Shaykh Rabee' bin Hadi al-Madkhali said about his teacher Imam Shaykh al-Albani
- Muiz As-Siddeeqi
- Apr 28
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Shaykh Rabee' bin Hadi al-Madkhali said about his teacher Imam Shaykh al-Albani
I came to know this great man (Shaykh al-Albānī) up close through his abundant knowledge and wide-ranging reading, for he taught me and my colleagues at the Islamic University (in Madīnah) for three years. He was among its most distinguished scholars — indeed, he was one of three in the highest rank in knowledge, virtue, and character: they were al-‘Allāmah ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Bāz, Shaykh Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Shanqīṭī, and Shaykh Muḥammad Nāṣir ad-Dīn al-Albānī.
The students of the Islamic University would flock eagerly to Shaykh al-Albānī and his captivating scholarly gatherings, as flies flock to honey, due to the strength of his arguments and the clarity of his evidence. Students from both the university level and the secondary level — as the two schools were adjacent at that time — would gather around him.
In his teaching, he was deliberate, scattering throughout his lessons the principles of Ḥadīth science (‘ilm al-ḥadīth) and the principles of Fiqh (uṣūl al-fiqh) like pearls, which the distinguished students who recognized their value and understood them would memorize. Students of knowledge came to know these principles directly from him and benefited from them before even studying them in the depths of books.
This occasion does not permit lengthy elaboration, but I have authored works on his virtues, his knowledge, and his creed; whoever wishes to expand further should refer to them. One should not pay attention to the attacks of ignorant, envious, spiteful people against the great striving figures of Islam.
Source: Tadhkīr an-Nābihīn bi-Siyar Aslāfihim Ḥuffāẓ al-Ḥadīth as-Sābiqīn wa-l-Lāḥiqīn — page 389–390
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