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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 19 (continued): "Be acquainted with Allāh in prosperity and He will know you in hardship…"

• Turn to Allāh in times of ease and He will save you in hardship by your good deeds

• Victory comes with patience and relief with distress, so never despair

• Ḥadīth 20: "When you have no shame then do as you wish" – Modesty, Shame is From Īmān

• Ḥayāʾ is a branch of īmān that keeps a person from base things and bad manners

• "Do as you wish" is a threat: one without shame does not shrink from lying, theft or zinā

• Questions: shamelessness and what it leads to, such as slander

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 11/9/22

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)

• A revision of Ḥadīth 3–12, from "Islām is built upon five" to leaving what does not concern him

• Ḥadīth 3: "Islām is built upon five (pillars)…" – The Five Pillars of Islām

• Ḥadīth 5: "Whoever introduces something into this affair of ours that is not from it will have it rejected"

• No deed is accepted without two conditions: sincerity to Allāh and following the Messenger ﷺ

• Ḥadīth 8: "I have been ordered to fight the people until they testify…" – The Inviolability of a Muslim

• This gives no individual the right to commit violence; it relates to the leader of the Muslims

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

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 4/9/22

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 1: "Verily actions are based upon the intentions (behind them)…" – Actions Are By Intention

• "I heard" (samiʿtu) is stronger in a chain than "he said" (qāla); all of the Companions are trustworthy

• The intention is the intent of the heart; its place is not on the tongue

• Ḥadīth 2: "…That was Jibrīl, he came to teach you your religion" – The Levels of the Religion

• It is called the Mother of the Sunnah (Umm as-Sunnah), because most of the Sunnah returns to it

• Lā ilāha illā Allāh: negating all worship besides Allāh and affirming it for Him alone

• The slave-girl bearing her mistress: concubinage spreads, or daughters lord it over their mothers

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 3/9/22

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 19: "Be mindful of Allāh and Allāh will protect you…" – Faith in al-Qaḍā wal-Qadar

• Addressing the boy shows care for the young; knowledge is taken a little at a time

• Being mindful of Allāh means guarding His religion: doing His commands and avoiding His prohibitions

• Whoever guards Allāh's commands, Allāh guards him in his religion and his dunyā

• Asking or seeking help from other than Allāh in what only He can do, as at graves, is major shirk

• People cannot benefit or harm you except by what Allāh has written; they are only a means

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 29/5/22

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 17: "Indeed Allāh has prescribed proficiency and benevolence in every thing…" – Kindness to Animals

• Iḥsān is in three areas: in worshipping one's Lord, in dealing with people, and with animals

• At slaughter, sharpen the blade and relieve the animal; torturing it or using a blunt blade is not allowed

• Ḥadīth terminology: ḥasan, gharīb and a ḥadīth with a single chain

• Ḥadīth 18: "Have taqwā of Allāh wherever you may be…" – Taqwā and Good Manners

• Fear Allāh in public and in private; after a sin, repent and follow it with a good deed that wipes it out

• Good character, with kind words and a cheerful face, plants love in hearts; a caller to Allāh needs it most

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 15/5/22

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 15: "…let him speak goodness or else remain silent… let him honour his guest" – Honouring the Guest

• The tongue is a two-edged weapon: used in good it brings good, used in evil it brings sin

• If you cannot say good, stay silent; think before speaking, since words cannot be taken back

• Harming a neighbour by word or deed is forbidden; he is honoured by good words and deeds

• The guest's right is a day and a night, and three days in full

• Honouring the guest: the views of the scholars, e.g. small towns compared with big cities that have amenities

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 27/2/22

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 14: "The blood of a Muslim… is not taken lawfully except in one of three…" – Sanctity of a Muslim's Life

• Islām came to protect five necessities: religion, intellect, life, wealth and honour

• Life for life: retribution preserves life and security, and the ruler carries it out

• "Do not come near zinā" forbids its paths, such as looking, mixing and a woman travelling without a maḥram

• "The one who leaves the Jamāʿah" means the Khawārij and rebels who revolt against the ruler

• The difference between the apostate and the disbeliever who was never Muslim

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 19/12/21

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 9: "What I have forbidden you from then avoid it all…" – Too Much Questioning

• The name of Abū Hurayrah, ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr ad-Dawsī, and the differing over it

• Commands are done as far as one is able; what one cannot do is dropped until the excuse ends

• Everything forbidden must be avoided entirely, since leaving something is easier than doing it

• A forbidden thing is allowed only out of necessity, like eating carrion to stay alive

• Excessive, needless questions bring hardship and lead to abandoning obedience, as with the earlier nations

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 19/9/21

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Asking questions that lead to argument or tribulation

• Asking from the people only when necessary, as with eating carrion

• Extremism and excess bring hardship

• Conclusion of the series

• Questions and answers, including selling food to non-fasting people in Ramaḍān

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 4/2/25

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Answering last lesson's question: words of remembrance inside the prayer

• Preparing for the trial of the grave

• Ḥadīth 12: "Leave me as long as I leave you", and its narrators

• The nations before were destroyed by excessive questioning of their prophets

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 28/1/25