Muhammad Naswir ad-Din al-Albani’s Hatred of the ‘Ulama
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The Wahhabi heretic, Muhammad Naswir ad-Din al-Albani, gave free rein to his propensity to insult and vilify the ‘ulama of the past as well as his contemporaries. For example, he considered previous editors and commentators of Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma’il al-Bukhari’s ( r.a. ) al-Adab al-Mufrad , “Book of Manners,” “sinful”, “unbearably ignorant”, and even, “liars” and “thieves.” Of one, he said, “There are so many weak hadits that it is an un-Islamic practice”; of another, “It is ignorance which must not be tolerated”; of another, “Forgery and an open lie”, and continued, “His edition is stolen”, meaning stolen from a previous one. All this from the introduction of his Swahih al-Adab al-Mufrad . Such examples actually fill a book compiled by Sayyid Hasan ibn ‘Ali as-Saqqaf ( r.a. ) and titled Qamus Shata’im al-Albani wa al-Fazhihi al-Munkarat allati Yatluquha ‘ala ‘Ulama’ al-Ummah , “Dictionary of a...