Falih bin Muhammad al-Saghir
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Falih bin Muhammad al-Saghir is a Saudi scholar and professor of Hadith at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh.
Education and Teachers
His full name is Falih bin Muhammad bin Falih al-Saghir. He completed his higher education in the Prophetic Sunnah and its sciences, earning a master's degree and a doctorate, before attaining the academic rank of full professor in the field. During his studies, he received training from several prominent scholars, including Abd al-Razzaq Afifi, Salih al-Fawzan, and Salih al-Atram.
Academic Career and Teaching
Al-Saghir was appointed to the faculty of the College of Usul al-Din at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. Alongside his university teaching, he conducted regular public study circles at Jami al-Huraysh in Riyadh, lecturing on theology through al-Aqidah al-Wasitiyyah and on jurisprudence through Manar al-Sabil and Bulugh al-Maram. He also delivered broadcast lessons on the Holy Quran Radio in Riyadh, including programs on Quranic exegesis and a thirty-lecture series on the jurisprudence and etiquette of fasting that was later published as Min Fiqh Ramadan wa-al-Siyam. In his legal and ethical treatises, such as al-Yusr wa al-Samaha fi al-Islam, he examined the concepts of leniency and ease as rooted directly in the Quran and the Sunnah rather than personal inclination.
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List of Works
al-Istishraq wa Mawqifuhu min al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah (Orientalism and Its Stance on the Prophetic Sunnah) is a contemporary treatise that examines Western Orientalist scholarship regarding the Prophetic tradition and addresses its critical claims. Adopting a concise, evidence-based approach, the work explores the intellectual challenges posed by Orientalism to the authority, transmission, and corpus of the Sunnah.
al-Yusr wa al-Samaha fi al-Islam (Ease and Leniency in Islam) is a legal treatise dedicated to defining the concepts of ease (yusr) and tolerance (samaha) in Islamic law. It outlines their scriptural foundations, objectives, and legal constraints, offering a scholarly framework to clarify the principle of religious ease against modern misconceptions, excessive rigidity, and unwarranted permissiveness.
al-Mashru‘ wa-al-Mamnu‘ fi al-Masjid (What Is Prescribed and Prohibited in the Mosque) is a legal treatise that outlines the jurisprudential rulings, religious functions, construction guidelines, and prohibited practices associated with mosques. It details legislated acts of worship, physical maintenance, and impermissible activities within mosque spaces, as well as rulings specific to the three sacred sanctuaries.