Mohammad Al-Hasan Al-Dido

Muhammād Al-Hasān bin Al-Deddew Al-Shanqītī (محمد الحسن بن الددو الشنقيطي) born 31 October 1963 in Boutilimit, is a Mauritanian Muslim scholar, author, writer, and poet. He is the President of O'lama Information center, and the President of 'Abdallah ibn Yasin University. He is also head of the country's Center for the Development of Scholars. In 2014 he was the Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, and he is still a member of it.

Early life and studies
He was raised in an academic family. His grandfather was Muhammad 'Ali bin Abd-Alwadud, who was a Muslim scholar and his first tutor. He stayed close to him until his death in 1982.

He started studying and memorizing the Quran when he was 5 years old with his parents, and finished the memorization of the whole Quran before he reached 10 years of age. He studied the Ten qira'at of Quran with his mother, then he learned the Hadith.

Hadith studies
He has licenses in Hadith from various Islamic scholars in different countries, authorizing him to teach Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan ibn Majah, Sunan Abu Dawood, Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Al-Sunan al-Sughra, Muwatta Imam Malik and Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain, and the Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Sunan al-Darimi, As-Sunan al-Kubra and Sunan al-Daraqutni.

In Palestine (Gaza)
He came to Gaza in December 2012, and gave a speech and spoke on behalf of the scholars of the Islamic nation on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). The festival was attended at that time by the movement’s senior leaders and its political leader at that time Khaled Meshaal.

In Media
He has many important interviews on Al Jazeera Arabic TV, and Al resallah Channel, and Kaaf channel, and many other TV channels.