Farouk Hadrawi

Farouk Abd al-Rahman Hadrawi (born 10 Ramadan 1365 AH / 7 August 1946) is a muezzin of the Masjid al-Haram and of Namira Mosque at Arafat. ^{1 2}

He was born at Taif and spent his childhood in the southern part of the Shamiyya quarter of Mecca, where his father's house stood at the top of the hill facing the Jabal Hindi fort and overlooking the Haram from the north; he grew up hearing the Haram's muezzins and was most influenced by Ya'qub Shakir, Hasan Lubni, Abdullah Basnawi, Salih Fida and Abd al-Rahman Mu'adhdhin. ¹

In 1371 AH he entered the Aziziyya primary school, memorising parts of the Qur'an with Muhammad Amin Mirdad, then the Saudi school, the Rahmaniyya intermediate school and the Aziziyya secondary school. ¹

He worked at the Ministry of Hajj and Awqaf from 1385 AH until he resigned in 1405 AH, and returned the same year on contract at the request of the minister, Abd al-Wahhab Abd al-Wasi', staying until 1431 AH. ¹

He called the adhan at school at his teachers' request and at private occasions, and before seventeen volunteered at the mosque of the Rawda quarter beside its imam Salih ibn Abdullah ibn Humayd, whom he credits as the first to praise his voice; from 1381 AH he called at another Rawda mosque with the muezzin Abdullah Sabbak. ¹

He was formally appointed at the Aisha (Umra) Mosque from 1394 to 1403 AH, then called the adhan in Riyadh at the Council of Ministers' mosque and the great Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Mosque until 1405 AH, and then at the Abd al-Qadir Faqih Mosque in Mecca's Aziziyya from 1405 to 1431 AH. From 1403 AH he was a seasonal muezzin at the mosques of Mina, Muzdalifa and Arafat, and from 1410 AH at Namira Mosque alone. ¹

In Muharram 1415 AH he was appointed a muezzin of the Masjid al-Haram, and he called the adhan in London two years running, in 1428 and 1429 AH. The English article on Ali Ahmad Mulla names Hadrawi as his predecessor at the head of the muezzins. ^{1 3}

Wikidata listed articles on him in two Wikipedia editions (Arabic and Urdu) on 6 November 2026. ²

• Arabic Wikipedia article, revision of 24 September 2026. ¹

• Wikidata item Q12230097. ²