Born in the Chicagoland area, Shaykh Sa’ad Quadri completed his Bachelor’s in English and History at Northern Illinois University in 2008 and his Master’s in Education at DePaul University in 2013. Prior to beginning college, Shaykh Sa’ad formally began studying the Islamic sciences with local teachers on a part-time basis for almost fifteen years.

In 2013, he traveled overseas to Lusaka, Zambia where he completed his `alimiyya degree from Jamiah Islamiyyah, receiving license to teach Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), methodology and theory (usool), Qur’anic explication and commentary (tafsir), grammar (nahw), morphology (sarf), creed (`aqidah), and rules of recitation (tajweed). In his final year, he was also authorized in the sixs authentic books of Prophetic narrations(hadith): Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawood, Sunan Nasa’i, Jami`ah Tirmidhi, and Sunan Ibn Majah, as well as the Muwatta of Imam Malik, the Muwatta of Imam Muhammad, and Sharh Ma`ani al-Aathaar.

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