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Islam Is The Sunnah and The Sunnah Is Islam: One Is Not Established Except With The Other, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh), at the Islam Is The Sunnah Manchester Conference 2025

• The virtues of Imām al-Barbahārī and his foundational book Sharḥ as-Sunnah

• Adhering to Islām and the Sunnah, with a warning against altering the religion by adding to it or taking away from it

• The importance of unity and recognising Allāh's favour (Āl ʿImrān 3:103)

• Following the Sunnah and not attaching oneself to individuals or scholars, except the Prophet ﷺ

• The understanding of the Companions is the only understanding that carries weight in the religion, and Ibn Masʿūd: “Follow the āthār and do not innovate”

• The narration of Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn on asking for the chain of narration when the fitnah occurred

• How the Companions resolved disputes by returning to the Qurʾān and Sunnah (an-Nisāʾ 4:59), and returning affairs to the era and understanding of the Companions in times of confusion

Recorded in Manchester

This Is My Straight Path: So Follow It, 'So Where Are You Heading?', a lecture by Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami (hafidhahullāh), at the Islam Is The Sunnah Manchester Conference 2025

• The virtues of ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu) and the narration “How many people intend good but never reach it”

• Evidence from the Qurʾān and Sunnah that the religion is complete, with no need for additions

• The virtues of the Khulafāʾ ar-Rāshidīn and the importance of clinging to the understanding of the Salaf

• Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr on “This is My straight path, so follow it” (al-Anʿām 6:153)

• The Ḥadīth of the 73 sects, linked with Ibn Masʿūd's narration: “The Jamāʿah is what conforms with the truth, even if you are alone”

• The danger of bidʿah, and how it is more severe than major sins

• Tawḥīd and the precise wording of the Qurʾān and Sunnah, with Sūrah Maryam, āyah 65 encompassing the three categories of Tawḥīd, and 20 characteristics that distinguish the people of Sunnah

Recorded in Manchester

The Jamāʿah is that which conforms to the truth, a lecture by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh), at the Islam Is The Sunnah Manchester Conference 2025

• The original text of the Ḥadīth

• The importance of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil, and using the tongue for good

• Evidence from the Qurʾān that those upon the truth are small in number

• Examples from the prophets such as Nūḥ and Ibrāhīm, who had few followers

• Who are the Jamāʿah, with examples from the Salaf

• The importance of implementing the Salafi daʿwah

• Advice from Imām Ibn al-Qayyim and Imām Ibn Bāz

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester, June 2025

Foundations of the Salafi Manhaj: Neither Extremism nor Neglect, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh), at the Islam Is The Sunnah Manchester Conference 2025

• About the author of the book, Shaykh ʿAbd as-Salām Burjis

• The ways and means deviated sects use to spread their innovations, such as secrecy, pretending to be close to some major scholars and taʿaṣṣub

• First principle: to concern oneself with seeking knowledge

• Second foundation: having eagerness and zeal to apply this knowledge

• Third foundation: calling to Allāh upon knowledge

• Fourth foundation: to be concerned with the ʿaqīdah of the Salaf in knowledge, action and teaching it

The remaining principles will be covered in Bradford

Recorded at the Islam Is Sunnah Conference in Manchester, June 2025

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)

• One divorce ends a marriage that was not consummated, and that woman has no ʿiddah

• Saying the divorce three times in one sitting, and the role of intention when the repetition is for emphasis

• Doubt in divorce: the wife need not be present, and the husband who cannot remember whether he said the words

• Divorcing part of the wife, such as "your hand is divorced", divorces all of her; drawing lots when the divorce is unspecified

• Both spouses must be honest, including the wife who claims to fear for her safety in the home

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 16/6/25

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)

• A divorce made conditional before the marriage contract does not count, as she is not yet his wife

• The six words used to make a divorce conditional

• With "every time" (kullamā) the divorce occurs each time the condition is fulfilled

• "If you give birth you are divorced" and she has twins: the divorce occurs with the first and her ʿiddah ends with the second

• A divorce made conditional on her menses does not occur with irregular bleeding

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 2/6/25

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)

• Explicit (ṣarīḥ) wording: words that cannot be understood as anything other than divorce

• The word "divorce" in English or any other language is explicit; it does not have to be said in Arabic

• Giving the wife the choice: it lasts only for that sitting unless the husband allows longer

• Implicit (kināyah) wording counts as divorce only with the intention, and the husband must be honest about what he intended

• A caution against the whispers of the Shayṭān that make a person doubt whether he has divorced

• Having relations with the wife after a revocable divorce counts as taking her back

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 26/5/25

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)

• Recap of the Book of Marriage and the start of the Book of Divorce

• The conditions for a valid divorce: it comes from the husband himself, who is accountable (adult and sane) and acting by his own choice

• What a condition (sharṭ) is, and why the offer is not counted among the conditions

• A woman divorced three times returns to the first husband only after a valid marriage to another man that is consummated: "until he tastes her honey"

• Repeating the word of divorce intending emphasis counts as one divorce, and divorce in a state of anger

• Q&A: divorce occurs by spoken words, and it can also be written

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 12/5/25

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)

• When khulʿ is allowed: the wife dislikes her husband and fears she cannot fulfil Allāh's rights in obeying him, so she ransoms herself

• What she gives for the khulʿ must be something permissible to own and trade, just like the mahr

• The husband's options if what she gives turns out to be deficient

• Q&A: conditions and custom in an agreed transaction, with the example of a car sold with its engine

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 5/5/25

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Fasting, a Ramaḍān three-day workshop shared between several teachers (session 8 of 10), taught by Ustādh Abu Ukkaashah Abdul-Hakeem (hafidhahullāh)

• The days on which fasting is prohibited, and the days on which it is recommended

• Fasting Mondays: "That is the day on which I was born", a fast of gratitude every week

• The Prophet ﷺ fasted more in Shaʿbān than in any other month, from the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah

• The successful who are saved from the Fire, and the wretched who earn the anger of Allāh

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 23/2/25