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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)

• Recap of the ruling of the prayer and the four types of people who leave it

• The difference between laziness and negligence in leaving the prayer

• The prayer is obligatory on the Muslim who has reached puberty, and children are commanded to pray from the age of discernment

• The adhān and iqāmah are legislated for the five obligatory prayers only, to announce their times

• The muʾadhdhin should be trustworthy, as he is trusted with the times of the prayer

• The narration "none gives the adhān except one in wuḍūʾ" in at-Tirmidhī is mawqūf, and what mawqūf means

• Repeating after the muʾadhdhin: whoever says it sincerely from his heart enters Paradise, from the narration of ʿUmar in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 8/5/23

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: unity can only be upon the correct ʿaqīdah

• The statement "let us cooperate in what we agree upon and excuse one another in what we differ over": what is true in it and what is false

• Matters of creed in which there is no room for differing, such as cursing the Companions

• The blessing of Islām and accepting the truth when it comes

• Point 1: Islām is the Sunnah and the Sunnah is Islām, and neither is established without the other

• Questions and answers: why some Imāms prayed in a particular way, based on the narrations they had

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 14/5/23

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 more than a month

• Al-Barbahārī mentions points of creed and of rulings (prayer, zakāh, marriage, divorce), and now buying and selling

• Point 90 (point 87 in the teacher's Arabic text, the first point of volume two of Shaykh al-Fawzān's explanation): buying and selling are lawful when done according to the Sharīʿah

• Ribā: an increase, or even an expected increase, on a loan is ribā

• Questions and answers on loans and giving back more of one's own free will

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/8/26

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

• Concluding Point 77 on the intellect: it is a favour from Allāh, not something a person earns

• Point 78 (point 75 in the teacher's Arabic text): Allāh has favoured some of His servants over others

• There can be no unity with those who say the Qurʾān is created; innovation does not stop where it starts

• Point 79: sincere advice (naṣīḥah) to Allāh, His Book, His Messenger, the leaders of the Muslims and their common folk

• Naṣīḥah to the Book of Allāh: learning it, acting on it and reciting it properly

• Teaching the ignorant, reminding the heedless and encouraging good

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 18/6/26

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: the so-called Qurʾāniyyūn, and why that name does not truly fit those who reject the Sunnah

• The sources of evidence: the Qurʾān, the Sunnah, consensus (ijmāʿ) and the statement of a Companion, with its conditions

• Why not to sit and debate with the people of desires: the heart may accept a doubt

• Keeping ties with family members who argue about the religion

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 26/10/25

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

• Muʿādh ibn Jabal sent alone to Yemen to call to Tawḥīd: the narration of one trustworthy person is accepted in ʿaqīdah

• Point 70: the Qurʾān is in need of the Sunnah to explain it

• Questions and answers, including using AI in moderation

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 19/10/25

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, resuming the series after an extended break

• Point 65: Allāh expiates sins through illness for the patient believer

• Every trial a servant faces carries expiation and reward: glad tidings for the believer

• Point 66: Allāh rewards the martyr

• The martyr killed in battle and those who take the ruling of martyrs (drowning, burning, being crushed), and how their burial differs

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 4/10/25

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 63: an angel descends with every drop of rain

• Belief in the Angels, general and specific: they exist and were created from light

• Knowing Allāh through the fiṭrah, the intellect and the revealed texts, which always agree

• The emptiness in the heart is only filled by worshipping Allāh alone

• The recording ends partway through the lesson

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 16/8/25

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 after a long break for travel and conferences

• Continuing the creed of Ahl as-Sunnah on Qadar: what Allāh has not decreed will not reach you

• Not saying "if only I had done such-and-such"

• Point 62: the funeral prayer has four takbīrs; the five obligations of the funeral prayer

• Following the evidence rather than every scholar's slip, e.g. the view that a walī is not required for marriage

• Questions and answers, including washing and shrouding the one who dies in iḥrām

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 26/7/25

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 36: there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to Allāh

• Point 37: not testifying that a Muslim is in Paradise or the Fire because of a deed; hoping for him and fearing for him

• Point 38: Allāh accepts repentance from every sin

• The conditions of repentance, and returning the rights of others, including wealth taken through ribā

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 13/7/24