Al-Albani

Muhammad Nasir al-Din, also known as al-Albani (16 August 1914 – 2 October 1999) was an Albanian famous Islamic scholar. He was born in Shkodra, the old capital of Albania, in 1914 and moved as a child with his family to Damascus where he completed his early education and received rigorous tutelage in Arabic and Islamic studies by prominent scholars of that time. Meanwhile, he worked as a clock and watch repairer to help support his family. He received the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 1999.

Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani مُحَمَّد نَاصِر ٱلدِّيْن ٱلْأَلْبَانِي
Title	Shaykh
Personal
Born	August 16, 1914 Shkodër, Albania
Died	October 2, 1999 (aged 85) Amman, Jordan
Religion	Islam
Nationality	Albanian
Ethnicity	Albanian
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Salafi
Creed	Athari
Occupation	Muhaddith Faqih, historiographer bibliographer watchmaker
Senior posting
Influenced by Ibn Hanbal Ibn Taymiyyah Ibn Hazm Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Badi' ud-Din Shah al-Rashidi Rashid Rida
Influenced Ibn Baz Rabee Al-Madkhali Umar Sulayman al-Ashqar, Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i Muhammad bin Jamil Zeno Abdul Qayum
Awards	King Faisal International Prize (in 1999)

Shaikh Al-Albani started to specialize in Hadith and related subjects in the 1930s and by the age of 20; he transcribed and commented on Al-Hafez al-Iraqi’s monumental text “Al-Mughnee ‘an hamlil-Asfar,” followed by a series of other books, lectures and influential articles in Al-Manar magazine. It was not long before he surpassed all of his contemporaries to become the world’s leading authority in Hadith sciences. He wrote or edited more than 300 books and manuscripts, many of which became major references for Hadith scholars.

Other websites

• The Albaani Site – Translations from His Works – Updated Regularly
• Official Website of Sheikh Al-Albani
• Pages 6-7: Al-Albani's Revolutionary Approach to Hadith - 2-page article on Al-Albani's hadith methodology in a backdrop to nepotism among Salafi scholars in Saudi Arabia