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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)

• The three ways of performing Ḥajj: tamattuʿ, qirān and ifrād, and why tamattuʿ is so called

• Entering iḥrām from the closest mīqāt on one's route

• For those travelling from Britain, coming from the north-west, the mīqāt passed is al-Juḥfah

• Q&A: performing several ʿUmrahs in one trip, and the sacrifices due for violations

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 4/12/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: thirteen years of calling in Makkah; ṣalāh made obligatory after ten

• The command to migrate to Madīnah; hijrah includes moving from a land of disobedience or innovation to one where obedience and the Sunnah prevail

• "Was not the earth of Allāh spacious enough for you to migrate?" (an-Nisāʾ 4:97)

• The land of disbelief and the land of Islām, where the rulings of Allāh are established

• Travelling to the lands of the disbelievers for a need such as treatment or knowledge, with knowledge, taqwā and īmān to protect oneself

• Questions on business: take the means without attaching the heart to them

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 7/12/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The third principle: the lineage of the Prophet ﷺ, from Hāshim, from Quraysh, from the Arabs

• Sixty-three years: forty before prophethood and twenty-three as a prophet and messenger

• Made a prophet by "Iqraʾ" and a messenger by al-Muddaththir: warn, magnify your Lord, purify your garments, shun the idols

• Purity of the heart and the limbs; sin committed in secret eventually shows upon the limbs

• The call in Makkah was accepted slowly; he did not rush, but called consistently and with mercy

• The Night Journey: fifty prayers reduced to five, with the reward of fifty

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 30/11/23

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 14 of Anas: when the Prophet ﷺ went to relieve himself, a boy and I would carry a vessel of water and a short spear, and he would clean himself with the water

• Ḥadīth 15 of Abū Qatādah: do not hold the private part or clean yourself with the right hand, and do not breathe into the vessel

• Questions: being alone with a non-maḥram woman at work

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 3/12/23

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 13: the way of the Salaf regarding the Names and Attributes of Allāh begins

• Speaking about Allāh without evidence is a newly introduced matter

• The Salaf's position on Jahm ibn Ṣafwān

• Refuting the claim that one may take knowledge from someone without warning against his innovation

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 1/10/23

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 12: censure of kalām, argumentation and disputing

• Avoiding argumentation protects a person, and holding to the Book of Allāh means never going astray

• The introduction of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: from whom narrations are taken

• Debates as a method of daʿwah: the end does not justify the means

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 17/9/23

12 - Sharh as-Sunnah of Barbahaaree - Abdulhakim Mitchell | Manchester by Learn About Islam

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 9: the two ways in which people leave the straight path

• The truth is one and the straight path is one

• The one who errs intending good and the one who stubbornly opposes the truth

• The patience and long advice of the scholars before declaring someone an innovator, with the example of Shaykh Rabīʿ (raḥimahullāh)

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 23/7/23

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 8: be careful whose speech you accept in matters of knowledge and religion

• The order in which the Shayṭān misleads: shirk and kufr, then Bidʿah, then the major sins

• Taking knowledge only from those who are trustworthy, and rejecting those who should not be taken from

• The scholars are those who follow the way of the Companions and the Tābiʿūn

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 16/7/23

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 20: the Intercession, and that it is from the foundations of Ahl as-Sunnah

• The two conditions of intercession: Allāh's permission and His pleasure with the one interceded for

• Entering the Fire as a purification for sinful believers, and being brought out of it

• Point 21: the Ṣirāṭ, and its link with the Intercession

• The showing off of the hypocrite compared with riyāʾ that enters the heart of a Muslim

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 26/11/23