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Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, explaining aḥādīth from the Book of Fasting of al-Muḥarrar by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth: "When one of you breaks his fast, let him break it with dates; if he does not find any, then with water, for it is pure"

• It is recommended to break the fast with fresh dates, then dates, then water

• Water is pure and purifying

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

• These are ḥarām at all times, but the fasting person takes extra care so that his fast is complete

• Busying oneself with righteous actions that bring Allāh's reward and pleasure

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Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, explaining aḥādīth from the Book of Fasting of al-Muḥarrar by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of the definition of fasting from the previous night

• Ḥadīth of Anas: "Take suḥūr, for in suḥūr there is barakah"

• Ḥadīth of Sahl ibn Saʿd: the people remain upon good as long as they hasten to break the fast

• Benefits of suḥūr: strength for the fast, differing from the People of the Book, and remembering Allāh at that time

• Ḥadīth of Abū Dharr: "My Ummah will remain upon good as long as they delay the suḥūr and hasten the fiṭr"

• This religion is one of ease

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Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, explaining aḥādīth from the Book of Fasting of al-Muḥarrar by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ramaḍān as an opportunity to draw near to Allāh

• Introducing the Book of Fasting of al-Muḥarrar by Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, a book of aḥkām aḥādīth similar to Bulūgh al-Marām

• The linguistic and Sharʿī definition of ṣiyām

• Who must fast: the Muslim who is sane and has reached puberty, and the woman free of menses and post-natal bleeding

• Withholding from the things that break the fast, with the intention

• Fasting was made obligatory in Shaʿbān of the second year after the Hijrah; the Prophet ﷺ fasted nine Ramaḍāns

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Giving our time to the Qurʾān in Ramaḍān, a reminder by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Following the Prophet (ﷺ), who strove hardest with the Qurʾān in Ramaḍān

• Ḥadīth of Abū Umāmah: the Qurʾān will come as an intercessor for its people

• Ramaḍān as an opportunity to increase in righteous actions and taqwā

• Giving the Qurʾān its due: recitation, tafsīr and taking its lessons

• Questions and answers, including reciting without wuḍūʾ

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21 Select Aḥādīth on a Muslim's Belief, Methodology and Calling to Islam by Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth of Ibn Masʿūd: which sin is greatest? Shirk, killing one's child, and adultery with the neighbour's wife

• Jihād and its aim of making the word of Tawḥīd uppermost

• Ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah: the first three thrown into the Fire, the scholar, the reciter and the 'courageous' man

• They acted to be seen and were rewarded with what people said

• Sincerity of intention, and not ruling on specific individuals

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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 revision of the Book of Fasting before Ramaḍān 1445H, from the start of the chapter

• The linguistic and Sharīʿah definitions of fasting (ṣiyām)

• The pregnant and breastfeeding woman: making up the days or feeding a poor person for each day

• Q&A on debts: the guarantor, collateral and the seizing of a debtor's wealth (ḥajr)

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 3/3/24

21 Select Aḥādīth on a Muslim's Belief, Methodology and Calling to Islam by Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth of Ibn Masʿūd: every prophet had disciples, then came successors who say what they do not do

• Opposing innovation with the hand, the tongue, then the heart

• Loving what Allāh loves and hating what He hates

• Affirming Allāh's Names and Attributes according to the Book and the Sunnah

• Sincere advice to the rulers and to the general Muslims

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21 Select Aḥādīth on a Muslim's Belief, Methodology and Calling to Islam by Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah: Allāh is pleased with three things for you and dislikes three

• Worship with love and humility; love of Allāh as the basis of Tawḥīd

• Holding together to the rope of Allāh; splitting is forbidden

• Advising those in authority, gently and upon the truth

• What Allāh dislikes: 'it was said and he said', excessive questioning and wasting wealth

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

• Whoever speaks ill of the Companions is a person of desires

• The manners of Ahl as-Sunnah towards the Companions

• The ten promised Paradise

• Innovation begins small and grows, as with the Shīʿah

• Plans for the lessons around Ramaḍān, and fasting in Shaʿbān

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 11/2/24