who claim to be critical scholars. Perhaps they will return and imitate me in reverting to what is correct; that would be more fitting for them than that imitation!

Nevertheless, the hadith does not fall below the rank of good, owing to the routes of transmission I mentioned there. So all praise is due to Allah for His enabling grace, and I ask Him for more of His bounty.

This is the last that Allah has made easy for me to write in this introduction to this new edition. I ask the Lord to make it more beneficial than its predecessors, and to protect us from the evil of trials, both open and hidden. Indeed, He is All-Hearing, Responsive.

“Glory be to You, O Allah, and praise be to You. I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship but You. I seek Your forgiveness and repent to You.”

Amman / Friday, 3 Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 1412 AH

Written by
Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī