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al-‘Ali, Ibrahim Muhammad. Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani: muhaddith al-‘asr wa nasir al-sunna [Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani: hadith scholar of the century and defender of the Sunna] (Damascus: Dar al-Qalam, 2001).
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