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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)

• Recap: Zakāt al-Fiṭr is paid before the ʿĪd prayer and given out as food, even if it is collected as money

• The ḥadīth of Muʿādh being sent to Yemen, and the ruler's responsibility to collect and distribute the zakāh

• The ruler may delegate this to the collectors (al-ʿāmilūn ʿalayhā)

• Paying zakāh as a means of increasing and purifying one's wealth

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 13/11/23

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 4: the Messenger ﷺ explained the Sunnah to his Ummah and made it clear to his Companions

• Point 5: whoever opposes the Companions in any matter of the religion

• Sincerity and showing off (riyāʾ): the ḥadīth of the three people first judged on the Day of Resurrection

• Differing in fiqh that comes from different understandings of the same ḥadīth

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 25/6/23

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)

• A shorter lesson revising the main points of the second principle

• The three levels Islām, Īmān and Iḥsān; the five pillars of Islām and the conditions of the shahādah

• Ṣalāh: its conditions, including discernment; children are commanded at seven and disciplined at ten

• Fasting Ramaḍān is obligatory so that we attain taqwā (al-Baqarah 2:183), from Fajr until Maghrib

• Every nation was sent a messenger calling to Tawḥīd (an-Naḥl 16:36)

• Belief in the angels, general and specific; the levels of al-Qadar, beginning with knowledge and writing

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 9/11/23

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

• Who is a Companion: the definition, and borderline cases

• Why it matters to know who the Companions are

• Questions on correct and incorrect statements in ʿaqīdah

• What makes a person a Salafī, and when it can be said that someone was upon the Sunnah

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 4/6/23

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 conditions for zakāh on trade goods, including the intention to trade and reaching the niṣāb

• No zakāh on the home a person lives in, unless it is held with the intention of trading

• Zakāt al-Fiṭr is paid for each and every individual

• Why the ʿĪd al-Fiṭr prayer is delayed (to give out the zakāh) and the ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā prayer is brought forward

• Paying it as food, and making it up if it was missed before the ʿĪd

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 6/11/23

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

• The Jamāʿah is only established upon the Book and the Sunnah

• Point 3: the Companions are the foundation upon which the Jamāʿah is built

• Groups that appear united while their hearts are divided (ḥizbiyyah)

• Questions and answers, including sitting in a voluntary prayer

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 28/5/23

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 16: the believers will see Allāh on the Day of Resurrection

• The three statements about who will see Allāh

• The Muʿtazilah's denial, and where Ahl as-Sunnah took their creed from

• Why the text mentions the Day of Resurrection

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 5/11/23

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 7: Ḥumrān, the freed slave of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, describes ʿUthmān's wuḍūʾ

• The reward of previous sins being forgiven refers to the minor sins; the major sins need repentance

• ʿUthmān taught the wuḍūʾ by doing it: washing the hands first and taking the water with the right hand

• Not going beyond three washes

• In ghusl, the water reaching every part of the body with the intention suffices

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 5/11/23

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

• Recap of Point 1: Islām in its general and specific meaning, and the Sunnah as the opposite of Bidʿah

• Point 2: adhering to the Jamāʿah of the Muslims, and the evidence for it

• What is the Jamāʿah, who are they and how are they recognised?

• The danger of splitting from the Jamāʿah: the wolf takes the stray sheep

• The ruling on the one who leaves the Jamāʿah

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 21/5/23

Imām as-Saʿdī's explanation of Jawāmiʿ al-Akhbār, with additional benefits from Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abu Abdir-Rahmān Hilāl (hafidhahullāh)

• Introduction to the book and its author

• "Whoever Allāh wants good for, He gives understanding of the religion"

• Why Imām as-Saʿdī began with these two ḥadīth

• Ḥadīth 1: "Actions are only by intentions" – the scale of inward actions

• Intentions decide whether a transaction is valid

• The reward written for a deed missed through illness or travel

• Ḥadīth 2: "Whoever introduces into this affair of ours…" – the scale of outward actions

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 28/10/23