The Shaykh’s twisting of the scholars’ words and his nullification of them:

The Shaykh ignored all of that and offered no answer at all—save for one reply that only confirms to every reader his obstinate stubbornness. He states (p. 236):

“The view that al-Albānī ascribes to the majority of scholars—including Abū Ḥanīfah, Mālik, al-Shāfiʿī, and Aḥmad in one report—concerns only the prayer when the woman is not in the presence of unrelated men.”

A number of those who follow in his footsteps have parroted this claim, such as Ibn Khalaf in his “Naẓārah” and, more recently, Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Iskandarānī in “ʿAwdat al-Ḥijāb” (3/228), along with many others. Allah is the source of help.

A quick glance at the cited statement of Ibn Baṭṭāl suffices to demolish the Shaykh’s answer—may Allah guide him. If this shows anything, it shows that the Shaykh is a skilful trickster—though that is nothing to boast about—adept at misleading his readers and diverting them from the benefit of their scholars’ words by reinterpreting them and stripping them of their clear meaning, just as the people of vain desires do when they nullify the texts of the Quran and Sunnah and the statements of the Imams on the divine names and attributes. The Shaykh knows their methods well, and it seems their malady has infected him—may Allah preserve him—even if only in the area of legal rulings. May Allah guide him.

To substantiate what I have just said, I have no option here but to set forth the positions of the Imams whom the Shaykh has maligned by twisting their words contrary to their intent. I say:

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