“It was narrated by the compilers of the Sunan.” They are the four well-known compilers, yet only al-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah narrated it among them!
- On p. 18, he mentioned a hadith concerning the virtue of Ramadan and said:
“It was narrated by al-Nasa'i.”
This is a lie attributed to him, for he did not narrate it. Rather, al-Tabarani narrated it, as found in al-Targhib wa'l-Tarhib and al-Haythami’s Majma' al-Zawa'id. He said: “Its chain includes al-Fadl ibn Isa al-Raqashi, who is weak.”
- On p. 50, he mentioned the hadith, “Give us comfort through it, Bilal,” and, citing its source in a footnote, wrote:
“Lisan al-'Arab.”
This poor man knew no source for this hadith other than that well-known work, which is not a book of hadith but a work on language, even though it is found in Sunan Abi Dawud and is cited in hadith compilations such as al-Mishkat (1253) and others!
- On p. 56, he cited the report from Ubayy ibn Ka'b that he performed twenty rak'ahs in Ramadan and recited qunut only in the second half … Then, quoting Ibn Qudamah’s al-Mughni, he said: “Abu Dawud narrated it.”
I say: It has an evident defect, namely, a break in the chain between al-Hasan al-Basri and Umar. Yet he uses evidence like this against the Salafis who adhere to the Sunnah in the Tarawih prayer, as mentioned earlier, and levels every outrageous charge against them, as previously noted.
- On p. 78, he mentioned the hadith, “My community will not unite upon misguidance,” and in another version: