
A cewar Sadi Al-Balad, 11 ga Nuwamba, wanda ya yi daidai da cika shekaru 20 da rasuwar Sheikh Abdel Fattah Shasha'i, ɗaya daga cikin manyan mawakan Alƙur'ani a Masar kuma mai murya mai daɗi wanda aka sassaka sunansa a tsakiyar duniyar Musulunci.
An haifi Sheikh Shasha'i a ranar 21 ga Maris, 1890 a ƙauyen Shasha a cikin Gundumar Menoufia ta Masar. Ya haddace Alƙur'ani Mai Tsarki a gaban mahaifinsa, Sheikh Mahmoud Shasha'i, kafin ya kai shekara 10 kuma ya kammala haddace Littafin Allah a 1900.
Sannan ya yi tafiya zuwa Tanta don yin karatu a Masallacin Ahmadi kuma ya koyi ƙa'idodin Tajweed ta hanyar gargajiya. Ya koyi karatun Alqur'ani a ƙarƙashin kulawar manyan malamai kamar Sheikh Bayoumi da Sheikh Ali Sabie, kuma ya zauna a yankin "Jan Street" na Alƙahira.
A can ne tauraruwar nasararsa ta fara haskakawa kuma ya shahara a tsakanin manyan masu karatu kamar Sheikh Muhammad Rifaat, Sheikh Ali Mahmoud da Sheikh Ahmad Nada. Shahararren shaharar Sheikh Shasha'i ya fara ne a daren ƙarshe na bikin haihuwar Imam Hussein (AS) lokacin da yake karantawa tare da shahararrun masu karatu.
Kowa ya yi mamakin daɗin muryarsa da tawali'un da ke cikin aikinsa. Sai sunansa ya haskaka a duniyar karatun Alqur'ani kuma sautinsa ya yi tasiri a ko'ina cikin duniyar Larabawa da Musulunci. An bambanta shi da salonsa mai ban mamaki wanda ya haɗa tawali'u da ƙwarewa a cikin karatu, kuma saboda wannan dalili aka yi masa lakabi da "ginshiƙin fasahar karatu".
Da farko Shasha'i ya kafa ƙungiya don tawashih na addini (ibtahāl), sannan, a cikin 1930, bayan ya kamu da cutar makogwaro, ya yanke shawarar sadaukar da kansa gaba ɗaya ga karatun Alqur'ani Mai Tsarki kuma ya daina tawashih har abada. Duk da haka, ya kasance mai biyayya ga abokansa a cikin ƙungiyar kuma yana biyan su albashin wata-wata har zuwa mutuwarsu.
Sheikh Shasha'i ya ƙi yin karatu a cikin makirufo, yana ganin haramun ne, har sai da aka bayar da fatawa a shekarar 1934 da ta ba da damar hakan, bayan haka ya shiga Gidan Rediyon Masar. Shasha'i ya zama mai karanta rediyo na biyu bayan Sheikh Muhammad Rifaat, yana samun albashin shekara-shekara na fam 500 na Masar.
Ya yi rikodin sama da karatun da ba za a manta da su ba a rediyo, waɗanda har yanzu ana watsa su a wannan hanyar.
Ya yi tafiya a wajen Masar kuma shi ne mutum na farko da ya karanta Alƙur'ani Mai Tsarki daga lasifika na Babban Masallacin Makka, Masallacin Annabi da ke Madina, da kuma a Ranar Arafah a 1948. Ya kuma yi tafiya zuwa Iraki a 1954, yana maimaita wannan tafiya a 1958 da 1961, yana karanta Alƙur'ani a cikin manyan majami'un Musulunci a can.
Shasha'i ya sami kyaututtuka da dama daga Ma'aikatar Kula da Ayyukan Al'adu ta Masar domin yaba masa kan ayyukansa na Alqur'ani, kuma a shekarar 1990, an ba shi lambar yabo ta farko ta Kimiyya da Fasaha saboda karatunsa na Alqur'ani.