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Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Continuing Point 90 on buying and selling: lawful trade versus ribā

• The conditions of a valid sale: an agreed item and price, the consent of both parties, a seller of sound mind who owns the item, and a permissible item

• Conditions placed within a sale are allowed unless they go against the Book and the Sunnah

• Sales forbidden for their uncertainty, such as al-mulāmasah

• Ribā in the six commodities: same kind, same amount and hand to hand

• Restricting a person's dealings (ḥajr): minors, the mentally ill and debtors

• Long questions and answers: shares, raffles, currency exchange, loans and pricing

Streamed LIVE on 23/8/26

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Completing Point 85: praying on time, and making up a prayer missed through sleep or forgetting

• Point 86: Zakāh at 2.5%, and the wealth it is due on: gold, silver and currency, livestock, crops and trade goods

• Point 87: Islām begins with the Shahādah; the meaning and pillars of lā ilāha illallāh, and the testimony that Muḥammad is the Messenger of Allāh

• Point 88: whatever Allāh says is the truth; His promise is certain, and He may pardon what He threatened

• Point 89: believing in all of the Sharīʿah and in all the messengers without distinguishing between them

Streamed LIVE on 30/6/26

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Point 84: Allāh punishes in the Fire whom He wills, in body and soul, refuting those who deny it

• The ḥadīth of the three first thrown into the Fire: the scholar, the generous man and the fighter who acted to be seen

• Point 85: the five daily prayers and their times; whoever claims more than five has innovated

• Combining and shortening the prayers when travelling

• The four types of person who leaves the prayer

• Questions and answers on travelling and fasting ʿĀshūrāʾ

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 24/6/26

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Point 81 (point 78 in the teacher's Arabic text): the tidings given at death, of Paradise for the believer and of Allāh's anger for the disbeliever

• Repentance is cut off at death; whoever dies upon a major sin is under Allāh's Will

• The ḥadīth 'whoever loves to meet Allāh, Allāh loves to meet him'

• Point 82: the believers will see Allāh in the Hereafter, and denying it is disbelief

• Point 83: kalām, argumentation and disputing lead to doubt and innovation

• Submitting to the texts rather than disputing them

Streamed LIVE on 23/6/26

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Point 80 (point 77 in the teacher's Arabic text): Allāh is All-Hearing, All-Seeing and All-Knowing, and knew His creation would disobey Him before He created them

• The categories of Tawḥīd shown in this point

• His Names and Attributes: the meaning is known, the 'how' is unknown

• His knowledge does not force anyone to disobey: the universal and legislative will

• Guidance of direction (irshād) and guidance of success (tawfīq)

• Allāh's favour to the believers in sending the messengers and enabling them to follow the truth

• Questions and answers on fasting ʿĀshūrāʾ

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/6/26

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Completing the point on Qadar: all good and evil occur by Allāh's knowledge, writing, will and creation

• The two kinds of will: universal (kawniyyah) and legislative (sharʿiyyah)

• The ḥadīth 'whoever lives among you will see much differing'

• Point 77: the intellect is a gift from Allāh, and each person is accountable according to what he has been given

• Four ways of knowing Allāh: the fiṭrah, the sound intellect, the revealed texts and the miracles, which never contradict one another

• People's intellects differ, from the complete to those with none

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 17/6/26

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Point 76: Allāh spoke to Mūsā on the day of aṭ-Ṭūr, and Mūsā heard His speech

• Allāh also spoke to the Prophet ﷺ on the Miʿrāj, when the fifty prayers were reduced to five

• Allāh's speech is real, with letters and a voice that is heard; the Qurʾān is His speech, conveyed by Jibrīl and Muḥammad ﷺ

• Refuting the Jahmiyyah and Muʿtazilah: their denial began with likening Allāh to the creation

• Whoever says the Qurʾān is created is a disbeliever once the proof is established

• Idols that cannot speak cannot be lords

• Questions and answers: explaining the Qurʾān's divine origin to a non-Muslim

Streamed LIVE on 16/6/26

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of the previous lesson on Qadar

• Point 75: the prohibition of disputing and arguing about Qadar

• Believing in the Decree, its good and its bad, as a pillar of Īmān

• Expiating sins: a good deed wipes out a bad one, and major sins need sincere repentance

• Leaving what does not concern you, and not asking about what has not been made known

• Facing trials with patience rather than disobedience; envy as displeasure with Allāh's Decree

• Not blaming the Decree for one's sins

Streamed LIVE on 15/6/26

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Following on from the previous night's lesson on the souls of the martyrs

• Point 74 (point 70 in the teacher's Arabic text): the soul is returned to the body in the grave and the deceased is questioned by Munkar and Nakīr

• The three questions of the grave, how the believer answers and how the hypocrite cannot

• The bliss of the grave for the believer and its punishment for the disbeliever

• Manners of visiting the graves

• The Muʿtazilah's denial of the punishment of the grave, and accepting āḥād narrations in ʿaqīdah

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 13/4/26

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Resuming the series after a long gap

• Point 73 (point 69 in the teacher's Arabic text): the souls of the martyrs are in green birds in Paradise, the souls of the disbelievers in Barahūt

• Belief in the Barzakh and the soul as matters of the unseen

• What the rūḥ is, and making images of things that have souls (taṣwīr): photographs, ID photos, and pictures taken at the Ḥaram

• Showing off (riyāʾ) as hidden shirk, and the conditions for a deed to be accepted

• The legislated visiting of graves and what is forbidden there

• Questions and answers on videos, pictures for daʿwah, and renewing one's intention

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 12/4/26