It is important for a Muslim seeking to learn about Islam to have the proper teachers. It is also important for them to ensure that any books they have are by verified scholars. If it is a translation, of a classical work the translator and the publisher have to be verified. The same applies if it is a commentary. The following is adapted from Salafi Tampering of Riyadh asw-Swalihin by Shaykh Gibril Haddad and Moin Shaheed, President, Ahlus Sunnah Muslim Association of Sri Lanka. This is a review of the translation of Imam an-Nawawis (r.a.) Riyadh asw-Swalihin published in 1999 by Darussalam Publishing House, Riyadh. A team of unprincipled editors and translators out of a Riyadh publishing house by the name of Darussalam was commissioned to produce a glossy 2-volume English edition of Imam an-Nawawis (r.a.) Riyadh asw-Swalihin to be distributed for free to Islamic schools around the world. This exercise is designed to propagate Salafi ideology to unwary English-speaking Muslim students of Islamic knowledge. This ideology is couched within a thoroughly unscrupulous commentary inserted into the book chapters and authored by an unknown or spurious Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf of Pakistan,’ ‘revised and edited by Mahmud Rida Murad’ (1:7).
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