The Shaykh Al-Albani’s remarks on his acquaintance with some of the students of Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi, such as Bahja al-Bittar and Hamid al-Taqi.
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The Shaykh : As I said, I did not meet him, but I did meet some of his students, among themThe Shaykh : Bahja, and among themThe Shaykh : Hamid al-Taqi. Do you know Hamid al-Taqi?
The student : The one who came from ... .
The Shaykh : No, the one who came from ... .
The Shaykh : Hamid al-Taqi was a shaykh who walked leaning on a cane and wore magnifying glasses; he had become weak.
The questioner : This is the one between him and ... .
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you.The Shaykh : Hamid al-Faqi. There is an Egyptian one and a Damascene one. So the Egyptian is Hamid al-Faqi, and the Damascene is Hamid al-Taqi. He was one of the students of Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi. He used to attend my lessons.
The questioner : Your lessons.
The Shaykh : Yes, and I was almost a son of his, yes, because there was no one in Damascus who followed the path ... of Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi.
The questioner : ... used to come.
The Shaykh : He used to come with the martyrs.
The questioner : The martyrs ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, at ... yes, that is the intention. So he was impressed, he was impressed by my logical discussions in my meetings with the modernists to some extent, but he used to doubt the hadiths of Isa and al-Mahdi and so on, and it was not ... So praise be to Allah who guided us to this, and we would not have been guided had He not guided us.
The student : The one who came from ... .
The Shaykh : No, the one who came from ... .
The Shaykh : Hamid al-Taqi was a shaykh who walked leaning on a cane and wore magnifying glasses; he had become weak.
The questioner : This is the one between him and ... .
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you.The Shaykh : Hamid al-Faqi. There is an Egyptian one and a Damascene one. So the Egyptian is Hamid al-Faqi, and the Damascene is Hamid al-Taqi. He was one of the students of Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi. He used to attend my lessons.
The questioner : Your lessons.
The Shaykh : Yes, and I was almost a son of his, yes, because there was no one in Damascus who followed the path ... of Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi.
The questioner : ... used to come.
The Shaykh : He used to come with the martyrs.
The questioner : The martyrs ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, at ... yes, that is the intention. So he was impressed, he was impressed by my logical discussions in my meetings with the modernists to some extent, but he used to doubt the hadiths of Isa and al-Mahdi and so on, and it was not ... So praise be to Allah who guided us to this, and we would not have been guided had He not guided us.
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