The Shaykh's answer to those who take offense at him and say: How is it that you weaken a hadith today and authenticate it tomorrow?

The Shaykh : ... one thousand and three hundred, which means seventy. If we said eighty, and now it is over one hundred and eight.
Abu Layla: Ten years.

The Shaykh : One thousand, three hundred, and seventy-three, which means twenty years.
Abu Layla : Yes, if Allah wills.

The Shaykh : In these twenty-eight years, a person learns, a person comes to know what he did not know, and he changes. A person is in a state of development. People are surprised and ask, "Why do I authenticate in one book and weaken in another?" They think that knowledge is static. I tell them, "O people, knowledge does not accept being static." Therefore, I am in continuous study, adding footnotes, authenticating, and so on. I am pleased when someone points out my errors, but not in that style. This is the first time we see his name in the list of authors of their book: Ramadan Mahmoud Aissa, "Weak Hadiths in the Chain of Authentic Hadiths."
What does he say after this introduction? "Indeed, praise is to Allah, we praise Him, seek His help, and seek His forgiveness..." He says: "I was busy beginning the verification of Ibn Kathir's tafsir to clarify the authentic and weak hadiths, but one of the noble brothers, may Allah reward him with good—apparently a word is missing—suggested to me that I review the book *Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah* by Shaykh Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani, because it contains weak hadiths, and people take them with full confidence as if they are verified and authentic. This is a grave danger. So I turned the pages of *Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah* and found weak hadiths in it, so I resolved, if Allah wills, to collect them and then print them to make them clear to people. I felt that it is a great matter to judge a weak hadith as authentic and an authentic hadith as weak." He says: "I pledge to Allah to be neutral in my scientific verification and to be fair. And it is a sad and depressing thing that some people—look at the exaggeration and extremism—some people swear by the religions of the imams of their madhahib and the shaykhs of their tariqas, and even submit their scientific verifications to that."
Al-Albani: Yes, welcome, and upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. How are you?

The questioner : Preserving the Sunnah.

The Shaykh : May Allah accept, with your good prayers, if Allah wills.

The questioner : Spreading it, calling to it, and verifying its books.

The Shaykh : I ask Allah to increase us and you in success, and in spreading the true da'wah, the da'wah of the Book and the authentic Sunnah, and to increase us with you in success.

The questioner : O Allah, amen.

The Shaykh : How are you?

The questioner : Praise be to Allah.

The Shaykh : I hope you are well? Are you still in the mosque, praying and leading people, if Allah wills?

The questioner : Yes, and praise be to Allah.

The Shaykh : May Allah benefit them through you.

Another questioner : But he intends to travel as well.

The Shaykh : Where?

Another questioner : To Egypt.

The Shaykh : Good, good, my brothers. Good? Why?

Another questioner : His contract ended here, and they asked al-Azhar—meaning, the Jordanian University here asked al-Azhar to renew his contract with the university here in teaching the science of qira'at, tajwid, and recitation. They sent it directly to the Shaykh of al-Azhar, and the response came. He is finishing the story for you. They are keen on him to benefit the students there, so they said, "No, he must come."

The Shaykh : This indicates the high status of someone like him.

The questioner : Yes, this is the honor.

The Shaykh : Yes, Shaykh.

The questioner : May our Lord make our affairs easy for us, if Allah wills.

The Shaykh : O Allah, amen.

The questioner : By the grace of your prayers, if Allah wills.

The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. We ask Allah to make good easy for you wherever you turn, and to make people benefit from you.

The questioner : Amen, O Lord of the worlds.

Another questioner : And the Shaykh of al-Azhar, meaning, they sent to him more than once, and they sent Ibrahim Zayd al-Kilani personally, if you have heard of him, and an official letter from the university and the Islamic Cultural Center, addressing the Shaykh of al-Azhar. The response came frankly, annoyingly, meaning he said: "If you want another substitute, we will send him to you."

The Shaykh : Oh, no substitute?

The questioner : No, there is a substitute, they want himThe Shaykh : to return.

The Shaykh : He says: There is no substitute?

The questioner : Oh, yes, if there were a substitute, they would not have sent for him. So may Allah bless you. The group here was very affected, and they said: There is no other way,The Shaykh : meaning, he is needed in Jordan, just as you said: they have no substitute for him. So they said: We need you in Jordan. So, by the will of Allah, groups and groups are coming out of the recitation and tajwid courses, and so on. There is movement in the mosque, a movement of da'wah and knowledge, and so on. He isThe Shaykh : may Allah reward him with good, from this aspect, he was encouraged, even in the seeking of knowledge. And glory be to Allah, he says, about himself: "I am such and such in qira'at, but I feel the responsibility of imamah and standing before Allah, Mighty and Majestic."

The Shaykh : What Allah willed, what Allah willed.

The questioner : So he is conscious of it. If someone asks him—this is in front of me—he does not answer; he says, "Ask so-and-so, ask so-and-so, ask so-and-so." They felt this man here. He did not come for the salary and such, but to spread the knowledge he has.

The Shaykh : No doubt that this country is poor.

The questioner : Yes, very much.

The Shaykh : And in extreme need of someone like him.

The questioner : untilThe Shaykh : 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Khayyat tells him that they need both of them.

The Shaykh : May Allah favor him.

The questioner : Yes, by Allah, meaning, I heard a khutbah from him. You told the Shaykh something about it regarding upbringing in Islam. So he gave the khutbah that day, and I was entering. He was delivering the khutbah from paper.The Shaykh : By the will of Allah, he says: "Since I came here, I have not attended a khutbah. I have a talent for expression and eloquence." So he said: "The foundation of upbringing in Islam is 'aqidah, its goal is taqwa, and between them are branches..." ThenThe Shaykh : 'Abd al-'Aziz, after the khutbah was finished, said to him: "May Allah give you health..." He came here and they realized his value among the group of preachers and imams. Even a friend wrote him a letter thanking him for his standing in the sciences of such and such and such. No imam could have received a letter of thanks like that, and I saw the letter.

The Shaykh : What Allah willed.

The questioner : They are very attached to him. He is, in truth, may Allah reward him with good, he did not like the crooked situation. The last matter was the issue of qada' wa qadar that I told you about...

The Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good. In truth, his response was...