Saad al-Shathri

Saad ibn Nasir ibn Abd al-Aziz Abu Habib al-Shathri is a Saudi scholar of usul al-fiqh, born in Riyadh in 1387 AH, the son of the royal advisor Nasir al-Shathri. ^{1 2}

He is a member of the Council of Senior Scholars of Saudi Arabia, an advisor in the Royal Court with the rank of minister, and a faculty member at King Saud University's College of Law and Political Science; he was the eighth preacher of the Arafat sermon of the Saudi era. ¹

The English Wikipedia article gives his birth year as 1964/65, which does not match the Arabic article's 1387 AH (1967–68); the record follows the Hijri year and carries the conflict in its note. ^{3 1}

He completed his university studies at the College of Sharia of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, becoming a teaching assistant there in 1409 AH; his master's thesis was 'Al-Tafriq bayn al-Usul wa'l-Furu' and his doctorate, in 1417 AH, was 'Al-Qat' wa'l-Zann inda al-Usuliyyin'. He progressed at the college as lecturer in 1414 AH, assistant professor in 1418 AH and associate professor in 1422 AH. ^{1 2}

He was appointed to the Council of Senior Scholars at the excellent rank from 1426 AH until he was relieved in 1431 AH; in 1434 AH he joined the faculty of King Saud University's College of Law and Political Science, and in 1437 AH he was reappointed to the Council and made an advisor in the Royal Court with the rank of minister. ¹

His teachers include Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Abd al-Aziz Al al-Shaykh, Abdullah al-Ghudayyan, Salih al-Atram, Ahmad al-Mubaraki and his father Nasir al-Shathri, and he holds ijazahs in the transmission of the hadith collections. ²

King Salman commissioned him to deliver the Arafat sermon for 1438 AH. ¹

His media work includes fatwa programmes — Nur ala al-Darb on Qur'an Radio, Fatawa on the Saudi channel, Al-Jawab al-Kafi on Al-Majd and Yastaftunak on Al-Resalah — and the programmes Ibadat al-Qulub, Ta'ammulat al-Shathri, Al-Ayyam al-Khaliya and La Takhaf; his lessons and lectures are published on his official YouTube channel. ^{1 4}

His books number more than sixty, on creed, hadith, fiqh, usul and ethics; among the best known are Al-Musabaqat fi'l-Shari'a al-Islamiyya, Al-Taqlid wa-Ahkamuh, Aqd al-Ijar al-Muntahi bi'l-Tamlik, Al-Qat' wa'l-Zann inda al-Usuliyyin, Taqsim al-Shari'a ila Usul wa-Furu', Muqaddima fi Maqasid al-Shari'a, Al-Maslahah inda al-Hanabila, Akhlaqiyyat al-Tabib al-Muslim and Haqiqat al-Iman wa-Bida' al-Irja', and commentaries on Al-Waraqat, Bulugh al-Maram, Umdat al-Ahkam and the Forty Hadith. ¹

His refereed papers include Al-Maslahah inda al-Hanabila, Ara al-Imam Ibn Maja al-Usuliyya and Al-Istidlal bi'l-Qadr al-Mushtarak, and he supervises and examines theses and referees research at several universities. ^{1 2}

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

The Arabic article's infobox gives his creed as 'Muslim, Ahl al-Sunna wa'l-Jama'a' — a broad affiliation that names no school of law; neither the English article, nor Saudipedia, nor his university CV names a school for him, and his book Al-Maslahah inda al-Hanabila is a research subject, not a stated affiliation, so no school is recorded for him in the museum's data. ^{1 3 2}

He was relieved of the Council of Senior Scholars in 1431 AH, years after his first appointment, and was restored to it with his Royal Court advisorship in 1437 AH, as the article records. ¹

• The Arabic and English Wikipedia articles on him (revisions consulted 25 October 2026); the Saudipedia entry; and his official YouTube channel (@DrSuadTV).
• The sources are defined in data/source/.