MADINA: The winners of the sixth Naif Competition for Hadith Memorization in Madina will be announced next Tuesday (May 23) by Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Second Deputy Premier, Minister of Interior, and President of the Higher Board of the Naif Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud International Prize for the Prophet's Sunnah and Contemporary Islamic Studies. Sa'ed Al-Orabi Al-Harithy, Adviser to Prince Naif and Secretary General of the Prize, said the success of the contest has been due to Prince Naif's support and encouragement of the youth to memorize the Hadith of the Prophet (peace be upon him). A major aim of the prize is for students to apply the teaching of the Prophet (pbuh) in their daily lives. The first level of the competition is for primary school pupils to memorize 100 Ahadith. The second level is for intermediate school students and involves 250 Ahadith. The third is for secondary school pupils and involves memorizing 500 Ahadith. The first five winners of the first, second and third levels get SR116,000, SR200,000 and SR300,000 respectively. There are 48,077 participating boy and girl students. A total of 78 pupils – 39 boys and 39 girls – will qualify for the final part of the competition. The winners will be chosen from this group.
