Muhammad Salih Al-Munajjid

Muhammad Salih Al-Munajjid (born 13 June 1961 / 30 Dhu al-Hijja 1380 AH) is a Syrian-born Islamic scholar and preacher of Palestinian family, resident in Saudi Arabia: born in Aleppo to Palestinian refugee parents, raised in Riyadh, and a graduate in industrial management of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran. ^{1 2} He is imam and khatib of the Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz Mosque in al-Khobar, founder of the IslamQA website (1996) and its general supervisor, and founder of the ZAD Group, whose projects include the ZAD Academy and the ZAD satellite channel. ^{1 3}

A note on the date: the English article dates his birth 14 June 1961 for the same Hijri date, and Wikidata gives only the year 1960, so this record follows the Arabic article and states the disagreement. ^{1 2 4}

After his university degree in industrial management, Al-Munajjid turned to Islamic learning and studied under Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz for about fifteen years, and under Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani, Muhammad ibn Salih Al-Uthaymeen, Abd Allah ibn Jibrin, Salih al-Fawzan, Abd al-Rahman al-Barrak and Abd Allah al-Ghunayman. ¹ He took the imamate and khutbah of the Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz Mosque in al-Khobar, had a weekly programme on Al-Majd channel titled Al-Rasid, and a weekly programme on Quran Radio; the Arabic article credits him with more than three thousand published items, mostly online, and more than four thousand five hundred audio hours. ¹

His best-known books include Means of Steadfastness in Religion, The Phenomenon of Weak Faith, Meanings of the Adhkar, Acts of the Hearts, Corruptors of the Hearts, and 33 Reasons for Humility in Prayer. ¹ His projects include IslamQA, opened in 1996 before internet access reached individuals in Saudi Arabia officially, one of the first Islamic websites, publishing in ten languages with nine sister Islamic sites under its umbrella. ¹ Among the projects of the ZAD Group, which he founded in 1422 AH, are the Imam Ibn Baz website and the Ibn Baz Fatwa Encyclopaedia app, the ZAD Academy, the ZAD satellite channel and the Zadi platform. ³ The ZAD Academy's YouTube channel (@academyzad) carries its lessons across seven subjects — creed, exegesis, hadith, fiqh, biography, Arabic and Islamic upbringing — and analytics consulted in October 2026 recorded about 487,000 subscribers, a dated platform figure. ⁵

This section reports what the sources attribute to him and the criticism directed at him; the museum adopts no verdict. The English article reports that IslamQA was banned in Saudi Arabia for issuing independent fatwas, and that German press (Deutsche Welle, 2016) covered his views on women's affairs critically — both claims the article carries from its own sources. ² On the other side, the Arabic article describes him as among the most active and influential preachers among young audiences, with programmes sometimes simulcast on more than ten satellite channels, especially in Ramadan. ¹

• Arabic Wikipedia article «محمد صالح المنجد», revision 76345674.
• English Wikipedia article "Muhammad al-Munajjid", revision 1371264846.
• Wikidata item Q117803.
• Arabic Wikipedia article «شركة مجموعة زاد», revision 68630870.
• ZAD Academy programme YouTube channel (@academyzad).