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The Prophet ʿĪsā: Tafsīr of Sūrat Maryam, a lecture by Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami (hafidhahullāh)

• The importance of the remembrance of Allāh in our daily lives, and the virtues of seeking forgiveness and sitting for dhikr after the obligatory prayer

• Characteristics of looking after the needy, being gentle and welcoming to strangers, looking after widows etc.

• The meaning of “I am a servant of Allāh”

• The characteristics of ʿĪsā as explained by Imām Ibn as-Saʿdī

• The innovated actions in Christianity today regarding Christmas

• Reminders with aḥādīth and examples from the scholars about good manners, Tawḥīd, the ṣalāh and dhikr

• A beneficial Q&A

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 20/12/25

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Point 67: children feel pain in this world, contrary to the claim of some extreme Khawārij

• Small innovations lead to bigger ones

• The beliefs of the Khawārij regarding sins

• Point 68: the believers enter Paradise by the mercy of Allāh, not merely by the amount of their deeds

• Punishment in the Fire is only according to one's sins: Allāh does not wrong anyone

• Point 69: accepting the authentic aḥādīth in ʿaqīdah, with the example of Muʿādh being sent alone to Yemen

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 11/10/25

I am as My servant thinks of Me, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Inaayah Seif ad-Deen (hafidhahullāh)

• The ḥadīth qudsī "I am as My servant thinks of Me", and constantly having good thoughts of Allāh

• Khadījah (raḍiyAllāhu ʿanhā): a beautiful example of good thoughts of Allāh

• Evil thoughts of Allāh: "I have made duʿāʾ and do not see it answered"

• "No calamity strikes except by the permission of Allāh, and whoever believes in Allāh, He guides his heart"

• Those who thought Allāh does not know much of what they do, and how that thought destroyed them

Recorded at Masjid Abī Hurairah, Stoke-on-Trent on 14/9/25

Purification & Cultivation: The Path of the Salaf, a lecture by Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami (hafidhahullāh)

• The importance of Tarbiyah and Tasfiyah (cultivation and purification)

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ẓihār: saying "you are to me like the back of my mother", and why it is named after the back (ẓahr)

• Comparing the wife to one's mother goes back to the intention: whether he meant to make her forbidden

• The one who repeats ẓihār many times before expiating makes a single expiation, as does the one who says it to all his wives in one statement

• A reminder that death will come to every soul, and to be plentiful in remembering it

• Remembering a scholar (raḥimahullāh) who was a mountain of knowledge and dealt with the people of the Sunnah like a father with his sons

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester

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 21: the ten acts of the fiṭrah

• Growing the beard

• The siwāk

• Istinjāʾ and istijmār

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 2/8/25

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 20: "Allāh does not accept the prayer of one who breaks his wuḍūʾ until he makes wuḍūʾ"

• Purification is a condition of the prayer

• Washing more than three times in wuḍūʾ is going too far

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 2/8/25

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)

• Question 36: the Khawārij and the ḥadīth "If you meet them, kill them"

• Is this addressed to every individual, or to a specific person?

• Differing over whether the Khawārij are disbelievers; agreement that they are misguided people of innovation

• Daʿwah is cleansing and cultivating, building people up upon the truth

• Daʿwah is not built upon destroying others

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 29/6/25

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)

• The lessons resume after a gap

• Question: "take the good and leave the bad" from the books and cassettes of the people of innovation

• The Shaykh's parable of honey that has poison in it

• You do not control what your heart accepts; the Shayṭān exploits small openings

• Refuting innovation is truth, but insults and mockery are not

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 15/6/25

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)

• Question: declaring people innovators or sinners on assumption, without verification

• A "balanced" approach that mixes truth with falsehood is still falsehood

• The scholars declare someone an innovator upon proof: his own words, his companions and what is well known of him

• The five steps of the Shayṭān: shirk and kufr, bidʿah, major sins, minor sins, then the lesser good

• Reading Qurʾān while the adhān is being called, as an example of the lesser good

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 25/5/25