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Tag: Shaikh Muhammad ʿUzair Shams

Shaikh al-Albaani and Shaikh ʿUzair and Manuscripts


Shaikh ʿUzair would undertake the huge task of indexing manuscripts. He did so at the library of the Islamic University in Medinah over three years, and he said, “During work on the indexing there I met Shaikh al-Albaani, raḥimahullāh. He would come to the library to copy from the manuscripts and people would crowd around him wanting to speak to him while he was busy copying, so they would give him salām and he would reply and then go back to copying. I was amazed at his dedication to copying out from the manuscripts.”

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Shaikh Muhammad ʿUzair Shams Has Passed Away


Shaikhul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah’s handwriting in his manuscripts is notoriously difficult to read, he used to write very quickly, the world’s greatest expert in his handwriting and manuscripts in the present day has passed away, Shaikh Muhammad ʿUzair Shams. A few weeks ago I sent out a link to all of Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim’s books in PDF format, he was one of the Shaikhs whose name can be seen on many of the covers. He was 65 years old and from India. Here is a dars he did.

Surely to Allah we belong and to Him we will all return. May Allaah have mercy on him and grant him al-Firdaws.

Allaahul-Mustaʿān, this is truly a sad day.