Hadaf Production

Hadaf Production is a Kenya-based Somali-language Islamic media production and distribution channel on YouTube, created on 4 November 2019. It publishes lectures, Friday sermons and podcasts by Somali scholars for Somali-speaking audiences in Kenya and the diaspora, and counted about 521,000 subscribers by vidIQ's count as of 4 November 2026, a dated platform figure. The channel names no owner or parent organisation; its own description is a bare "PLEASE SUBSCRIBE", and its channel keywords point to Somalia, Kenya and Somali sheikhs. ^{1 2}

The channel's most-viewed listed lectures are by leading Somali scholars: a 2021 lecture by Sheikh Hussein Ali Jabuti stands at about 3.04 million views in vidIQ's listing, and the catalogue also carries Sheikh Mustafe Haji Ismail's 2023 lecture series on the history and destruction of Palestine, talks by Sheikh Mohamed Idris and by Sheikh Shilbi. ¹ Its recent uploads in 2026 continue the same pattern — a Friday khutbah by Sheikh Mohamed Abdi Umal, a podcast with Sheikh Mohamed Idris on Somali politics, talks by Sheikh Said Rageah — alongside a Quran-memorisation lesson by Ustadah Zahra Sh. Yussuf from 2024. ²

vidIQ's monthly history records the channel's public view total falling sharply during 2026 — from about 40 million views in January to under 200,000 by October — and counts only 15 public videos as of 4 November 2026, so the large earlier catalogue documented by the tracker is no longer public, while new uploads continue. The museum therefore records the channel's reach by its subscriber count, a dated figure, and not by a view total. ¹

• Hadaf Production — vidIQ channel statistics, page updated 4 November 2026, as read on 5 November 2026. ¹
• Hadaf Production, YouTube channel, as read on 5 November 2026. ²