The author of “Iʿlām bi-Ākhir Aḥkām al-Albānī” criticizes the book “Tarājuʿ al-Albānī”

(Note: In this section the words are those of the author himself. Ellipses (…) mark passages that have been abridged; where his remarks are extensive, a brief résumé is placed under the heading “Summary.”)

Muhammad Kamāl al-Asyūṭī (author of Iʿlām bi-Ākhir Aḥkām al-Albānī, pp. 31–73) said:

“I came across a book on the same subject entitled ‘The Retractions of Shaykh al-Albānī Concerning His Earlier Gradings of Ḥadith as Sound or Weak,’ compiled and prepared by Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Shaykh. … When I examined the book, I found therein matters that call for comment.

Comment: The total number of reports he lists—222 hadiths—he has arranged under four headings … Yet in some of them he has stumbled into mistakes and isolated anomalies. I shall therefore cite a few illustrative examples: