الدر والمرجان

Al-Durr and Al-Murjan - All Books and Works of Sheikh | Abdul Hamid Shanouh, may God have mercy on him

He was born in Beirut in the year 1366 AH, which corresponds to 1947 CE, in a house of ordinary income

He studied primary and secondary schools in the Makassed Islamic Charitable Schools, Omar Bin Al-Khattab Academy and the University at Beirut Arab University, and a master’s degree in the Imam Al-Awzai College. Signs of his love for forensic science appeared at the beginning of his youth, and he continued the lessons of jurisprudence on the doctrine of Imam Al-Shafi’i, may God have mercy on him, among a number of scholars, including: Judge Zakaria Ghandour, and Sheikh Hussein Asseeran.

And jurisprudence was read on the doctrine of Imam Abu Hanifa, may God have mercy on him, on a number of scholars, including: Sheikh Muhammad Ali Murad, and Sheikh Mufti Aziz Rahman.

The lessons of hadith science were attended by Al-Muwatta and Bukhari recited on Sheikh Hussein Asseiran, grammar and jurisprudence.

He also studied the sciences of hadith on Sheikh Dr. Nur al-Din Itar, and the principles of jurisprudence on Sheikh Ahmed Al-Hajji Kurdi, and jurisprudence on Dr. Muhammad Fawzi Faidullah.

Then, due to Lebanon’s sectarian events, he traveled to Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Hajj in 1405 AH, corresponding to 1985 AD.

In Mecca, guarded by God, he attended the lessons of Al-Bukhari and Sunan Abi Dawood on Sheikh Muhammad Yassin bin Isa Al-Fadani Al-Makki and authorized it with all his reasonable and transmitted narratives.

He heard the lessons of Shafi’i jurisprudence, the recitation of Sunan Ibn Majah and other hadith books by Sheikh Ismail Zaini, and approved it with his narrators.

He read Imam Malik's doctrine on Sheikh Al-Zahid Muhammad al-Mughrabi in Mecca and reviewed it on the Algerian Sheikh Muhammad Sekhal.

And read the doctrine of Imam Ahmed, may God have mercy on him, the Saudi Sheikh Sami Abdul Ghani Hussein.

Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Alawi Al-Maliki visited and authorized his books and narrations.

As for the science of readings, he read Hafs’s narration on Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Hindawi, and he read Hafs’s narration and workshops on Sheikh Hussein Aseeran, and he authorized it with the knowledge of his Sheikh, Sheikh of readers in Lebanon, Hassan Damascene.

Out of travel, he completed the ten readings of Sheikh Abi Muhammad Abdul-Malik Sultan, and in the presence of his Sheikh Muhammad Al-Sanadi and reading it in a number of sessions, he authorized him with the ten readings.

Likewise, the test was conducted by Sheikh Saeed Al-Abdullah and Sheikh Abi Hussein Muhammad Nabhan Al-Masri, and it was authorized by the ten readings.

A number of books were issued to him, including:

Achieved and graduated a number of books of the year, including: Women, Tirmidhi, Al-Muwatta, Al-Darmi and Ibn Majah.

 And Musnad Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, Musnad Abu Bakrah, Musnad Abu Wael Hajar, and the benefit of the news in his text to increase the age and the lack of Suyuti, and the mercy to speak of the blessing of Suyuti, the prediction of Suyuti, the graduation of the trilogy of Bukhari and Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah and Aldarmi, and a book by Ibn Abi Al Dunya and Rasat Ibn Taymiyyah, A summary in the science of separations or verse counting, and the collection of a book on the science of the ten readings, the arrangement of reading verses of the verse.