| Khalil Abdur-Rashid is a native of Atlanta,
Ga. He received an ijaza in the rules of
Qur'anic recitation from Shaykh Dia-Deen, who received his ijaza
from the famous Shaykh Khalil al-Hussary of Egypt.
Brother Khalil began his study of Shaafi'i fiqh under the
tutelage of Amin Best who took several ijaza from Shaykh
AbduliLLah al-Arfaj who was a student of the famous Shaafi'i
Shaykh of Hofuf, Saudi Arabia - Shaykh Ahmad ad-Dogan.
Khalil receive two ijaza from Shaykh
AbduliLLah in the jurisprudence of tahara (cleanliness) and al-qawaa'id ul-fiqhiyyah (rules of fiqh).
In the summer of 1999, Khalil traveled to the city of Tareem in
the Hadramawt valley of Yemen where his sister and brother-in-law
were studying. While there, Khalil studied the elementary
books of fiqh in the Dar ul-Mustafa program.
Khalil has been given ijaza from Shaykh al-Habeeb 'Umar bin
Muhammad bin Saalim bin Hafiz to convey the text and commentary
for Safinat un-Najaa.
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