Egyptian Qari Sheikh Hissan and A Legacy of Recitation that Endures
The Egyptian Awqaf ministry on Saturday commemorated the anniversary of the death of Sheikh Muhammad Abdulaziz Hissan, one of the great figures of Quran recitation in Egypt and the Islamic world.
He was born on August 22, 1928, in the village of Farstaq in the city of Kfar Al-Zayat, the Gharbia Governorate of Egypt, and died on May 2, 2003.
Sheikh Hissan left behind a great Quranic legacy of humble recitations and a prominent vocal school.
He was raised in a Quranic environment and memorized the Quran as a child. He lost his sight in childhood; an event that caused him to turn to memorizing the Quran with complete peace of mind.
Muhammad Abdul Aziz Hissan memorized the Quran in a short period of time, before the age of seven, and learned the seven recitations of the Quran.
He also memorized the Shatibiyyah (a book of recitation and Tajweed) in two years, so that he soon became a scholar of the rules of Tajweed and recitation.
He benefited from the presence of a number of scholars and his talent in Sawt (voice) soon showed itself, so that lovers of the Quran gave him many titles, including "Qari Faqih" (the wise reciter) and "Qari Nasr" (the reciter of victory).
This qari was a master of Waqf and Ibtida, voice and tone, and his recitations were accurate in delivering and illustrating the meanings of the Quran in an impressive and unique way.
In 1964, after passing the Qaris Committee exam, he joined the Egyptian Radio, where his voice became a prominent voice in radio recitations, especially in the morning Quran recitations and Friday prayers, and was widely received inside and outside Egypt.
Sheikh Hissan participated in the revival of Quranic circles inside and outside Egypt, especially in the Persian Gulf countries, and received many awards and letters of appreciation, including the letter of appreciation from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
This late reciter had a unique vocal style in voice and tone, and left behind hundreds of recorded recitations that are still played to this day for those interested, as evidence of his high talent in reciting the Quran.
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One day, Sheikh Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husari, another prominent Egyptian reciter, said to Hissan: “O Sheikh Muhammad! You have a great future because with your humility and power of imagery in reciting the Quran, you shake me from within, and your voice directly affects the heart.”
Sheikh Hisan became the reciter of the Ahmadi Mosque in Tanta in 1980, on the orders of Anwar Sadat, the then president of Egypt, and was the only reciter in the history of Egyptian radio and television who recited the morning and Friday Qurans on Egyptian radio in two different cities in 1985.
The Egyptian Awqaf ministry, commemorating the anniversary of the death of this Egyptian reciter, emphasized that this day is commemorated in order to preserve the life path of one of the figures of recitation who served the Book of God through teaching, recitation, and good conduct. “We ask God Almighty to grant him great mercy and to include what he did in his good deeds,” it said in a statement.
On the evening of the day of Sheikh Hissan’s death, his wife also died and they went to the other world together on the same day. He left a great legacy of more than 10,000 hours of Quran recitation for the Egyptian Radio.
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