Fahd al-Sunayd
- Died
- -
- Born in
- -
Fahd al-Sunayd is a contemporary Saudi religious scholar and hadith researcher known for compiling legal questions posed to leading scholars and publishing critical evaluations in hadith sciences .
Lineage and Education
His full name is Abu Abd Allah Fahd ibn Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim al-Sunayd . He belongs to the al-Sunayd family of Buraydah in the region of al-Qasim .
Al-Sunayd pursued religious knowledge under prominent contemporary scholars, most notably Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymin and Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baz . He attended al-Uthaymin's lessons intermittently and listened to his recorded lectures; during a meeting in al-Qasim in 1418 AH (1997–1998 CE), al-Uthaymin formally affirmed his standing as a student . Between 1410 AH (1989–1990 CE) and 1421 AH (2000–2001 CE), al-Sunayd posed 777 legal questions to al-Uthaymin by telephone, which he compiled and classified according to the chapters of jurisprudence in al-Kanz al-Thamin fi Su'alat Ibn Sunayd li-Ibn Uthaymin ("The Precious Treasure of Ibn Sunayd's Inquiries to Ibn Uthaymin") .
Scholarly Activity
Al-Sunayd's scholarly output has focused on hadith critique, transmitter evaluation, and documenting the rulings of his teachers . In Riyadh, on 16 Ramadan 1414 AH (1994 CE), he completed al-Ilam fi Idah ma Khafi ala al-Imam ("Notifying on Clarifying What Was Hidden from the Imam"), which provides critical emendations on the hadith verifications of Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani alongside narrator assessments transmitted from Ibn Baz . He also compiled Ibn Baz's evaluations of hadith transmitters in a dedicated collection, Aqwal Samahat al-Shaykh Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz fi al-Rijal ("Sayings of His Eminence Shaykh Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz on Transmitters") . In addition to textual research, he has participated in answering contemporary social and legal inquiries .
Answer updated
List of Works
Completed in 1414 AH (1994 CE), this contemporary Hadith critique presents critical emendations (ta'aqqubat) on various Hadith rulings and verifications made by Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani, accompanied by evaluations of narrators transmitted from Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baz.