A rahoton Sadal Balad, a ranar Juma’a 13 ga watan Shahrivar ta kasance shekara ta 42 da rasuwar Sheikh Mahmoud Abdul Hakam, daya daga cikin manyan makaratun kasar Masar, kuma daya daga cikin wadanda suka kafa kungiyar masu karatu ta Masar. Sheikh Mahmoud Abdul Hakam na daya daga cikin mashahuran malamai masu karatun kur'ani mai tsarki kuma ma'ajin kungiyar karatun kur'ani ta farko a kasar Masar.
An haifi Sheikh Mahmoud Ahmad Abd al-Hakam a ranar Litinin 1 ga Fabrairu, 1915 a wani shahararren kauyen Karnak da ke lardin Qena a Upper Masar.
Tun yana yaro ya fara karatun kur'ani mai tsarki a makarantar kur'ani ta garinsu, bayan wani lokaci mahaifinsa ya tura shi makarantar Ahmadi da ke Tanta.
Kafin ya tashi zuwa Azhar ya koyi tajwidi da karatun a wannan cibiya, sannan ya tafi Azhar, inda ya koyi ilmin alqur'ani da tilawa, ya kuma koyi darasin karatu daga manyan malamai na zamaninsa. Sannu kadan kadan sai shahararsa ta karu har sai da daukakar karatunsa ya kai yankuna daban-daban na kasar Masar da sauran kasashen Larabawa da Musulunci.
A shekara ta 1940 Sheikh Mahmoud Abdul Hakam ya kafa kungiyar masu karatun kur'ani ta farko tare da wasu daga cikin fitattun malaman karatun kur'ani mai tsarki, wato Sheikh Muhammad Rafat, Sheikh Ali Mahmoud da Sheikh Al-Saifi, kuma aka zabe shi a matsayin ma'ajin farko na wannan kungiya.
Sheikh Abdul Hakam, a lokacin rayuwarsa, hukumomin Masar ba su yi masa godiya sosai ba, amma daga karshe a daren Lailatul Qadri na shekara ta 1412H daidai da 30 ga Maris, 1992, Hosni Mubarak, tsohon shugaban Masar, ya ba da lambar yabo ta farko. na kimiyya da fasaha daga wannan babban mai karatu wanda a cikin shekaru 10 da rasuwarsa, ya yi bikin.
Sheikh Mahmoud Abdul Hakam ya kasance abin koyi na kokarin karatun Alqur'ani. A tsawon shekaru kusan 37 da ya shafe yana aiki a cikin shekarun (1982-1945) ya karanta kur'ani mai tsarki a kasar Masar da sauran kasashen duniya tare da kafa sunansa a matsayin babban makaranci a cikin manya-manyan makaratun kasar Masar.