview with the Wife of Muhammad ibn Uthaymeen Regarding his Life 
[10]
• Biography's Source 
[11]
• Jewels of Guidance (selected words and incidents from the life of Shaykh Uthaymeen) 
[12]
• Comprehensive collection of Shaykh Uthaymeen Articles and Books 
[13]
• Shaykh Uthaymeen on innovations 
[14]
• How Muslims Should Behave in Non-Muslim Societies by Shaykh Uthaymeen 
[15]
• An Erudite and Devout Scholar with an Independent Opinion 
[16]
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz
Islamic scholar
Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Bāz
Title
Shaykh
Born
November 21, 1910
 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Died
May 13, 1999 (aged 88)
Ethnicity
Arab
Region
Middle East
Maddhab
Hanbali
Main interests Sharia, Fiqh, Hadith
Influences
Ibn Abd al Wahhab
Influenced
Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani
Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz (Arabic: ﺯﺎﺑ ﻦﺑ ﻪﻠﻟﺍ ﺪﺒﻋ ﻦﺑ ﺰﻳﺰﻌﻟﺍ ﺪﺒﻋ) (November 21, 1910 – May 13, 1999), was a
Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, considered as one of the renowned Muslim scholars of the twentieth century. He was
the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia from 1993 until his death in 1999.
Youth
Ibn Baz was born in the city of Riyadh during the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, 1910 to a family with a reputation for
their interest in Islam. His father died when he was only three, placing a big responsibility on his mother to raise
him. When asked about his childhood, the sheikh said: “my father died when I was three years old, and I only had my
mother who took care of me and educated me encouraging me to learn more about Shari'ah; she also died when I was
twenty six.” By the time he was thirteen he had begun working, selling clothing with his brother in a market. Despite
the fact that he helped a great deal in supporting his family, he still found time to study the Qur’an, Hadith, Fiqh, and
Tafsir. In 1927, when he was sixteen, he started losing his eyesight after being afflicted with a serious infection in his
eyes. By the time he was forty, he had totally lost his sight and had become blind.
[1][2]
Education
At that time, Saudi Arabia lacked a modern, sophisticated university system. However, Ibn Baaz managed to learn a
great deal through his constant reading of Islamic literature as well as his association with different scholars from
whom he learned. These include:
[3][4]
•• 'Abdullāh bin Fayrij whom he studied the Qur'an with at an early age.
•• Muhammad ibn Zayd, the chief judge in the Eastern region.
•• Rāshid ibn Sālih al-Khunayn.
•• 'Abdul-Latif ibn Muhammad ash-Shudayyid.
•• 'Abdullāh bin 'Abdur-Rahmān ibn Kimar
•• 'Abdullāh bin Qu'ood.
•• Sālih ibn Hussayn al-'Irāqi.
•• 'Abdul-Rahmān al- Warrāq.
•• The Mufti of his time, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn 'Abd al-Latif ash-Shaikh. Ibn Bāz studied under this scholar
for ten years. He had studied all the branches of Shari'ah from him during the years 1927 until 1938.
•• Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahmān ibn Hassan ibn ash-Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhāb.

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• Sa’ad ibn Hamad ibn Atiq, the chief judge of Riyadh at the time.
•• Hammad ibn Farris, under whom ibn Bāz studied the field of Arabic grammar.
• Sa’ad Waqqās al-Bukhāri, one of Makkah’s most renowned scholars in Tajweed.
•• Sālih ibn 'Abdul-Aziz ibn 'Abdur-Rahmān ibn Hasan ibn Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abdul-Wahhāb, one of the
judges in the city of Riyadh.
Career
He had assumed a number of posts and responsibilities such as:
[5]
• The judge of Al Kharj district upon the recommendation of Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Lateef ash-Shaikh from 1938
to 1951.
•• Held a teaching position in Riyadh at the Ma'had al-'Ilmee in 1951
•• In 1951 after spending fourteen years in al-Kharj as a judge, he was transferred to Riyadh where he became a
teacher in the Riyadh Institute of Science and taught in the Faculty of Sharia from 1951 to 1961.
• In 1961 he was appointed Vice President, and later President, of the Islamic University of Madinah.
•• In 1970 he became the Chancellor of the University upon the death of Muhammad ibn Ibraaheem Aal ash-Shaykh
and he remained chancellor until 1975.
•• In 1975 a royal decree named him Chairman of the Department of Scientific Research and Ifta with the rank of
Minister.
•• In 1992 he was appointed Grand Mufti of the Saudi Arabia and Head of the Council of Senior Scholars and was
granted presidency of the administration for scientific research and legal rulings.
• President of the Permanent Committee for Research and Fatawa.
•• President and member of the Constituent Assembly of the World Muslim League.
•• President of the Higher World League Council.
• President of the Islaamic Fiqh Assembly based in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
• Member of the Higher Council of the Islamic University of Medina.
•• Member of the Higher Committee for Islaamic Da'wah in Saudi Arabia.
Over the years, he held a large number of positions as president or member of various Islamic councils and
committees, and chaired a number of conferences both within Saudi Arabia and overseas, in addition to writing a
great number of books in different fields and issuing a large body of fatwa. In 1981 he was awarded the King Faisal
International Prize for Service to Islam.
[6][7] 
He was the only Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia not to come from the Al
ash-Sheikh family.
[8]
Activities
Ibn Bāz had undertaken a number of charitable and other activities such as:
[6]
• His endless support for Dawah organizations and Islamic centers in many parts of the world.
•• The establishment and supervision of schools for teaching the Qur'an.
•• The foundation of an organization that facilitates marriage for Muslim youth.
•• The popular radio program, Nurun AlaDarb ("light on the path"), in which he discussed many current issues and
answered questions from listeners as well as providing fatwa if needed.
Ibn Bāz was considered by many to be prolific speaker both in public and privately at his mosque. Like his books,
his lectures and sermons were numerous and revolved frequently around the situation of the Muslim world. In
addition, much of his time was devoted to the lessons he gave after Fajr prayer, teaching during the day, meeting
delegates from Muslim countries and sitting with people after Maghrib prayer to provide counseling and advice on
personal matters. He also used to invite people after Isha prayer to share a meal with him.
[6]

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Ibn Bāz was among the Muslim scholars who opposed regime change using violence.
[9] 
He called for obedience to
the people in power unless they ordered something that went against God.
[10]
Works
The number of books written by Ibn Bāz exceeds sixty and the subject matter covered many topics such as Hadith,
Tafsir, Fara'ed, Tawheed, Fiqh and also a great deal of books on Salat, Zakat, Dawah, Hajj and Umrah.
[6]
Death
On Thursday morning, May 13, 1999, Ibn Bāz died at the age of 88. The next day, following Friday prayer, King
Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, and hundreds of thousands of
people performed the funeral prayer at the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.
[11]
King Fahd issued a decree appointing Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh as the new Grand Mufti after Ibn
Bāz's death.
[12]
In his career as the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, he attempted to both legitimize the rule of the ruling family and to
support calls for the reform of Islam in line with Salafi ideals. Many criticized him for supporting the Saudi
government when, after the Gulf War, it muzzled or imprisoned those regarded as too critical of the government,
such as Safar al-Hawali and Salman al-Oudah.
When Ibn Bāz died in 1999. The loss of "his erudition and reputation for intransigence" was so great the Saudi
government was said to have "found itself staring into a vacuum" unable to find a figure able to "fill ibn Bāz's
shoes."
[13] 
His influence on the Salafi movement was large, and most of the prominent judges and religious scholars
of Saudi Arabia today are former students of his.
Controversies
His obituary in The Independent said "His views and fatwas (religious rulings) were controversial, condemned by
militants, liberals and progressives alike".
[14] 
According to his obituary in The Economist, Ibn Baz "was an easy man
to mock. His pronouncements—that the earth was flat, that photography of a living thing was immoral, that women
who studied with men were no better than prostitutes—embarrassed the more liberal princes".
[15] 
He was also
criticized by hardline Salafists and Jihadists for supporting the decision to permit U.S. troops to be stationed in Saudi
Arabia in 1991.
[16]
Cosmology
In 1966, when Ibn Baz was vice-president of the Islamic University of Medina, he wrote an article denouncing
Riyadh University for teaching the "falsehood" that the earth rotates and orbits the sun: "The Holy Quran, the
Prophet's teaching and the majority of Islamic scientists prove...that the sun is running in its orbit and...that the earth
is fixed and stable".
[17]
 King Faisal was reportedly so angered by this statement he ordered the burning of all copies
of the article.
[17] 
In 1982 Ibn Baz published a book, Jarayan al-shams wa'l qamar wa-sukan al-ard ("The Motion of
the Sun and the Moon and the Stationarity of the Earth"), in which he repeated his belief that the sun orbited the
earth.
[18] 
He threatened all who did not accept his view with a fatwa of takfir, declaring them infidels.
[19] 
Ibn Baz did
not change his mind until 1985 when Prince Sultan bin Salman returned home after a week aboard the space shuttle
Discovery to tell him that he had seen the earth rotate.
[17]

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105
Women's rights
Criticism of Ibn Baz includes his harsh and inflexible attitudes towards women
[20] 
and for being a bulwark of
restrictions on women's rights.
[21] 
Commenting on the Sharia rule that the testimony in court of one woman was
insufficient, Ibn Baz said: "The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) explained that their shortcoming in reasoning is found
in the fact that their memory is weak and that their witness is in need of another woman to corroborate it."
[21] 
He also
issued a fatwa against women driving cars, which may have been his most well known ruling.
[22] 
He declared:
"Depravity leads to the innocent and pure women being accused of indecencies. Allah has laid down one of the
harshest punishments for such an act to protect society from the spreading of the causes of depravity. Women driving
cars, however, is one of the causes that lead to that."
[21]
Gulf War
During the Gulf War Ibn Bāz issued fatwa allowing the deployment of non-Muslim troops on Saudi Arabia soil to
defend the Kingdom from the Iraqi army. Some noted that this was in contrast to his opinion in the 1940s, when he
contradicted the government policy of Islamically allowing non-Muslims to be employed on Saudi soil.
[23] 
However,
according to The New York Times, his fatwa overruled more radical clerics.
[22] 
In response to criticism, ibn Baz
condemned those who "whisper secretly in their meetings and record their poison over cassettes distributed to the
people."
[22]
Osama bin Laden
Ibn Baz held the view of righteously following the Salaf (Predecessors')].
[14] 
However, his views were, according to
The Independent, not draconian enough for Osama bin Laden who condemned ibn Baz for "his weakness and
flexibility and the ease of influencing him with the various means which the interior ministry practices".
[14] 
Ibn Bāz
was the subject of Osama bin Laden's first public pronouncement intended for the general Muslim public. This open
letter condescendingly criticized him for endorsing the Oslo peace accord between the PLO and Israeli
government.
[24] 
Ibn Baz defended his decision to endorse the Oslo Accords by citing the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah,
saying that a peace treaty with non-Muslims has historical precedent if it can avoid the loss of life.
[25][26]