Question: Does the silsilah of Shaykh Al-Albaani contain all saheeh hadeeth (according to Shaykh Al-Albaani)?

[Moosaa.Richardson]

Sorry, but the first part of my original answer was cut off somehow...qaddarAllaahu wa maa shaa' fa'ala.

I mentioned that Shaykh Al-Albaanee did not intend to collect all the available authentic hadeeths, and that the Silsilah Saheehah is only a portion of his findings on some hadeeth he scrutinized.

I also mentioned that when the shaykh put a hadeeth in his Saheehah, the intention was that it was saheeh or hasan according to him. Sometimes the shaykh would include a weak hadeeth inside of his larger discussion of numbered hadeeths to explain how it is too weak to draw a benefit from or for another reason. but the numbered hadeeths are all authentic according to him. Sometimes people err by referencing to the Saheehah a weak hadeeth he was criticizing in the middle of his discussion of another numbered (authentic) hadeeth, thus misleading people into thinking the shaykh considered the criticized hadeeth to be authentic, just because the discussion of it is found in the blue Saheehah, not the red Dha'eefah!

EXCEPT for a few hadeeths he retracted his authentication of, and I mentioned a few examples. The example quoted in the last post should be sufficient.

Works have been done to track and record his retractions of rulings on hadeeth. May Allaah have Mercy on Shaykh Al-Albaanee, a man truly reminding us of the early hadeeth scholars!