I never knew Shaikh Albani was the sole arbtrater of Haq and batil. Scholar even questioned his scholastic credential in hadith and Fiqh. Are we to accept him over the Salf us Saleh of Jumhur. This blind following of Mr. Albani has to be done away with. As Dr. Ati has nicely put it 'such fatawa' is irrlevent. I wonder who is really irrlevant here - a recent scholar (with questionable grasp of hadith and fiqh) or scholar like Imam Suyuti or Al Dahabi RAH!!!