Shaykh Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani (1332–1420 AH) was the foremost scholar of hadith of the modern era, renowned for reviving the science of narrator-criticism and the authentication and grading of narrations. Born in Shkodër, Albania, he moved with his family to Damascus as a child, where he mastered Arabic and turned decisively to the study of hadith — largely teaching himself through years of dedicated research in the az-Zahiriyyah Library, while also receiving an ijazah from the scholar Shaykh Muhammad Raghib at-Tabbakh.
He devoted his life to distinguishing authentic narrations from weak and fabricated ones, producing vast works of takhrij and his well-known series on the authentic and weak hadith, and taught for a period at the Islamic University of Madinah. His scholarship reshaped how Muslims approach the Sunnah, insisting always on returning to the evidence as understood by the Salaf, and he left behind a generation of students who carried his methodology across the world.
Below is our full collection of Shaykh al-Albani's works translated into English, available at The Islamic Book Cafe.
