The late hadith scholar, Nasir al-Din al-Albani (d. 1999), has been often depicted in contemporary scholarship as an 'iconoclast' (Hamdeh), largely due to the challenge he posed against pre-modern Muslim schools of thought, and pre-modern structures of scholarly authority. However, in a time marked by loss of confidence in canonical sources (Brown), al-Albani successfully articulated for vast Muslim publics an epistemology of scripturalist certainty grounded on the collected statements of Prophet Muhammad (sunna), texts that have constituted the very nexus of modern contentions over Muslim scripturalist sources, interpretative methods, and authority. What are the features of his sunna - grounded approach, and its significance in modern Muslim thought and practice? How does his larger argument over divine guidance and the role of prophetic speech inform modern religious understandings of prophetic testimony? In this paper, we seek to address these questions as part of a larger exploration on the function of prophetology, religious conviction, and accessibility of divine guidance.