Ahmed Elsayed

Ahmed ibn Yusuf ibn Hamid al-Sayyid is a preacher, reformer, researcher and author, born in the city of Yanbu in Saudi Arabia in 1985 and raised there until the end of secondary school, after which he moved to Madinah. ¹ He is the general supervisor of the "al-Bina' al-Manhaji" programme, the "Bard al-Yaqin" programme and the "Rising Generation Academy", and the article states that his great life mission is "reviving the Prophetic method" (ihya' minhaj al-nubuwwa), together with fortifying young people intellectually and in faith and forming reformer-preachers. ¹

He began seeking religious knowledge under his father's care from childhood, memorising the Qur'an, the Forty Hadith of al-Nawawi, and Ubayd Rabbih's versified grammar at an early stage. In intermediate school he attended the lessons of Shaykh Ibrahim al-Ajlan in Yanbu on al-Maqdisi's "Umdat al-Ahkam" and Ibn Qudama's "Umdat al-Fiqh", and in secondary school he joined Shaykh Yahya ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Yahya's lessons in Makkah on memorising the Sunna, memorising the two Sahihs and the additions of the eight books in two courses. ¹

In that stage he also studied Ibn Taymiyya's "Muqaddimat al-Tafsir" under Shaykh Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti, the book of sales under Shaykh Abdullah al-Bassam, al-Bayquni's versified hadith terminology under Shaykhs Khalid Marghoub and Fuad al-Juhani, and Ibn Sa'di's versified principles of fiqh under Shaykh Mustafa Makhdoum. He then went to university in Qassim at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, studying fiqh under Shaykh Khalid al-Mushayqih from "Zad al-Mustaqni'", "Hidayat al-Raghib", "Manar al-Sabil" and "Qawa'id al-Usul wa Ma'aqid al-Fusul"; creed under Shaykh Yusuf al-Ghufays on "al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya" and Abu Ubayd's "Kitab al-Iman"; and hadith under Shaykh Turki al-Ghumayz on "Bulugh al-Maram" and "Nuzhat al-Nazar". He also attended the gatherings of Shaykh Sulayman ibn Nasir al-Alwan, Shaykh Abdullah al-Ghunayman, Shaykh Ahmed al-Saqoub and others. ¹

Al-Sayyid gave hadith special attention: he composed a 150-verse hadith poem, "al-Mu'in 'ala Fahm Tatbiqat al-Muhaddithin", introduced by Shaykh Sulayman ibn Nasir al-Alwan, explained the poem many times with the explanations available online, and gave lessons in fiqh, its principles, hadith and creed published under the title "Dawrat Ta'sil". He supervises the online "Tashil al-Sunna" project. ¹

He founded the "San'at al-Muhawir" (Making the Debater) programme after the atheist wave spread in Arab and Muslim environments, then launched the electronic "Rising Generation Academy", which includes tens of thousands of students of both sexes, followed by several programmes, most importantly "al-Bina' al-Manhaji", which the article describes as one of the largest and most widespread religious and intellectual programmes, with students from countries around the world, and others including "al-Bina' al-Fikri", "Mashru' al-Umr", "Bard al-Yaqin", "'Alim" and "Madrasat al-Arqam". ¹

Al-Sayyid presented a number of foundational video episodes on intellectual questions debated among young people, particularly those concerning the Islamic heritage, under the title "Kamil al-Sura" (The Full Picture), uploaded to YouTube and reaching five seasons. ¹

He launched the "al-Muhawirun" website, devoted to answering doubts raised about Islam in many areas: doubts about God's existence, the prophethood of Muhammad, the Qur'an and the Prophetic Sunna, women, and certain religious rulings. ¹

Among his courses and lectures are a course on how to deal with contemporary intellectual doubts, a course on the soundness of inference rules and exposing fallacies, a hadith foundation course, a course on reading skills and methods, a lecture on "the principles of fiqh between the mujtahids' regard and the modernists' claim", and the educational, knowledge and faith series for the rising generation. ¹

He is general supervisor of the Rising Generation Academy, the electronic Hadith Academy, the San'at al-Muhawir, al-Bina' al-Manhaji and al-Bina' al-Fikri programmes, the Mashru' al-Umr for reformers, and the "'Alim" project, supervises the Tashil al-Sunna and al-Muhawirun websites and the Ihya' Institute for the Qur'an and its sciences, and directs the Manar al-Fikr publishing house. ¹

This section should be read as an account of positions reported in the sources, not as the museum's judgement on them.

His declared project, as the article presents it, rests on "reviving the Prophetic method" and on fortifying young people intellectually and in faith against the atheist wave and the doubts raised about Islam; his major programmes — San'at al-Muhawir, al-Muhawirun and Kamil al-Sura — are devoted to answering doubts and grounding their audience religiously and intellectually. ¹ The sources used here carry no external criticism directed at him, so this article records only the orientation of his work as he and his article describe it. ¹

His books include "Sabighat: How Do You Deal with Contemporary Intellectual Doubts?", "Kamil al-Sura", "Muqawamat al-Tafaha" (Resisting Triviality), "al-Minhaj min Mirath al-Nubuwwa", "Buslat al-Muslih" (The Reformer's Compass), "al-Bina' al-Aqadi li'l-Jil al-Sa'id", "Ila al-Jil al-Sa'id", "al-Tafkir al-Naqid li'l-Jil al-Sa'id", "Mu'alajat al-Qur'an li-Nufus al-Muslihin", "Dala'il Usul al-Islam", "Tathbit Hujjiyyat al-Sunna", "Tashil Ma'rifat al-Asanid", "A-fi'l-Sunna Shakk?", "Mafatih al-Basira 'inda al-Nawazil wa'l-Fitan", "Mahasin al-Islam: Nazarat Manhajiyya", "al-Sunan al-Ilahiyya" and "Anwar al-Anbiya'", among others. ¹

The article describes his "al-Bina' al-Manhaji" programme as one of the largest religious and intellectual programmes and the most widespread, and the Rising Generation Academy as including tens of thousands of students of both sexes, with his video programmes and lessons published online and on YouTube for a youth audience in different countries. These are the article's descriptions and general figures; the museum does not record them as precise dated numbers. ¹ His own YouTube channel, published under the handle @alsayyed_ah, recorded 1.31 million subscribers in a channel harvest checked on 25 October 2026. ²

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