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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)

• Neglecting the voluntary acts opens a door for the Shayṭān and can lead to leaving the obligations

• Fasting the white days (13th, 14th and 15th of each month) from the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah

• The pilgrim at ʿArafah is not recommended to fast

• Q&A on the reward of the voluntary prayers and fasts

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 13/3/23

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 main text begins: "If it is said to you, what are the three principles..."

• Knowing your Lord: He nurtures all of creation, and nothing in creation is independent of Him

• His nurturing is of two kinds, general and specific

• "Freedom of religion" misunderstood: whoever dies upon other than Islām is of the people of the Fire

• Distinguishing truth from falsehood is from the greatest forms of jihād

• The Prophet ﷺ called in secret until he was commanded to proclaim openly, "I am a clear warner to you"

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 2/3/23

Family, marriage, health and mental well-being (Part 2), advice by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Returning every affair to Allāh when engrossed in marriage and the dunyā

• Advice for those seeking marriage, including family pressure over race or background

• Everything the Prophet (ﷺ) commanded is for our benefit

• Responsibilities within marriage and in raising upright children

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester

Family, marriage, health and mental well-being (part 1), a lecture by Ustādh Abu Sara Haroon (hafidhahullāh)

• A recollection from Madinah with Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahullāh)

• Duʿāʾ is the key to all good: being consistent in supplicating for our families, not only when trials come

• The example of the good companion and the bad: the musk-carrier and the blacksmith

• Respecting elders, and when it is better for the young to speak

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 sick person and the traveller, who are permitted to break the fast and make up the days, as in the āyah of Sūrat al-Baqarah

• The ḥadīth of the man who had relations with his wife while fasting, and the kaffārah: freeing a slave, two consecutive months of fasting, or feeding sixty poor people

• When a traveller counts as a resident, referred back to custom

• Q&A on the two consecutive months of the kaffārah

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 20/2/23

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)

• Why the class moved to the Book of Fasting ahead of Ramaḍān before continuing with the Book of Prayer

• The need to know the rulings of an act of worship before performing it

• Whether the disbeliever is addressed with the obligations such as fasting, and is punished for leaving them

• Sighting the crescent and whose testimony is accepted

• Q&A: hearing the adhān of Fajr with food or drink still in the mouth

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 13/2/23

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 menstruating woman does not pray or fast, and makes up the fasts but not the prayers

• Divorce during menstruation is an innovated divorce and impermissible, but it still counts

• The narrations in at-Tirmidhī and Abū Dāwūd on the expiation for intercourse during menstruation, and their grading

• Q&A on the kaffārah and the sin of intercourse during menstruation

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 6/2/23

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: loving and hating for Allāh's sake is a foundation of Islām; distinguishing ourselves from those who oppose the truth

• A Muslim is loved in proportion to his obedience; the innovator is disliked for his opposition to the Sunnah yet loved for his Islām

• The two kinds of differing: differing of variety and differing of contradiction

• Refuting "we cooperate in what we agree upon and excuse each other in what we differ"

• Giving concern to the Qurʾān through the books of tafsīr, such as al-Jalālayn and as-Saʿdī, and to the Sunnah

• The scholar who spreads knowledge and refutes innovation is like the mujāhid on the battlefield, or greater

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 2/2/23

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 conditions of tayammum: having no water, or only enough to drink

• Tayammum is performed in its correct time

• The start of the Chapter of Menstruation

• Intercourse is forbidden with a menstruating woman, from the āyah of Sūrat al-Baqarah

• Learning the rulings of divorce in order to avoid problems in marriage

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 30/1/23

What is Taqwā? How to implement it in reality and its effects, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Abdir-Rahmān Hilāl (hafidhahullāh)

• What is taqwā?

• The definition of Ṭalq ibn Ḥabīb, described by scholars such as Ibn al-Qayyim as the best definition

• How is knowledge taken away?

• What are the worst actions?

• The evil effects of sins

• What are the levels of taqwā?

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 28/1/23