Ibn Ghudayyaan – What the papers said

A large crowd of scholars, students of knowledge and general folk gathered for the ‘Asr prayer at Jaami’ al-Malik Khaalid in the district of Umm al-Hammaam in Riyadh for the funeral prayer over the body of Shaykh ‘Abdullaah ibn ‘Abdur-Rahmaan al-Ghudayyaan. Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azeez Aal ash-Shaykh – the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia – led both […]

‘Abdullaah al-Ghudayyaan

He was born in 1345 A.H./1926 C.E. in the city of az-Zulfee. He studied the basics of reading and writing, when young, with ‘Abdullaah Ibn ‘Abdul-‘Azeez as-Suhaymee, and ‘Abdullaah Ibn ‘Abdur-Rahmaan al-Ghayth, and Faalih ar-Roomee. He also studied the basics of fiqh, tawheed, Arabic grammar and faraa.id with Hamdaan Ibn Ahmad al-Baatil. He then travelled […]