saying: "They are both imitators!" How many times has he contradicted them! And it has not been long since you did so, and it comes. He contradicted six of the ḥadīth masters who unanimously authenticated the ḥadīth: "Whoever breaks a row, Allāh will break him," claiming it was defective due to being mursal, even though it was authentic as musnad. Then he attempted to weaken the mursal as well by the narrator of the musnad and mursal (Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ) - whom Muslim used as evidence - saying about him: "Moderate, or less than moderate." He quoted from the ḥāfiẓ the statement of al-Ishbīlī regarding (ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd): "He is not used as evidence," but did not convey the ḥāfiẓ's rebuttal of him, as followed up by Ibn al-Qaṭṭān! He quoted from "al-Fatḥ" the statement of al-Qurṭubī on the reason for disliking prayer between the columns: that it is the prayer place of the jinn! There is no basis for this in the sunnah, so he hastened to refute it, but he did not convey from "al-Fatḥ" the established reason in the sunnah, to mislead readers into thinking there is no legitimate and transmitted reason, while the ḥāfiẓ said: "The specific prohibition of praying between the columns was reported with a sound isnād." He attributed to Ibn Qudāmah: "No evidence for the prohibition was authenticated by those who permit," and this is a fabrication against him, arising from his distortion in transmission, and its clarification is there. He had retained the aforementioned ḥadīth: "Whoever breaks a row..." in his edition of "Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn," indicating its authenticity, then weakened it, contradicting six of the ḥadīth masters as previously mentioned - in spite of those he falsely called (the Albanians)! He omitted from his mentioned edition the musnad ḥadīth of al-Bukhārī, not suspended (!), regarding placing one's foot next to the foot of the person praying beside him, omitting it without notifying the readers in the commentary! And he did not include it - all praise is due to Allāh - in his "Ḍaʿīfah," and I do not think he practices it when standing in the row; because he sees it as extremism in religion, even if it was the practice of the salaf! Otherwise, he would not have weakened it! He disparages the Salafis for imitation, ignorant of the difference between following and imitation!