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Muhammad Ajaj Al-Khatib (1932, Damascus - 11 October 2021) was an Islamic thinker and scholar in the science of Hadith.
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Muhammad Ajaj Al-Khatib (1932, Damascus - 11 October 2021) was an Islamic thinker and scholar in the science of Hadith.
He completed his undergraduate studies in Islamic Sharia with honors and as valedictorian in 1959 in the University of Damascus. His continued his higher studies and obtained his master's with distinction in 1962, and his thesis was on (Sunnah Before Transcription). Then, he obtained his PhD at the beginning with honors in 1966 from the University of Cairo, and his thesis was on (The Establishment of Hadith Science and Its Definition), alongside updating Ramahurmuzi's book Al-Muḥaddith al-Fāṣil bayn al-Rāwī wa al-Wāʻī.
Before continuing his higher studies, Al-Khatib finished high school in Damascus before starting university, from 1966 until 1980. He then studied in the Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, from 1966 until 1973.
Al-Khatib became a tenured professor in 1976 before teaching in Ummul Qura University in Mecca in 1979, University of United Arab Emirates from 1980 until 1997, and the University of Sharjah until 2002. He was the dean for the college of Sharia and Islamic studies, as well as a hadith and general Islamic studies professor at the University of Sharjah.
Sheikh Muhammad Ajaj Al-Khatib died on Monday, October 10 , 2021, at the age of 89. The Association of Palestine Scholars mourned him in a statement, saying "The Association of Palestine Scholars, represented by its president, A. Dr.. Nassim Yassin, the members of its board of directors and its general assembly, gives its deepest condolences and sympathy to the Syrian people for the death of His Eminence, Sheikh and scholar Dr.Muhammad Ajaj Al-Khatib Al-Hasani." [1]
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