Ustādhah Bint Abdul Hakim hails from Trinidad and Tobago where she studied the classical Islamic sciences for seven years and graduated from Jaamia Madinatul Uloom in the year 2016. After graduating, she taught Arabic, Fiqh and Tafsīr at her alma mater for three years. She has also pursued high asānīd (chains of narration) and ijāzāt (license to transmit) under the guidance of muḥaddithūn from Morocco, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Madinah and more.