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Abdul-Qader Arnaout, (Arabic: عبد القادر الأرناؤوط) (also Abdul Qadir al-Arna'ut, Arnaut, Abdul-Kader Arnauti, and other variants) born Kadri Sokoli (1928–2004) was an important and influential Islamic scholar of Albanian origin, of the 20th century; he specialised in the fields of hadith and fiqh.
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Abdul Qader was born into a poor family in the town of Vrela in Kosovo in 1347 AH/1928. Because of the Serbian oppression against the Muslims, his family emigrated (he was at the age of three) to Damascus where he started to learn Arabic and the sacred Islamic science.
Studying under a variety of the great scholars of his time, he was able to achieve a high level in sacred transmitted knowledge. Soon he became among famous scholars in the Science of hadith in Syria. In fact, he was considered by major scholars to be one of the world's top five Hadîth masters. Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani was asked from whom they should take the final word on hadîth if he was to pass away, to which the Shaykh replied, "Abdul Qadir." He gave lectures in many Islamic Institutions mainly in in Damascus and later in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and his original country Albania when the Communist era elapsed.
His famed oratory skills matched by a unique and sincere concern for his people, often led him to speak his mind, never fearing the authorities or oppressors. The Ba'ath government attempted to restrict his life as much as possible and he had suffered much difficulties at their hands, being banned many times from lectures and teaching, and then being placed under house arrest.
Despite Syrian authority's intimidation, Shaykh Arnaoot served as a full-time lecturer and Head of Hadith during the 1980s and 1990s at Jami' Az-Zahraa College, Mazzah Jabal Damascus, where he taught graduates from all over the world, including the African cleric Shaykh Abu-Abdullah Adelabu (Ph. D. Damascus). According to Dr. Adelabu, Shaykh Abdul-Qader's unique style in preserving Science of Hadith and the True Teachings of Islam is not only evident in his books, his love and services for students of knowledge both on his minbar and at his home in Mazzah Autastrad, Damascus was an antidote against corruptions and innovations in the Din.[1]
Shaykh Arnaoot (Rahimahu Allah) died on Friday, 26 November 2004 in his bed in Damascus. His son Mahmoud Abdul- Qader Arnaoot has riturned to Kosovo where he is giving lectures in significant mosques of Kosovo, and is a very respected person within the Muslim community of Kosovo.
As a teacher and redactor and editor of a publishing house in Damascus, the Shaykh has left behind over a complete 90 works like:
Some of that work was a group work with other famous scholars such as Mishkât al-Masâbîh which was a shared work with Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and Zad al-Ma'ad which was a shared work with Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut.
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