Shaykh Muḥammad Yaseen al-Shāfiʿī began his studies at an early age with senior scholars such as Shaykh Seraj Hendricks and Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ninowy. He holds a bachelor’s in Governance, Journalism, and Arabic from the University of Cape Town. He is currently at al-Azhar where he has studied under experts at such as Shaykh ʿAlī Ṣāliḥ al-Azharī, Shaykh Faozi Konate, and Shaykh Ashraf Saʿd al-Azharī. He is continuing advanced studies at al-Azhar with specialization in Arabic, Fiqh Shāfiʿī, and Uṣūl al-Fiqh.
In Fiqh Shāfiʿī, he has studied the Ḥaḍramī Shāfiʿī tradition under Sayyid Aḥmad al-Kāf and Sayyid ʿAbdallāh al-Jifrī. He also holds ijāzah khāṣṣah to teach books in the Shāfiʿī school from Ḥabīb ʿUmar bin Ḥafīẓ. He has also studied most of the Azharī and Ḥijāzī Shāfiʿī traditions.