Shaykh Hamza Yusuf - Who is Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah?

Shaykh Hamza reveals to us who his teacher Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah is.
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Biography of Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah:
Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah is one of Islam's greatest living jurist. An extremely well-known and well-respected scholar, he is considered a "scholars' scholar" since many of his students are actually considered ulama in their own right. Shaykh Abdullah grew up in one of the eastern provinces of the West African nation of Mauritania. From a very young age, he showed extreme gifts intellectually and a profound ability to absorb a lot of information and a lot of the text. During his studies, he memorised an extraordinary number of texts. Then, at a very early age, he was appointed with a group of people to study legal judgements in Tunis and went there for a period of time. When he returned to Mauritania, he became a minister of education and later, a minister of justice. He was also one of the vice-presidents of the first president of Mauritania. However, due to the conditions in Mauritania and the military change of governments that took place, he began to teach, and he ended up going to Saudi Arabia and becoming a distinguished professor at The University of Usul al-Fiqh.
The shaykh is presently involved in several organizations in the Muslim world, such as the organisation which is known as Al Majma' al-Fiqhi, which is comprised of a body of scholars that come together from all over the Muslim world and from all the different madhhabs and different viewpoints; they analyze and study a lot of the modern issues to come up with Islamic solutions to the issues confronting modern Muslims in the modern world. Shaykh Abdullah is also involved in writing. He has written several books and has delivered lectures all over the world. He has expertise in a lot of areas that have been unfortunately ignored by the vast amount of contemporary scholars. One of the areas of expertise that he has is in what is known as fiqh al-aqaliyaat which is the fiqh or juristic rulings related to Muslims living as a religious minority with a dominant alien territory. Because the Muslims tended to prefer hijra to countries where Muslims were the majority, there are not a lot of scholars that work in the area of dealing with how Muslims in minority areas should actually live their lives and how they should behave when confronted with issues that often are in contradistinction to their deen.

[@EshqeRasool]

The last few seconds when the Shaykh interrupts Shaykh Hamzah's praise of him and seeks forgiveness from Allah and denies that he is worthy of all that praise is just priceless! Truly a sign that none of that praise is hyperbolic.

[@prettypicture1000]

Yes i saw that too, indeed priceless. :)

[@elhadjbrahim2591]

i am proud i am mauritanien .

[@khalidmojadady4626]

Allah give him reward in both world .

[@ibrahimjalloh1339]

Ameen

[@mohammedmiyan4942]

Salatul Fatih اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَىٰ سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ ❁ الْفَاتِحِ لِمَا أُغْلِقَ ❁ وَالْخَاتِمِ لِمَا سَبَقَ ❁ نَاصِرِ الْحَقِّ بِالحَقِّ ❁ وَالْهَادِي إِلَىٰ صِرَاطِكَ الْمُسْتَقِيمِ ❁ وَعَلَىٰ آلِهِ حَقَّ قَدْرِهِ وَمِقْدَارِهِ الْعَظِيمِ O Allah, send prayers upon our master Muhammad, the opener of what was closed, and the seal of what had preceded, the helper of the truth by the Truth, and the guide to Your straight path. May Allah send prayers upon his Family according to his greatness and magnificent rank.

[@Maturidi333]

May Allah reward him!!!

[@daliaeino3484]

Maturidi333 and im is

[@amelsabri469]

i am disicovering another aspects of my religion. thanks to God that help People to create internet. limites knowledge

[@yasserhamumi6985]

Same, Alhamdulila

[@shabeermohamed2848]

Allah bless them both

[@elhadjiamadoujohnson4166]

shabeer mohamed Ameeen!!!

[@pokebrother2330]

Subhanallah !

[@abassesalem2882]

حفظهما الله

[@HamzaKhan002]

ALLAHUMMA BARIK LAHU

[@mkhan9525]

Masha' Allah

[@HamzaKhan002]

ALLAH U AKBAR

[@tahir2061]

SubhanAllah

[@usmankassimniasse747]

ALHAMDULILLAH

[@ufuqulmubin8197]

Subhanallah

[@harisaliyousuf4391]

Masha ALLAH

[@unaisnri]

I wish i want be his student .... allha please grand me these wish

[@amelsabri469]

limitless

[@amelsabri469]

why we dont learn all that at school?

[@chawquee]

we as maghrebins and maleki we learn these things...but in the east you have always arrogance to learn from the maghreb ulemas...though islam in the maghreb is more deep than the east

[@cheesecakeiszbomb]

4:36 who is the imam on the right??? what is his name??

[@muhammadsulayman2391]

Shaykh Habib Ali Jifri

[@24xv555]

The great great grandson of our Prophet Muhammad SAW from Hussein ibn Ali RA. Wallahua’lam.

[@fotelsteussentiments1608]

He no doubt is one of the rare Ulama in several fields in Fiqh and Maqasid el Shari'a.. I just don't like his political views regarding many issues such as the Palestinian vs Zionists one, and Saudi Arabia's rulers and their bunch of hypocrites called Majliss El Fatwa.

[@ThierryVernon]

Does anyone of the Fuqaha here know about any connection between Shaikh bin Bayyah and the organisation of Hamas, Gaza? I heard rumours recently and would like to know if there can be found any evidence for such a claim. Thank you in advance

[@ThierryVernon]

And God is with the patient ones. You read my question? All of yours are answered there already. I am trying to verify some information or the opposite actually. Personally, I cannot find any bad in this remarkable Alim and Shaikh, however, those claims were made from non-Muslims already so I wand to know.

[@chawquee]

hahaha and so what journalist

[@ahmedabdatt6763]

insult Islam or other religion, it means in my opinion, you are ignorant and you need to read and search to make your knowledge more deep