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NEWS\
Saturday 16 March
2002
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Shaykh 'Umar ibn Muhammad
as-Subayyal passes away...
Earlier today, Fatwa-Online was
informed that:
Shaykh 'Umar ibn
Muhammad as-Subayyal, 43, who was an imaam
and khateeb of al-Masjid
al-Haraam in Makkah
for the past 11 years, died at the Armed
Forces Hospital in Hada near Taif yesterday
after entering a coma two weeks ago
following a traffic
accident.
Funeral prayers for the imaam will be
held at al-Masjid
al-Haraam today after Salaat
al-'Asr.
Shaykh 'Umar, who was the youngest
of the imaams of al-Masjid
al-Haraam, is survived by his wife and
seven children - four sons and three
daughters.
Shaykh Muhammad as-Subayyal, former
Head of the Presidency for the Two Holy
Mosques’ Affairs, has received
messages of condolence from a large number
of people within the Kingdom and
abroad.
The
accident that led to Shaykh
'Umar’s death took place while he
was travelling on the Taif-Riyadh
Expressway with his family.
Born in Bakhayriyah in the Qaseem
region in 1958, Shaykh 'Umar received
his religious education from prominent
Islaamic scholars, including the late Shaykh
'Abdul-'Azeez ibn Baaz. He
received his doctorate from Umm al-Quraa in
1991.
In
1992 he was appointed a lecturer at Imaam
Muhammad ibn Saud University in Riyadh. The
following year he moved to Umm al-Quraa and
was appointed imaam of al-Masjid
al-Haraam and head of the Sharee'ah
College.
In
1995, Shaykh 'Umar was named director
of the Higher Islaamic Studies Center and
undersecretary of the College of Sharee'ah and
Islaamic Studies at Umm al-Quraa. Two years
later, he was appointed principal of the
college.
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