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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)

• Ḥadīth 20 of Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī: he saw the Prophet ﷺ using the siwāk to the back of his tongue

• Ḥadīth 21 of al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah: "Leave them, for I put them on in a state of purity", and he wiped over them

• The period of wiping: a day and a night for the resident, three for the traveller, and janābah ends it

• The conditions and the manner of wiping over the socks

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 21/1/24

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 second ḥadīth of the chapter of siwāk: Ḥudhayfah, when the Prophet ﷺ woke at night he would clean his mouth with the siwāk

• Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān and his father: prevented from Badr, present at Uḥud

• Sleep changes the smell of the mouth

• Ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah: the siwāk of ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr in the Prophet's ﷺ final illness

• Questions on the wording

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 31/12/23

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: why Ḥadīth 1 opens the book, and renewing the intention when seeking knowledge

• Ḥadīth 2 of Abū Hurayrah: "Allāh does not accept the prayer of one of you who has broken his wuḍūʾ until he performs wuḍūʾ"

• The difference between a prayer being accepted and rewarded and a prayer being valid

• The one who still has his wuḍūʾ does not have to renew it for the next prayer

• The great status of the prayer, which Allāh does not accept without purification

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 27/12/20

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of the previous lesson: the sciences of ḥadīth and the author's methodology

• Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn's explanation of Ḥadīth 1

• The method the scholars follow when explaining a ḥadīth: the narrator and his biography, the wording, then the benefits

• Hijrah and its types, such as migrating to the Messenger ﷺ in his lifetime

• Every act of purification needs an intention, which is why the Book of Purification opens with this ḥadīth

• The excellent way the Prophet ﷺ taught: principles, then examples

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 13/12/20

al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyyah (40 Ḥadīth) of Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanations of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 16: A man said, "Advise me." He said, "Do not become angry," and repeated it – Prohibition of Anger

• Anger is a natural trait placed in people for a benefit, but it must be kept to its proper place

• The sensible believer controls his anger; the fool is driven by it to killing, harsh words or cutting ties

• Allāh praised those who forgive when angered; the strong one is he who controls himself when angry

• The Prophet ﷺ never took revenge for himself, but became angry for Allāh when His limits were violated

• The caller must know the condition of the one he calls, e.g. an atheist compared with a Christian

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 13/3/22

al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyyah (40 Ḥadīth) of Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanations of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 11: "Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt" – Leaving Doubt

• al-Ḥasan, the Prophet's ﷺ grandson, gave up the caliphate to Muʿāwiyah to spare the blood of the Muslims

• Taking the doubtful leaves the soul anxious; taking the certain brings calm and a clear conscience

• If unsure whether wealth or food is lawful, take what you are certain is lawful and leave the doubtful

• Doubt in the prayer: building upon certainty and the prostration of forgetfulness

• This is a great principle among the principles of the religion

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 10/10/21

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The first lesson of a series on ʿUmdatul Aḥkām, to become acquainted with aḥādīth of the Prophet ﷺ and the main rulings of the religion

• The author's introduction and his methodology; authors explain their method in their introductions, e.g. al-Bukhārī gathering only authentic aḥādīth

• Why the books of rulings begin with purification, with exceptions such as al-Muwaṭṭaʾ of Imām Mālik

• Beginning Ḥadīth 1 of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb: "Actions are only by intentions"

• A biography of ʿUmar: his caliphate of ten and a half years and his death in 23 AH

• Why a book of rulings and its Book of Purification open with this ḥadīth: purifying the intention when seeking knowledge

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 6/12/20

al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyyah (40 Ḥadīth) of Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanations of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 12: "From the excellence of a man's Islām is his abandonment of that which does not concern him"

• A ḥasan ḥadīth ranks just below ṣaḥīḥ, because of lighter precision in a narrator

• Leaving what does not concern you brings rest to oneself and others; public affairs are for rulers and scholars

• Ḥadīth 13: "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself"

• "None of you believes" negates the completeness of īmān, not its foundation

• "His brother" is every Muslim; it also means disliking for him what you dislike for yourself

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 6/11/21

al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyyah (40 Ḥadīth) of Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanations of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 40: "Be in the world as though you were a stranger or a traveller" – Be in the World as a Stranger

• The dunyā is not the Muslim's home; he takes from it only what helps him work for the Hereafter

• Do not postpone righteous deeds and repentance; use your health before sickness and your life before death

• Ḥadīth 41: "None of you truly believes until his inclination is in accordance with what I have brought"

• Ḥadīth 42: "O son of Ādam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you…" – Allāh's Vast Mercy

• Whoever meets Allāh free of shirk with an earth-full of sins meets as much forgiveness; shirk is not forgiven

• Completing the explanation of the book; Sharḥ as-Sunnah of al-Barbahārī is planned for after Ramaḍān

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 26/2/23

al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyyah (40 Ḥadīth) of Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanations of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 37: "Allāh has written down the good deeds and the bad deeds" – Righteous Deeds Explained

• Good deeds are multiplied by Allāh's grace; leaving an intended sin out of fear of Him is written as a good deed

• Ḥadīth 38: "Whoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, I shall be at war with him…" – The Awliyāʾ of Allāh

• The ally (walī) of Allāh is every believer with taqwā; nearness to Him is by the obligations, then voluntary deeds

• Being his hearing and sight means Allāh guides his senses to obedience, not that He indwells the servant

• Ḥadīth 39: "Allāh has overlooked my people… mistakes, forgetfulness and… compulsion" – Mistakes and Forgetfulness

• The one who forgets carries no sin, but a forgotten obligation does not drop and must be made up

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