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كيف توجَّهتم إلى علم الحديث مع أن الوالد كان حنفيًّا معتدًّا بالمذهب الحنفي؟ How did you turn to the science of ḥadīth when your father was a Ḥanafī who strongly adhered to the Ḥanafī madhhab, as I understood from you and from shaykh Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ? السائل : طيب ؛ هنا مسألة تلفت النظر ؛ وهي كيف توجَّهت إلى الحديث ونحو ذلك مع أني يعني من خلال بعض كلماتكم وكلمات الشيخ شعيب أن الوالد كان حنفيًّا يعتدُّ بالمذهب الحنفي جدًّا ؟ فكيف أفلت من ؟ The Questioner: All right. Here is something that draws one's attention: how did you turn to ḥadīth and related studies when, even though - from some of your statements and those of Shaykh Shuʿayb - I understood that your father was a Ḥanafī who held strongly to the Ḥanafī mathhab? So how did you escape from that? الشيخ : ذلك الفضل من الله ، لكن من حيث الأسباب أو السبب هو كما يقال إذا أراد الله أمرًا هيَّأ أسبابه، The Shaykh: That favor was from Allāh. But as for the means, or the cause, it is as they say: when Allāh wills a matter, He ...

️صورة من تعظيم السُّنة والعناية في حياة الشيخ الألباني رحمه الله. ️A glimpse of the reverence for the Sunnah and care for it in the life of ash-shaykh al-Albānī (may Allāh have mercy on him). عن أم المؤمنين عائشة رَضِيَ اللهُ عنها قَالَت: On the authority of the Mother of the Believers ʿĀʾishah (may Allāh be pleased with her), she said: جاءت عجوزٌ إلى النبيِّ صلَّى اللهُ عليهِ وسلَّمَ وهو عندي An elderly woman came to the Prophet (ﷺ) while he was with me. فقال لها رسولُ اللهِ صلَّى اللهُ عليهِ وسلَّمَ : من أنتِ ؟ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to her: “Who are you?” قالت : أنا جثَّامةُ المُزنيَّةُ She said: “I am Jaththāmah al-Muzaniyyah”. فقال : 《 بل أنتِ حسَّانةُ المُزنيَّةُ》. He said: “Rather, you are Ḥassānah al-Muzaniyyah”. 【 السلسلة الصحيحة (١ /٤٢٤) 】 As-Silsilah aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah (1/424) قال الإمام محمد ناصر الدين الألباني رحمه الله تبارك و تعالى Al-imām Muḥammad Nāṣir ad-Dīn al-Albānī (may Allāh, Blessed and Exalted, have mercy on him) ‏بعد تخريجه...

علاجٌ نبويٌّ! عليكمْ بالتَّلبِينة! A Prophetic remedy! Have talbīnah! بسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمَٰنِ الرَّحِيم In the Name of Allāh, the All-Merciful, the Merciful. عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا: On the authority of ʿĀʾishah (may Allāh be pleased with her): أَنَّهَا كَانَتْ تَأْمُرُ بِـ (التَّلْبِينِ) لِلْمَرِيضِ، وَلِلْمَحْزُونِ عَلَى الهَالِكِ! She used to instruct that talbīnah be given to the sick person and to one grieving over a deceased one. وَكَانَتْ تَقُولُ: And she would say: إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) say: ((إِنَّ التَّلْبِينَةَ تُجِمُّ فُؤَادَ المَرِيضِ، وَتَذْهَبُ بِبَعْضِ الحُزْنِ)). "Indeed, talbīnah tujimmu the heart of the sick person and alleviates some of the grief". "صحيح البخاريّ"، كتاب الطّبِ، بابُ التّلبينةِ للمريض، (5689). Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Book of Medicine, Chapter: Talbīnah for the Sick (5689). معنى تجمُّ: The meaning of "...

 Umm al-Faḍl — the wife of Shaykh al-Albānī رحمه الله — was asked: “Being the wife of this virtuous scholar, have you found that his knowledge, his seeking of knowledge, and his teaching of people reduced his presence with you as the head of your household? And did this have any negative effect on his children?” she responded: "seeking knowledge never prevented the Shaykh from fulfilling any of his family duties. On the contrary, he—may Allah have mercy on him—was an example of a head of household who cooperated with his family. Believe me, my son, he would often help me with the household chores to the point that I would feel shy because of it. He even once was mopping the balcony with me, and I said to him: “Shaykh, don’t embarrass us in front of the neighbors, lest they say this man does his wife’s work.” He replied: “This is not an embarrassment. Do you not know that the Prophet ﷺ used to serve his family?” Whenever I asked him for anything related to the house—such as install...

أسلوب السؤال والجواب في التعليم الشيخ : فإن أساليب العلم وطلب العلم كثيرة متعددة ، وإن منها ما جاء ذكره صراحة في كتاب الله وفي حديث رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم - ؛ ألا وهو طريقة السؤال والجواب ، الله - عز وجل - يقول في صريح كتابه : (( فاسألوا أهل الذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمون )) ، ويقول ((فَسْئَلْ بِهِ خَبِيراً )) ، ونبينا - صلوت الله وسلامه عليه - قد قال في قصة معروفة في السنن : ( ألا سألوا حين جهلوا ، فإنما شفاء العيِّ السؤال ) ، قال ذلك - عليه الصلاة والسلام - حينما أُصيب أحد الصحابة في سريَّةٍ غزاها مع أصحاب النبي - صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم - أُصيب بجراحاتٍ كثيرةٍ في بدنه ، ثم في الليل احتلم ، ولما أصبح سأل من حوله ؛ هل يجدون له رخصة في ألا يغتسل ؟ - لما به من جروح - ، فأجابوه : بأنه لا بد لك من الاغتسال ، فاغتسل ، فكان فيه حتفُه وهلاكُه ، فلما بلغ خبره رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم - غضب غضبًا شديدًا وقال : ( قتلوه قاتلهم الله ، ألا سألوا حين جهلوا ! فإنما شفاء العيِّ السؤال ) . شفاء العيِّ أي : الجهل ، ما هو شفاؤه ودواؤه ؟ السؤال . وكثيرًا ما يكون طلب العلم بطريقة السؤا...

كنت سألت الشيخ " شعيب الأرناؤوط " وأفاد أنه كان يتردَّد على الشيخ نوح في الفقه وغيره ، وما كان الشيخ ناصر الدين الألباني يحضر هذه المجالس ؟ I had asked Shaykh Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ, and he mentioned that he used to attend the lessons of Shaykh Nūḥ in fiqh and other subjects. So was Shaykh Nāṣir ad-Dīn al-Albānī not present in those gatherings? الحويني : هنا الشيخ شعيب الأرناؤوط كنت سألته على بعض أشياء ، فتطرَّق الأمر إلى أنه قال : أنُّو أنا كنت أتردَّد على الشيخ نوح في الفقه وكذا ، وما كان الشيخ ناصر يحضر في مجالسنا ؟ Al-Ḥuwaynī: Here, I had asked ash-shaykh Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ about some matters, and the discussion led to him saying: "I used to attend ash-shaykh Nūḥ [al-Albānī's father] in fiqh and such things, but ash-haykh Nāṣir was not present in our gatherings". الشيخ : إي أنا ما كنت أحضر هذه الدروس التي هو يعنيها ، لكن نحن كان عندنا درس خاص عند الوالد مع اثنين من الشباب شباب الأرناؤوط ، أحدهما اسمه عبد الرحيم زين العابدين ، ولا يزال في قيد الحياة ، وال...

  بعد أن انتهيتم من الدراسة في المدرسة الابتدائية ؛ هل أكملتم الدراسة الأكاديمية ؟ After you finished studying in elementary school, did you continue your academic studies? الحويني : طيب ؛ يعني بعد ما انتهيت من الدراسة لم تكمل الدراسة الأكاديمية ... ؟ Al-Ḥuwaynī: All right, so after you finished your studies, you did not continue academic study...? الشيخ : ما زدت على الدراسة الابتدائية ، والسبب في ذلك يعود إلى والدي ، ولعل هذا كانت منه رمية من غير رامٍ ، لأني في ما أظنُّ وفيما شاهدت فيما بعد لو تابعت تلك الدراسة لَما استطعت أن أكون فيما أنا فيه من الدراسة ؛ The Shaykh: I did not go beyond elementary study. The reason for that goes back to my father. And perhaps this was, from him, a shot that hit the mark without the shooter intending it. Because, as I think, and as I later observed, if I had continued those studies, I would not have been able to become what I am now in terms of study. لأن الدراسة النظامية في الواقع صحيح أنها تسهِّل طريق مَن يريد أن يمضيَ أشواط كثيرة في...

  ️صورة من تعظيم السُّنة والعناية في حياة الشيخ الألباني رحمه الله. ️A glimpse of the reverence for the Sunnah and care for it in the life of ash-shaykh al-Albānī (may Allāh have mercy on him). عن أم المؤمنين عائشة رَضِيَ اللهُ عنها قَالَت: On the authority of the Mother of the Believers ʿĀʾishah (may Allāh be pleased with her), she said: جاءت عجوزٌ إلى النبيِّ صلَّى اللهُ عليهِ وسلَّمَ وهو عندي An elderly woman came to the Prophet (ﷺ) while he was with me. فقال لها رسولُ اللهِ صلَّى اللهُ عليهِ وسلَّمَ : من أنتِ ؟ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to her: “Who are you?” قالت : أنا جثَّامةُ المُزنيَّةُ She said: “I am Jaththāmah al-Muzaniyyah”. فقال : 《 بل أنتِ حسَّانةُ المُزنيَّةُ》. He said: “Rather, you are Ḥassānah al-Muzaniyyah”. 【 السلسلة الصحيحة (١ /٤٢٤) 】 As-Silsilah aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah (1/424) قال الإمام محمد ناصر الدين الألباني رحمه الله تبارك و تعالى Al-imām Muḥammad Nāṣir ad-Dīn al-Albānī (may Allāh, Blessed and Exalted, have mercy on him) ‏ بعد تخريجه لهذا الحديث : said after...

One thing I noticed from al-Albānī in discussions is that he would often push the person to answer concisely first. Don't give me a lecture or a tour around the topic. Answer the question first. Then, after the answer is clear, expand if expansion is needed. And this is actually very important. Because many people do not answer questions. They react to them. A question is asked, and the answerer opens a whole folder in his mind: related issues, similar examples, side benefits, old arguments, emotional frustrations, half-connected principles, and a small marketplace of thoughts that were not asked for. And after five minutes, the listener is still waiting for the actual answer. Sometimes even the speaker is still waiting for the actual answer. He is speaking, but he is also searching while speaking. He has not reached the point. He is hoping the point appears somewhere in the middle of the speech. From there, you could see a concise answer acts like an anchor. It tells the listen...

One of the beautiful things you notice when listening to al-Albānī's recorded discussions is that he did not speak to people as if they were furniture in the room. He spoke to them. A beginner, a student, a confused objector, a man repeating what he heard somewhere, even someone nervous and clearly out of his depth. He still gave him his mind. You can feel it in the tapes. The question comes. Then the answer begins. Then an objection interrupts him. Then, "Allāh yahdīk". Then a pause. Maybe some tea. Then he returns to the first principle calmly, as if nothing disturbed the road, and patiently rebuilds it under the man's feet. Sometimes you hear laughter. Sometimes you feel the tension. And when someone tries to escape through a side door, al-Albānī quietly closes it with reasoning, or calls out the diversion: "Ḥaydah". Then silence. And the questioner pauses, because now he has to think. How was he able to guide the discussion like that? Because he worked f...

Your browser does not support the audio element. السدلان: يا شيخ ناصر الفتن على كل حال خطيرة وضارة، ولكن، أخطرها إذا كانت بين طلاب العلم. الألباني: صدقت. السدلان: هذه خطيرة جدا. الألباني: وهذه ظاهرة في العصر الحاضر، قوية. السدلان: نعم. الألباني: مع الأسف الشديد، وهذا أنا أعلله بشيء يا أستاذ. ما أدري هل توافقونني عليه. في غمرة هذا التوجه إلى السنة والتوحيد، كنت أظن أن آفة العالم الاسلامي،  هي جهلهم بالتوحيد. وأنه يصدق على كثير منهم قوله تبارك وتعالى: "وما يؤمن أكثرهم بالله إلا وهم مشركون". لكني مع الزمن، تكشّفت لي علة أخرى. وهذا هو بيت القصيد الآن. وهو فساد الأخلاق. لأننا نرى كما ذكرتَ آنفا، طلاب العلم يتخاصمون ويتنازعون، إلى آخره. ما هو السبب؟ لذلك أنا أقول لإخواننا، وأظن أن علي [الحلبي] يذكر هذا جيدا، هناك صحوة علمية لكن ليس هناك تربية إسلامية. السدلان: نعم، هذا صحيح. الألباني: تذكر هذا جيدا؟ علي الحلبي: نعم شيخنا. الألباني: لذلك مشكلتنا الآن أننا بحاجة إلى تربية. السدلان: نعم. الألباني: وهذه الملاحظة هي التي أوحت إلي أن أقول: دعوتنا يجب أن تقوم على أساسين متينين جدا، ...

كم كان لك من العمر في ذلك الوقت حين هاجر والدك إلى الشام ؟ How old were you at that time, when your father migrated to ash-Shām?

هل كان دخولكم دمشق الشام مع الوالد نتيجة اضطهاد؟ Was your entering Damascus, ash-Shām, with your father due to persecution?

 هل كان مسقط رأسك في دمشق أم في ألبانيا ؟  Was your birthplace Damascus or Albania?

تاريخ مولد الشيخ الألباني - رحمه الله تعالى - The Date of Ash-Shaykh al-Albānī's Birth, رحمه الله تعالى

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم This channel is dedicated to introducing Muḥammad Nāṣir ad-Dīn al-Albānī رحمه الله through new lens. Many people know his name. Few people know him. And fewer understand him. Fewer sat with his words long enough to see the depth of his reasoning, the strength of his principles, the gentleness beneath his firmness, and the rare clarity with which he served Islām. Ash-shaykh al-Albānī رحمه الله was not merely a famous scholar of ḥadīth. He was a reformer of thought, a reviver of methodology, a man who taught people how to return to evidence, how to respect knowledge, how to distinguish between inherited habit and revealed guidance. A man who brought back the scent of the Salaf. This channel is a small attempt to show him through that lens, avoiding slogans and shallow praise. Through his own words, his scholarly legacy, and carefully selected reflections that help English readers appreciate what many have still not truly discovered. May Allāh have mercy upon al-Alb...