The Shaykh Al-Albani's separation from his father and his independence due to his disagreement with his father's school of jurisprudence.
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The Shaykh : Several matters arose that provoked my father's anger against me, and in my opinion, this was due to the instigation of envious, hateful, and malicious people against me. One day, while we were having dinner, after he had explained the situation I was living in with him regarding my disagreement with him, he said to me in clear Arabic: "Either you agree with me, or you separate from me". I said to him: Give me three days to think about the matter. He said: That is for you. So I came to him with the answer: Since you have given me the choice, I choose to live far away from you so that I do not disturb you with my disagreement with your school of jurisprudence. And so it was. I left his place without owning a single dirham or dinar, and I remember clearly that he gave me only 25 Syrian pounds.
The questioner : And you were leaving the house?
The Shaykh : When I left the house, but during this entire period, I had established a nucleus of Salafi brothers. One of them had a shop where he sold grains like wheat, barley, and fava beans, and so on. He was in the same place where I had rented a shop for myself, so he lent me two hundred Syrian pounds until I was able to rent the shop. My father had some old machines that he did not use and did not need, so he gave them to me. I became independent in my work, and by the grace of Allah, I was precise in my profession and sincere in it, so the customers increased, as they say about us in Syria. And the Generous One said: Take, O Lord of the worlds, yes, indeed.
The questioner : You were about twenty-three years old, Shaykh, in those days, or was it around that age?
The Shaykh : Yes, because I had passed the age of twenty. I have a book to which I sometimes refer, titled *Al-Rawd al-Nadhir fi Tartib wa Takhrij Mu'jam al-Tabarani al-Saghir*. I was probably twenty-one or twenty-two years old when I finished it.
The questioner : What Allah willed!
The Shaykh : Yes, I do.
The point is that I became independent in my work and in my thought. We used to hold lessons at night at the homes of some of the brothers. Later, when the scope of the call expanded, we rented a headquarters, and we used to deliver lessons there on hadith, the principles of hadith, and the terminology of hadith, and so on.
The questioner : And you were leaving the house?
The Shaykh : When I left the house, but during this entire period, I had established a nucleus of Salafi brothers. One of them had a shop where he sold grains like wheat, barley, and fava beans, and so on. He was in the same place where I had rented a shop for myself, so he lent me two hundred Syrian pounds until I was able to rent the shop. My father had some old machines that he did not use and did not need, so he gave them to me. I became independent in my work, and by the grace of Allah, I was precise in my profession and sincere in it, so the customers increased, as they say about us in Syria. And the Generous One said: Take, O Lord of the worlds, yes, indeed.
The questioner : You were about twenty-three years old, Shaykh, in those days, or was it around that age?
The Shaykh : Yes, because I had passed the age of twenty. I have a book to which I sometimes refer, titled *Al-Rawd al-Nadhir fi Tartib wa Takhrij Mu'jam al-Tabarani al-Saghir*. I was probably twenty-one or twenty-two years old when I finished it.
The questioner : What Allah willed!
The Shaykh : Yes, I do.
The point is that I became independent in my work and in my thought. We used to hold lessons at night at the homes of some of the brothers. Later, when the scope of the call expanded, we rented a headquarters, and we used to deliver lessons there on hadith, the principles of hadith, and the terminology of hadith, and so on.