What is Al-Albani?
{{Infobox religious biography|religion=[[Islam]]|region=|module=|influenced={{ubl|[[Ibn Baz]]|[[Rabee Al-Madkhali]]|[[Umar Sulayman al-Ashqar]], [[Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i]]|[[Muhammad bin Jamil Zeno]]|[[Abdul Qayum (imam)|Abdul Qayum]]}}|influences={{ubl|[[Ibn Hanbal]]|[[Ibn Taymiyyah]]|[[Ibn Hazm]]|[[Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab]]|Badi' ud-Din Shah al-Rashidi|[[Rashid Rida]]}}|awards=[[King Faisal International Prize]] (in 1999)|disciple_of=|alma_mater=|notable_works=|notable_ideas=|creed=[[Athari]]|jurisprudence=[[Salafi]], [[Ahl al-Hadith]]|denomination=[[Sunni]]|occupation={{ubl|[[Hadith|Muhaddith]]|[[Fiqh|Faqih]], [[historiographer]]|bibliographer|[[watchmaker]]}}|era=|name=Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani <br/> {{lang|ar|مُحَمَّد نَاصِر ٱلدِّيْن ٱلْأَلْبَانِي}}|ethnicity=[[Albanians|Albanian]]|nationality=[[Albania]]n|other_names=|resting_place=|death_cause=|death_place=[[Amman]], [[Jordan]]|death_date=October 2, 1999 (aged 85)|birth_place=[[Shkodër]], [[Principality of Albania|Albania]]|birth_date=August 16, 1914|birth_name=|title=[[Sheikh|Shaykh]]|caption=|image=File:Al-Albani Calligraphy.png|website=http://www.albani.co.uk/}} '''Muhammad Nasir al-Din''', also known as '''Sheikh al-Albani''' (16 August 1914 – 2 October 1999) was an Albanian famous Islamic [[scholar]]. He was born in Shkodra, the old capital of [[Albania]], in 1914 and moved as a child with his family to Damascus where he completed his early education and received rigorous tutelage in Arabic and [[Islamic]] studies by prominent scholars of that time. Meanwhile, he worked as a clock and watch repairer to help support his family. He received the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 1999. Shaikh Al-Albani started to specialize in Hadith and related subjects in the 1930s and by the age of 20; he transcribed and commented on Al-Hafez al-Iraqi’s monumental text “Al-Mughnee ‘an hamlil-Asfar,” followed by a series of other books, lectures and influential articles in Al-Manar magazine. It was not long before he surpassed all of his