A word on Muhammad Zuhayd al-Kawthari.

The Shaykh : First, perhaps you know that he belongs to a shaykh known for his hostility toward the people of the Sunnah and the people of hadith in his writings and letters, namelyThe Shaykh : Zuhayd al-Kawthari, and that he studied under him. And because of his love for this innovator and his fanaticism against the Salafi hadith-based da'wah, he namedThe Shaykh : Abu Ghuddah one of his children after thisThe Shaykh : man, namely Zuhayd. So he defends Zuhayd al-Kawthari, who attacks the creed of the righteous Salaf, especially what concerns the divine names and attributes. He is among those who hold the major misguidance I alluded to in the first session, namely that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is in every place, and that Allah is not described as the Most High, the Most Exalted, contrary to the creed of the righteous Salaf. The discussion of this is long. So he defends Zuhayd al-Kawthari and attacksThe Shaykh : Al-Albani with distortions in speech and changing words from their proper places. So I wrote an introduction for some printings of the book Sharh al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah, in which I refuted him and his shaykh Zuhayd al-Kawthari for their attacks on many authentic hadiths whose authenticity is agreed upon. As for the younger Kawthari—I call him the younger Kawthari because he belongs to this elder Zuhayd al-Kawthari—I refuted him when he attributed to me the position that I do not accept a hadith authenticated by al-Bukhari and Muslim except through my own critique. He criticized my methodology in tracing the hadiths of Sharh al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah. Whoever among you has looked into it will find that when I cite a hadith, I begin with the word "authentic, narrated by so-and-so and so-and-so." I might say, for example, "authentic, narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim," or "authentic, narrated by al-Bukhari," or "authentic, narrated by Muslim," or "authentic, narrated by Abu Dawud," and so on. Ah, he formed a bad opinion of me and said that this style means thatThe Shaykh : Al-Albani does not authenticate a hadith, even if it is agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim, but only gives his personal opinion. So I refuted him and said to him: This is a style I did not invent alone; rather, I benefited from it from some of the imams of hadith. I cited some examples from the book Sharh al-Sunnah by Imam al-Baghawi before this book was printed in 15 volumes. I cited some examples for him where al-Baghawi says of some hadiths he mentions with their chains: "This is an authentic hadith agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim." And so he fished in muddy waters with this phrase I used. He wanted to attribute to me the position that I do not trust Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, and this is a lie and a fabrication. Therefore, I wrote that introduction, which I believe reached more than 50 pages, and I presented to him nearly 10 hadiths—I do not remember them precisely now—on which al-Bukhari and Muslim agreed to authenticate, or one of them authenticated exclusively, andThe Shaykh : Kawthari weakened those hadiths. So I said to him: Subhan Allah, you took from Al-Albani's words "authentic, narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim" to accuse him of what your shaykh Zuhayd al-Kawthari is actually guilty of and caught in.