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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 loans, debts, bankruptcy and ḥajr, the guarantor and the kafīl

• A recap of rahn (collateral), where a pledged animal may only be used to maintain it, and of ṣulḥ (settling or waiving part of a debt)

• Bāb al-Wakālah: acting on another's behalf, and the Islamic centre standing as walī in marriage in a non-Muslim land

• Agency is a non-binding contract that ends with death

• The agent is a trustee, not liable for loss unless he transgresses, and he may be paid for his work

• Questions: exchanging gold jewellery, expectations from loans, ḥarām money put into a car, and repentance

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 27/10/24

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)

• How ḥawālah, ḍamān, kafālah and rahn all strengthen a loan and give the lender peace of mind

• Ḥawālah: transferring a debt, its conditions, and the one referred to a solvent person being bound to accept

• Ḍamān: with a guarantor the debt is on both, and the creditor may claim from either

• Kafālah: guaranteeing to bring the debtor, being liable if he isn't brought, and being released if the debtor dies

• The debts of the deceased, and the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) not praying over one who died in debt

• Questions on getting out of interest-bearing loans and hire-purchase contracts

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/9/24

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)

• Returning a loan with its like or better, including perishable goods

• Any benefit or expected return attached to a loan enters into ribā

• Bāb Aḥkām ad-Dayn: giving respite to the debtor in hardship, and the debtor who is known to have money

• Al-ḥajr: restricting the foolish (safīh) and the bankrupt from their wealth, and how the judge pays the creditors

• Debts after death, and the order in which the estate is used: funeral, debts, bequest (waṣiyyah), then inheritance

• How compound interest differs from the Islamic way of dealing with debt

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 15/9/24

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)

• Bāb as-Salam: the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās, paying in advance with a known measure, a known weight and a known term

• Goods sold by count, such as watermelons and pomegranates, and why some scholars do not allow salam in them

• Why the time and quantity must be specified: closing the doors to dispute

• A recap of the six ribā commodities and their categories, with currency under gold and silver

• Bāb al-Qarḍ: the ḥadīth of Abū Rāfiʿ and the young camel, "the best of people are the best at repaying"

• A loan may not bring the lender any benefit, even an expected one, such as a lift to work

• Questions on late-payment fees

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 4/8/24

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 ḥadīth of ʿUbādah ibn aṣ-Ṣāmit on the six commodities: gold, silver, wheat, barley, dates and salt, like for like and hand to hand

• Ribā as one of the seven destructive sins, and the warnings in al-Baqarah 275–276

• The wisdom behind its prohibition: taking people's wealth without right

• Trading the same kind (equal and on the spot) versus different kinds of the same category (excess allowed, but no delay)

• Currency, and trading pounds for gold

• Bayʿ al-ʿīnah, where a commodity is put in the middle of what is really an interest-bearing loan

• Questions, including buying physical gold and storing it in a vault

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 23/6/24

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 start of the muʿāmalāt (dealings), after the books on acts of worship

• What a sale (bayʿ) means, linguistically and in the Sharīʿah: the exchange of property for property

• The proof that trade is permitted: "Allāh has permitted trade" (al-Baqarah 275), and the consensus of the scholars

• The difference between the conditions of a sale and the conditions placed within a sale, following Shaykh al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh)

• The conditions: the parties must be able to transact (with the example of ḥajr), and the item must be permissible, deliverable and known

• Questions on mystery boxes, claw machines, auctions, bidding up a price, and selling over your brother's sale

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 2/6/24

Kitāb aṣ-Ṣiyām (the Book of Fasting) of ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• After the definition of fasting in the previous sitting, the rulings of the fast taken from different sources, here ʿUmdatul Fiqh of Ibn Qudāmah

• Fasting Ramaḍān is obligatory on every Muslim who has reached puberty, is sane and is able to fast; children are commanded to fast when able, so that they become used to it

• The crescent: the testimony of one trustworthy witness for entering Ramaḍān and two for leaving it, with Shaykh ʿUbayd's explanation of the difference

• The four categories who break the fast: the sick and the traveller (breaking is better, and the fast counts if they fast); the woman in menses or post-natal bleeding (she must not fast and makes the days up); the pregnant or breastfeeding woman who fears for herself or her child (she makes up, and feeds a poor person for each day when the fear is for the child); the elderly and the chronically ill, who feed a poor person for each day

• What breaks the fast, and what does not: forgetfulness or compulsion, dust or a fly entering the throat, water reaching the throat when rinsing the mouth, thoughts, and vomiting that overcomes a person

• Whoever eats thinking it is still night, and it turns out to be day, must make up that fast

Streamed LIVE online on SunnahRadio.net on 24/4/21

Kitāb aṣ-Ṣiyām (the Book of Fasting) of ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Opening a series of lessons on the rulings and virtues of the month of Ramaḍān, continuing from the earlier ʿUmdatul Aḥkām lessons, now with the Book of Fasting

• The linguistic meaning of ṣiyām: imsāk, to withhold from something

• Its meaning in the Sharīʿah: withholding from food, drink and everything that breaks the fast, from the second (true) Fajr until sunset, as an act of worship for Allāh

• The intention is required: leaving food and drink without intending worship is not a fast

• Fasting was prescribed for the nations before us, a sign of its greatness; it shows the servant's love and glorification of his Lord

• A wisdom of fasting: it reminds the servant of Allāh's blessing of food and drink, since things become clear by their opposites

• The stages of its legislation: first a choice between fasting and feeding, with fasting better, then made obligatory, with the concession for the sick and the traveller to make up the days later

Streamed LIVE online on SunnahRadio.net on 17/4/21

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 topics, concluding the discussion of marriage and divorce: maintenance (nafaqah) of relatives and of what one owns

• Maintenance follows an order: a person must provide for his parents and grandparents, with shelter and all their needs and not only money, and not put them into care homes

• When the parents cannot afford to provide for a child, the obligation passes to the heir, in proportion to his share of the inheritance

• Maintaining slaves and animals: an owner who cannot afford the upkeep must sell what he owns, unless the parties agree another arrangement

• The walīmah is mustaḥabb (recommended), accepting the invitation, the genuine excuses for not attending, and scattering money at the walīmah

• Q&A: the rights of grandparents, calling one's parents beginning with Tawḥīd, and choosing between supporting grandparents and children according to need

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 1/9/25

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)

• Continuing from liʿān: a child born to a man's wife or slave woman, with relations established, is ascribed to him: "The child belongs to the bed, and for the fornicator is the stone"

• A husband can disown a child only through liʿān (a slave owner by his claim), and a child is not ascribed to him if born less than six months after relations became possible

• Two men who had relations with one woman in one period of purity through a doubt (shubhah): the qāfah, experts in resemblance, decide, and the conditions for accepting their word

• Custody (ḥaḍānah) follows a set order: the mother has the greatest right to a young child, then the closest women, then the closest men

• No custody for a slave or a fāsiq, one who commits major sins short of shirk (with a note from Shaykh al-Fawzān hafidhahullāh), nor for a mother married to a man who is a stranger to the child

• The right of custody returns once the impediment is removed, e.g. a slave who is freed

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 18/8/25