
In a tweet, al-Kalbani stated that the non-existence of church bells in Saudi Arabia pleased him. Īl-Kalbani has said he is not a Shaykh (an authority in religious matters) but a Qari. In Japan's city of Bandu, a center of Minhaj-ul-Quran was visited by Al-Kalbani on June 30, 2013. He once dreamed that he had become the imam at the Great Mosque of Mecca two years later, in 2008, he was selected by King Abdullah to lead the tarawih prayers at the mosque. Career as Imam Īfter a brief stint working at the mosque in Riyadh Airport, he moved on to working as an Imam at the more prominent King Khalid Mosque. In 1994, he passed the government exam to become an Imam. He also studied Akhir Tadmariyah with Abdullah Ibn Jibreen and the Quran with Ahmad Mustafa. He also studied with Mustafa Muslim who taught the tafsir of al-Baydawi at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University. He studied Sahih al-Bukhari, Jami` at-Tirmidhi and the tafsir of Ibn Kathir with him. Īl-Kalbani's first teacher in his further Islamic studies was Hasan ibn Gaanim al-Gaanim. Due to his family's financial situation, al-Kalbani took a job with Saudi Arabian Airlines after finishing high school, whilst attending evening classes at King Saud University. His father used to work as a government clerk. Biography Early years and studies Īdil al-Kalbani was born in Riyadh on Apto poor emigrants from Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates who came to Saudi Arabia in the 1950s. Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Mohammed bin Nabhan bin Hussein, Abdullah ibn JibreenĪdil al-Kalbani ( Arabic: عادل الكلباني) is a Saudi Arabian Muslim cleric of Afro-Saudi background who served as the Imam of the Great Mosque of Mecca.
