Salih Saad al-Suhaymi
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Salih Saad al-Suhaymi (b. 1366 AH / 1947 CE) is a Saudi Islamic scholar and professor of Islamic jurisprudence at the Islamic University of Madinah.
Education
Salih ibn Saad al-Suhaymi al-Harbi was born in 1366 AH (1947 CE). He earned his undergraduate degree (licence) from the Faculty of Sharia at the Islamic University of Madinah in 1392 AH. He then pursued higher studies at al-Azhar University's Faculty of Sharia in Cairo, receiving his master's degree in 1400 AH with a thesis examining the rulings of sharecropping in Islamic law (al-Musaqah wa-Ahkamuha fi al-Shariah al-Islamiyyah). In 1403 AH, he obtained his doctorate in jurisprudence from the Islamic University of Madinah with a dissertation on lease contracts (Ahkam 'Aqd al-Ijarah fi al-Shariah al-Islamiyyah).
Career and Scholarly Activity
Following his doctoral studies, al-Suhaymi served as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Sharia at the Islamic University of Madinah and headed the Department of Fiqh across the university's faculties. He also taught in the university's Faculty of Hadith. His research and published treatises addressed doctrinal and legal topics, including his study on the impact of religious innovations on the Islamic worldview (al-Bida wa-Atharuha fi Inhiraf al-Tasawwur al-Islami).
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List of Works
al-Bida wa Atharuha fi Inhiraf al-Tasawwur al-Islami (Religious Innovations and Their Impact on the Deviation of the Islamic Worldview) is a treatise examining the nature of religious innovation (bid'ah), its legal status, and its detrimental effects on Islamic doctrine and communal unity.