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ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• The ḥadīth of Ḥumrān describing ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān's wuḍūʾ

• Each step in order: washing the hands, rinsing the mouth and nose, washing the face and the arms to the elbows

• A second narration of the Prophet's ﷺ wuḍūʾ, using three handfuls for the mouth and nose

• The verse of wuḍūʾ in Sūrat al-Māʾidah, verse 6

• Revision of the limbs that must be washed, including washing the whole face

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ʿAqīdat ar-Rāziyyayn, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• The best of this Ummah after its Prophet ﷺ: Abū Bakr, then ʿUmar, then ʿUthmān, then ʿAlī, the rightly guided Khulafāʾ

• The virtue of the Companions, who witnessed the revelation of the Qurʾān

• The order of their virtue by the Sunnah and consensus, and the error of the Zaydiyyah

• The ḥadīth of the woman who chose patience with her illness for Paradise

• Withholding from what occurred between the Companions: "If my Companions are mentioned, then remain silent"

ʿAqīdat ar-Rāziyyayn, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• Belief in al-Qadr, its good and its evil being from Allāh

• Allāh created everything: the worlds of mankind, the jinn, the angels, the devils, the animals and the birds

• The error of the Jabriyyah, who deny that the servant has any choice

• The servant chooses and does his own good deeds and sins, while Allāh created his actions

• The fruit of correct belief in al-Qadr: patience and firmness at a calamity

ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām (Book of Purification) by ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 5: the ruling on urinating in stagnant water and washing oneself from it in a state of janābah

• Benefits taken from Ḥadīth 5

• Ḥadīth 6: the ruling on a dog putting its tongue in a vessel, and how to purify the vessel

• Benefits taken from Ḥadīth 6

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ʿAqīdat ar-Rāziyyayn, taught by Ustādh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

- Belief in the divine decree (Qadar), the good of it and the evil of it being from Allāh, as a pillar of Īmān

- The four levels of Qadar: Allāh's encompassing knowledge, everything being written, Allāh's will, and creation

- The sects that opposed the correct creed on Qadar, such as the Qadariyyah and Jabariyyah

- The fruits and benefits of the correct belief in Qadar

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ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• The ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah on putting water in the nose and on washing the hands after sleep

• The face in the verse of wuḍūʾ includes the nose and mouth, so rinsing them is obligatory

• Washing the hands after waking, and Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation

• The Prophet's ﷺ excellent teaching in giving the reason behind the command

• Cautiousness (iḥtiyāṭ) is praiseworthy in the religion

ʿAqīdat ar-Rāziyyayn, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

- The second principle: the Qurʾān is the speech of Allāh and is not created in any way

- The proofs from the Qurʾān and Sunnah for this principle

- The trials of Imām Aḥmad (raḥimahullāh), and the patience of the people of the Sunnah in advising the rulers without making khurūj

- The deviant sects on this issue, the Jahmiyyah, Kullābiyyah and Ashʿarīs, and how the scholars refuted them

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ʿAqīdat ar-Rāziyyayn, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

- Benefits from the introduction and the statement of Ibn Abī Ḥātim, who asked his father Abū Ḥātim and Abū Zurʿah about the methodology of Ahl as-Sunnah

- Taking knowledge from the scholars, and taking our ʿaqīdah from the pious predecessors

- The importance of parents being upon the correct beliefs and methodology

- Returning to the scholars of the Sunnah: turning away from them and relying on one's own intellect is a major reason for misguidance

- The importance of travelling to seek knowledge from the scholars upon the Sunnah

- The first principle, Īmān, and its four parts: the statement of the tongue, belief in the heart, actions of the limbs, and that it increases with obedience and decreases with disobedience

- Refutation of the deviant groups who oppose this principle

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Lesson 2 of lessons on the Book of Purification from Umdatul-Ahkam (a book of authentic narrations from the Messenger of Allaah, may Allah raise his rank and grant him peace).