His mother died from labor complications three days after giving birth to him – something that made people around him believe that he brought bad luck.

Hafez also worked with Egyptian poet Mohamed Hamza on songs including Zay el Hawa ("It feels like love"), Sawah ("Wanderer"), Hawel Teftekerni ("Try to remember me"), Aye Damiet Hozn ("Any tear of sadness"), and Maw'ood ("Destined").

[23] His way of singing, the popularity of his songs and his behavior made him a role model for almost every modern singer in the entire region.

[22] At the age of 11, Abdel Halim contracted schistosomiasis[1]—a rare parasitic waterborne disease[10]—and was afflicted by it for most of his career.

He knew about this disease for the first time in 1956 when he was invited to have dinner with his friend Mustafa Al-Areef during the Holy month of Ramadan by where he had stomach bleeding.

[citation needed] Abdel Halim died of liver failure as a complication from Schistosoma mansoni (reference St. George's University School of Medicine)[citation needed] on 30 March 1977 (a few months before his 48th birthday) while undergoing treatment for Bilharzia in King's College Hospital, London.

Abdel Halim Hafez's song "Khosara" (Arabic: خسارة) received notice in the Western world in 1999 when elements from it were used for Jay-Z's recording "Big Pimpin'."

Two complete bars from "Khosara" were rerecorded, not sampled, and used without permission from the song's producer and copyright holder, Magdi el-Amroussi.

[30] Over 300 of Abdel Halim Hafez's songs were recorded and he starred in 16 classic and successful films, including Dalilah (دليله), which was the Middle East's first color motion picture.

as a subsidiary of Mazzika A feature film about his life, "Haleem", was released in 2006, starring Ahmad Zaki in the title role, produced by the Good News Group.

[31] In the same year a soap opera "Al-andaleeb hikayt shaab"[32] was produced in Egypt with Shadi Shamel starring as Abdel Halim.

[34] On 19 April 2019, Lebanese singer Carole Samaha performed alongside a Pepper's ghost image of Abdel Halim Hafez at the Manara Hall in New Cairo.

[35] Some of Halim's most popular songs are:[36] All of theses religious invocations were written by the poet Abdel-Fattah Mustafa, and composed by Muhammad Al-Mouji.