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June 19, 2020

Al-Albaani’s Modesty | Crying when Praised

Al-Albaani: Who did you say is with you? I can hear him, tafaddal, … [doing dhikr] Lā ilāha illallāh, Lā ilāha illallāh …

Questioner: I was talking about how the problem in what a person is told is actually from the people telling him about it [a phrase taken from a line of poetry showing how people can relay things contrary to reality], so we’d heard about many scholars, many students of knowledge, but when we met them, and sat with them, they turned out to be less than what we’d heard—except for you, O Shaikh.

Al-Albaani: [trying to deny what he’s saying] ʿAfwan …

Questioner: When we met you, and Allaah is a witness to what I am saying …

Al-Albaani: Allaahu Akbar …

Questioner: … you turned out to be way above what we expected, and …

Al-Albaani: O Allaah forgive what they don’t know about me!

Questioner: … and that is Allaah’s Grace on you.

Al-Albaani: I swear an oath that you are mistaken!

Questioner: Allāhul-Mustaʿān. You taught us to say, O Shaikh, ‘O Allaah make me …

Al-Albaani: Yes

Questioner: … better than what they think of me, and forgive what they don’t know about me.’

Al-Albaani: … and forgive what they don’t know about me. That is what I always say. Lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā billāh. You know some of the narrations from some of the Salaf, maybe you know them better than me, but maybe I can relate the meaning to you—if you knew what I was really like you wouldn’t go along with me, Allāhul-Mustaʿān, Allāhul-Mustaʿān.

June 16, 2020

The Shaikh’s Library Section at the Islamic University of Madinah

Before he passed away, Shaikh al-Albaani, may Allaah have mercy on him, wrote in his will that he wanted to bequeath his entire library to the Islamic University of Madīnah, here is a video showing his section at the library there. At the entrance they show his handwritten will. The narrator, who is in charge of the library, says the university has a team which indexed it all, made copies of the manuscripts and organised them, they also copied all of his books which have his annotations, notes and explanations written on them to make available for viewing.

A link to his will here, at the bottom is a link to a translation.

June 6, 2020

“Where is Allaah?” We Didn’t Innovate this Question. The Prophet ﷺ Established it for Us

Al-Albaani: … so as you saw with me the reality is that the entire ḥadīth [we were talking about] is knowledge, from the start to the end, it is all fiqh, and this is what is meant by his ﷺ well-known saying, “Whoever Allaah wishes to grant good, He gives him understanding of the religion.” Understanding in the religion is understanding Allaah’s Book and His Messenger’s Sunnah ﷺ. So he ﷺ said to Muʿāwiyah, “Bring her,” so when she came he ﷺ asked her, “Where is Allaah?”

Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ is the one who established this Sunnah for us to ask, “Where is Allaah?” We did not innovate this question of our own accord, we are following Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ when we ask someone, “Where is Allaah?”

“So the slave-girl replied, ‘Above the Heavens.’”

“Where is Allaah?” the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ is the questioner.

“Where is Allaah?” She replied, “Above the Heavens.” He ﷺ said to her, “Who am I?” She said, “You are Allaah’s Messenger.” So then he ﷺ said to her owner, “Free her for she is a believer,” “Free her for she is a believer.”

There ends the ḥadīth of Muʿāwiyah ibn al-Ḥakam as-Sulamī which the Imāms, the Imāms of ḥadīth reported: Imām Muslim in his Ṣaḥīḥ, Imām Mālik in his Muwaṭṭaʾ, Imām Aḥmad in his Musnad, Imām Abū Dāwūd, his student, in his Sunan—count whichever books of the Sunnah you want, all of them reported this story, this authentic ḥadīth, and Imām ash-Shāfiʿī may Allaah be pleased with him used it as proof as did others and all the Ummah accepted it, some rulings were derived from it which we alluded to earlier when commenting on this authentic ḥadīth …

Fatāwā ʿibar al-Hātif was-Sayyārah, no. 10.

Month: June, 2020