He wrote it as a defense of his book, “Qāmūs Shatāʾim al-Albānī” (A Dictionary of al-Albani’s Insults), which will be mentioned shortly. Note that he claims al-Albani curses and reviles his opponents and declares such conduct forbidden and impermissible—yet he himself falls into what he condemns. In the very titles of his own works he abuses al-Albani, describing him as “a failure,” “rambling,” “ill-fated,” and “a trickster” … These are only snippets from the cover titles; what lies inside is even worse.
The names of his books positively drip with spite toward the Shaykh. Consider these titles:
• al-Shamāṭīṭ fīmā Yahdhī bihi al-Albānī fī Muqaddimātihi min Takhabbaṭāt wa-Takhliṭ (Ragged Pieces on the Ramblings, Confusion, and Mixture Found in al-Albani’s Introductions);
• al-Shihāb al-Ḥāriq al-Munqaḍḍ ʿalā Īqāf al-Mutanāqiḍ al-Māriq (The Fiery Meteor That Plunges Down upon “Halting the Rogue Contradictor”);
• al-Lajīf al-Dhiʿāf li-l-Mutalāʿib bi-Aḥkām al-Iʿtikāf (The Deadly Carrion for the One Who Tampered with the Rulings of Spiritual Seclusion);
• Wahm Sayyiʾ al-Bakht allaḏī Ḥarrama Ṣiyām al-Sabt (The Delusion of the Ill-Fated Man Who Prohibited Fasting on Saturday) (1)…
After all this, he goes on to warn against reviling, insinuation, and calling people by offensive nicknames, asserting that such actions are major sins.
(43) ʿAdad Ṣalāt al-Tarāwīḥ (The Number of Rakʿahs in the Tarāwīḥ Prayer), by Dr. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣubayḥī.
It drew a rejoinder entitled Tabārīḥ fī Risālat “ʿAdad Ṣalāt al-Tarāwīḥ” (Reflections on the Epistle “The Number of Rakʿahs in Tarāwīḥ”), by Abū ʿAbd al-Malik al-Wahbī (2).