Shaikh Ali ibn Abd al-Raḥman al-Ḥudhaify (or al-Ḥudhayfah; born 22 May 1928) is a Saudi-born imam and khateeb of the Great Mosque of Madina, and a former Imam of Quba Mosque. He was a lecturer of Islamic jurisprudence and tawheed at the Islamic University of Madinah. His style of reciting the Qur’an in a slow, deep tune is widely recognised. Alī al-Ḥudhayfī grew up in a religious family. His father, Muḥammad Abdullāh al-Ḥudhayfī, was a scholar and an imam in the Saudi Arabian Army. He received his early education from the knowledgeable in his village and he completed to memorising Quran by learning at the hand of Shaykh Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al-Hudhaify. He also studied many texts in various forensic science. In 1961 he joined a school, after that he joined in the Scientific Institute, and finally he entered the Shari‘a Faculty of Riyadh. In 1972 he graduated in Bachelor of Laws from the Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University. In 1975 he received a master’s degree in Islamic law from Al-Azhar University, and then he took his doctorate from the same university. He was an imam and Khateeb of Quba Mosque during 1978. In 1979 he became an imam of Al-Masjid al-Nabawi. In 1981, during the month of Ramadan, he was appointed as imam for the Tarawih prayers in Masjid al-Haram and then he went back to Great Mosque of Madina where he continues to lead salat.

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