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The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Question: the claim that the senior scholars do not understand current affairs (fiqh al-wāqiʿ)

• The status of knowledge and its people: the scholars are the inheritors of the Prophets

• Shaykh Rabīʿ (raḥimahullāh) on who Ahl al-Ḥadīth are, from the Companions to the later imāms

• This claim comes from the impatience of the Khawārij and the takfīrī youth

• A muftī rules only with full knowledge of an issue and its consequences

• Like the Jews with their scholars, they praise the scholars when they agree and revile them when they do not

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 3/8/25

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of ribā: the six commodities, those measured by value (gold and silver) and those measured by weight

• When trading the same commodity it must be equal and hand to hand, and when trading within the same group it must be hand to hand

• Disguised ribā through an item placed in between, and why agreeing to a ribā contract is itself ḥarām

• Selling land and trees: what goes with the asset and what stays with the seller

• The fruits that have appeared belong to the seller, unless the buyer stipulates them, and only for that first season

• A sale must not contain uncertainty (gharar), and the seller bears blight that strikes the fruits before they are handed over

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 14/7/24

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Sea creatures are lawful without slaughter, unless they live on land, and crabs are mentioned specifically

• The two dead animals (fish and locusts) and the two bloods (liver and spleen) are permitted

• The types of slaughter: naḥr for the camel, dhabḥ for other animals, and wounding an animal that cannot be caught

• First condition: the slaughterer must be a sane Muslim or one of the People of the Book

• Second condition: the name of Allāh is mentioned, and it is excused if forgotten when slaughtering, but not when hunting

• Third condition: a sharp tool is used, not a tooth or a nail

• Questions on stunning, and who counts as the People of the Book today

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 29/9/25

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of loans, ḥajr over the bankrupt and the foolish, ḥawālah, the guarantor and the collateral

• Reconciliation over a debt: the creditor may waive part of it or allow part of it to be delayed, as long as others' rights are not harmed

• Settling a gold debt with silver, or the reverse, must be at that day's price and hand to hand in one sitting

• A settlement over a claim that is denied is permissible, but not for one who knows his claim is false

• Writing down debts and having witnesses is better, though not a condition for the loan to be valid

• Questions on buying gold online and when it counts as hand to hand

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 20/10/24

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• What can be slaughtered must be slaughtered, and game that cannot be caught is lawful when wounded, with six conditions

• A hunting dog must be trained and sent by the hunter, and the virtue of knowledge shown by this ruling

• Game is not lawful when a trained and an untrained dog share the kill, when a poisoned spear may have killed it, or when the dog has eaten from it

• Chapter of the person in dire necessity (muḍṭarr): he may eat what is ḥarām only to the extent that keeps him alive

• A student loan is not a necessity, and taking it is ribā even before repayment begins

• Alcohol may not be drunk for thirst or used as medicine

• Questions on matters where the scholars differ, such as the turtle, and on qiṣāṣ and blood money

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 13/10/25

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The final chapter of the Book of Ḥajj: the ʿaqīqah is mentioned here because, like the uḍḥiyah and the hady, it is a slaughter

• The ʿaqīqah is a Sunnah, and it is the slaughter itself, not the gathering where the meat is eaten

• Two sheep for a boy and one for a girl, slaughtered on the seventh day, with the child's hair shaved and its weight in silver given in charity

• If the seventh day is missed then the fourteenth, then the twenty-first, and an adult may do it for himself if it was never done

• Etiquettes of the slaughter: the bones are not broken, and the blade is not sharpened in front of the animal

• Q&A: doing the ʿaqīqah abroad because it is cheaper, with the answer of Shaykh al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh)

• The end of the Book of Ḥajj and of the acts of worship; next comes the fiqh of dealings (muʿāmalāt)

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 28/4/24

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of the three types of slaughter and which animal each is recommended for

• Slaughtering a cow by naḥr or a camel by dhabḥ is still valid, as the distinction is only what is recommended

• Recap of the three conditions: the slaughterer, mentioning the name of Allāh, and a sharp tool

• An animal that dies from strangling or from the means used to catch it is not lawful

• The purpose of slaughter is to drain the blood, which is impure

• Next lesson: hunting and the person in dire necessity

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 6/10/25

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The start of Kitāb al-Aṭʿimah after the Book of Divorce: food is either from animals or from other than animals

• The default for food is that it is permissible, except what is impure or harmful, such as poison

• Every intoxicant is khamr and every khamr is ḥarām, whatever it is made from, and a small amount of it is ḥarām too

• Animals of the sea are permissible, from the ḥadīth "its water is pure and its dead are lawful", except the frog and the crocodile

• Land animals with fangs and birds with talons are forbidden, as are the domestic donkey, the mule and vermin

• The ḍabb (lizard) was eaten in the Prophet's ﷺ presence, so it is permissible

• Q&A: medicines that contain alcohol or pork products

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/9/25

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of the debt, the guarantor (ḍāmin), the one who undertakes to bring the debtor, and the transfer of debt (ḥawālah)

• Whatever may be sold may be given as collateral, and whatever may not be sold may not

• The collateral is a trust (amānah) in the creditor's hands, sold only if the debt is not repaid

• The creditor may not benefit from it, since a benefit on top of a loan is ribā; he may only use it to maintain it, such as milking a cow or running a car

• Rulings on a pledged slave who is harmed or who commits a crime

• If the debtor refuses to hand over the agreed collateral, the creditor may cancel the contract or continue without it

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 29/9/24

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Chapter of al-Khiyār: each party may cancel the sale as long as they have not separated

• An option stipulated in the contract must be for a specified period, because an open-ended condition is ambiguous

• A hidden defect gives the buyer the choice between returning the item or keeping it with compensation (arsh) for the defect

• Misdescribing the goods to raise the price, such as a tampered mileage clock, and goods that turn out to be deferred

• When the two parties disagree on the price, both swear by Allāh and either may cancel, unless one accepts the other's price

• Separation in a sale by phone or online, and the same rules applied to services such as a taxi fare

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 21/7/24