A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, “Very soon will people beat the flanks of camels in search of knowledge, and they shall find no-one more knowledgeable than the knowledgeable scholar of Madina.”  This is recorded in Sunan at-Tirmidzi as hasan swahih .  Imam Abu ‘Isa Muhammad ibn ‘Isa as-Sulami at-Tirmidzi ( r.a. ), Qadhi Abu al-Fadhl ‘Iyadh ibn ‘Amr ( r.a. ), Imam Shams ad-Din Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad adz-Dzahabi ( r.a. ), and others related from Imam Abu Muhammad Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah ( r.a. ), Imam ‘Abd ar-Razzaq ibn Hammam asw-Swan’ani ( r.a. ), Imam ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn Mahdi ( r.a. ), Imam Yahya ibn Ma’in ( r.a. ), Shaykh Dzu’ayb ibn ‘Imamah ( r.a. ), Imam Abu al-Hasan ʻAli ibn ʻAbdullah ibn al-Madini ( r.a. ), and others, that they considered that scholar to be Imam  Abu ‘Abdullah  Malik ibn Anas ( r.a. ).

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ In his introduction to Imam ‘Abd ar-Razzaq ibn Hammam asw-Swan’ani’s ( r.a. ) Raf` al-Asthar , the Wahhabi heretic, Muhammad Naswir ad-Din al-Albani, expressed hatred for those who read Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sa’id al-Buswiri ash-Shadzili’s ( q.s. ) masterpiece, Qaswidah al-Burdah , and called them “ mahabil ”, “cretins”.  This would encompass millions of Muslims past and present, including the likes of Imam Shihab ad-Din Abu al-Fadhl Ahmad ibn ‘Ali ibn Hajr al-‘Asqalani ( r.a. ), Imam Shams ad-Din Muhammad ibn ‘Abd ar-Rahman as-Sakhawi ( r.a. ), and Imam Abu al-Fadhl ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuthi ( q.s. ), who all included it as required reading in the Islamic curriculum.