I do not believe that Shaykh Zuhayr al-Shawwīsh—may Allah protect him—(a righteous scholar) would ever dare to place the Shaykh’s name on a book he had not even glanced at, much less edited or reviewed.

What reinforces this favourable assumption is al-Shaybānī’s statement in Ḥayāt al-Albānī (2/843):
“ This book is one of the works verified by Shaykh Zuhayr al-Shawwīsh (1), the proprietor of al-Maktab al-Islāmī. He presented the book’s hadiths to Shaykh Nāṣir al-Albānī, who traced them back according to scholarly procedure and added what is useful and beneficial—especially since the work deals with a major issue in the fundamentals of the religion.”

I was then surprised that this book is not listed among the Shaykh’s works in al-Aṣālah, and ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan commented:
“As for al-Dārimī’s book al-Radd ʿalā al-Jahmiyyah, on whose cover our Shaykh’s name appears, the verification is merely attributed to him; it is not actually his, as he told me personally some ten years ago—or a little more—when I asked him about it.”

The matter grows still more obscure when you realize that Shaybānī’s book was read aloud to the subject of the biography (al-Albānī), and he did not object. Had he spoken about that documentation or denied that it was his, Shaybānī would certainly have recorded it—especially since the person being profiled read what was written about him before the biography was printed and distributed.

Perhaps there is some confusion here, and Allah knows best.

[Note]
If we assume that this documentation really is by al-Albānī, then Shaybānī’s words, “he traced them back according to scholarly method and added what is useful and beneficial,” are plainly exaggerated and unbefitting of his book.

The work is in fact undocumented; it contains only a few brief hadith notes and similar remarks. In this edition, the text, the annotation, and the documentation are all poorly handled—Allah knows best.

It may be said that Shaykh Nāṣir—may Allah have mercy on him—took only a quick look at the book, inserting a word here and another there: a light marginal comment that his memory and available time allowed, not a scholarly verification or systematic hadith tracing. Because of this, the publisher hesitated to put his name on the first editions, then finally appended it in later ones.