Is the Hadith: "Indeed, Allah despises every arrogant, boastful person" authentic, and did Shaykh Al-Albani retract his authentication of it, and are there other chains of narration that would authenticate it?
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The of Abu Hurairah was deemed "authentic in its chain of narration" by Ahmad Shakir, Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut, Husayn Asad, and al-Albani. However, al-Albani later retracted his authentication due to a discontinuity in the chain between Sa'id and Abu Hurairah. Nevertheless, the Hadith has been narrated with other wordings and through other chains of transmission from a number of Companions other than Abu Hurairah, and al-Albani authenticated several of these. Therefore, the Hadith is valid for practice and as an evidence.
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