Our Teacher
He is Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn Abū Muslim Yūsuf Muḥammad b. Ṣādiq al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī. Shaykh Yūsuf studied under scholars from both al-Azhar University (Jāmi’ah al-Azhar al-Sharīf) and scholars outside of it; from Egypt as well as other countries such as Pakistan. He also studied worldly sciences at Misr International University, in the Faculty of Humanities/al-Alsun, combining the study of linguistics, translation, and English literature.
Shaykh Yūsuf is known for his deep expertise in the Ḥanbalī Madhhab and his dedication to teaching various Islamic sciences, making traditional Islamic knowledge accessible to students around the world.
What and where does he teach?
Shaykh Yūsuf b. Ṣādiq was the former Executive Director of the Nahj Institution, overseeing and supervising the various curricula of Madrasah Shaykh al-‘Amūd, where he also held an official teaching post, having taught various Islamic sciences such as Ḥanbalī Fiqh, Ḥadīth, and Tafsīr.
Nowadays, he holds a teaching post at al-Zāwiyyah al-Tījāniyyah al-Kubrā, teaching Ḥanbalī Fiqh, Ḥadīth, and Musṭalaḥ al-Ḥadīth. He is also the main teacher at the Al-Madrasah al-Ḥanbaliyyah online platform, where he continues to teach these disciplines to an international audience. In the worldly sciences, Shaykh Yūsuf teaches various courses on linguistics and English literature at the university level.
Shaykh Yūsuf’s teaching has helped countless students deepen their understanding of the Ḥanbalī Madhhab and Islamic sciences, combining scholarly rigor with accessibility for students from various backgrounds.
Books and Text He has Teached:
Shaykh Yūsuf has taught a wide range of classical Islamic texts, focusing on Ḥanbalī Fiqh, Uṣūl al-Fiqh, ‘Aqīdah, and Ḥadīth sciences. Some of the key books he has taught include:
• Adāb al-Muṭāla‘ah
• Mukhtaṣar al-Ifādāt
• Risālah fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh ‘inda al-Ḥanābilah
• Ghāyah al-Sūl
• Al-Tadhkirah fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh
• Muqaddimah al-Inṣāf li al-Mardāwī
• The Foundational Principles of the Ḥanbali Madhhab
• Akhṣār al-Mukhtaṣarāt
• Al-Rawḍ al-Murbi’
• Dalīl al-Ṭālib
• Bidāyah al-‘Ābid
• Al-Radd ‘alā man Itaba’ ghayr al-Madhhab al-Arba‘ah
• Dhamm al-Ta°wīl
• Al-Waṣiyyah li-Ibn Qudāmah
• Miftāh Ṭarīq al-Awliyā
• Fadl ‘Ilm al-Salaf ‘alā ‘Ilm al-Khalaf
• Lum‘ah al-I‘tiqād ilā Sabīl al-Rashād
• Ḥāshiyah al-Muwaffaq ‘alā Lum‘ah al-Muwaffaq
• Al-Ṣirāṭ al-Mustaqīm fī Ithbāt al-Ḥarf al-Qadīm
• Al-‘Ayn wa al-Athar fī ‘Aqā°id Ahl al-Athar
• Qalā°id al-Iqyān fī Ikhtiṣār ‘Aqīdah Ibn Ḥamdān
• Qaṣīdah al-Dāliyyah
• Sharh al-Sunnah
• Uṣūl al-Sunnah
• Risālah Imām Aḥmad ilā al-Khalīfah al-Mutawakkil
• Khaṣā°is Musnad al-Imām Aḥmad
• Al-Tadhkirah fī Muṣṭalaḥ al-Hadīth
• Ḥanbalī choices in Uṣūl al-Hadīth
• Risālah Abū Dāwud ilā Ahl Makkah
• Muqaddimah Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ
• Ikhtiṣār ‘Ulūm al-Hadīth
• Nukhbah al-Fikar
• Nuzhat al-Naẓar
