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

• Fasting while travelling, and a biography of the narrator who was martyred at Muʾtah

• No difference of opinion on the permission to break the fast when travelling

• The difference of opinion on whether fasting while travelling is allowed, and the narration "Whoever wishes to fast, there is no blame upon him"

• "Those who were not fasting have taken the reward today": serving the army of the Muslims

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

• The man who had relations with his wife in Ramaḍān and came to the Prophet ﷺ fearing destruction

• The kaffārah: freeing a slave, fasting two consecutive months, or feeding sixty poor people

• Does the one who has relations forgetfully owe the kaffārah? The words of Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd

• Reconciling a general narration with one that carries a stipulation

• Further issues taken from the different wordings of the ḥadīth

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

• The first of ten sittings in a three-day workshop to complete the Book of Fasting

• Introduction: the definition of fasting

• The true dawn and the false dawn: horizontal versus vertical light

• Fasting until sunset, with the intention, as an act of worship

• Ḥadīth: "Do not precede Ramaḍān with a fast of a day or two…": boundaries that are not to be crossed

• It is permissible to say "Ramaḍān" without the word "month"

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 21/2/25

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 Muslim woman may not marry a non-Muslim man, and the exception for the Muslim man

• The Muslim man who marries from the People of the Book must make Islam the dominant religion of the home

• The pillars of the contract: the offer from the walī and the acceptance from the groom

• Nikāḥ at-taḥlīl: marrying a woman divorced three times only to make her lawful for her former husband

• Conditions stipulated in the contract, such as the division of nights, are binding once agreed

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 10/2/25

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)

• Breastfeeding makes the child the son or daughter of the woman, and of her husband as well

• Example: a man with two wives, one of whom breastfeeds a child five times, and the relationships this creates

• How a condition excludes certain cases, such as the khunthā whose milk does not cause the prohibition

• Marrying the daughter of one's wife before and after consummation, and the wife's mother, who is forbidden in either case

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

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)

• The women who are forbidden permanently: daughters and granddaughters, sisters and the rest of the list

• Questions to the class on marrying the sister of a woman

• The wisdom behind the prohibition of combining a woman with her paternal or maternal aunt: preventing the cutting of family ties

• A free man may marry a slave woman only when he cannot afford a free woman

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 27/1/25

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)

• The Jews and the Christians on ʿĪsā: two extremes

• The ḥadīth of Dhāt Anwāṭ and the prohibition of imitating the polytheists

• Major and minor shirk: the example of showing off (riyāʾ)

• Principle 4: the polytheists of the author's time and those before them, in ease and hardship

• Seeking blessings from other than Allāh

• The one whose heart is attached to the masjid

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 26/1/25 (day 2 of the Manchester Knowledge Workshop on the Four Rules regarding Shirk)

The Four Rules Regarding Shirk by Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abu Ukkaashah Abdul-Hakeem (hafidhahullāh)

• Rules 1 and 2 from the Four Rules Regarding Shirk

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

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)

• Principle 3: the Prophet ﷺ fought those who worshipped the sun and moon, the angels, the prophets, the righteous, trees and stones

• Why the sun and moon were worshipped

• The angels, prophets and righteous free themselves from those who worship them

• The shirk of the Trinity and the Christians' belief about ʿĪsā; Allāh has no son

• The ruling on wasīlah (seeking a means of nearness)

• Leaving doubtful matters

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 26/1/25 (day 2 of the Manchester Knowledge Workshop on the Four Rules regarding Shirk)

The Four Rules Regarding Shirk by Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abu Ukkaashah Abdul-Hakeem (hafidhahullāh)

• Thirteen points of benefit from the introduction and the first principle

• Meaning and importance of Tawḥīd

• Meaning of patience and its types

• Meaning of gratitude and its five constituents

• Many benefits from Ibn al-Qayyim (raḥimahullāh), with benefits from Shaykh Rabīʿ (raḥimahullāh)

• Seeking forgiveness from sins

• The meaning of Ḥanīf and the definition of Shirk

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