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Ayyūb Essack, full name Ayyūb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān Ishāq, was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in 1381 A.H./1961 C.E. Qāri Ayyūb’s initial studies in Qurʾānic recital, fiqh, ʿaqīdah, amongst other Islamic sciences, were completed under the auspices of Sheikh Muhammad Yūsuf Mulla. It was also at his hands that, at the age of fourteen, he memorized the Qurʾān. During this time, he completed his tertiary education. Thereafter, he spent a year with Sheikh Ismāʿīl Katrada revising the Qurʾān. In 1978 C.E., he enrolled at Dār al-ʿUlūm Falāh al-Dārayn in Gujarat, India. Here, he gained proficiency in the Arabic language, fiqh, tafsīr, hadith, philosophy, and other sciences. Under the expert tutelage of Qāri Anīs Ahmad Khān at this madrasah, he studied tajwīd and qirāʾāt. The books studied by him comprise Urdu as well as Arabic works. They include Miftāḥ al-Qurʾān, Fawāʾid Makkiyyah, Khulāsah al-Bayān, the Muqaddimah al-Jazariyyah, and al-Fawāʾid al-Tajwīdiyyah. Some of these books of tajwīd he also read and studied with Sheikh Muhammad ʿAbbās Dharamfūri. To both Qāri Anīs Ahmad and Sheikh ʿAbbās, he read the Qurʾān in the narration of Ḥafṣ via the Shāṭibiyyah. Subsequently, he completed the study of the Shāṭibiyyah, the Durrah, and the Ṭayyibah, as well as reading the Qurʾān combining all the qirāʾāt contained in these works to Qāri Anīs Ahmad Khan. He also read all the works of Qāri Anīs Ahmad in tajwīd and qirāʾāt. **Teachers:** – Qāri Anīs Ahmad Khan – He read to him the seven qirāʾāt via the Shāṭibiyyah, and the ten qirāʾāt via the Durrah and the Ṭayyibah. He also read many books to him including Nihāyah al-Qawl al-Mufīd of Makkī Naṣr Juraysī, Ghayth al-Nafʿ of Ṣafāqusī, Ithāf Fuḍalāʾ al-Bashar of Aḥmad al-Bannāʾ, the ʿAqīlah of Imām Shāṭibī, al-Nashr of Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Wujūh al-Musfarrah of Mutawallī and many others. Qāri Ayyūb spent eight years under the skilled training of Qāri Anīs, receiving ijāzah in these qirāʾāt, his written works, and