The story that happened to Al-Albani with a man who claimed to be a close friend of Allah.

The Shaykh : As for me, I will tell you about an incident that happened to me personally. Thirty or forty years ago, I was in Dayr 'Atiyyah, a village on the road to Aleppo. I was there staying up late in conversation, when we heard someone knocking on the window, not the door. The host, the owner of the house, went out to see who it was. We heard him making a great fuss and exaggerating in his welcome to the man who had come, saying, "Welcome, Abu So-and-so." Naturally, I and the rest of the gathering wanted to see who this honored guest was. It was a surprise to me from him, and to him from me, because the two opposites had come together. I knew the man, and perhaps some of those present now share my acquaintance with him. He was from the 'Amara district. The man who entered used to sit constantly and always by the southwest corner of al-Jawzi Mosque. That is the square in front of my shop. In Ramadan, he would smoke openly. His clothes were tattered, his eyes were bulging and red, God knows from smoking hashish and tobacco. This man, when the owner of the house saw him, believed he was a close friend of Allah; therefore, he welcomed him with great enthusiasm. When the man entered and was surprised to see me, he pretended to be a fool, or a madman, or possessed, as they say. He began to bow and prostrate without any awareness...