The first Shaykh al-ʾIslām was ʾAbū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq رضي الله عنه

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The first Shaykh al-ʾIslām Our Shaykh Jumʿān حفظه الله ورعاه mentioned during one of his lessons of the book “Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī” that al-Sakhāwī mentioned the first Shaykh al-ʾIslām was ʾAbū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq رضي الله عنه

Benefitted From : Shaykh, Ḥāfiẓ, al-Muḥaddith, al-Faqīh, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jumʿān Ibn Ramaḍān Laḥmar (حفظه الله ورعاه)

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Translated by : Abū Muqbil ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Banghālī