Gwamnatin Masarautar Saudiyya ta naɗa Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan Al-Fawzan a matsayin sabon Babban Mufti na Ƙasa, bayan rasuwar Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, wanda ya riƙe wannan muƙami tun daga shekarar 1999.
Naɗin ya biyo bayan wata sanarwa da aka fitar ta Umarnin Sarki daga Sarki Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, wanda ya tabbatar da tursasawa Sheikh Al-Fawzan zuwa wannan matsayi mai girma a tsarin addini na ƙasar.
Sheikh Al-Fawzan sananne ne a matsayin babban malami a Majalisar Manyan Malamai da kuma Kwamitin Dindindin na Binciken Addini da Fatawa. Ana ɗaukarsa a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin fitattun malaman da suka kware a fannin fiƙihu da koyar da shari’ar Musulunci.
Naɗin nasa ya zama muhimmin ci gaba ga harkokin addini a Saudiyya, domin Sheikh Al-Fawzan yana da gagarumar girmamawa a tsakanin al’ummar Musulmi saboda tsattsauran ra’ayinsa kan bin tafarkin Shari’a da kuma tsantsar aƙidar Wahhabiyya.
Masana suna ganin wannan mataki na gwamnati zai taimaka wajen tabbatar da dawwamammen jagoranci a fagen addini, da kuma ci gaba da kare tsarin koyarwar addini na gargajiya da Saudiyya ta dogara da shi.