Mohamed Hussein Yaqoub

Muhammad Hussein Yacoub is an Egyptian Salafi preacher, born at Al-Mu'tamadiya in Imbaba, Giza Governorate, in 1375 AH / 1956 CE. ^{1 2}

He became known for his lessons in mosques and his programmes on the Al-Nas and Al-Rahma satellite channels, and for his many lectures and books on devotion and preaching; he has given hundreds of lectures across the Arab world. ^{1 3}

He was born at Al-Mu'tamadiya, the eldest of four brothers, with one older sister. His father was among the founders of Al-Jam'iyya al-Shar'iyya (the Sharia Society for the Cooperation of Workers with the Book and the Sunna) in Al-Mu'tamadiya, preached the Friday sermon for some fifty years, and travelled among mosques teaching. ¹

He memorised the Qur'an as a child in the village kuttab under Shaykh Mahmud Talaba and then Shaykh Abd al-Aziz al-Fayyumi, and married before he was twenty. He worked at the Sunnah Information Centre, a centre building a computer database of hadith, where he took part in numbering the hadiths of «Sahih Muslim» and the «Musnad» of Ahmad. ¹

He travelled to Saudi Arabia from 1401 to 1405 AH (1980–1985), where he worked and studied, and repeated his journeys there, the last in 1411 AH for a year spent between Riyadh and Al-Qassim. ^{1 3}

His teachers in Saudi Arabia included Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymin, Abd Allah ibn Qa'ud, Abd Allah ibn Ghudayaan, Abd Allah ibn Jibrin — with whom he studied for six months in 1410 AH — Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Shinqiti, Atiyya Muhammad Salim, Abu Bakr al-Jaza'iri, Abd al-Qadir Shayba al-Hamd and Abd al-Muhsin al-Abbad. In Egypt he heard Abd al-Hamid Kishk and Muhammad Safwat Nur al-Din, among others. He holds ijazas in the six canonical books from Muhammad Abu Khubza of Tetouan and from Abu al-Ashbal al-Zuhayri. ^{1 3}

He studied the books of Ibn al-Jawzi, Ibn Taymiyya, Ibn Qayyim and al-Dhahabi, and recommends them to his students, as the article records. ¹

He became known for giving lessons in mosques and presenting Islamic programmes on satellite channels such as Al-Nas and Al-Rahma, and he founded a website, "Al-Madrasa al-Rabbaniyya" (The Lordly School), through which he publishes his lessons and sermons. ¹

This section should be read as a presentation of differing positions reported from the sources, not as the museum's verdict on them.

After the 25 January 2011 revolution Yacoub made political statements supporting the Islamist current. After the 3 July 2013 announcement, the religious channels were taken off air and the Ministry of Awqaf barred Salafi preachers from lessons and sermons in mosques under its decision restricting pulpits to Azharis; on one occasion in Minya the ministry filed a police report against him after his supporters prevented Awqaf officials from entering a mosque where he was preaching. ¹

In June 2021 he was summoned to the Tora court complex in Cairo to testify concerning urging the public to mobilise "in support of legitimacy" during the events of 2013, as the English article records. ³

Yacoub then withdrew from political commentary, lives between Egypt and Sudan on preaching journeys, and has said that "the senior preachers are barred by the state from preaching in Greater Cairo". ¹

His books include «Kayfa Atub?» ("How Do I Repent?"), his first book, a set of lectures on repentance given while teaching an abridgement of Ibn Qayyim's «Madarij al-Salikin»; «Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya»; «Al-Madrasa al-Rabbaniyya»; «Ibn al-Islam» (two volumes); «Al-Uns bi-Dhikr Allah»; «Mashari' al-'Ashr»; «Ila'l-Huda i'tina»; «Al-Ukhuwwa Ayyuha'l-Ikhwa»; «Usul al-Wusul ila Allah»; «Asrar al-Muhibbin fi Ramadan»; «Sifat al-Ukht al-Multazima» ("Description of the Committed Sister"); «Al-Jiddiyya fi'l-Iltizam» ("Seriousness in Commitment"); «Al-Qabr Ru'ya min al-Dakhil»; «Al-Khutab» (two volumes); «Muntalaqat Talib al-'Ilm»; «Amrad al-Umma»; and «Qissat al-Iltizam». His lesson series include "Al-Adwiya" ("Cures"), "How Do I Repent?" and "Ila'l-Huda i'tina". ^{1 3}

Wikidata records 333,000 subscribers for his YouTube channel on 28 January 2024 — a dated platform figure the museum records only with its date. His lessons are published through his official website and the "Al-Madrasa al-Rabbaniyya" site. ^{2 1}

His own YouTube channel, which describes itself as his official channel and links his official website yaqob.com, recorded 429,587 subscribers on 25 October 2026. ⁴

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