of fierce rabble-rousing and vilification against me—both in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he held his post, and in Lebanon, his summer retreat—namely:

1 – The falsehoods he broadcast and the slanders he circulated far and wide, to the point that some Muslim students in Europe heard that al-Albani attacks the four schools of law, especially the Hanafi school, in his commentary on al-Hafiz al-Mundhiri’s Abridged Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. In reality the book contains nothing more than my remark that “Jesus, peace be upon him, will judge according to our law…,” the meaning of which will be explained—and his charge refuted—below. Nor was Abu Ghudda satisfied to spread this lie with his tongue; he actually put it in writing (1), thereby clothing himself in two garments of deceit. The abridgement was published in 1388 AH.

2 – His fabricated allegation—by insinuation and by explicit statement—that I am among those who hate Imam Abū Ḥanīfah, may Allah have mercy on him. He accused me of partisanship against him and of scholarly dishonesty in the biographical notice I wrote about him. He voiced these charges in his notes on Shaykh al-Tahanawi’s Rules in the Sciences of Ḥadith, a commentary he completed, as he states in its conclusion, in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 1390 AH in Riyadh—that is, before he submitted his unjust report, or at the very least a year before my rebuttal of him in the Introduction to Sharḥ al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah (2).