Innalillah wa inna ilayhi rajioon Asalamu alaykum akhi Abul Hasan, What about his brother, Shaykh Shuayb al-Aranaut with whom I understand Shaykh Nuh has studied and who is apparently a Hanafi muhadith? Anyay, regarding Sh. Abdul Qadir al-Arnaut - may Allah swt overlook his faults and enter him into His paradise.