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Mohammad Al Subail: what Wikipedia removed

Mohammad Al Subail was the imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca. The October 6, 2023 opening said, “He is one of the hostages who survived the incident of the Juhayman armed group storming the Great Mosque of Mecca.” Today the word hostage appears nowhere in the article, and the opening covers only his scholarly career. A reader today does not learn that he was taken hostage during the 1979 armed seizure of the Grand Mosque of Mecca.

The word “hostage” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • His name’s transliteration was updated from ‘Al-Sabil’ to ‘Al-Sebail.’
  • The account of him being taken hostage during the Juhayman group’s 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque of Mecca was removed from the opening entirely.

How it opened then, and now

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6 October 2023 (revision 1160122715):

Saudi imam and preacher (1924–2012) Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Sabil (1924 - 17 December 2012), was born in the city of Bukayriyah in the Al-Qassim Province . He was the imam and preacher of the Masjid al-Haram for forty-four years in general, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, and a member of the Islamic Fiqh Assembly, and the head of the Al-Masjid al-Haram and Masjid al-Nabawi affairs, and the head of the Al-Haram Committee in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . He is one of the hostages who survived the incident of the Juhayman armed group storming the Great Mosque of Mecca , when the sabil was the imam, led the people in the Fajr prayer . He made more than 100 advocacy trips outside the…

2025 (revision 1281800890):

Saudi imam and preacher (1924–2012) Mohammad bin Abdullah Al-Sebail ( Arabic : محمد بن عبد الله السبيل ; 1924 - 17 December 2012), was born in the city of Al Bukayriyah in the Al-Qassim Province . He was the imam and preacher of the Masjid al-Haram for forty-four years in general, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, and a member of the Islamic Fiqh Assembly, and the President of the affairs of Al-Masjid al-Haram and Masjid al-Nabawi, and the head of the Al-Haram Committee in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . He made more than 100 advocacy trips outside the Kingdom, covering more than 50 countries, and authored 27 books.

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