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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 prayer of fear shows the importance of the prayer: it is prayed even in front of the enemy, so work or children are no excuse

• The narration of Imām Aḥmad that the Prophet ﷺ prayed it in several different ways

• Not leaving the obligatory prayer because of doubt or whispers

• Praying in two groups, one praying while the other stands guard, then swapping

• How to pray when the fear intensifies, and what necessity (ḍarūrah) really means

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 18/9/23

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)

• The first of a series on the Book of Purification from ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī

• Not to be confused with ʿUmdatul Fiqh of Ibn Qudāmah (the Monday lessons), which gives brief rulings with few proofs

• Ḥadīth 1: "Actions are only by intentions"

• Actions include deliberately leaving something, such as leaving off stealing; the meaning of intention

• Purification cannot happen without a correct intention

• The comprehensive speech of the Prophet ﷺ and his excellent way of teaching

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

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)

• Duʿāʾ, from the most important forms of worship: the duʿāʾ of worship and the duʿāʾ of asking

• Worship with one's wealth, one's body, or both

• There is no Tawḥīd without freeing oneself from shirk; love for Allāh's sake goes with hatred for His sake

• Duʿāʾ is on the tongue and limbs, while khawf is in the heart; īmān is belief, statement and action, and it increases and decreases

• The callers to shirk use fear to frighten people into shirk

• The kinds of fear: the fear that is shirk, fear of people that leads to leaving obligations, and natural fear

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 14/9/23

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 prayer of the sick: praying sitting if standing increases the illness, and on the side if unable to sit

• The prayer of the traveller: shortening is a concession to remove hardship

• Whether one travelling for the sake of disobedience may shorten the prayer

• Q&A: the ḥadīth of the Ummah splitting into 73 sects and the one saved group, and the ḥadīth of the Ḥawḍ

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 11/9/23

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 10: a person's Islām is not complete until he follows, attests and submits

• The danger of not following the Companions, and the evil of those who speak ill of them

• Point 11: no analogy in the Sunnah; the dangers of taʾwīl and taḥrīf

• The importance of affirming the narrations

• Treating the different illnesses of the heart according to each person's condition

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

Advice to the Women from selected aḥādīth of Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn by Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh) and other scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The last ḥadīth of the series: "Command your children to pray at seven, discipline them for it at ten, and separate their beds"

• The chain of ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather, and the "golden chains"

• Disciplining at ten only if the child's understanding matches his age

• Discipline is to teach, not to cause pain, and not for every mistake

• Parents lead by example, not "do as I say, not as I do"

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

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 Thursday lessons resume after a long break with a revision of the main points

• Shaykh Zayd on why no student of knowledge can do without this text, and the books to study after it

• "Know, may Allāh have mercy on you": encouragement to learn and to pay attention

• Knowing Allāh as the Creator and Provider, the only One deserving worship, with His names and attributes

• Calling others to the truth and enjoining good and forbidding evil, the mark of this Ummah, with patience

• al-Bukhārī's chapter "Knowledge comes before speech and action"

Recorded at the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson on 7/9/23

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)

• Studying fiqh through one madhhab while grounding it in the Book and the Sunnah, without blind following

• ʿUmdatul Fiqh is a text of the Ḥanbalī madhhab

• The start of the Chapter of Imāmah (leading the prayer)

• If the imām prays sitting, those behind him sit too, as the follower's prayer cannot surpass the imām's

• Q&A: establishing more than one Jumuʿah in one place

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester

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 Sunnah of Fajr may be prayed after the Fajr prayer if it was missed, but this must not become a habit

• The times in which voluntary prayer is prohibited

• The funeral prayer is a communal obligation (farḍ kifāyah), not one of the voluntary prayers, and what a communal obligation means

• The three times in which praying and burying the dead are prohibited

• Q&A on praying the funeral prayer in the prohibited times

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 31/7/23

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah's advice to one controlled by sickness and desires, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Abdir-Rahmān Hilāl (hafidhahullāh)

• A time of widespread fitnah and ignorance, spread in seconds through social media

• The question put to Shaykh al-Islām by a man overcome by his desires who wanted salvation, and his concise answer

• Turning to Allāh first in every affliction, rather than seeking ease in the prohibited

• Supplicating with the authentic duʿāʾ of the Prophet ﷺ at the times of acceptance

• Truthful istighfār means leaving the sin; persisting upon a minor sin makes it major

• The remembrance of Allāh removes sorrow, and it is light upon the tongue

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 29/7/23