he then moved to damascus where he studied for about  years under many islamic scholars such as shaykh abd al-fattah abu ghudda imam muhammad zahid al-kawthari dr nur al-din `itr shaykh adib kallas shaykh wahbi al-ghawji shaykh muhammad al-yaqoubi dr samer al-nass dr wahba zuhayli shaykh abd al-hadi kharsa shaykh muhammad muti al-hafiz shaykh bassam al-hamzawi and shaykh munir al-hayek he began is studies of hadith with imam al-dhahabi’s siyar a`lam al-nubala during his time in damascus haddad continued to meet shaykh muhammad nazim al-haqqani at his home in cyprus as well as in damascus in mecca he studied under shaykh dr muhammad alawi al-maliki in morocco he studied under sidi mustafa bassir and in beirut he studied under shaykh husayn usayran the last of the close students of qadi shaykh yusuf al-nabhani