| Religion: | Islam |
| Muhammad AyyubArabic: محمد أيوب | |
| Birth Date: | October 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
| Death Place: | Medina, Saudi Arabia |
| Nationality: | Saudi Arabian |
| Ethnicity: | Burmese |
| Denomination: | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence: | Hanafi school[1] |
| Alma Mater: | Islamic University of Madinah |
| Resting Place: | Al-Baqi Cemetery, Medina |
| Teachers: | Khalil Al-Qari |
Muhammad Ayyub ibn Muhammad Yusuf ibn Sulaiman Umar (ar| محمد أيوب بن محمد يوسف بن سليمان عمر) was a Saudi Islamic scholar, imam, and Qari known for his recitation of the Quran. He was an imam of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi and Masjid al-Quba in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He also worked as a faculty member of the Department of Tafsir in the Faculty of the Holy Qur'an and Islamic Studies at the Islamic University of Madinah and a member of the Scholarly Committee of the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran. He died on 16 April 2016.[2]
Muhammad Ayyub was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in 1952 .[3]
His family, originally from Arakan, Burma, had migrated to Mecca to escape the persecution faced by the Rohingya Muslims. Muhammad Ayyub's father was a poor man, and his childhood was marked by hardship, his elder brother had to work to support the family during his father's imprisonment in Burma.[4]
Muhammad Ayyub completed his memorization of the Quran in 1965 under the guidance of Khalil bin Abd al-Rahman al-Qari in Mecca.[5] During this period he became acquainted with Ali Abdullah Jaber.[6] After finishing his primary education in 1966, he moved to Medina and continued his studies at an Islamic school, graduating in 1972 .[7]
He then enrolled in the Faculty of Sharia at the Islamic University of Madinah, and received a bachelor's degree in 1976 . He then specialized in Tafsir and `Ulum al-Qur'an (Quranic exegesis and sciences of the Quran), obtaining a master's degree from the Faculty of the Holy Qur'an and Islamic Studies. He received a doctorate from the same faculty in the year 1987 or 1988 .[7]
In addition to his formal education, Muhammad Ayyub sought knowledge from various Islamic scholars in Medina, studying subjects including tafsir (Quranic interpretation), fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), hadith and hadith terminology, and usul al-fiqh (the Principles of Islamic jurisprudence).
In 1990 he was appointed as an imam of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi and held this post until 1997 .[8] Later he spent few years as an Imam in Masjid Quba and other mosques. He was appointed back as an Imam of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in 2015 to lead taraweeh prayer.[4] [9]
Muhammad Ayyub was of Burmese descent and followed the Hanafi madh'hab.[10]
He died on 16 April 2016. The Funeral Prayer was held in Prophet's Mosque after Zuhr prayer and he was buried in Baqi Cemetery in Medina.[11]