Saleh Al-Luhaidan
Sheikh Saleh Muhammad Al-Luhaidan (Template:Lang-ar; 1932 – 5 January 2022) was a Saudi scholar, judge, imam, preacher, and member of the Council of Senior Scholars. He was also a teacher of Sharia sciences.
Biography
Al-Luhaidan was born in 1932 in Al Bukayriyah in the Al-Qassim Province, Hejaz and Nejd.[1][2][3]
He graduated from the College of Sharia in Riyadh in 1959 and obtained a master's thesis from the Higher Institute of the Judiciary in 1969.
Since 1992 he is considered the first influential person in the Supreme Judicial Council and his name has been associated with the Saudi judiciary. he held the position of President of the Supreme Judicial Council until 2009. He has also worked as a secretary and judicial lieutenant to Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh, the former Saudi Grand Mufti in Iftaa after his graduation until he was appointed in 1963 as an assistant to the president of the Grand Court in Riyadh, and then became president of the court in 1964. He continued as president of the Great Court until he was appointed in 1970 as a judge of cassation and a member of the Supreme Judicial Council.[4][5]
In 1982, he was appointed as Chairman of the Permanent Committee of the Supreme Judicial Council and continued to do so as vice-president of the Council in his absence until he was appointed in 1992 as Chairman of the Council in the General and Permanent Council. He is also a member of the Council of Senior Scholars since its establishment in 1971 AD and a member of the Muslim World League, and he was active in the Islamic Al-Raya magazine, its director and editor-in-chief, and he has lessons in the Grand Mosque that are broadcast, and fatwas on the Noor on the Path program, and he has lectures, seminars and participation in the discussion of master's and doctoral theses He was removed from the presidency of the judicial judiciary in 1430 AH.[6]
He died on 5 January 2022 at the age of 90.[7]
References
- ^ "Top Saudi scholar Saleh al Luhaidan dies aged 90". 5 January 2022.
- ^ "Senior Saudi scholar Saleh Al-Luhaidan dies". 5 January 2022.
- ^ "Top Saudi cleric dies after battling illness". 5 January 2022.
- ^ "Saudi Arabia's prestigious scholar Sheikh Saleh Al-Luhaidan passes away". 5 January 2022.
- ^ "The death of a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, Sheikh Saleh Al-Luhaidan, Saudi Arabia News".
- ^ "Sheikh Saleh Al-Luhaidan, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, passed away after suffering from illness".
- ^ "Sheikh Saleh Al-Luhaidan passed away at the age of 90". January 5, 2022.