40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside) – Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Completing the final ḥadīth, number 42: the ḥadīth of Anas ibn Mālik, "Allāh the Most High said: O son of Ādam, so long as you call upon Me and hope in Me, I will forgive you…"

• Seeking forgiveness, as practised by the Prophet ﷺ and the prophets before him such as Mūsā (ʿalayhis-salām)

• Praising Allāh for His favour in forgiving sins, granting good deeds and erasing evil deeds

• The conclusion of the entire book

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Beginning the 41st ḥadīth, of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr: "None of you truly believes until his desires follow what I have brought", which is in fact weak

• ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr wrote down many ḥadīth, while Abū Hurayrah memorised the most, as Abū Hurayrah himself said

• The negation here is of complete faith, not the foundation of faith without which it is invalid

• The 42nd ḥadīth, "O son of Ādam, as long as you call upon Me and hope in Me, I will forgive you whatever came from you, and I do not mind"

• Duʿāʾ requires a greater presence of heart and hope than dhikr, and "I do not mind" is a negated attribute (ṣifah salbiyyah)

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Completing ḥadīth 39 of Ibn ʿAbbās: "Allāh has pardoned my Ummah for mistakes, forgetfulness and what they are coerced into"; though weak, its meaning is found in the Qurʾān and Sunnah

• Ḥadīth 40 of Ibn ʿUmar: "Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a traveller"

• The heart that has sincerity and turns back to Allāh, with comments from Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh)

• Introducing ḥadīth 41: "None of you truly believes until his desire follows what I have come with"

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Beginning the 38th ḥadīth, the ḥadīth qudsī of Abū Hurayrah in al-Bukhārī: "Whoever shows enmity to a walī of Mine, I have declared war on him"

• "My servant does not draw near to Me with anything more beloved than what I have made obligatory, and continues to draw near with voluntary deeds until I love him"

• "Then I become his hearing with which he hears, his sight with which he sees …", and his supplications and seeking of refuge are answered

• The awliyāʾ are "those who believe and have taqwā" (Yūnus 10:62–63), as explained by Ibn Taymiyyah (raḥimahullāh)

• Since īmān and taqwā increase and vary, so does a person's walāyah

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Resuming the 37th ḥadīth, of Ibn ʿAbbās in al-Bukhārī and Muslim: "Allāh has written the good deeds and the evil deeds"

• Whoever intends a good deed but does not do it, one complete good deed is written; whoever does it, ten to seven hundred times and more

• Whoever intends an evil deed but leaves it, a complete good deed is written; whoever does it, a single evil deed

• Summary of Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn's (raḥimahullāh) earlier points before continuing: the writing in the decree

• The multiplying of reward varies with the excellence of one's Islām, and the Companions are greatest: "If one of you spent the like of Uḥud in gold …"

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Continuing ḥadīth 36 of Abū Hurayrah: "Whoever relieves a believer of a hardship of this world, Allāh will relieve him of a hardship of the Day of Resurrection…"

• Ḥadīth 37 of Ibn ʿAbbās: Allāh has written the good deeds and the bad deeds, and the reward for intending a good deed

• The great virtue of fasting the Day of ʿArafah, the 9th of Dhul-Ḥijjah, as an expiation of sins

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 36 of Abū Hurayrah: "Whoever relieves a believer of a hardship of this world…, whoever makes things easy for one in difficulty…, whoever conceals a Muslim…"

• The explanation of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh)

• Gathering to recite the Qurʾān together in a fixed manner as an act of worship becomes an innovation

• A person should not be deceived by his lineage, but concern himself with righteous actions

• Next: the commentary of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl ash-Shaykh (hafidhahullāh) on the same ḥadīth

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Continuing ḥadīth 35 of Abū Hurayrah, in which the Messenger ﷺ forbade twelve matters, with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl ash-Shaykh (hafidhahullāh)

• The Farewell Sermon at ʿArafah: "Your blood, your wealth and your honour are sacred to one another"

• The believers differ in rank according to taqwā, obedience and the Sunnah

• Introducing ḥadīth 36: relieving hardship and treading the path of knowledge

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Continuing the 35th ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah, on how Muslims deal with one another, from the fifth benefit in Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn's (raḥimahullāh) explanation

• Turning away from one another, with the body or with the heart, is bad manners that shows contempt and breeds hatred

• Undercutting a brother's sale, and the prohibition of wronging, forsaking and lying to him

• When tawriyah (ambiguous speech) is permissible, provided one clarifies what was meant

• Shaykh ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān as-Saʿdī (raḥimahullāh) and the man he told, in the last ten days of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, that he could not visit him "this year"

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Beginning the 35th ḥadīth, of Abū Hurayrah in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: "Do not envy one another, do not inflate prices, do not hate one another, do not turn away from one another, and do not undercut one another's sales"

• "Be, O servants of Allāh, brothers. The Muslim is the brother of the Muslim: he does not wrong him, forsake him, lie to him or hold him in contempt"

• "Taqwā is here", pointing to his chest three times, and every Muslim's blood, wealth and honour are inviolable

• Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh) on the two definitions of envy, wishing that a blessing leaves another

• Envy objects to Allāh's decree and wisdom, and leads to transgression, argument and spreading others' faults