Muaz Habib

Muaz Habib (ሙዓዝ ሀቢብ) is an Ethiopian vocal artist who performs menzuma and neshida — Islamic devotional song — in Amharic, with works in Somali as well, and is the leading figure of contemporary Ethiopian neshida on the platforms. ^{1 2} His official YouTube channel (@MuazHabibofficial) stood at 608,000 subscribers and 192,773,882 views across 332 videos as counted in November 2026 — dated platform figures, not facts the museum measures itself. ²

His YouTube channel began on 18 April 2020 and grew steadily past six hundred thousand subscribers by the autumn of 2026, adding some seven thousand subscribers in October 2026 alone. ² The channel's Amharic description calls it the official channel of the munshid Muaz Habib, and its keywords name iNaya Records. ¹

His channel description lists what it publishes: new neshida albums, distinctive cover works, recitations and a variety of religious programmes. ¹ Among his most-viewed uploads are the menzuma "Resul Jalele" at about fifteen million views, "Nur Amba — Warida 6" at about eleven million, and a cover neshida from February 2025 at about ten million. ¹ His Somali-language neshida "Ya Nural Ceyni" has drawn close to eight million views, extending his audience to Somali speakers in Ethiopia and beyond. ¹

He remains active on the channel: its most recent uploads read in November 2026 date from four to eight months earlier, and some of them gathered millions of views within a few months. ¹ By his channel's figures, Muaz Habib stands at the head of Ethiopian devotional singers on YouTube, in a scene where scholars' lectures circulate mostly through broadcaster and aggregator channels rather than their own. ²

• Muaz Habib's YouTube channel (@MuazHabibofficial), its description and uploads read on 5 November 2026. ¹
• vidIQ statistics page for his channel, figures as of 4 November 2026. ²