Badr al-Utaybi

Badr ibn Ali ibn Tami ibn al-Humaydi al-Muqati al-Utaybi, kunya Abu Abd al-Rahman, is a Saudi scholar and hadith specialist born in Taif in mid-Jumada al-Akhirah 1392 AH, a native and resident of the city. ¹

He is known for accompanying Sheikh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz for ten years, for his work in hadith and ijazahs, for teaching in Taif's mosques from 1415 AH, and for directing the city's Dawah and Guidance Centre. ^{1 2}

His interest in seeking knowledge began at sixteen; the first book he owned was Fath al-Majid, a commentary on Kitab al-Tawhid, in 1408 AH, and he memorised more than half of the Qur'an under Abd al-Sami al-Afghani and Salah al-Misri. ¹

He attended Ibn Baz in the summer of 1410 AH and resolved to study in Riyadh from 1411 AH in order to stay with him, joining the College of Sharia at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud University and attending his lessons in Riyadh, with closer attendance during the summers in Taif; he served Ibn Baz in his lessons as a son would, read most of Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim and parts of the Musnad and the four Sunan with him, and recorded more than a thousand questions and answers from him. ¹

His other teachers include Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymin, with whom he read the books of marriage and divorce from Zad al-Mustaqni and whose lessons he attended in Unayzah, Taif and the Grand Mosque; Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan; Ibrahim ibn Abdullah ibn Atiq, who gave him the ijazah of the Hanbali fiqh chain (musalsal); and Abdullah ibn Aqil, who gave him the hadith ijazah. ¹

He obtained the hadith ijazah from more than 150 scholars of Makkah, Madinah, Najd, Yemen, Iraq, the Levant, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Algeria and elsewhere, and recorded them in his large thabat, Al-Minaha al-Ilahiyya bi'l-Ijaza al-Hadithiyya. ¹

He began teaching in 1415 AH at home and in his neighbourhood mosque, then taught at the Mosque of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in al-Hawiyya and at the Dawah Mosque in Taif, explaining works including Kitab al-Tawhid, Fath al-Majid, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Al-Aqida al-Wasitiyya and Umdat al-Ahkam, and took part in summer scholarly courses in Taif, al-Baha and Kuwait and in lectures to military and government bodies. ¹

In 2014 he was director of the Dawah and Guidance Centre in Taif, and Al-Jazirah newspaper interviewed him in that capacity on the name 'Salafiyya' and the centre's work. ²

His books include Al-Ta'liqat al-Mardiyya ala al-Qasida al-Ha'iyya, his first work, written around 1412 AH; Al-Ta'liqat al-Hisan, on errors in Rida ibn Na'san's edition of Ibn Batta's Al-Ibana; Iqamat al-Hujja wa'l-Burhan (1414 AH), endorsed by a number of scholars and printed; Wasiyyati li'l-Ikhwan, on the Sunni method in advising rulers; Al-Mahsul, a commentary on Thalathat al-Usul; and Kashf al-Ma'arra, on the Hajj being obligatory once in a lifetime. ¹

His lessons, lectures, reflections and poems are published on his personal YouTube channel, which he describes as a personal account carrying a selection of them. ³

This section sets out what the sources report; it is not a verdict by the museum.

His biography on his works site describes his manner as severity toward innovators and warning people against them, together with a strong deterrence against backbiting and speaking about people's honour, on which he wrote Al-Risala al-Ayniyya. ¹ In his Al-Jazirah interview he refused to attach 'Salafiyya' to any individual, refused that a preacher or student should pair his own name with the description 'Salafi', and criticised the turn of some who claim scholarly Salafism in some countries toward takfir. ²

The same biography describes him as 'al-Hanbali al-Athari in creed and in fiqh'. It is the only attestation found that names a school for him; no independent source repeats it, so no school is recorded for him in the museum's data. ¹

• His biography on his works site (mosannefat.net); Al-Jazirah newspaper's interview with him as director of the Taif Dawah and Guidance Centre (16 May 2014); and his personal YouTube channel; all checked 25 October 2026.
• The sources are defined in data/source/.