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Saleh Al Taleb

صالح آل طالب

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32 surahs
  1. 1الفاتحة Al-Fatiha The Opening Meccan · 7 v.
  2. 25الفرقان Al-Furqan The Criterion Meccan · 77 v.
  3. 34سبإ Saba Meccan · 54 v.
  4. 38ص Sad Meccan · 88 v.
  5. 39الزمر Az-Zumar The Troops Meccan · 75 v.
  6. 44الدخان Ad-Dukhan The Smoke Meccan · 59 v.
  7. 45الجاثية Al-Jathiya Crouching Meccan · 37 v.
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  1. 46الأحقاف Al-Ahqaf The Wind-curved Sandhills Meccan · 35 v.
  2. 47مُحَمّد Muhammad Medinan · 38 v.
  3. 55الرحمن Al-Rahman The Most Merciful Meccan · 78 v.
  4. 56الواقعة Al-Waqia The Event Meccan · 96 v.
  5. 57الحديد Al-Hadid The Iron Medinan · 29 v.
  6. 58المجادلة Al-Mujadala The Pleading Woman Medinan · 22 v.
  7. 59الحشر Al-Hashr Exile Medinan · 24 v.
  8. 60الممتحنة Al-Mumtahina She That Is to Be Examined Medinan · 13 v.
  9. 61الصفّ As-Saff The Ranks Medinan · 14 v.
  10. 70المعارج Al-Maarij The Ascending Stairways Meccan · 44 v.
  11. 72الجنّ Al-Jinn The Jinn Meccan · 28 v.
  12. 73المزّمِّل Al-Muzzammil The Enshrouded One Meccan · 20 v.
  13. 74المدّثّر Al-Muddathir The Cloaked One Meccan · 56 v.
  14. 75القيامة Al-Qiyama The Rising of the Dead Meccan · 40 v.
  15. 76الإنسان Al-Insan The Man Medinan · 31 v.
  16. 77المرسلات Al-Mursalat The Emissaries Meccan · 50 v.
  17. 78النبأ An-Naba The Tidings Meccan · 40 v.
  18. 79النازعات An-Naziat Those Who Drag Forth Meccan · 46 v.
  19. 80عبس Abasa He Frowned Meccan · 42 v.
  20. 81التكوير At-Takwir The Overthrowing Meccan · 29 v.
  21. 82الإنفطار Al-Infitar The Cleaving Meccan · 19 v.
  22. 83المطففين Al-Mutaffifin Defrauding Meccan · 36 v.
  23. 84الانشقاق Al-Inshiqaq The Sundering Meccan · 25 v.
  24. 85البروج Al-Burooj The Mansions of the Stars Meccan · 22 v.
  25. 86الطارق At-Tariq The Nightcomer Meccan · 17 v.

About Saleh Al Taleb

Sheikh Saleh Al Taleb (Salih ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al Talib), born in Riyadh in 1974 (1393 AH), is a Saudi imam, preacher and judge. Appointed imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 2002, he led prayers and delivered Friday sermons there for sixteen years while also serving as a judge, until his arrest in August 2018.

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Background and education

He was born on 30 Dhu al-Hijjah 1393 AH (23 January 1974) in Riyadh, into a family from Hawtat Bani Tamim known for its scholars, judges and Quran memorisers. He memorised the Quran before adolescence and went through Riyadh's Quran memorisation schools, while studying with a number of scholars, among them his father and Sheikh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz.

He graduated from the College of Sharia in Riyadh in 1414 AH and earned a master's degree in comparative jurisprudence from the Higher Judicial Institute in 1417 AH, with a thesis on the rulings concerning new converts to Islam, followed by a doctorate in the same field. Nominated for a doctorate in international law in the United Kingdom, he gave up the scholarship when he was appointed to Mecca, but spent about nine months in England studying English.

Judge and imam

From the age of 17 he led prayers at the Aliyaa Al al-Sheikh Mosque in the al-Suwaidi district of Riyadh. He began his judicial career at the General Court in Riyadh, then served as a judge in Turabah (1418 AH), in Rabigh (1420 AH), where he founded a Quran memorisation society, and finally in Mecca.

A royal decree dated 28 Sha'ban 1423 AH (2002) appointed him imam of the Grand Mosque, where he led his first prayer at the start of Ramadan that year. In 1430 AH (2009) he was also assigned to teach there. He chaired the board of the Hadiyyat al-Hajj wal-Mu'tamir charity in Mecca and represented the Grand Mosque on official visits abroad, such as a trip to Pakistan in March 2018. He wrote a book on the role of the Grand Mosque in spreading knowledge (Athar al-Masjid al-Haram fi Nashr al-Thaqafa).

Arrest

He was arrested in August 2018 without any official explanation from the Saudi authorities — rights groups linked the arrest to a sermon on the duty to denounce wrongdoing — and in August 2022 the Specialised Criminal Appeals Court overturned an earlier acquittal and sentenced him to ten years in prison.

His recitation, known from the prayers at the Grand Mosque, follows the reading of Hafs 'an 'Asim.

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