Question

Asalamu aleykum. I love sheikh Al Husary for the sake of Allah please can you tell me about his biography and how he learnt he Holy Qur’an.  May Allah reward you. 

Wasalamu aleykum

Answer

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh. The honorable Sheikh Mahmood Khaleel Al-Husaree was born in the year 1335 Hijara, corresponding to 17 September, 1917, in the village of Shubra An-Naml , in the Tantaa area of the Western region of Egypt .  

He memorized the Qur’an when he was eight years of age, and studied in Al-Azhar.  The then freed himself to study  the Qur’an sciences, with his beautiful voice and excellent skill.  He took first in the radio exam in 1374 h (1944), and was a reciter at the Ahmedee mosque. He then went to Cairo and was at the Husaynee mosque from the year 1375 h (1955).  He was selected as the inspector for the Egyptian reciters, then deputy of them, until he became the head sheikh of the reciters in Egypt in 1381 h (1961).  He was of the first to make an audio recording in tajweed of the Qur’an in the way of Hafs ‘an ‘Aasim, 1381 h, and his voice remained the sole voice on the Qur’an radio of Egypt for around ten years.  He later made a recording of his recitation in the way of Warsh ‘an Naafi’ 1384 h, and then Qaloon, and Ad-Dooree, 1388 h (1968), and in this same year made a mu’allim recording of the Qur’an, and was also selected as chairman of the Islamic world reciters union.

He traveled and visited many Islamic countries in the Middle East , Asia , and Africa , and many became Muslim through him, by Allah’s Will.

He called for the establishment of Glorious Qur’an libraries in all cities and villages. 

He willed one-third of his wealth to serve the Glorious Qur’an and its memorizers and spending in all kinds of charity.

He died, may Allah be merciful to him and make him of the inhabitants of Paradise , on Monday evening, the 16^th of Muharram 1401 h, (24 Nov. 1980). 

He wrote more than ten books on the sciences of the Glorious Qur’an.  Some of them are:

Ahkaam qir’aah al-Qur’an al-Kareem

Al-Qira’aat al-‘ashr min Ash-Shatibiyyah wa Ad-Durrah

Mu’aalim al-Ihdaa’ ilaa Ma’rafah al-Waqf wa al-Ibtidaa’

Al-Fath al-Kabeer fee al-Isti’aathah wa at-Takbeer

Ahsan al-Athr fee Taareekh al-Qurraa’ al-Arba’ah  ‘ashr

Ma’ al-Qur’an al-Kareem

Qira’ah Warsh ‘an Naafi’ Al-Madanee

Qira’ah Ad-Dooree ‘an Abi ‘Amr Al-Basree

Noor Al-Quloob fee Qiraa’ah al-Imam Ya’qoob

As-Sabeel Al-Muyassar fee Qiraa’ah al-Imaam Abee Ja’far

 May Allah reward you too.