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Many people say the muslim’s testimony of faith but dont know what it means.

Abu Hakeem Bilal Davies clarified in the first part the statement “I bear witness that non has the right to be worshipped in truth except Allah” https://soundcloud.com/learnaboutislam/testimony-of-faith-1

Abu Khadeejah in this part follows up by clarifying the meaning and conditions attached with the second part of the testimony – “Muhammad is his slave and final messenger” – Followed by Q&A

Essential lessons for the muslims and a guide and invitation to non muslims to embrace Islam.

Lesson 25 – Al-bayqooniyyah in the sciences of Hadith – Explanation of Shaykh Abdullah al-Bukhari | Abu Muadh Taqweem

This week we covered:

• A continuation of the ghareeb hadith

• The scholars used to praise the mashoor (more than one chain) wheareas they would be more careful with the ghareeb hadith

• Ghareeb hadith however, can be authentic, although many are weak.

• Some scholars used to call the gharaaib (plural of ghareeb), fawaaid.

Next Lesson: The Munqadi’ hadith (broken chain)

Recorded at the Salafi Centre of Manchester on 18/02/17 and streamed LIVE on www.SunnahRadio.Net

Sahih al-Bukhari – The Book of Tawheed – Lesson 13 (18/02/17)

Chapter 7: The Statement of Allah: "And He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.” (Ibrahim 14:4). “Glorified be your Lord, the Lord of Honour and Power! “(As-Saffat 37:180) “Honour, power and glory belong to Allâh and His Messenger” (Al-Munafiqun 63:8) and the one who swears by the Honour and Power of Allah and His attributes.

Today we covered:

• Recap from last lesson – regarding the attributes of Allah.

• The names of Allah: al-‘Aziz and al-Hakeem

The names of Allah: al-‘Aziz and al-Hakeem

Hadith: on the authority of Ibn ‘Abbas: The Prophet used to say, "I seek refuge (with YOU) by Your 'Izzat, None has the right to be worshipped but You Who does not die while the Jinns and the human beings die.

• The names of each of the narrators and what the scholars said about them

• Who is ibn ‘Abbaas?

• Who is al-‘Abbaas?

• This hadith is a proof of the ‘Izzah of Allah

• In the previous lesson we covered the three different types of ‘Izzah

Hadith: Narrated by Anas: The Prophet said, "The people will be thrown into Hell ( Fire) and it will keep on saying, 'Is there any more?' till the Lord of the worlds puts His Foot over it, whereupon its different sides will come close to each other, and it will say, 'Qad! Qad! (enough! enough!) By Your 'Izzat (Honor and Power) and YOUR KARAM (Generosity)!' Paradise will remain spacious enough to accommodate more people until Allah will create some more people and let them dwell in the superfluous space of Paradise. "

Extra benefit – one should not be rocking forward and backward when reading Qur’an and mutoon because it is a characteristic of the Jews.

• The names of the narrators and what the scholars mention about them

• This hadith affirms a number of attributes of Allah

• The People of Sunna affirm the attributes of Allah such as His Foot as mentioned in the hadith and they do not interpret or reject them.

• What do we say about those who ask excessive questions?

• An important discussion surrounding the wisdom behind the stance of the People of Sunnah regarding the names and attributes of Allah

Extra benefit: Shaykh Abdurrazaaq has a treatise on the narration of Imam Maalik when a man asked him about the attributes of Allah.

Benefit: To gain further understanding when we discuss the chains, follow our “Bayqooniyyah in the Sciences of Hadith” lessons on LearnAboutIslam: http://www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/2016/01/18/al-mandhomah-al-bayqooniyah/

The English translation of the hadiths and all the audio are available on: www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/bukhari

Recorded at the Salafi Centre of Manchester on 18/02/17 and streamed live on www.SunnahRadio.Net

Many people say the muslim’s testimony of faith but dont know what it means.

Abu Hakeem Bilal Davies clarifies the first part the statement “I bear witness that non has the right to be worshipped in truth except Allah”

Abu Khadeejah follows up by clarifying the meaning and conditions attached witht the second part of the testimony – “Muhammad is his slave and final messenger” – Followed by Q & A

Essential lessons for the muslims and a guide and invitation to non muslims to embrace Islam.

Tremendous reminder from our noble brother Abu Hakeem Bilal Davies.

Recorded at the Salafi Centre of Manchester in 2009

Lesson 24– Al-bayqooniyyah in the sciences of Hadith – Explanation of Shaykh Abdullah al-Bukhari | Abu Muadh Taqweem

This week we covered:

• What a ghareeb narration is

• Linguistically – someone who is far from his family or alone

A ghareeb hadith is:

• Every narration – where at one part of the chain – only one narration is presented

Extra points:

• What is a Shaadh Hadith?

• What is a Munkar Hadith?

• What are examples of ghareeb hadiths?

Next Lesson: The remaining types of ghareeb narrations

Recorded at the Salafi Centre of Manchester on 11/02/17 and streamed LIVE on www.SunnahRadio.Net

Sahih al-Bukhari – The Book of Tawheed – Lesson 12 (11/02/17)

Chapter 7: The Statement of Allah: "And He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.” (Ibrahim 14:4). “Glorified be your Lord, the Lord of Honour and Power! “(As-Saffat 37:180) “Honour, power and glory belong to Allâh and His Messenger” (Al-Munafiqun 63:8) and the one who swears by the Honour and Power of Allah and His attributes.

Today we covered:

• Recap from last lesson – regarding the attributes of Allah.

• The names of Allah: al-‘Aziz and al-Hakeem

The names of Allah: al-‘Aziz and al-Hakeem

• What is the meaning of Aziz?

• What are the three types of ‘Izzah?

• Why did Abraha want to destroy the Ka’bah?

 What is the importance of this story?

• Principle: allowing the lesser of the two harms to occur, in order to prevent the greater of the two harms occurring

• Why did the prophet, peace be upon him, not build the ka’bah upon its original foundation?

• Why was the following verse revealed? “Honour, power and glory belong to Allâh and His Messenger and to the believers, but the hypocrites know not.”

• Is it permissible to swear by the ‘Izzah of Allah and His attributes? Is it permissible to swear by the Qur’an? What is the proof?

• What is the ruling on the one who puts his hand on the Qur’an and swears by it?

Extra benefit: By looking at the chapter headings in Sahih Bukhari you are able to gain many benefits.

Benefit: To gain further understanding when we discuss the chains, follow our “Bayqooniyyah in the Sciences of Hadith” lessons on LearnAboutIslam: http://www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/2016/01/18/al-mandhomah-al-bayqooniyah/

The English translation of the hadiths and all the audio are available on: www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/bukhari

Recorded at the Salafi Centre of Manchester on 11/02/17 and streamed live on www.SunnahRadio.Net

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Lesson 22– Al-bayqooniyyah in the sciences of Hadith – Explanation of Shaykh Abdullah al-Bukhari | Abu Muadh Taqweem

This week we covered:

• What a Mursal narration is

• This is when a companion has been dropped from the chain of the narration

o Important – the taab’iee could have dropped another taabi’ee

• The chain is broken and therefore a weak narration

Next Lesson: Ghareeb narrations

Recorded at the Salafi Centre of Manchester on 04/02/17 and streamed LIVE on www.SunnahRadio.Net

Sahih al-Bukhari – The Book of Tawheed – Lesson1 (04/02/17)

Chapter: The Statement of Allah: "The King of mankind, (An-Nas 114:2)

Today we covered:

• The description that Allah has two hands

o There are multiples proofs from the Qur’an, Sunnah and consensus of the Salaf

Hadith No1 – Narrated by Abu Hurairah

The Prophet said, "On the Day of Resurrection Allah will hold the whole earth and fold the heaven with His right hand and say, 'I am the King: where are the kings of the earth?" '

Other proofs from the Qur’an:

Blessed is He in Whose Hand is the dominion, and He is Able to do all things. (Al-Mulk 67:1)

Do they not see that We have created for them of what Our Hands have created, the cattle, so that they are their owners. (Ya-Sin 36:71)

The Jews say: "Allâh's Hand is tied up (i.e. He does not give and spend of His Bounty)." Be their hands tied up and be they accursed for what they uttered. Nay, both His Hands are widely outstretched. He spends (of His Bounty) as He wills. (Al-Ma'idah 5:64)

• The hands of Allah do not resemble the hands of the creation

A few important importance:

• Is the hand of Allah a literal hand or is it a figurative / metaphorical referring to power and ability?

o The Belief of the Salaf is that it is a true hand (as with all other attributes) and this is the principle.

o The principle is that whatever Allah describes himself with is true.

o However – we do not compare His attributes to the creation. They are free from any comparison, description or imagination

• The people of innovation put their intellect before the texts, they may reject the texts if it does not fit with their understanding

• They reject the attribute of Allah’s hands – they claim it refers to power and ability.

• The Salaf were unanimously agreed about this and other attributes of Allah.

• What is the response of the People of Sunnah to this?

+ more detailed explanations of the positions of the People of Innovation.

Benefit: To gain further understanding when we discuss the chains, follow our “Bayqooniyyah in the Sciences of Hadith” lessons on LearnAboutIslam: http://www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/2016/01/18/al-mandhomah-al-bayqooniyah/

The English translation of the hadiths and all the audio are available on: www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/bukhari

Recorded at the Salafi Centre of Manchester on 04/02/17 and streamed live on www.SunnahRadio.Net