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Important Lessons for the Muslim Nation by Shaykh Ibn Bāz (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• The conditions of the testification that Muḥammad ﷺ is the Messenger of Allāh, including believing his reports of the unseen, loving him above self, wealth and family, and giving his words precedence over everyone else's

• Why we must also know what nullifies the two testifications

• Whoever associates others with Allāh, Allāh has forbidden him Paradise

• Questions and answers on family matters, including a new marriage and children, parents who dislike the Salafi masjid, and the husband's duty to provide for his family

Streamed LIVE on 24/5/15

Important Lessons for the Muslim Nation by Shaykh Ibn Bāz (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• Why this book: knowledge is built up from the foundations, not from the most intricate matters, and Shaykh Ibn Bāz wrote it for the common Muslim

• Skipping the opening chapter on the short sūrahs, to return to it at the end of the book

• The first pillar of Islām: the two testifications, with the meaning of Lā ilāha illAllāh as negating all worship of others and affirming it for Allāh alone

• The two pillars of the word: negation and affirmation, as in al-Baqarah 2:256 and the words of Ibrāhīm (ʿalayhis-salām)

• The meaning of "Muḥammad is the Messenger of Allāh": obeying him in what he ordered, believing him in what he reported, and avoiding what he forbade

A reminder at the sisters' fundraiser on the ḥadīth of Abū Dharr, "Fear Allāh wherever you are", by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The ḥadīth of Abū Dharr: three pieces of advice, with Shaykh ʿUbayd’s explanation

• Taqwā in every time and place: do not let Shayṭān deceive you into thinking taqwā is only for Ramaḍān or only in the lands of the Muslims

• Knowing Allāh through His Names, Attributes and Tawḥīd in order to truly fear Him

• The three types of taqwā: in the commands, in the prohibitions, and in the doubtful matters (the ḥadīth of an-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr), with the one who leaves even the permissible out of zuhd

• Following a bad deed with a good one: minor and major sins, and the conditions of sincere repentance

• Treating people with good character, beginning with good manners with Allāh and His Messenger ﷺ, and not turning people away from the Sunnah

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 16/2/25

Jumuʿah khuṭbah by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• "And worship your Lord until the certainty comes to you": the certainty is death, and our task in this world is worship

• Three things follow the deceased: his family and his wealth return, and only his actions remain with him

• The dunyā is the abode of action, not of indulgence; preparing for death with righteous deeds

• Ramaḍān as a season of good: none of us knows how many more Ramaḍāns we will reach

• Fasting for taqwā: leaving the permissible for Allāh, and guarding the tongue from backbiting and tale-carrying

• Standing the nights of Ramaḍān with īmān and hoping for reward

• ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb: "Bring yourselves to account before you are brought to account": continuing upon good without self-amazement, and sincere repentance from evil

ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Fasting, a Ramaḍān three-day workshop shared between several teachers (session 1 of 10, part 2), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The second ḥadīth of the sitting, from Ibn ʿUmar: "When you see it, fast, and when you see it, break your fast; and if it is hidden from you, complete the count"

• The narrator ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar: a Companion son of a Companion, one of those who narrated the most, too young for Badr and Uḥud, present at al-Khandaq

• A principle: a command indicates obligation and a prohibition indicates ḥarām, unless another text shows otherwise

• One trustworthy witness is enough to begin Ramaḍān, while ending it needs two, because one is leaving an act of worship

• When the sky is overcast, completing thirty days of Shaʿbān or of Ramaḍān; fasting on the day of ʿĪd is ḥarām

• The months are established by sighting, not by astronomical calculation

• Questions and answers: a sighting from far away, and following trustworthy reports

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 21/2/25

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

• The ḥadīth of Anas ibn Mālik: the Bedouin who urinated in the masjid

• Its wordings: al-aʿrābī, and the dhanūb (a vessel full of water)

• The Prophet ﷺ stopped the Companions from rebuking him and let him finish

• Purifying ground soiled by urine by pouring water over it; soap is not a condition

• Gentleness in teaching the ignorant, and cleaning impurities without delay

• The Prophet ﷺ had the Companions clean the place rather than the Bedouin

• Questions and answers: affirming the Eyes of Allāh, establishing the proof, and Qawwām as-Sunnah al-Aṣbahānī

Broadcast LIVE on SunnahRadio on 23/1/21

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

• The ḥadīth of Umm Qays bint Miḥṣan: the baby boy who urinated on the Prophet's ﷺ garment, and the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah

• The biography of Umm Qays, sister of ʿUkkāshah ibn Miḥṣan

• Purifying clothing from the urine of a baby boy who has not started eating food

• Sprinkling water for the baby boy, and washing for the baby girl

• The urine of the baby boy is impure, even though sprinkling suffices

• The Prophet's ﷺ humility and good character with children; taḥnīk was particular to him

• Cleaning impurities straight away, so their place is not forgotten

Broadcast LIVE on SunnahRadio on 16/1/21

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

• The ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh ibn Zayd: "He should not leave until he hears a sound or finds a smell"

• The narrator ʿAbbād ibn Tamīm, and who the man who complained was (ʿAbdullāh ibn Zayd himself, in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī)

• The maxim: certainty is not removed by doubt, with examples from the prayer and from divorce

• The three opinions on doubting one's wuḍūʾ inside and outside the prayer, and the correct one

• Exceptions the scholars mention: doubt over wiping the khuffayn and over being a traveller

• Benefits: doubt does not nullify wuḍūʾ, breaking wind nullifies it, and the legislation of asking the scholars

• Questions and answers: health insurance, and refusing birthday gifts with wisdom

Broadcast LIVE on SunnahRadio on 2/1/21

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

• Beginning the chapter on madhy (prostatic fluid) and other things that nullify wuḍūʾ

• The ḥadīth of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, who was shy to ask the Prophet ﷺ and sent al-Miqdād to ask for him

• Biographies of ʿAlī, Fāṭimah and al-Miqdād ibn al-Aswad (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhum)

• Must the whole private part be washed, or only the affected part? The stronger opinion

• Madhy is impure and nullifies wuḍūʾ, but does not require ghusl (by consensus), and must be washed with water

• Benefits: asking someone else to ask on your behalf, and the manners of not speaking of such matters before one's in-laws

• Questions and answers: inheriting from non-Muslim parents, urine on clothing, and the Muʿtazilah and the Murjiʾah on īmān

Broadcast LIVE on SunnahRadio on 19/12/20

Unity upon the Sunnah, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Arwa Ali (hafidhahullāh)

• The false paths to unity offered today: military coups against the rulers, the Tablīghī "tours", and the slogans of the Ikhwān and ISIS

• The linguistic meaning of the Sunnah, and its wider meaning with the early scholars: whatever conforms to the Qurʾān, the Sunnah and the way of the Companions in belief and worship

• Why most of what the Salaf wrote under the title "as-Sunnah" concerns ʿaqīdah

• A neglected feature of the Salaf: warning against innovation and keeping away from it and its people

• True unity comes only by gathering upon the Sunnah and supporting the masājid established upon it

Streamed LIVE on 3/7/16