Rabee al-Madkhali

Rabeeʿ bin Hādī ʿUmayr al-Madkhalī (Arabic: ربيع بن هادي عمير المدخلي; born 1933) is a Saudi Muslim scholar. He was formerly a professor at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he headed the Sunnah Studies Department. He was most active in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was praised by fellow Salafi scholars al-Uthaymin and Ibn Baz. Another Salafi scholar called al-Albani also praised him and described him as the leader of criticism and praise (Arabic: إمام الجرح والتعديل, romanized: Imam al-Jarḥ wal-Tad’īl), although he himself later rejected the title. He is reverentially known as ash-Shaykh al-Allāmah among his Salafi followers, and Shaykh Dr. Khalid al-Dhafiri has described him as a Mujaddid.