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Shaykh Ahmad Nasib al-Mahamid (1912 to 2000) was born in the village of Nasib in the Hawran and came to Damascus at seventeen to study. He learned from many…
Shaykh Ahmad Nasib al-Mahamid (1912 to 2000) was born in the village of Nasib in the Hawran and came to Damascus at seventeen to study. He learned from many of the city's great scholars, including Shaykh Badr al-Din al-Hasani, Shaykh Ali al-Daqr and Shaykh Abu al-Khayr al-Maydani, and became a hadith scholar, jurist and outstanding preacher. He served as imam and teacher at Jami' al-Tawbah and taught in several institutes, and his Friday sermons, collected in print, spanned thirty years. Thousands attended his funeral, and he was buried in the al-Dahdah cemetery near Shaykh Abu al-Khayr al-Maydani and Shaykh Muhammad al-Hashimi.