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Al-Muḥaddith Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī ()On the Trial of the People of Innovation

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Al-Muḥaddith Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī ()

On the Trial of the People of InnovationTranslated by Abū al-Ḥasan Mālik Ᾱdam al-Akhḍar

Questioner: “You alluded to the fact that the [previous] question was worthless in ahistorical context; however, our brothers who are confused by these principles say that theMutaqaddimūn (earlier scholars) did not have a Ḥadīth Ḥ asan; rather, this was invented by theMuta'akhirūn (later scholars), and therefore they contradicted the Mutaqaddimūn in this.Thus, from this perspective, they are concerned with who was the first to introduce the[term] Ḥ asan.” 

Shaykh Al-Albānī (): “What is the result—may Allāh bless you—what is the result of knowing who first introduced the term Ṣaḥīḥ? Who was the first to use the terms Musta fīḍ ,Mutawā tir and Mashūr ? They will never be able to say that so and so was the first to use theseterms. So and so is the first to use the term Ṣaḥīḥ. What is the benefit? Supposing that weknew who introduced all of these terms, what is the benefit?

I stated previously--may Allāh bless you--if you were to say, for arguments sake, that weknew who introduced a term, but afterward he abandoned it, what is the benefit? So now

 you are tested with the likes of these innovators. Innovators are not only found inFiqh andacts of worship. No, the people of innovation are many, and presently there are a number of 

innovations in the science of Ḥadīth.1 So you are put to trial by these innovators.”2 

 1 The Shaykh is referring to a group who, among other atrocities, reject the category of  Ḥadīth Ḥ asan. Theyclaim that this term is an invention of the later scholars and therefore contradicts the methodology of the earlierpeople of Ḥadīth. There is no question that if this group of innovators had their way, much of the authenticProphetic Sunnah would be lost. May Allāh bless Al-Muḥaddith al-Albānī and those like him from the scholarsof Ḥadīth who have aided the Religion by repelling great harm from the Ummah.2 See Su’alāt al -Albānī (p. 41-42)