DARUL HADEETH INTERNATIONAL

Faculty

Our teachers hold verified chains of transmission in the texts they teach and are trained in both knowledge and character.

ARABIC

Abdurezak Kemal Mahmmud

Abdurezak Kemal Mahmmud is Associate Professor of Arabic Studies at Darul Hadeeth International. He is a teacher of the Quran and the Arabic language, with a particular focus on Arabic grammar, Qur'anic education, and Hadeeth. His studies have taken him through Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, and Mauritania, combining academic education with traditional Islamic learning.

After completing high school in Addis Ababa, he joined Markaz Ibnul Katheer, where he memorized the Quran and studied the core Islamic sciences. He went on to complete an International Extended Diploma at GBS (Global Business Studies) in Dubai.

Seeking to deepen his knowledge, he travelled to Mauritania, where he studied the Arabic language, Arabic grammar, and the foundational Islamic sciences in the traditional manner. On returning to Ethiopia, he continued his studies in Hadeeth under al-Muhaddith Shaykh Ahmad Yoosuf.

He currently teaches the Quran and Arabic at Dar Al-Hijra Mosque, where he helps students improve their recitation and build a strong foundation in Arabic. He is dedicated to teaching the Quran and Arabic effectively, sharing beneficial knowledge, and serving the Muslim community through education.

ARABIC, TAFSEER, FIQH , USOOL AL FIQH

Omar Ramadhan

Ustaadh Omar Ramadan is a Haafidh of the Qur’an and serves as Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Arabic and Qur’anic Studies in the English Division of Darul Hadeeth International.
He holds ijaazah from multiple scholars in the sciences of the Arabic language, Fiqh, and Usool al-Fiqh. He brings to his teaching both a firm grounding in these sciences and practical experience serving the community.
Ustaadh Omar is currently the Imaam of Masjid Darus Salaam in Buffalo, New York, where he leads the prayers and serves the Muslim community in teaching and guidance.
At DHI, he oversees the Arabic and Qur’anic studies of the English Division. This means guiding students from their first steps in reading the Arabic script, through the Arabic foundations of Level 1, and into the Qur’an memorization that runs from Level 2 until the end of the program.

SUNNAH AND ITS SCIENCES

Shaykh Ahmed Yoosuf Ar Raayyee

Head of the Division of Advanced Hadeeth Studies, Arabic Section
Shaykh Ahmad Yoosuf ar-Raayee is a major scholar of Hadeeth based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
At Darul Hadeeth International, he serves as Head of the Division of Advanced Hadeeth Studies in the Arabic Section. He is also the grantor of DHI’s ijaazah in the books of the Sunnah. Students who complete these books at DHI receive their ijaazah from him, connecting them through his chain to the scholars who carried these books before.
The Shaykh also serves as Head of the Faculty of Hadeeth at Jaami’ah as-Sunnah in Addis Ababa, where he teaches the Six Books of the Sunnah and the science of Mustalah al-Hadeeth. In addition, he holds regular classes at Masjid Darul Hijrah in Addis Ababa, explaining the Six Books of Hadeeth along with works in ‘Aqeedah and Mustalah al-Hadeeth.

AQEEDAH FIQH HADEETH

Ustaadh Aboo Mahmood

Ustaadh Khadar bin Muhammad Amin is Senior Lecturer in Hadeeth and 'Aqeedah in the English Division of Darul Hadeeth International. He brings more than twenty years of experience teaching Islam as an Imam and as an instructor at various Islamic institutions.

He began his formal Islamic studies at the age of twelve at the prestigious Jaamiʿah Al-ʿUloom Al-Islaamiyyah in Ajax, Ontario, where he completed his middle school education. He is a Haafidh of the Quran in two riwaayaat. He also holds ijaazah, with some of the highest (ʿaalee) isnads, in all the major books of Hadeeth, along with ijaazaat in 'Aqeedah, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences, from scholars in America, Egypt, Ethiopia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and India.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Islamic Studies from Timbuktu Seminary and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Hadeeth at the Islamic University of Minnesota. He is also currently undertaking detailed, advanced studies in Hadeeth and 'Aqeedah with al-Muhaddith Shaykh Ahmad Yoosuf in Ethiopia. He has published works in the science of Hadeeth.

He served as Imam of Masjid Bilal in Syracuse, New York, where he founded and coordinated its Quran Memorization and Islamic Studies Program. He was also head instructor for the 'Aqeedah and Hadeeth section of the Timbuktu Seminary Diploma Program, and served as English Language Program Coordinator for Zad Academy, where he translated, reviewed, and developed the complete English curriculum and program.