Biography of Shekh Hassan Shehate , who was killed in this attack.
The Allamah Shekh Hassan Shehate was born in Egypt 1946 in a family flowing the shafiyy doctrine & was brought up in religious environment, he started acquiring the Religious knowledge at a very young age, his father sent him to Quran class when he was four years old, he memorized Quran by heart with tartil (reading correctly with tajwid rules) when he become five years & six month’s old, then he joined Alazhar & studied many field’s of knowledge, he majored in Shafiyy fiqh field & Science of the holy Quran field, he earned Master’s degree in Quran explanation science, He is also an authority in the Fiqh and Usul of the other three doctrine’s : Malikiyy, Hanafiyy & Hanbaliyy.
Sheikh Hassan considered as one of the highest Sunnite learned man's & Quran scholars in the world, Sheikh Hassan start giving Juma preach since he was thirteen year’s old, In 1973 he became a preacher of the Egyptian army beside his other duty’s as Imam of mosque & teacher. He had a weekly program in the Egyptian TV & he has been inviated by many Islamic countrys to preach there & give lessons in the mosques & TV. Sheikh Hassan known as a honest person so he used to fustigate the contradiction’s, mistake’s & myth’s in the Sunnism creed & propagate to mildness & prudence .
Sheikh Hassan conversion to Shiism began in 1994 when he saw prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s) in a real vision in his dream & ordered him to follow Imam Ali (a.s) & he saw Abu baker & Omar in a shape of dog standing far away of prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s) & Imam Ali (a.s) who were standing next to holy prophet, after that vision Sheikh Hassan realized this was a message from the holy prophet(s.a.w.a), so he kept that in his mind & took it seriously & started a deep investigation history, in Sunnism & Shiism creed & comparing the both sides evidences, in 1996 Sheikh Hassan announced that he convert to Shiism & declare the truth through the TV in first if Muharam, after that he challenged Alazhar chief (shekh Dr. Tantawi) & the sunni’s scholars & invite them to a big debate broadcast live through TV to prove for the people the truth & he challenge them too in case if they reject the debate to gather all of them in one place & pray to God to condemn the liars, but the sunnis reject all this challenges & sent Sheikh Hassan to the jail for nine month’s because during that time Shiekh Hassan conversion to shia shocked the Sunnis & lead hundred thousands of Egyptians Sunnis to convert to Shiism & there was no way for the sunnis scholars to prevent & control that fast expand for Shiism creed in Egypt except to keep shekh Hassan away of the people & from media, so after when shekh Hassan get out of the jail they exiled him abroad for some time.
There were many reason’s let's Sheikh Hassan convert to Shiism beside the dream ( vision ) because shekh Hassan from the beginning were disagreed with many sunniest concepts & not really convinced by sunnism creed because of the contradiction & the mistiness in sunnism creed such as there is no authentic source for the hadith's in sunnism creed because most of hadith’s in Sunnism book’s narrate through liars such as abu Hurayra & Abu Hurayra acknowledged by him self that he is a liar [ sahih Albukhari ] & Imam Ali (a.s) announced that Abu Hurayra is the biggest liar [ Nahjul-balagha ] & sahih Albukhari plus the other hadith books narrete hadiths through the enemy's of Ahl albayt (a.s) such as Umran ibn Hatan & narrate through hypocrites such as the jewish rabbi Ka'ab Alahba'ar & the sunnis accept the narration of this people & authenticate it while they reject most of the hadiths which is narreted through Ahl albayt (a.s), other reason was Sunnism tafseer (Explanation of the Quran ) because it’s really contradictive & many verses are mystical for them & cannot find an explanation for it & many verses has been explained wrong on purpose to cover the facts & Shekh Hassan realized that because he were expert in Quran & one of the greatest sunnis scholars, other reason for his conversion is figh because Sunnism fiqh is really contradictive & some time’s it’s against Quran & hadith such as Imam Alshafiyy allows the marriage of a girl who is a prostitute to her father & Imam Malik allowed for the man homosexuality with his slave & Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal allowed for the womans to breast feed adult foreigner mans ( adults breast feeding ) & Imam Abo Hanifa allowed incest….etc, other reason for his conversion where his debates with sunnis scholars, Sheikh Hassan debats with renown Sunni & Salafi scholars around the world such as Skeikh Ibn Uthaimin & Sheikh Sayed Sabiq, plus many scholars ran away of him & rejected to debate him such as Sheikh Abdulaziz Ibn baz & Sheikh Dr. Tantawi, Sheikh Hassan's most renown debate was with the Salafis in Saudia Arabia in Saudis prnice's palace's specially the Saudi crown prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul aziz who become the king of Saudia Arabia recently, Sheikh Hassan has been called lion of Egypt because he never lost in any debate & he always defeat his opponents shortly
Today sheikh Hassan is a renown Shiite scholar in Egypt & he spends most of his time in teaching his students Ahl albayt (a.s) thoughts & propagate to Shiism .