Muhammad Ayyub
Muhammad Ayyub was a Saudi Arabian Qari, imam, and Islamic scholar. He was best known for his Quran recitation and service as an imam of Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina between 1990 and 1997, and again in 2015. He also served as an imam of Masjid al-Quba in Medina. He also worked as a faculty member of the Department of Tafsir in the Faculty of the Holy Qur'an and Islamic Studies at the Islamic University of Madinah and a member of the Scholarly Committee of the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran. He died on 16 April 2016.
Biography
Birth
Muhammad Ayyub was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in 1952.His family, of Rohingya origin from Arakan, Burma, migrated to Mecca, Saudi Arabia around 1949 due to persecution faced by the Rohingya Muslim community. His father, who lived in poverty, was imprisoned in Burma. As the eldest child, Ayyub assumed responsibility for contributing to the family’s livelihood from an early age.
Ayyub was of Burmese descent and followed the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence.
Education
Muhammad Ayyub completed the memorization of the Quran in 1965 under the guidance of Khalil bin Abd al-Rahman al-Qari in Mecca. During this period he became acquainted with Ali Abdullah Jaber. After finishing his primary education in 1966, he moved to Medina and continued his studies at an Islamic school, from which he graduated in 1972.He later enrolled in the Faculty of Sharia at the Islamic University of Madinah, and received a bachelor's degree in 1976. He then specialized in Tafsir and `Ulum al-Qur'an, earning a master's degree from the Faculty of the Holy Qur'an and Islamic Studies. He completed his doctorate at the same faculty in either 1987 or 1988.
alongside his formal education, Ayyub studied with various Islamic scholars in Medina, where he received training in studying including tafsir, fiqh, hadith and hadith terminology, and usul al-fiqh.''''