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The distinguishing boundary between the people of Sunnah and the people of falsehood, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Humayd Saalim Ahmad (hafidhahullāh)

• The whole religion is character: conduct with the Creator and conduct with the creation

• A memory from Madīnah of a scholar's advice relayed by telelink to a community in the United States

• Leaders who call to falsehood will lead their followers into the Fire on the Day of Judgement

• Mūsā and Hārūn were commanded to speak gently even to Firʿawn

• Answering the claim that some scholars of the Sunnah know ʿaqīdah but not manhaj

• Why a scholar far away may be unaware of what is happening in a given land

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)

• Utensils with a small amount of silver

• All other utensils are permissible, as the default is that everything Allāh created is permitted

• The supplication when entering the toilet, seeking refuge from the male and female devils

• Saying "Ghufrānak" when leaving the toilet

• Q&A: urinating in the shower

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 28/11/22

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)

• Wuḍūʾ is a condition of the prayer, from the āyah of Sūrat al-Māʾidah and the ḥadīth "No prayer is accepted without wuḍūʾ"

• The boundaries of the face that must be washed

• Running the fingers through the beard (takhlīl)

• Sniffing water deeply into the nose is Sunnah, except when fasting

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 12/12/22

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 manners of the toilet: entering with the left foot and seeking forgiveness on leaving

• Facing or turning one's back to the qiblah while relieving oneself, and reconciling the narrations

• Cleaning with stones (istijmār): three times, or more until the place is clean

• Combining stones and water is better; not using the right hand

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 5/12/22

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)

• Ash-Shāfiʿī: had Allāh sent down no proof but this sūrah, it would have sufficed them

• Sūrat al-ʿAsr calls to īmān and to righteous actions, obligatory and recommended

• Knowledge without action is the path of those who earned anger; action without knowledge is the path of those astray

• al-Bukhārī's chapter "Knowledge comes before speech and action" (Muḥammad 47:19)

• Those who rejected the word of Tawḥīd: the Quraysh, the grave worshippers, the atheists, the Jews and the Christians

• The conditions of lā ilāha illallāh: knowledge, certainty, acceptance, submission, truthfulness, sincerity and love, plus freeing oneself from shirk and its people

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 15/12/22

al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyyah (40 Ḥadīth) of Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanations of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 29: "Tell me of an act which will enter me into Paradise…" – The Danger of the Tongue

• Paradise and the Fire are entered through deeds, and the way to each is known only through revelation

• Worship is only accepted with sincerity; if shirk enters it, the deed is void

• What breaks the fast, such as eating, drinking and intercourse, and what only diminishes it

• Fasting is a shield, charity puts out sins, and the best voluntary prayer is deep in the night

• The prayer is the pillar of Islām: without it the rest of one's deeds cannot hold Islām up

• The tongue can wipe out good deeds, through words of kufr, backbiting, tale-carrying and false witness

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 11/12/22

al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyyah (40 Ḥadīth) of Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanations of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 28: "…you must keep to my Sunnah and to the Sunnah of the rightly-guided Khalīfahs…" – Sticking to the Sunnah

• Being moved to fear and tears by admonition, as the Companions were, shows a heart free of hardness

• The Muslim ruler is obeyed in what is good, not in sin, and is sincerely advised rather than revolted against

• When differences arise the remedy is the Book and the Sunnah, then the way of the rightly guided Khulafāʾ

• Every newly invented matter in the religion is bidʿah and misguidance; there is no good bidʿah

• The narration that this Ummah will split into seventy-three sects, all in the Fire except one: a sign of his prophethood

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 27/11/22

al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyyah (40 Ḥadīth) of Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanations of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 3: "Islām is built upon five (pillars)…" – The Five Pillars of Islām

• The five are the pillars of Islām, not the whole of it; all good deeds and leaving sins are part of it too

• The testimony negates all worship besides Allāh and affirms it for Him; one without the other is not enough

• Witnessing that Muḥammad is the Messenger means believing him, obeying him and worshipping by his Sharīʿah

• "Establishing" the prayer is praying it fully, with its pillars and conditions, sincerely and on time

• Zakāh is a right owed in the wealth of the rich

• Homework: the seven conditions of lā ilāha illallāh, and which type of ḥajj is best (tamattuʿ, qirān or ifrād)

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 25/7/21

al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyyah (40 Ḥadīth) of Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanations of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 2 (continued): "Then inform me about īmān…" – The Levels of the Religion

• Īmān is word, belief and action; it increases with obedience and decreases with sin

• The angels are made of light, each with a task: Jibrīl the revelation, Mīkāʾīl the rain, Isrāfīl the Horn

• Allāh revealed many Books; we believe in those named and unnamed, the greatest being the Qurʾān

• Iḥsān is the highest level: to worship Allāh as though you see Him, and if not, knowing that He sees you

• Only Allāh knows the time of the Hour; even Jibrīl and Muḥammad ﷺ did not know it

• A sign of the Hour: barefoot shepherds competing in tall buildings, a blameworthy immersion in the dunyā

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 11/7/21

al-Arbaʿūn an-Nawawiyyah (40 Ḥadīth) of Imām an-Nawawī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanations of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 2: "O Muḥammad, inform me about Islām…" – The Levels of the Religion

• Going through the homework: the full title of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī

• This great ḥadīth explains the whole religion and its levels: Muslim, then believer, then muḥsin

• The student comes to a gathering of knowledge clean and well dressed, and sits close to the teacher, as Jibrīl did

• Jibrīl asked though he knew, teaching by question and answer, which best alerts the mind

• The five pillars are the foundation of Islām; lā ilāha illā Allāh must be acted on, not only said

• Establishing the prayer means praying as the Prophet ﷺ did, on time, with khushūʿ and in congregation

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 10/7/21