27 Facts About Muhaysini

Abdullah al-Muhaysini, is a Saudi Arabian Salafi cleric who is known for having served as a religious judge in the Army of Conquest in the Syrian Civil War.

Muhaysini was born in the city of Buraidah, al-Qasim, to a known religious family.

Muhaysini's father Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Mohaisany is a known Quran reciter and has served as the imam and preacher of a local mosque in Mecca.

Muhaysini has at least once been arrested by government authorities for his public prayers.

Abdullah al-Muhaysini arrived in Syria in 2013 after his uncle Omar Al-Muhaysini had previously died there fighting the Syrian Arab Army.

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In late 2013, Muhaysini posted his support for the then-active Madid Ahl al-Sham campaign on Twitter while identifying one of the fundraiser's organizers, Sa'd bin Sa'd Muhammad Shariyan Al Ka'bi, and its location in Qatar.

In early 2014 Muhaysini served as a mediator, this time between ISIS and its rival jihadist groups, Al Nusra and Ahrar al Sham.

Muhaysini tried to effect a truce between Islamist factions, which was rejected by ISIS.

In 2014, Muhaysini endorsed scholars of the pro-jihad movement like Al-Balawi, Eyad Quneibi, Tareq Abdulhalim, Hani al-Siba'i, Yusuf al-Ahmed, Abdulaziz al-Tureifi, Suleiman al-Ulwan, Abu Qatada al-Filistini, and Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi.

Muhaysini arranged for foreign fighters of multiple backgrounds to repeat the phrase "The Levant is the graveyard of the Russians", in a video message, among them was a fighter claiming to be from "East Turkestan", according to MEMRI.

Muhaysini declared that in Syria, women's participation in some theaters and jihad in general was obligatory after the Russian intervention.

In early 2016, Muhaysini denounced the starvation of Sunnis in besieged Madaya, claiming that the starvation would cause the deaths of 40,000 Muslims there.

Muhaysini publicly fundraised for the 2016 offensive to break the Siege of Aleppo from donors in Qatar and other Persian Gulf states.

In 2016, Muhaysini thanked donors for providing rockets to fighters in Syria.

In November 2016, Muhaysini tweeted a positive outlook on Trump's election victory for Sunni Muslims.

Muhaysini said in a video that Muslims would benefit from open hostility towards them by Trump.

Muhaysini was listed for sanctions by the US Treasury in November 2016.

Muhaysini posted a video replying to the terrorist designation by the USA.

In October 2016, Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak interviewed Muhaysini, praising Turkey for its role in Syria and denouncing Iran.

Al-Muhaysini has close relations with the Turkistan Islamic Party.

Muhaysini was featured, along with Hani al Siba'ee, Abu Qatada, and Abdurazak al Mahdi in a Turkistan Islamic Party video in August 2015.

Muhaysini urged the "Turkistani Musims" to raise their children to love death like "infidels" love life.

In 2016, Muhaysini visited Turkistan Islamic Party fighters before the battle and performed dua.

In 2015, Muhaysini reportedly vowed to exterminate Alawite men and wrote that Alawite women could potentially be executed as apostates.

Muhaysini launched 100 Elephant rockets against Aleppo at the beginning of the attempt to break the siege and thanked Persian Gulf businessmen and Turkey for funding the rockets.

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In late 2016, Muhaysini released a video of himself congratulating a Saudi boy from Buraidah he was going to send off to be a suicide bomber, telling his mother that he would go to paradise and be rewarded with virgins, according to MEMRI.

The Saudi newspaper Okaz denounced Muhaysini for sending off the Saudi boy as a suicide bomber in Aleppo after promising him virgins in the afterlife.