Rida bin Muhammad Safi al-Din al-Sanusi
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Rida bin Muhammad Safi al-Din al-Sanusi is a contemporary academic and Islamic studies scholar, known for his work Dawr ‘Ulama’ Makkah al-Mukarramah fi Khidmat al-Sunnah wa al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah (The Role of the Scholars of Mecca in Serving the Sunnah and Prophetic Biography).
Academic Career and Research
Al-Sanusi served as an assistant professor in the Department of Islamic Studies within the Faculty of Arts at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. During his academic training and graduate research, he worked alongside fellow researchers utilizing the resources of the Library of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
His scholarship concentrates on Prophetic tradition, biographical history, and the scholarly heritage of the Hijaz. He prepared the treatise Dawr ‘Ulama’ Makkah al-Mukarramah fi Khidmat al-Sunnah wa al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah for a scholarly symposium convened by the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Da‘wah, and Guidance. The work investigates fourteenth-century AH religious learning in Mecca, chronicling the teaching circles of the Grand Mosque, traditional academies such as the Madrasah al-Sawlatiyyah and Dar al-Hadith, and the biographies of Meccan scholars who taught and compiled works in Hadith and Prophetic biography. In 1422 AH (2001 CE), he published a study titled Hady al-Sahabah in the journal of Umm al-Qura University, outlining the standing, virtues, and source materials regarding the Prophet's Companions. Al-Sanusi also contributed to the critical editing of classical manuscripts, producing an edition of Ghayat al-Matlub wa-A‘zam al-Minnah by the Yemeni traditionist Ibn al-Dayba‘.
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Dawr Ulama Makkah al-Mukarramah fi Khidmat al-Sunnah wa al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah is an academic treatise that examines the scholarly contributions of Meccan scholars to Hadith and the Prophet’s biography during the fourteenth century AH. It documents how these scholars preserved, taught, and authored works on the Sunnah and the Prophetic biography, highlighting their activities across educational circles and institutions.