Ibrahim al-Akhdar

Ibrahim ibn al-Akhdar al-Qayyim (born 1364 AH/1944) is a Saudi reciter and imam from Medina who led prayers at the Masjid al-Haram and then at the Prophet's Mosque, and taught the readings at the Islamic University of Madinah, where many students from Saudi Arabia and abroad read with him. ^{1 2}

Born and raised in Medina, he studied at the Dar al-Hadith school, then al-Najah school, the Scientific Institute and the industrial secondary school. He memorised the Qur'an with Umar al-Haydari and read it in the Hafs transmission, and then in the seven readings, with the chief reciter of the Prophet's Mosque, Hasan ibn Ibrahim al-Sha'ir. ¹

He also read with Amir ibn al-Sayyid Uthman and Ahmad ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Zayyat, read the ten readings with Abd al-Fattah al-Qadi, and studied creed, law and Arabic with Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Ghunayman. ¹

He began as a teacher in industrial education, then taught at the Ubayy ibn Ka'b school for Qur'an memorisation in Medina, and became an imam at the Masjid al-Haram. He was appointed assistant professor in the Faculty of the Qur'an and the Faculty of Da'wa at the Islamic University, and taught at the Imam University's institute for da'wa. From 1406 AH he shared the imamate of the Prophet's Mosque for nine years. ¹

The article says he was among a group of scholars who proposed to Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz that a Faculty of the Qur'an, teaching the readings, be founded at the Islamic University. ¹

He is a member of the Qur'an memorisation society, the charitable society for social services, and the local and international judging committee of the Qur'an competition held by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. He has taken part in radio and television programmes and lectures, and his recordings circulate in shops across the Muslim world. ¹

Wikidata listed articles on him in four Wikipedia editions on 6 November 2026: Arabic, Sorani Kurdish, Pashto and Urdu. ²

• Arabic Wikipedia article, revision of 14 September 2023. ¹

• Wikidata item Q12181535. ²