The Importance of the Library in the Life of Shaykh Al-Albani

The Shaykh : ... I do not have specific hours set aside. From the Fajr prayer until whatever Allah wills of the night, except for what is necessary for the household's needs and requirements, and so on. But the continuity, praise be to Allah, is present. I used to leave the house at eight o'clock for the Zahiriyyah Library and stay there until Dhuhr. Since it had two shifts, I would return to it after Dhuhr until 'Isha. If it had only one shift, then it was from my library to my library, from the library of my home to the library of the Dar al-Kutub al-Zahiriyyah. So I lived between this and that. I have no leisure or diversion except my library and my books, as it was said:
"Yes, the companion when you are alone is a book *** You play with it when your friends betray you"
And sometimes I would travel to Aleppo, Homs, and Hama for the sake of da'wah, and I would spend two or three nights there, then I would return. This is all my work.