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ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The final chapter of the Book of Purification: menstruation

• The definitions of ḥayḍ and istiḥāḍah (irregular bleeding)

• Ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah about Fāṭimah bint Abī Ḥubaysh and her irregular bleeding

• How the woman with istiḥāḍah is like the woman in purity in some rulings and differs in others

• Questions, including on caesarean sections and medical advice

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The passive verb "I was given", and why the doer is not mentioned

• Ḥadīth of Jābir: "I have been given five things not given to anyone before me"

• Victory through fear cast into the hearts of the enemy a month's distance away

• The earth made a place of prayer and a means of purification

• The spoils of war made lawful, the intercession, and a message to all mankind until the Day of Resurrection

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Continuing the chapter of ghusl

• Ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah: "When he sits between her four limbs and exerts himself, ghusl is obligatory", even without emission (Muslim)

• The five categories of rulings

• Ḥadīth of Jābir: "He was better than you", and pouring water over the head

• Seeking water before performing tayammum

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The final lesson before Ramaḍān

• The ḥadīth of the fiṭrah: five things, including trimming the moustache and removing the underarm hair, and their wisdom

• Leaving all five is the worst of appearances and far from the fiṭrah

• Ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah: "Subḥānallāh! The believer does not become impure"

• The impurity of the mushrik is in his belief, not physical

• The Sunnah includes what was done in the Prophet's ﷺ presence and he approved

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

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The author's questions: who is your Lord, and how did you come to know Him?

• He is known by His signs, the night and day and the sun and moon, and His creations, the seven heavens and earths (Fuṣṣilat 41:37)

• The night and day as a sign for whoever wishes to remember or to give thanks (al-Furqān 25:62)

• Do not prostrate to the sun or the moon, but to Allāh who created them

• The creation of the heavens and the earth: "Come, willingly or unwillingly" (Fuṣṣilat 41:11)

• The creation and the command belong to Allāh (al-Aʿrāf 7:54); the greatest command is Tawḥīd

• The last lesson before Ramaḍān

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 16/3/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: knowing the Lord, the religion of Islām with its proofs, and the Prophet ﷺ

• Allāh's general nurturing of all creation, believer and disbeliever, and His specific care and support for the believers

• The blessing of being created in the best form (at-Tīn 95:4)

• "He is the One I worship, and I worship none besides Him": the meaning of lā ilāha illallāh

• Allāh gave mankind the ability and the choice to obey and to leave disobedience

• Everything created is proof of the Creator and that He alone deserves worship

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 9/3/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The lesson moved from the Phil Martin Centre to the masjid, so it revises the main points covered so far

• Beginning with the basmalah, in line with the Book of Allāh and the Sunnah

• The four matters are obligations: the one who does them is rewarded and the one who leaves them is sinful

• Knowing the Prophet ﷺ includes loving him more than oneself and one's wealth

• Knowledge without action resembles the Jews; action without knowledge resembles the Christians

• Enjoining the truth requires knowing it and acting upon it first

• Patience upon obedience, away from disobedience, and with what Allāh decrees

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 25/2/23

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 25 of Umm Qays bint Miḥṣan: her young boy who had not yet eaten food urinated on the Prophet ﷺ and he sprinkled water over it

• Shaykh an-Najmī on the meaning of "had not eaten food"

• The Bedouin who urinated in the masjid: pouring water over it, and preventing a greater harm

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 24 of ʿAbdullāh ibn Zayd: the one who thinks he has broken wind in the prayer does not leave unless he hears a sound or finds a smell

• Doubts in the prayer and in purification

• The principle that things remain upon their original state until certainty moves them from it

• From the manners of the Muslim: avoiding explicit words out of shyness

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 22 of Ḥudhayfah: the Prophet ﷺ urinated, then made wuḍūʾ and wiped over his khuffs

• Ḥadīth 23 of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib about madhī, and his biography

• Madhī requires washing the private part and breaks the wuḍūʾ

• ʿAlī's shyness did not stop him seeking knowledge: he sent someone to ask

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 28/1/24