Shaykh Muhammed Samir al-Nass
Shaykh Samir was born in Damascus, Syria, where he studied in the College of Medicine of the University of Damascus. He went on to study in the United States where he qualified in eternal medicine.
The Shaykh has studied under some of the great ‘ulama of Shaam and Saudi Arabia. He has ijazah in the ten styles of recitation of the narration of Shatibiyyah and Durra from Shaykh Muhammad Sukr. He received an ijazah in the ten styles of recitation of the narration of Tayyibah from the Egyptian Shaykh Ahmad Mustafa in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, who is a student of Shaykh Abd al-Aziz al-Zayyat of Egypt. He has ijazah in fiqh and ‘aqida from the previous Mufti of Syria Shaykh Abu Yusr ibn ‘Abidin, Shaykh Lutfi al-Fayumi, and Mufti Shaykh Adeeb al-kallas.
Shaykh Samir was honoured to study hadith in Makkah tul-mukarrama with the great Shaykh Yasin al-Fadani al-Makki, and Shaykh Dr. Nur ud-din Itar of Syria. He also has an ijazah in hadith from Shaykh Abd Allah Siraj ud-din from Syria.
Shaykh Samir is presently a teacher in the al–Fath al-Islami University in Damascus, teaching the Hanafi fiqh manual 'Al-Hidayah' in the Takhassus Shariah department and lecturing in the ten recitations of Quran in the Masters department. The Shaykh teaches tajweed on a daily basis in the blessed masjid of Shaykh Ibn 'Arabi, a post given to him by his Shaykh and father-in-law, one of the illustrious Shaykhs of Quran in Shaam; Shaykh Muhammad al-Sukr. Shaykh Samir has been teaching at various deen intensive courses in England and North America since 2000.