Hasan Al-Husaini

Background and education

He is the son of Sheikh Muhammad Said Faqir al-Harawi al-Husaini, a Quran reciter and hadith scholar whose family originates from Herat in Afghanistan. He received his entire schooling at Bahrain's Azhari Religious Institute, where he memorised the Quran and mastered tajweed.

He then earned a bachelor's degree from the Sharia faculty of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University (UAE branch), a master's in Islamic history and thought, and a doctorate in hadith. He holds ijazas in Quran recitation and in the major hadith collections.

Work

A preacher, teacher and researcher, he has presented many television programmes, notably on Al-Resalah TV: historical series such as The Days of Umar and one devoted to Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, alongside programmes on tafsir and hadith. He served as religious consultant to the drama series Al-Hasan and Al-Husayn and founded an academy for Islamic courses bearing his name. In Bahrain he is a co-founder and board member of the Bahraini Family Society.

He has recorded several surahs of the Quran in murattal style in the reading of Hafs 'an 'Asim.