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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)

• We have spent a couple of weeks on the Companions because of the importance of the topic

• Review of the last lesson: the Rightly Guided Khulafāʾ and their order, and that opposing the consensus on that order is innovation (a small innovation that grows, as with Shīʿism)

• Why the ten are singled out as promised Paradise when others were also given glad tidings individually

• The three best generations: the Companions, the Tābiʿūn and those after them

• Definition of a Ṣaḥābī: he met the Prophet ﷺ, believed in him and died upon that, even if apostasy came in between; the case of ʿĪsā (ʿalayhis-salām); definition of a Tābiʿī

• Why the Muhājirūn are given precedence over the Anṣār, and the virtue of the Hijrah

• Questions and answers, including shaving versus trimming the hair at the end of Ḥajj and ʿUmrah

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 12/5/24

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

• A short lesson on returning after Ramaḍān, to conclude the discussion of the Companions

• Reviewing the names of the ten promised Paradise with the audience

• Short biographies of the first four of the ten: Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq (born two years after the Year of the Elephant), ʿUmar, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān and ʿAlī

• ʿUthmān's lineage, and his marriage to two daughters of the Prophet ﷺ; ʿAlī as the fourth of the Khulafāʾ

• Questions and answers: how a ruler is chosen by those qualified, and why the democratic vote is flawed

• How rulers come to power in today's Muslim lands: elections, monarchy and succession

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)

• The twelve pillars of the prayer listed by Ibn Qudāmah

• Its obligations, such as the first tashahhud

• Movements that are acceptable in the prayer, such as closing a gap in the row, stopping someone passing in front, or opening a door

• Doubting how many rakʿahs were prayed: building on certainty, the lesser number

• Following the imām even where one holds a different view

• Men alert the imām to a mistake by saying "Subḥān Allāh" and women by clapping

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester

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 Chapter of the Adhān and Iqāmah: facing the qiblah and turning right and left at "Ḥayya ʿalaṣ-ṣalāh"

• The adhān is not obligatory upon women, and they do not raise their voices

• The times of the prayer: Ẓuhr from when the sun passes its zenith until an object's shadow equals its length, from the ḥadīth of Jibrīl leading the Prophet ﷺ

• ʿAṣr has a time of necessity until sunset, and it is not permissible to delay it without a legislated excuse

• Fajr begins with the true dawn, whose light spreads across the horizon, unlike the false dawn

• Q&A: amulets and bracelets worn as a cure, and why a cure must be established by the Sharīʿah or by experience

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester

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)

• Bāb al-Ghaṣb: taking another's property without right, and how it differs from theft

• The usurper must return it, and pay a fair rent for the time he held it

• Returning it with any increase, connected or separate, and paying for any loss in value

• If the usurped item is destroyed: its like if it is measured or weighed, otherwise its value

• When a usurped slave commits a crime, and the rulings on the usurped slave-girl and her child

• Slavery in Islam compared with the colonial slave trade

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 8/12/24

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)

• Kitāb al-Ijārah as an appendix to the Book of Sales: hiring a benefit rather than owning the thing

• A binding contract that ends when the thing hired is destroyed or its benefit is cut off, such as a house destroyed or land losing its water

• The benefit must be known, by custom (living in a house) or by description (sewing a garment, carrying something to a place)

• Using more than was agreed, and who is liable when the hired item is damaged

• Hiring someone for a period versus for a specific job, and the practitioner who goes beyond what he was asked

• Sub-letting with the owner's permission, and exclusivity clauses in employment

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 1/12/24

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)

• Bāb as-Sabq: competing is allowed, but a prize only in horse racing, camel racing and archery

• The ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUmar on the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) racing horses, and the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah on the third horse (muḥallil) and gambling

• Archery: the target must be specified

• Bāb al-Wadīʿah: a deposit is a trust, and whoever refuses to return it when asked becomes a ghāṣib

• The difference between ghaṣb and theft

• ʿĀriyah: borrowed items are guaranteed, agreeing the use and the time, and replacing what is broken or stolen

• Questions on the third horse being of equal quality

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 24/11/24

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)

• Bāb al-Juʿālah: a reward for a task, such as "whoever returns what I lost, or builds this wall, gets such-and-such"

• The ḥadīth of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī and the ruqyah with al-Fātiḥah for a flock of sheep

• Taking payment for ruqyah only on cure, not as a fixed price list or a trade made out of people's desperation

• Bāb al-Luqaṭah: the three kinds of lost property, and the stray camel ("What business is it of yours?")

• Announcing valuable finds for a year where people gather, such as markets and the doors of the masjid

• The foundling (laqīṭ): his guardianship goes to the finder, and his upkeep to the public treasury

• Questions on whether to pick up or leave something found

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 17/11/24

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)

• Musāqāh and muzāraʿah: working trees or land for a share of the fruit or crop, following on from partnership

• The share must be a known proportion, such as a third, and when a fixed amount is not allowed

• Bāb Iḥyāʾ al-Mawāt: "Whoever revives dead land, it is his"

• What counts as reviving land: building on it, watering it or sowing it

• Land with remnants of an earlier owner, and the two positions of the scholars

• Side questions on the grading "ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ" in at-Tirmidhī, and on VAT and resale conditions

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 10/11/24

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)

• A recap of agency: the kafīl for a debt versus the wakīl in general, and the wakīl in marriage

• Agency known by custom (ʿurf), general and specific

• Bāb ash-Sharikah and its four types: ʿinān, wujūh, muḍārabah and abdān

• Profit is shared as agreed and loss according to capital; no partner may be promised a fixed sum

• Worked examples on shares, costs and reinvesting the money of the venture

• Questions: investment schemes that are really ribā, and why a partner can't be forced to sell his share

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 3/11/24