The story of the young men who wanted to transcribe the fatwas of Shaykh Al-Albani.

The student : I serve as a link between the two statements; because I have lived, I mean, with the brothers since the early days of the work, about two years ago—Shaykh—or three, during one of the Umrahs, we were with the brother Salim, or it was one of the Hajj pilgrimages, I do not remember. The brothers introduced us to the work and so on, and asked us to vouch for me and the brother Salim and introduce them, so we actually did this and wrote to them that these are a project serving Islam in general, and the Salafi da'wah in particular, as well as the Shaykh, the knowledge of the Shaykh, and the entire Ummah, and so on.

The Shaykh : Do you have a paper with you?
The student : Indeed, the brothers proceeded along this line, I mean, it is light work and not heavy, and praise be to Allah, Allah granted them success to speak with some of the people of good and benevolence and so on, and they brought new devices and intensified their work, and we gave them tapes from our side, and they went to our brother "Abu Layla : " and took tapes, and for the brother " 'Aid Abbasi " , and for our brother " Abu Anas " they took tapes; I mean, they took tapes from here and there, all of them, and they transcribed almost all of them. When they came to us about a year and a half ago, they came to us, the brother " Ibrahim al-Hashimi " who is the owner of the project, number one, the owner of the idea of the project, came, the brother " Ibrahim " came and we discussed the topics, and we wrote a paper that day in the house of the brother " Mashhur " based on who would be the ones in charge of the project and who would be the scientific reviewers, we called them the scientific reviewers, yes, and indeed these are the names that our brother " Abu Ubaydah " mentioned, but we told them, what was their first idea, Shaykh? That they would issue small bulletins, so I told them: As far as I know of our Shaykh, he will not agree to this, right, my teacher?

The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : And as far as I know of our Shaykh, he will say that this is scattering the work and tearing it apart; the work should be complete when it becomes organized, numbered, and polished volumes, with known issues, and linking the hadiths to their sources and the books of the Shaykh and so on. And indeed, this was the agreement, what was it? With the brother " Ibrahim al-Hashimi " and we signed it, and we proposed the idea that our brother " Abu Nasir " mentioned, this was from our proposal, I told them that every issue should be placed on a paper, every issue should be placed on a paper, then when the issues are transcribed on papers, the issues of prayer are sorted, the issues of fasting, the issues of such and such, the issues of women, the issues of terminology, the issues of the Qur'an, and so on. So now our brother " Abu Nasir " is telling me that they did this, even though there was a problem in this last Hajj, or rather in the Umrah of Ramadan, I met some of our brothers and I saw him angry at us, why we did not prepare for him the other letters that we mentioned, the letters that they had sent.

The Shaykh : What letters?
The student : I told you that they wanted to issue only letters.

The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : Ah, so we told them: My brother, we agreed on something different with the brother Ibrahim. He said: No, and you delegated the work and neglected us and so on, and this dear brother of ours was very angry, and we are still saying this, so I do not really know, when I heard this, I was very upset, and some things happened, I am sorry to mention them, and they—God willing—will not break our brotherhood, but the situation was not good, unfortunately. So I had told him: My dear brother, by virtue of our knowledge of the Shaykh, we have now known the Shaykh for about twenty years, the Shaykh does not accept these things, especially since we agreed on them and signed and wrote a paper. He said: No, these things were without my knowledge. We told him: Without your knowledge, the brother " Ibrahim ", the owner of the project number one, and this was our agreement and the agreement of the brothers, and you took the same paper that we wrote and took it to the Shaykh 'Aid Abbasi and so on. So now our brother " Abu Nasir " is telling me that they did this thing, so this is a blessing, so I do not know now whether this work they did was without the permission of that brother who erred in his previous speech, or with his knowledge, or what?
Another student: But what happened in the matter here is that... they had, someone came to them and said, I mean, the brothers are sending you these papers and this effort, and the Shaykh informed us that he is not in agreement with the project. So they said, if the Shaykh is not in agreement with the project, okay? Why do we continue the effort and fatigue while he is rejecting the project?
The student : In any case, in my opinion.

The Shaykh : But that is not an answer...
Another student: No, because they inferred that if the Shaykh does not agree with the six small letters, how would he agree with the volumes?
The student : On the contrary.

The Shaykh : This is understood, but are there volumes?
The student : Forty volumes.

The Shaykh : Is each volume separate, or did they estimate it as forty volumes?
The student : No, no, they, if you look at the papers.

The Shaykh : This is a question from Abu al-Harith.
The student: Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
The question of " Abu al-Harith " is that he is pleased that they returned to his opinion.
The student : Yes, they did his opinion.

The Shaykh : This is the answer of the brother " Abu al-Harith ".
The student : Yes, they did the opinion of " Abu al-Harith ".

The Shaykh : Okay, that is enough.
Another student: How is our Shaykh doing?

The Shaykh : I did not finish it, finish it, my brother.
The student : We were afraid of interrupting your speech.

The Shaykh : Welcome.
To volumes.
The student : Praise be to Allah.

The Shaykh : This is good.
The student : Yes, by Allah, this is very good, so this—Shaykh—coincides with the initial vision that we had, that when it is truly volumes, this is an achievement and deserves effort and exertion.

The Shaykh : The topic that " Abu Ubaydah " raised, which is the selection of the people.
The student: Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : So they are studying, and peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings, welcome.
The student : Peace be upon you, how are you, Shaykh?

The Shaykh : Peace be upon you, may Allah bless you.
The student : May Allah prolong your life.
Another student: Our brother " Bilal 'Ubaydat ", Shaykh, Abu Ahmad is our neighbor, your brother and our brother.

The Shaykh : Welcome.
The student : But when they went there, circumstances arose... they are excusing themselves from completing the project.
Another student: Based on the issue of the letters.
Another student: The brother " Salim " has arrived now.
Another student: The issue is finished, " Abu Anas ".
Another student: The issue is finished now...
Another student: As long as the picture is clear regarding the difference between the letters and the volumes.
Another student: ... the agreement and the disagreement.

The Shaykh : It seems there is no problem in the mind of " Abu Anas "!
The student: Go ahead.
Another student: No, no, there is no problem in my mind...

The Shaykh : Encourage us, encourage us, " Abu Anas ".
The student : May Allah reward you, I do not know, I mean, the brother " Salim " is the one who informed me.
Another student: He sent me a fax...
Another student: Did they send another fax that cancels the fax...
Another student: No.
Another student: O Shaykh, I was with them before I came on the plane, I went to Jeddah for this matter; I mean, a big work they did stopped, I mean, only the finalization remained... how can a project like this stop, and funds were paid from Prince Abdullah al-Faisal, he supported the project, do these funds go to waste?! The Muslims must benefit from this work, and they did not do this except for the Muslims, so if only the finalization and delivery to the brothers remained, they said: The problem is not with the brothers, the problem is that someone came to us and informed us that the Shaykh is not in agreement with this project, so no matter how much we toil, the project will not be published, if the project is not published, then why do we continue the effort?

The Shaykh : No, with the conditions that we discussed, I have no objection.
The student : Oh, may Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : And if I would prefer the other one, if it were possible.
The student : May Allah reward you with good, O Professor, by Allah, I will be glad for all the Muslims.
Another student: Something must be written, uncle, and you appoint people, something must be written that is studied.

The Shaykh : Of course, we...
Another student: Even if they started and set up the project, I mean, it must be something written, one does not know.

The Shaykh : I asked how the understanding with the brothers who are far from us here would be, how would the dealing with them be?
The student : Shaykh, the materials are separate; that is, there is no connection between one work and another.

The Shaykh : I understand, meaning, do you send it here, meaning?
The student : It is necessary. The brothers are supposed to perform the proofreading, and then it is arranged to become final; that is, it is ready for printing. After that, it is sent to you so you can review the work. If you approve it, it is printed. If you have any notes, they are corrected.

The Shaykh : And can it be corrected?
The student : And it can be corrected.

The Shaykh : Even if it is prepared for printing?
The student : Even if it is prepared.

The Shaykh : I have no objection. Rely on Allah. Do you have anything else?
The student : May Allah reward you with good.