السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ shaykh how to respond to people who say salafis blind follow ibn taymiyyah and you follow him more than the salaf and you mention him more than the salaf and that you guys take the authentication of imam al Albani instead of scholars from the salaf like Imam Ahmad

We do not follow Ibn Taymiyyah, we follow the evidence, and he is mentioned often because he followed the salaf, did not contradict them like the ones who tell us not to listen to him, stuck to the Quran and the Sunnah, and clarified their way, not because he stands beside them as an authority. As for the gradings, the earlier imams themselves differed over narrations and narrators, so a later muhaddith weighing their words is not opposing them or making new rulings, and al-Albani's grading is taken for the evidence behind it following the grading of the Imams before him after weighing the stronger evidence for it.