Sheikh Abdel-bassit ben Mohammed ben Salim ben Abdul-Samad is a great reciter of the Koran, Abdel-bassit was born in 1927 in a village located in the south of Egypt. His father Sheikh Mohammed Abdessamad was also a great reciter of the Koran in his village.

Abdel-basset Abdel-samad learned the Koran through the Sheikh of the Koranic school and the Sheikh Mohammed El Amir.

Abdel-bassit Abdel-samad completed the learning of the Koran at the age of 10.
Abdel-bassit Abdel-samad was appointed as the reciter of the Imam Shafi mosque.

In 1985 Abdel-bassit was the imam of the Imam El-husssei mosque.
In 1984 Abdel-bassit Abdel-samad was the first president of the Egyptian reciters' union.
Cheikh Abdel-bassit died on November 30, 1988.