السلام عليكم ورحمه الله وبركاته.

الحمدلله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله واصحابه اجمعين ومن تبعهم باحسان الى يوم الدين اما بعد:

قال الله سبحانه وتعالى:• يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَن تُصِيبُوا قَوْمًا بِجَهَالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَادِمِينَ• (٤٩:٦ القران)

Allah says in The Quran (49:6): O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful.

1. Allah instructs the Muslims to verify every information that they get before spreading it to others. (Al-Quran 49:6)

2. With regards to sharing false news false Ahadith of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), the Messenger of Allah said: “Do not lie upon me; indeed whoever lies upon me will enter the Fire“. (Sahih Muslim 1, also in Sahih Al-Bukhari)

3. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) clarified in many Ahadith that he hated the one who lies. ‘A’ishah (رضي الله عنها) said: No characteristic was more hateful to the Messenger of Allah than lying. (Part of a Hadith from At-Tirmidhi 1973, Sahih(Al-Albani)).

4. A Muslim should beware of lying even in a single statement.

Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (رضي الله عنه) said:‘It is enough of a lie for a man that he narrates everything he hears’. (Sahih Muslim 9)

An- Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) said concerning this and similar hadiths:

This is a warning not to speak of everything that one hears, for usually a person hears things that are true and things that are false, so if he were to speak of everything that he hears, he would be telling lies, because he would be telling of something that did not happen.

End quote from Sharh Saheeh Muslim (1/75

5. People who narrate everything that they hear are in fact liars according to the verdict of the Messenger of Allah. Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) said:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “It is enough for a man to prove himself a liar when he goes on narrating whatever he hears.” (Sahih Muslim)

6. Muslim speakers or scholars who lie with regards to the Messenger of Allah or his companions are not worthy of being Imams of the Deen according to the words of Imam Malik.

Imam Mālik said: ‘Know that a man who relates everything he hears is not safe, and he can never be an Imām, as long as he narrates everything he hears’. (Sahih Muslim 10)

7. People started fabricating and making false narrations attributing them to Ali Ibn Abi Talib after his death and this was common knowledge among the scholars of Hadith that many narrations were falsely attributed to Ali (رضي الله عنه).

Hasan bin Alī al-Hulwānī narrated to us, Yahyā bin Ādam narrated to us, Ibn Idrīs narrated to us, on authority of al-A’mash, on authority of Abī Ishāq who said:

‘When they narrated these things after Alī, a man from the companions of Alī said: ‘May Allah curse them. Did they corrupt every [type of] knowledge!?’ (Sahih Muslim 24)

8. It is also not permissible to sit with storytellers and give them ears in order to listen to their admonitions if they are using false and unauthentic narrations.

Abū Kāmil al-Jahdarī narrated to us, Hammād- and he is Ibn Zayd- narrated to us, he said Āsim [bin Bahdalah] narrated to us, he said:

‘We would catch up with Abū Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulamī and at the time we were young men, so he would say to us: ‘Do not sit with story-tellers other than Abūl-Ahwas and beware of Shaqīq [Abū Abd ar-Rahīm]’. Imam Muslim said: ‘This Shaqīq held the view of the Khawārij and is not Abū Wā’il [Shaqīq bin Salamah, the righteous Tabi’ī]’.

9. Even if a Muslim is known to be righteous but it is known from him that he lies while narrating statements from the Prophet or the companions of the prophet then it is not permissible to listen to his Ahadith or narrations.

Hajjāj bin ash-Shā’ir narrated to me, Sulaymān bin Harb narrated to us, Hammād bin Zayd narrated to us, he said, Ayyūb said:‘Indeed I have a neighbor’ and he mentioned some of his virtues, [and continued] ‘…even if he testified to me about two dates I would not see his testimony(in narrations) as permissible’. (Sahih Muslim 61)

10. The above were a few simple proofs about not narrating and quoting from unknown sources. After this if anyone quotes from unknown sources, then we ask Allah to guide him and us to what is right. All we can do is only convey- Ultimate Guidance is with Allah The Most High.

واقول قولي هذا واستغفر الله لي ولكم. واخر دعوانا ان الحمد لله رب العالمين.

7th/Nov/2020

-ابو معاذ محمد بن جمل حسين منا.

السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته

الحمد لله و الصلاة و السلام على رسول الله و على آله و أصحابه أجمعين و من تبعهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين.

This note is a quick answer to those people who say that we can’t take Ilm from Shaikh Al-Albani because he had no teachers-

1. Sh. Muhammad Nasiruddin Al-Albani Rahimahullah was from the house of a Hanafi Mufti, Shaikh Nuh Najati Al-Hanafi Al-Albani Rahimahullah- who was his father- and Mufti of Albania. His father was his first teacher in many sciences of Islam.

2. Shaykh Muhammad Raaghib At-Tabbaakh, the Muhaddith of Halab (Aleppo,Syria) had given Sh.Al-Albani an Ijaazah to narrate Hadith from him.

3. Sh.Al-Albani was put in charge of teaching the subject of Hadith in the Islamic University of Madeenah at the time of its inception for the length of three years, beginning from the year 1381H, by none other than Shaikh Abdul-Azeez bin Abdullah bin Baaz, the former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. This is a Tazkiyyah and praise by itself.

(Shaikh Ibn Baaz was an established Aalim and Mufti in his own right, who studied under the giants of his time- and if Sh.Ibn Baaz entrusts the Hadith department to Sh.Al-Albani, this shows how much the great Allamah, Ibn Baaz, trusted Sh.Al-Albani.)

Also-

During his lifetime, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Shaykh, ‘Abdul-’Azeez Ibn Baaz (rahimahullaah) said:

“I have not seen under the surface of the sky a person knowledgeable of the Hadeeth in our current time the likes of the great scholar, Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaani.”

And he (rahimahullaah) was asked about the hadeeth of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu ‘alayhe wa sallam):

“Indeed Allaah raises up from this ummah at the beginning of every century someone who will revive it for them (i.e. a mujaddid).”

So he was asked who is the mujaddid of this century? He replied:

“Shaykh Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaani. He is the mujaddid in my opinion and Allaah knows best.”

4. Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azeez al-Hudda said: “The Shaykh, the great scholar, the ocean (of knowledge), Muhammad Al-Ameen Ash-Shanqeetee (rahimahullaah) – the one whom no one’s knowledge of the Science of Tafseer and the Arabic Language was comparable to his during his lifetime – used to respect Shaykh Al-Albani so remarkably to the point that when he would see him passing by, and he was giving his class in the masjid of Madeenah, he would stop his class to stand and give Salaam to him out of respect for him.”

5. Shaykh Muqbil Ibn Haadee al-Waadi’ee, who is an Aalim by himself, and holds a Phd in Hadith and Masters in Sharia and Hadith, (rahimahullaah) said:

“Indeed, there cannot be found an equal in terms of the knowledge of Hadeeth like that of Shaykh Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaani. Allaah has given benefit through his knowledge and his books numerous times more than what has been accomplished by those zealots for Islaam who act upon ignorance – those who organize reformation and revolutionary movements. And that which I sincerely believe and am convinced about is that the Shaykh Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaani is from the mujaddideen (reformers/revivers) whom the Prophet (sal-Allaahu ‘alayhe wa sallam) spoke the truth of when he said:

’Indeed Allaah raises up from this ummah at the beginning of every century someone who will revive it for them (i.e. a mujaddid).’ Reported by Abu Daawood and authenticated by Al-‘Iraaqee and others.”

6. The above are just some Ulama who praised him as being an Aalim.

7. The ones who reject Sh.Al-Albani for ‘not being reliable because he didn’t study under the Ulama’ are those people, who also do not accept from Shaikh-ul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah,Sh Ibn Al-Qayyim Sh. Ibn Baaz, Sh.Ibn Al-Uthaymeen etc.

The reason they reject Sh.Al-Albani is not because he had no teachers, because we see that they also reject other giant Salafi Ulama.

8. The actual reason is that Sh.Al-Albani was a staunch supporter of the Fiqh of following Hadith over absolute blind following. Sh.Al-Albani wasn’t a grave worshipping Sufi, neither was he supportive of Bidahs in the Den. Neither was he of the Ikhwanul-Muslimeen (Syed Qutub’s group) etc.

9. The ones who hate Sh.Al-Albani are either the Muqallideen who can’t accept the fact that Sh.Al-Albani pulled people out of blind following, and/or the extreme grave worshippers who can’t digest people leaving Shirk and Bidah after reading Sh.Al-Albani’s books, or someone from the Ahlul-Bidah who can’t stand up to the fact that Sh.Al-Albani worked hard against the Bidah of their forefathers.

10. Since they can’t refute and compete with his great service to the Ummah, they go ‘ad hominem’ and try to blame his personality to show that he is unreliable.

11. For the sake of argument, even if we agree that he was absolutely self taught and had zero teachers, why did the authentic scholars in his lifetime agree that he is a giant in the field of Hadith!?

What matters is that Sh.Al-Albani gained an upper level in Ilm-ul-Hadith, self taught or otherwise, and he reached the rank of the Ulama in his era and even surpassed some. Once he reached that level and the Ulama of his era accepted his calibre, it doesn’t matter how many teachers he had in the beginning.

12. The Mushrikeen of Arabia and the Jews, instead of accepting the truth and evidences that Nabiullahi Muhammad ﷺ brought, tried to character assassinate him, they kept asking how can someone like Muhammad ﷺ get the Prophethood when better people like themselves were available- Allah said:

ذَٰلِكَ فَضۡلُ ٱللَّهِ يُؤۡتِيهِ مَن يَشَآءُۚ وَٱللَّهُ ذُو ٱلۡفَضۡلِ ٱلۡعَظِيمِ

That is the Grace of Allah, which He bestows on whom He wills. And Allah is the Owner of Mighty Grace. (-Sura Al-Jumu’ah, Ayah 4)

13. So don’t be jealous of Shaikh Al-Albani, rather agree with justice that Allah blessed him to carry the banner of Hadith in our era.

14. A final advice from The Quran-

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ كُونُواْ قَوَّٰمِينَ لِلَّهِ شُهَدَآءَ بِٱلۡقِسۡطِۖ وَلَا يَجۡرِمَنَّكُمۡ شَنَـَٔانُ قَوۡمٍ عَلَىٰٓ أَلَّا تَعۡدِلُواْۚ ٱعۡدِلُواْ هُوَ أَقۡرَبُ لِلتَّقۡوَىٰۖ وَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ خَبِيرُۢ بِمَا تَعۡمَلُونَ

O you who believe! Stand out firmly for Allah and be just witnesses and let not the enmity and hatred of others make you avoid justice. Be just: that is nearer to piety, and fear Allah. Verily, Allah is Well-Acquainted with what you do. (Sura Al-Ma’idah, Ayah 8)

15. The students and the admirers Sh.Al-Albani left behind are very clear that- like all Imams of the past Sh.Al-Albani was not infallible and Masoom. He was an Aalim and he may err sometimes, and any academic rectification of Sh.Al-Albani is always welcome.

This must be enough for the seeker of truth.

وآخر دعوانا أن الحمد لله رب العالمين.

-Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna

(11th Oct 2020)

(Source of Ulamas’ quotes:

https://www.alalbani.info/alalbany_eng_001.php)

https://www.islamweb.net/ar/fatwa/294655/مدى-صحة-قصة-عمر-بن-الخطاب-وخدمته-بنفسه-وأهله-لأسرة-فقيرة

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السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته

الحمد لله و الصلاة و السلام على رسول الله و على آله و أصحابه أجمعين و من تبيعهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين ، أما بعد:

قال الله سبحانه وتعالى-

وَرَتِّلِ الْقُرْآنَ تَرْتِيلًا

إِنَّا سَنُلۡقِي عَلَيۡكَ قَوۡلٗا ثَقِيلًا

Allah says in The Quran, Surah Al-Muzzammil that:

And recite the Quran in a measured recitation…

Indeed, We will cast upon you a heavy word.

In the Ayaat that I recited, Allah asks us to recite The Quran slowly and steadily. And Allah refers to The Quran as ‘Qawlan Saqeelah’, a heavy word.

And the reason that it is heavy is because The Quran is the Speech of Allah, revealed upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ through the mighty angel Jibreel.

We as Muslims should hold on to the Book of Allah for our guidance and success. The Quran is a guide in this Duniya and a source of salvation for the Hereafter.

In The Quran, we have admonitions, warnings, reminders, and an imagery of Allah’s blessings for His Believers and Allah’s Punishment for the disobedient ones.

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

إنَّ اللَّهَ يرفعُ بِهَذا الكتابِ أقوامًا، ويضعُ بِهِ آخرينَ (رواه مسلم)

“Verily, Allah elevates some people with this Qur’an and lowers with it others”.

Thus as Muslims, if we hold on to the Quran and act upon it, we will be guided and Allah will raise us, and if we leave it we will be ruined.

*So O Muslims! Hold on to The Quran! Ponder over it and strive to understand it!*

I ask Allah to guide all of us to stick to the Quran, its recitation, its understanding and to act upon its rulings. May Allah make all of us from the people who will recieve salvation on the on the Day of Judgement because of their love for The Quran.

وآخر دعوانا أن الحمد لله رب العالمين.

السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته.

Alhamdulillah was Salatu was Salamu ‘Ala Rasoolillah Wa ‘Ala Aalihi Wa Ashabihi Ajma’een, Amma Ba’ad-

May Allah reward you for this.

I, Mohammed bin Thajammul Hussain Manna, completed my graduation as an Aeronautical Engineer from M.V.J.C.E (Bangalore, 2008-12), Alhamdulillah.

During that period Allah guided me to Salafiyyah and I continuously attended short lectures and courses by authentic scholars. I will mention only the ones with whom I spent the most time below In sha Allah. As for those under whom I attended workshops on different subjects I will not mention them here.

My longest strech of studying a book under one Shaykh, was when I studied a detailed explanation of Kitab-ut-Tawheed (of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab) with Shaykh Abdul Lateef Salafi Madani (Member of Jamiat Ahle-Hadith, Udupi,Karnataka), for 1 year and 3 months. Shaykh Abdul Lateef Madani also taught us Usool Ath-Thalathah and Nawaqidul-Islam.

I have also studied Usool At-Tafseer (of Shaykh Muhammad bin Saleh Al-Uthaymeen) and Sharh Nawaqidul Islam (of Shaykh Saaleh Al-Fawzan) with Shaykh Ainul-Haq Salafi (Bihar, India) on a one-on-one basis for a month, Alhamdulillah.

With regards specifically being guided towards research on authentic Seerah, I was guided to this by Shaykh Abdul Waris Athari Madani (Shirur, Karnataka) after my discussions with him. Alhamdulillah.

In Fiqh, I have learnt a summary of many topics on a one-on-one basis with Shaykh Ashraf Salafi (Jharkhand), from the past 5 years (Around 2015-2020).

With regards to my credibility in the Salafi Manhaj and on teaching and reading out benefits from Seeratun-Nabi ﷺ, you may contact the above Ustadhs, In-Sha-Allah.

By now, Alhamdulillah, I have completed and published a summarized translation of Shaykh Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Ushan’s work on ‘Famous But Unauthentic Stories From The Seerah of The Prophet Muhammad (Salallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) [Arabic- Ma Shaa Wa Lam Yathbut Fee As-Seerah.]

(For the Seerah classes-) The book I will be using to teach Seeratun-Nabi ﷺ, will be my own 3 volume compilation, in English, on ‘ *The Biography of The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ [From Reliable and Credible Sources]*’. I’ve attempted to use only authentic narrations for the storyline of the Seerah.

(I will mention a list of the books I’ve worked on below in the end, InshaAllah, and will continuously update them in time.)

I have completed studying the explanation of Umdatul-Ahkaam (in live classes) under the guidance of Shaykh Usman Marjalvi (a Salafi Aalim from Pakistan).

I wouldn’t wish to write all this about myself, this is not for self-praise. But since it is the need of the hour, I had to pen this down, to inform one and all about myself. May Allah forgive us and keep our intentions sincerely only to please him. Aameen.

I completed my B.A (Islamic Studies, Distance) from Preston International College (Chennai, Tamil Nadu), in 2024, and also received the 1st Rank with Gold Medal in the 16th Convocation 2025 in the B.A (Islamic Studies) Department.

I have also completed an Advanced Diploma in Islamic Studies from Aspire College of Excellence, Bangalore.)

-(Abu Muaaz) Mohammed (bin) Thajammul Hussain Manna.
(Mangalore, India).

Books That I Have Worked On, Alhamdulillah:

1. The Biography of The Prophet Muhammad – From Reliable And Credibly Established Narrations (3 Volumes, 1245 pages). (Salallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam)
[This is the first Seerah of the Prophet Muhammad in the English language that uses only authentic narrations for the story line.]
2. The Authentic Biography of Bilal bin Rabah (Radi Allahu Anhu). [Out of print.]
3. Mukhtasar Sahih Seeratun Nabi (A Summarized Authentic Seerah of The Prophet in 180 pages, not published yet).
4. Famous But Unauthentic Stories From The Biography of The Prophet Muhammad (Salallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) [Out of print] [A summarized English translation of Shaykh Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Ushan’s book].
5. Actions That Are Equivalent To Hajj In Rewards [Published online only.] [Originally by ‘Isaam Muhammad Faheem Jum’ah in Arabic.]
6. Uncovering The Falsehood That Was Propagated In ‘The Kerala Story’. [Published online only.]
7. ‘The Fitnah Of Shakeel bin Haneef-The false claimant of being Prophet Isa and Imam Al-Mahdi. [Originally in Urdu by Moulana Abrar-ul-Haq Qasimi]
8. The Fiqh Regarding The Issue of Criticizing The Evil Perpetrated By The Muslim Ruler (to be printed by the Muntaha Press, InshaAllah). [Originally in Arabic by Shaykh Faisal bin Qazzar Al-Jasem.]
9. There Is Nothing New In The Rulings of Salah (to be printed by the Muntaha Press, InshaAllah). [Originally in Arabic by Shaykh Bakr Abu Zaid.]

#. Various others articles, Fatawa of Ulama and translated works
here (authenticseerah.com)