About the Ta’nib and Tankil, Dr GF Haddad mentioned the following here:

http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/misc/al_kawthari.htm

Ta’nib al-Khatib ‘ala Ma Saqahu fi Tarjimati Abi Hanifata Min al-Akadhib (“Rebuking al-Khatib for Citing Lies in His Biography of Abu Hanifa”) to which the “Salafi” scholar ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Yahya al-Mu‘allimi al-Yamani (1313-1386) responded with his two-volume al-Tankil Lima Warada fi Ta’nib al-Kawthari min al-Abatil (“Repelling the Falsehoods Cited in al-Kawthari’s Ta’nib”). The Tankil contains a wicked attack on the early Hanafi school engulfing Ash‘aris and giving free vent to the author’s anti-madhhabi and anthropomorphist views, to the point that he states: “To negate [from Allah] the corporeality that is necessarily forbidden some said: ‘Allah has a body unlike bodies.’” Al-Kawthari countered with al-Tarhib bi Naqd al-Ta’nib in which he revealed that the publication of al-Mu‘allimi’s critique was financed by Muhammad Nasif, the same wealthy Jeddah patron who had financed the printing of al-Qari’s hapless fatwa that the parents of the Prophet e were in hellfire, the dissemination in India of the derogatory part of al-Khatib’s biography of Imam Abu Hanifa with an Urdu translation, and the publication of the anthropomorphist Kitab al-Sunna attributed to ‘Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal, concerning which book Shaykh Shu‘ayb al-Arna’ut said that “at least 50 percent of the hadiths in it are weak or outright forgeries.” Al-Kawthari also revealed that al-Mu‘allimi’s editor, Muhammad ‘Abd al-Razzaq Hamza, collaborated on the publication of ‘Uthman ibn Sa‘id al-Darimi’s Naqd al-Jahmiyya, which contains similar Israelite reports, anthropomorphist forgeries and other enormities.

Note also, that the well known Hanafi Muhaddith of Damascus, Dr Nurud-Din Itr said to GF Haddad:

“Which of the Tankils do you mean? For several hands
mixed their stamp to that of al-Mu‘allimi.” I was also told by Wa’il al-Hanbali in Damascus that ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Nasir al-Albani told him that the reason al-Albani fell out with Zuhayr al-Shawish was over the royalties from the publication of the
Tankil which contained the (uncredited) alterations and additions of al-Albani.” (see the footnote to GF Haddad’s, Albani and His Friends (p. 160).

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