Sh Abdullah ibn Salih al-Ubayd was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and comes from a well-known family. The shaykh developed a love for seeking knowledge from a young age. The shaykh graduated from Muhammad ibn Sa’ud Islamic University and received his PhD from San’a University in Yemen. He worked for the Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia until his retirement.
The Shaykh studied with many scholars in Saudi Arabia, as well as having travelled extensively to many different lands to study with scholars the world over. The shaykh holds the shortest ijazah in all of the 10 qira’at of the Qur’an, and has ijazahs in literally hundreds of the works of the Salaf in all the various Islamic sciences. The shaykh studied in Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, India and many other countries.