Questioner: Hayak Allah, oh Shaykh.
Questioner: We have a shaykh in Egypt, whose name is Hishaam al-Bayalee, and he claims to be a student of yours and he says: The one who performs Shirk al-Akbar remains a Muslim as long as he is ignorant, and he (Hishaam al-Bayalee) attributes this statement to you as well; is this correct?
 It should be noted that we do not know who this person is. The intent here is only to expose this doubt that is commonly spread about Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan and others from ahlul-'Ilm.