Muhammad bin Abdurrahman Assegaf

Muhammad bin Abdurrahman Assegaf is a Saudi preacher of Yemeni Hadrami origin and a researcher in the Prophetic biography, born in Seiyun on 17 April 1972. He is the director-general and general supervisor of the Irtsun Nabawi satellite channel and the founder of the Fattabi'uni project for reviving the Prophet ﷺ's practices. ¹ An Indonesian university thesis documents that the Irtsun Nabawi channel began in Jeddah at his initiative and that he extended its broadcasts to Southeast Asia, where Nabawi TV was founded in Indonesia on 15 November 2014. ² Nabawi TV's YouTube channel (@nabawitv) had 819,000 subscribers in the founder's channel harvest of October 2026. ³

Assegaf was born in Seiyun, Hadramawt, on 3 Rabi' al-Awwal 1392 AH (17 April 1972), and moved with his parents to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia at the age of three; he was raised and schooled there, and his father, a well-known Jeddah physician who attended the gatherings of scholars, instilled in him a love of learning and its people. ¹ He belongs to the Ba 'Alawi family, and the Arabic article sets out his lineage in full. ¹

He studied the religious sciences through connected chains of transmission under a number of teachers, receiving licence (ijazah) from them for preaching and teaching; among them were Abd al-Qadir bin Ahmad al-Saqqaf, Ahmad Mashhur bin Taha al-Haddad, Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki, Salim bin Abdullah al-Shatri, Abu Bakr al-Adani bin Ali al-Mashhur, and Umar bin Muhammad bin Hafiz. ¹

Assegaf serves as director-general of the Irtsun Nabawi satellite channel and its general supervisor; he took part in the management of Dar al-Mustafa for Islamic Studies and in founding a number of houses of learning, established the Irtsun Nabawi project for graduating scholar-preachers, and founded study circles and courses in the knowledge required of every Muslim. ¹ His best-known undertaking is the Fattabi'uni ("Follow Me") project for reviving the Prophet's practices, and he has contributed to founding educational institutes in countries he has visited. ¹

His preaching journeys took him to distant places, most famously Kenya and Uganda, with visits and participations in America, the Gulf states, Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan. ¹ His conference participations include a Shia–Sunni rapprochement conference in Iran, an Islamic-discourse and media conference in Jordan in 2006, a nation-building conference in Malaysia in 2007, the Hashemite scholarly councils in Jordan in 2007 and 2008, and the Abu Dhabi Awqaf Ramadan preaching programme over several years. ¹

In Indonesia, Nabawi TV operates as a foundation (yayasan); it is non-commercial, accepts no sponsors in order to guard the neutrality of its content, is affiliated with no mass organisation, party or government body, and presents a moderate Islam. ⁴

His books include Al-Tawali' al-Sa'diyya fi Bayan Maham al-Da'wa al-Fardiyya (on the tasks of individual preaching), Jasad al-Umma (a reflection on the hadith of the believers as one body), Risalat al-Gharib, Risala fi al-Amr bi'l-Ma'ruf wa'l-Nahy 'an al-Munkar, Al-Jawahir min Kalam al-Sada al-Akabir, Ghurbat al-Ruh, Ma'alim al-Du'at (three volumes), Zad al-Nasik fi Ad'iyat al-Manasik, Al-Hiyad al-Mutahhara, a commentary on Surat Ya Sin, the article series Da'iya Yata'ammal al-Qur'an, and Silat al-Ka'inat bi-Muhammad. ¹ His recorded lectures include the thirty-lesson series Haqiqat al-Sala (The Reality of Prayer), recorded for Kuwait Radio, Haqiqat al-Tasawwuf, and a biography of Fatima al-Zahra. ¹ He has also run training courses, among them "Plan for Your Religion and Your World", "Approaching Marriage", "Foundations of Success in the Path to God" and "First Steps in Preaching". ¹

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