He is the honorable and guiding Shaikh Abu Al-‘Alaa’ Muhammad ibn Husain ibn Ya’qoob As-Salafi Al-Misri. He was born in 1375 AH (1956 AD) in Al-Mu’tamidiyyah village, Imbabah, Giza, Egypt. He received a diploma in teaching in 1967, and married before being twenty years old. Afterwards, he traveled and lived in Saudi Arabia from 1401 to 1405 AH on which was his real beginning to seek the religious knowledge. He returned to Egypt but he, afterwards, traveled to Saudi Arabia occasionally to work and seek knowledge. His last visiting to Saudi Arabia for learning was in 1411 AH for a year where he was moving between Riyaad and Al-Qaseem.