Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani
Muhammad b. al-Haj Nuh b. Nijati b. Adam al-Ishqudri al-Albani al-Arnauti (), also known as Albani (16 August 1914 - October 2,1999), was a famous Islamic scholar. He was born in Shkodra, the old capital of Albania, in 1914 and moved as a child with his family to Damascus where he completed his early education and received rigorous tutelage in Arabic and Islamic studies by prominent scholars of that time. Meanwhile, he worked as a clock and watch repairer to help support his family. He was got King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 1999.
Shaikh Al-Albani started to specialize in Hadith and related subjects in the 1930s and by the age of 20; he transcribed and commented on Al-Hafez al-Iraqi's monumental text "Al-Mughnee 'an hamlil-Asfar, " followed by a series of other books, lectures and influential articles in Al-Manar magazine. It was not long before he surpassed all of his contemporaries to become the world's leading authority in Hadith sciences. He wrote or edited more than 300 books and manuscripts, many of which became major references for Hadith scholars.
Other websites
The Albaani Site - Translations from His Works - Updated Regularly
Official Website of Sheikh Al-Albani
Pages 6-7: Al-Albani' s Revolutionary Approach to Hadith - 2-page article on Al-Albani' s hadith methodology in a backdrop to nepotism among Salafi scholars in Saudi Arabia
1914 births
1999 deaths
Imams
Carpenters
Hadith scholars
Asian writers
Salafis
Albanian people