-----Original Message----- From: Baharuddin Baba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: razmie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, October 03, 1999 11:27 AM Subject: Nasaruddin AL-BANI >Subject: Sheikh al-Albani rahimahullah dies... >Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:55:15 -0700 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Inna-lillahi Wa-innailaihi-rajiuun > >Assalamualikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, > >We have just been informed by the mashaikhs here in al-medinah >al-munawwarah >that Imam Al-Albani hafidahullah died! Today is 22 Jumadut-Thani, Yawm >as-Sabt, 1420 A.H. corresponding to October 2nd, Saturday of the year >1999 >A.D. He died after Asr time, rahimahullah. I am lost for words to say >any >further.... He left behind a legacy of decades of cleansing the sunnah >from >the falsehoods. He was to the sunnah and hadith as Imam Muhammad ibn >abdul-wahab was to Tawheed, a mujaddid. May Allah forgive him and reward >him >from the choicest of rewards in jannah and join him with the companions >of the >highest order. Some of the salaf used to say: "When I hear of the death >of a >person of the sunnah, it is as if I have lost a part of my body". >(Reported by >al-Laalikaee in Sharh usul I'tiqaad Ahlus-sunnah wal-Jama'ah). > >Your brother, >Abu Yusuf Tawfique Chowdhury >Islamic University of Medinah >11:16PM > > > |