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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)

• Ḥadīth 11: the narration of Asmāʾ and ʿĀʾishah during the eclipse

• A chain where a husband, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, narrates from his wife

• The khuṭbah after the eclipse prayer, and how the prayer is performed

• The questioning in the grave: "Muḥammad came to us with clear proofs"

• Authentic solitary (āḥād) narrations are accepted in creed

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 14/1/25

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)

• Ḥadīth 10 and its narrators, including the senior students of az-Zuhrī

• The reciters were ʿUmar's council, whether young or old

• ʿUmar's consultation (shūrā)

• The man who accused ʿUmar of injustice

• ʿUmar would stop at the Book of Allāh: reflecting on the verses

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 7/1/25

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)

• The Prophet's ﷺ call was built upon good manners

• Not letting those who distort Islām become the loudest voice in daʿwah

• The leaders of Quraysh listening to the Qurʾān and admitting it was the truth

• Why some take issue with the praise of the elder mashāyikh of the daʿwah in the UK

• Knowledge may be with a younger Companion, as in Abū Bakr and ʿUmar's discussion

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 10/12/24

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)

• Resuming after a short break with the third ḥadīth

• The blessing of the Prophet ﷺ being sent to an unlettered people

• Preserving the Sunnah by memorising it and acting upon it

• The narrator Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways (d. 226H)

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 22/10/24

al-Qawāʿid al-Arbaʿ (The Four Principles regarding Shirk) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Concluding principle 3: trees and stones that are worshipped ("Have you considered al-Lāt and al-ʿUzzā?")

• Questions that reject the idols and awaken the intellect

• The ḥadīth of Dhāt Anwāṭ: "You have said what the Children of Isrāʾīl said to Mūsā"

• The prohibition of imitating the people of the Book and of Jāhiliyyah

• Seeking blessings from trees, stones and graves is shirk, whatever name it is given

• Questions and answers

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 13/10/22

Advice to the Women from selected aḥādīth of Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn by Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh) and other scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr: "The world is enjoyment, and the best of its enjoyment is the righteous woman" (Muslim)

• The righteous wife is upright in her religion and her character

• She guards her husband's honour in his absence

• Choosing a spouse for religion: beauty is temporary, and religion makes her beautiful in her husband's eyes

• Encouragement for men to seek righteous women and for women to be righteous

• The last ḥadīth of the chapter; next comes the right of the husband

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 4/6/23

Imām as-Saʿdī's explanation of Jawāmiʿ al-Akhbār, with additional benefits from Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abu Abdir-Rahmān Hilāl (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 25: "Pray as you have seen me pray"

• The adhān, and the eldest leading the prayer

• The rows and the imām's takbīr

• The opening takbīr and the opening supplication

• The duʿāʾ before the salām

• Breaking off a prayer

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 7/2/26

Imām as-Saʿdī's explanation of Jawāmiʿ al-Akhbār, with additional benefits from Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abu Abdir-Rahmān Hilāl (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 22: "Water is pure; nothing makes it impure"

• Water mixed with other things

• Impurity that falls into water

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

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• More on testing the people (imtiḥān), with words of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī

• Testing people by the people of the Sunnah is not limited to one person, time or place

• al-Awzāʿī: whoever hides his innovation from us, his companionship is not hidden from us

• Daʿwah must be upon knowledge; the groups fill the gap with politics

• The right of Allāh, who gave life, is greater than the "human rights" people speak of

• Guidance to the truth is a blessing that calls for gratitude

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 6/7/25

Ramaḍān Reminders 1446H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, topics chosen from the speech of various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The meaning of having good thoughts of Allāh

• Good thoughts of Allāh in hardship and in ease, in trials and in times of happiness

• Ḥadīth qudsī: "I am as My servant thinks of Me"

• Ḥadīth of Jābir: "Let none of you die except while having good thoughts of Allāh", and the statement of Ibn Masʿūd

• Patience when a blessing is taken away, and Allāh replacing it with something better

• Ibn al-Qayyim on hope that comes with action versus mere wishful thinking

• Good thoughts of Allāh go hand in hand with uprightness, not neglecting obligations or falling into the ḥarām

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 16/3/25