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Assalaamu Alaykum,

You can download it here: http://www.archive.org/download/aslein4/kalemat.pdf

A brother made some remarks about this book here: http://attahawi.com/2009/06/25/kalim...h-abu-ghuddah/

I just globally read the book and I totally disagree with his short review. This book contains a lot more than just a refutation of Shaykh Albani, which he hardly even mentioned by name.

This book was written because of the lies which were spread about Shaykh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah. It was said that he declared Shaykh Ibn Taymiyyah, Imam Ibn al-Qayyim and Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab as unbelievers, while the opposite is the case.

He shows that he has immense respect for the above persons, and praises them a lot and gives references to his early works and tahqiqs where he talked about Ibn Taymiyya.

- He gives Ibn Taymiyya numerous times lofty titles such as "Shaykh al-Islam" and declares it nonsense that he declared him an unbeliever (p. 24-30).

- He gives immense praise to his student Ibn al-Qayyim and refutes the lie attributed to him that he declared him kafir (p. 30-35). He again refers to his other tahqiqs that were published.

- His refutation of istigatha with the dead (p. 35-38). It was said that he declared it permissible and the one who says that it is shirk: he himself is an unbeliever. This is not the case and totally baatil and asks them "Where did I say that?". Then he says that istigatha is not permissible. He also refers to one of his earlier tahqiq where he refuted the wording 'ghawth al-thaqalayn' used by Imam Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi.

- He gives respect to Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and calls him Imam al-Da'wa and states "Allah have mercy on him" behind his name.

- He agrees with the division of tawhid made by Ibn Taymiyya (p. 38).

- He discusses the stance of his teacher Imam Kawthari, and states that he is just one of his many teachers. It does not mean that he is supposed to agree with everything what Imam Kawthari said. Then he stated that he had one big Shaykh in Halab who was totally in love with Ibn Taymiyyah, and said that "If prophethood was not ended, Ibn Taymiyyah would have been a Nabi" (!). See page 39.

- Then in the end he refutes the claim of Albani who said that Isa alayhis salam wil rule according to the Qur'an and the Sunnah, not with the bible or Hanafi fiqh. (p. 40)

- He also dealt with those people who declared Abu Hanifa a Kafir.

- He deals with a discussion about the hijab of a muslim woman (p. 43).

- He also mentioned how he wrote to Imam Zafar Ahmad Thanwi to take back his words against Ibn Taymiyyah when he disagreed with Imam Tahawi. Imam Zafar Ahmad Usmani agreed and changed his remark and did tawba.

- In the footnotes on p. 21 he also mentioned the Deobandi Shaykh Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami with lofty titles and refers to his refutation of Shaykh Albani.

I would say that this book is more of a refutation against some of the hardliners amongst the Muslims who speak very badly about Ibn Taymiyya and call him a kafir or a deviant.

Wassalaam