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

• "But no, by your Lord, they will not truly believe until they make you judge…" (an-Nisāʾ 65)

• Following the Messenger ﷺ with complete submission

• Recap: tawḥīd is the foundation, and actions must also be in accordance with the Sunnah

• "Islām began as something strange…": holding to the Sunnah despite trials

• Seeking the pleasure of Allāh rather than the approval of the people

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

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

• Ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās: the Prophet ﷺ sending Muʿādh to Yemen

• Call first to the Shahādah, then the five daily prayers, then the zakāh taken from the rich and given to the poor

• "Fear the supplication of the oppressed, for there is no veil between it and Allāh"

• In daʿwah begin with the most important matter: rectify the foundation first

• Expiating sins: good deeds for minor sins, sincere repentance for major sins, and returning the rights of others

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 2/3/25

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

• Fasting in Ramaḍān is one of the pillars of Islām

• "Fasting has been prescribed for you… so that you may attain taqwā" (al-Baqarah 183)

• Taqwā through withholding from permissible food and drink and from the ḥarām

• "Whoever does not leave false speech and acting upon it…"

• Allāh has given us worship by day and by night in this month

• Guarding the heart, the tongue and the limbs while fasting

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 1/3/25

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)

• Defects that allow the contract to be annulled, such as leprosy and vitiligo

• The one who knew of the defect before the marriage may not annul it afterwards

• Shaykh al-Fawzān's explanation of the waiting period given for the husband's complaint: desire can differ with the seasons of the year

• The judge decides on the annulment and on the return of the mahr, depending on who is at fault

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 17/2/25

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 10 of 10), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The final sitting: the last four aḥādīth, on iʿtikāf

• The linguistic and Sharʿī meaning of iʿtikāf

• The Prophet ﷺ made iʿtikāf every Ramaḍān

• The one in iʿtikāf may put his head out of the masjid to have his hair combed

• Questions: praying in a hotel near the Ḥaram in Makkah

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

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 9 of 10), taught by Ustādh Abu Rayhaanah Yahya (hafidhahullāh)

• The aḥādīth on Laylat al-Qadr, beginning with the ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar and a short biography of him

• The three categories of dreams, as mentioned by the scholars

• The first ten days of Dhul-Ḥijjah and the last ten nights of Ramaḍān: which is more virtuous

• The ḥadīth of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī: the Prophet ﷺ seeking Laylat al-Qadr in the middle ten, then the last ten

• Benefits taken from the aḥādīth on iʿtikāf in Ramaḍān

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

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 7 of 10), taught by Ustādh Abu Inaayah Seif ad-Deen (hafidhahullāh)

• The night prayer of Dāwūd: sleeping half the night, praying a third, then sleeping a sixth

• ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr's vow to fast every day and pray every night, and the Prophet ﷺ: "You will not be able to do so"

• Fast and break the fast, pray and sleep: the moderation of the Sunnah

• It is not befitting to leave off standing even a small part of the night

• The meaning of "waṣiyyah" (advice) in the narration "My close friend advised me…"

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

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 6 of 10), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The last sitting of the day, reaching Ḥadīth 189, the sixteenth of the chapter

• Sahl ibn Saʿd, whose name the Prophet ﷺ changed: "The people remain upon good as long as they hasten to break the fast"

• A biography of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb: his Islām strengthened the Muslims

• The Companions who narrated the most aḥādīth

• Reconciling hastening the fiṭr with the permission to continue the fast until the pre-dawn (al-wiṣāl)

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/2/25

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 5 of 10), taught by Ustādh Abu Abdir-Rahmān Hilāl (hafidhahullāh)

• Who is mukallaf: the one who has reached puberty and has sound intellect

• "Whoever dies owing fasts, his walī fasts on his behalf": obligatory fasts of Ramaḍān, expiation and vows

• Who is meant by the walī in the ḥadīth, with the words of al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar

• None can oppose the saying of the Prophet ﷺ

• The narration of Ibn ʿAbbās: the woman whose mother died owing a vowed fast

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/2/25

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 2 of 10), taught by Ustādh Abu Rayhaanah Yahya (hafidhahullāh)

• The suḥūr, and those who eat it early, sleep, and miss its time

• The time between suḥūr and the prayer: the length of reciting fifty āyāt, and the adhān meaning the iqāmah

• A biography of Umm Salamah (raḍiyAllāhu ʿanhā)

• The Prophet ﷺ waking in a state of janābah while fasting: there is no obligation to hasten to make ghusl

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/2/25