Born in Shkodër, al-Albani began his journey in Syria, where his family had moved prior and where he was educated as a child.
[1] His father, Nuh Najati, was a jurist of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence of Sunni Islam who had been trained in Istanbul.
[6]: 63 [8]: 119 [9] who collectively led him to comment on Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Husain al-'Iraqi's Al-Mughnee 'an-hamlil-Asfar fil-Asfar fee takhrej maa fil-lhyaa min al-Akhbar.
Then, he obtained a leave from Muhammad Rabegh Al Tabakh, to profess Hadith in Islamic University of Madinah from 1381 until 1383 AH, subsequently returning to Damascus.
In 1963, al-Albani left Saudi Arabia due to the hostility he felt and returned to his studies and work in the Az-Zahiriyah library in Syria.
Al-Albani criticized the four mainstream schools of Islamic law and rejected the traditional Sunni view that Muslims should automatically turn to a madhhab for fiqh (jurisprudence).
They believed that Muslims should focus on purifying their beliefs and practice and that, in time, "God would bring victory over the forces of falsehood and unbelief.
Further, al-Albani accused Hassan al-Banna, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, of not being a religious scholar and holding "positions contrary to the Sunna".
[8]: 86 Al-Albani wrote a book in which he redefined the proper gestures and formula that constitute the Muslim prayer ritual abiding by the prophet Muhammad's teachings.
[9] Al-Albani held a number of controversial views that ran counter to the wider Islamic consensus, and more specifically to Hanbali jurisprudence.