In 1944, Al-Hussary won Egypt Radio's Qu'ran Recitation competition which had around 200 participants, including veterans like Muhammad Rifat.

[5] The quadrumvirate of El Minshawy, Abdul Basit, Mustafa Ismail, and Al-Hussary are generally considered the most important and famous qurrāʾ of modern times to have had an outsized impact on the Islamic world.

[11][10] He moved to Cairo and joined Egypt's official Qur'an radio station as a reciter making his first appearance on February 16, 1944.

[5] In 1960, he led the department of al-Ḥadīth bi-Jāmiʿ al-Buḥūth al-ʾIslāmiyya (Arabic: الْحَدِيث بِجَامِع الْبُحُوث الْإِسْلَامِيَّة) for correcting Qur'anic codexes present in the al-Azhar libraries.

[5] Al-Hussary authored 12 books on Qur'anic sciences in a bid to end corruption of both the text and the recitation styles.

[5][10] In 1944, Al-Hussary won Egypt Radio's Qu'ran Recitation competition[10] which had around 200 participants, among them some veterans like Muhammad Rifat, Ali Mahmud, and Abd Al-Fattah Ash-Sha'sha'i.

Al Hussary was a strong proponent of preserving the qiraat art-form in its original scheme (tarteel) and was publicly apprehensive of innovation in recital delivery techniques.

However, "chanted" restitution borrows passages of introversion by an envelope of jollity; the tarteel is more difficult because it reveals faithfully the meaning.

I have descoverd in him an excellent recitor who observes God with a huge fear in his recitation by following the methodology of our pious precursors in the reading of Allah’s Book, and never moved aside from it.

His recitation fulfils the hearts with peace, security and calmness, and opens to his audience the gates of faith.He died of liver failure[11] on 24 November 1980 during a trip to Kuwait.

'The Chief of Qur'an Reciters') starring Hassan Youssef was created by Dr. Bahaa El-Din Ibrahim and directed by Mustafa Al-Shall,[17] with backing from Hussary's children, Mohammed Al-Hussary and Yasmine Al-Khayam.

[5][10][19]: 155  In his will, he left the expenses for the mosque he had built in Tanta, as well as for the three Islamic institutes and a center dedicated to Qur'an memorization, Maʿhad al-ʾAzhar (Arabic: معهد الأزهر, lit.

[25] The mosque rather remarkably hosts sermons from contrarians such as Amr Khaled[26] as well as orthodox clergy of Al-Azhar,[19]: 155  and government ministers.