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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)

• Of all the metals, zakāh is only due on gold and silver

• Outside the listed types of wealth the default is that no zakāh is due

• Money owed to a person by someone able to repay, or a debt proven by a contract, and the zakāh due on it

• How a person in debt calculates the zakāh on what remains

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

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

• The Qurʾān is the Speech of Allāh, not created

• What the scholars said about this, and which sects opposed Ahl as-Sunnah

• The ruling on those who believe the Qurʾān is created

• The beliefs of the Jahmiyyah, Muʿtazilah, Kullābiyyah, Ashʿarīs and others about the Speech of Allāh

• There is no room for differing in matters of the Attributes

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/10/23

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 6: when a dog drinks from the vessel of one of you, wash it seven times, the first of them with soil

• The narration of Abū Hurayrah and that of ʿAbdullāh ibn Mughaffal, and the differences in their wordings

• Why soil is used to purify from the dog's saliva

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/10/23

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 second level of the religion, Īmān, and how people differ over its definition

• The actions of the heart, such as sincerity and submission

• The Jahmiyyah: īmān is only knowledge or affirmation of the heart

• The Murjiʾah of the jurists: belief in the heart and statement on the tongue, leaving out action

• Belief in the angels: they are from the unseen and were created from light

• Belief in al-Qadar: what Allāh wills happens and what He does not will does not; His universal and legislative will; His creating of all things

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 19/10/23

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)

• Recap of the Book of Funerals: the visit to the graves that is shirk, such as circling the grave and calling upon its inhabitants

• The meaning of zakāh, and its benefit of purifying a person's wealth

• Zakāh is obligatory upon every free Muslim whose wealth reaches the niṣāb

• The four types of wealth it is due on: livestock, crops, gold and silver, and trade goods

• Why the money in our bank accounts today falls under gold and silver

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 16/10/23

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 14: Allāh is the First without beginning and the Last without end; time itself is created

• The fiṭrah: even a disbeliever looks to the heavens in hardship

• Point 15: only one who doubts about Allāh asks "how?" about His Attributes

• Whoever likens Allāh to the creation has gone astray; he is advised, and boycotted if he refuses

• The principles of Ahl as-Sunnah regarding the Names and Attributes

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 15/10/23

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 5 of Abū Hurayrah: do not urinate in still water that does not flow and then bathe in it

• The second wording: do not bathe in still water while in a state of janābah, and why the two are mentioned together

• The Sharīʿah's care for purification and for keeping away from harm

• Small amounts of still water compared with large bodies of water such as lakes

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 15/10/23

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: the seven conditions and two pillars (negation and affirmation) of lā ilāha illallāh

• The proof for the testimony that Muḥammad ﷺ is the Messenger (at-Tawbah 9:128) and what it requires

• The proof for ṣalāh and zakāh (al-Bayyinah 98:5)

• Sins are not all equal: shirk is the greatest of them

• The proof for Ḥajj (Āl ʿImrān 3:97): once in a lifetime for whoever is able, including a safe route

• Whoever rejects the obligation of Ḥajj or ṣalāh is a disbeliever

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 12/10/23

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)

• Recap: the order in which the deceased's wealth is spent (burial costs, debts, bequests, then the inheritors) and the washing

• When the body is not washed: fear of the enemy, or a body so burnt or damaged that water would harm it

• The funeral prayer: its four takbīrs and raising the hands with every takbīr

• Condolence and the etiquette of dealing with the family of the deceased; crying is not disliked, as the Prophet ﷺ wept at the death of his son Ibrāhīm

• Q&A: how a lay person weighs a proof in a contemporary issue, first its authenticity and then how it is being used

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 9/10/23

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 proof for the shahādah: "Allāh bears witness that none has the right to be worshipped but He" (Āl ʿImrān 3:18)

• The knowledge meant is knowledge that is acted upon

• Lā ilāha illallāh: an absolute negation, then the affirmation of worship for Allāh alone

• He alone creates, sustains, gives life and causes death, so He alone deserves worship and thanks

• Ibrāhīm's declaration: "I am free of what you worship" (az-Zukhruf 43:26–28)

• "O People of the Book, come to a word common between us and you" (Āl ʿImrān 3:64)

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 5/10/23