Sh Afifi follows up on the Kissing the Thumbs Article
[taken from http://www.livingislam.org/k/qumh_e.html from the Living Islam website] From: “M. Afifi al-Akiti” Regarding Kissing the Thumbs etc. during Adhan […] I am aware that a number of muhaddiths (such as Ibn Tahir al-Zahiri, our al-Sakhawi and al-Shawkani) have considered this Hadith [of Kissing the Thumbs] to be inauthentic (all using the phrase: lA taSiHu; although “not Sahih”, they nevertheless did not use the stronger term “bATil”, for example) and some modern Muhaddith as outright mawdu’ (al-Albani & co) even when…