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Family, marriage, health and mental well-being (Part 3): raising children, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Sara Haroon (hafidhahullāh)

• A simple way to teach children the names of the Mothers of the Believers

• Ibn al-Qayyim in Tuḥfat al-Mawdūd: whoever neglects teaching his child what benefits him has wronged him greatly

• Choosing a good name for the child; the most beloved names to Allāh are ʿAbdullāh and ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān

• The Salaf disciplined their children for swearing oaths lightly; Shaykh Ibn Bāz on not cursing or insulting children

• "The best of you are those who are best to their families": how siblings treat one another

• Correcting children with ḥadīth from the Forty: loving for your brother what you love for yourself, "Do not get angry", leaving what does not concern you

• Forbidding evil with the tongue is not "snitching"

• Speaking to the family about the Hereafter, and teaching the daily adhkār and manners

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 26/2/23

Explanation of al-Mandhūmah al-Ḥāʾiyyah of Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd as-Sijistānī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī, taught by Ustādh Abu Maymūnah Saʿīd Ali (hafidhahullāh)

• The line on seeing Allāh: "Say as he ﷺ said", and the ḥadīth of Jarīr: "You will see your Lord as you see this moon"

• The ḥadīth likens the seeing to the seeing, not Allāh to the moon; guarding Fajr and ʿAṣr as a means to that bliss

• The Jahmī denies Allāh's Right Hand, "and both of His Hands are right, pouring down with blessings"

• The Muʿaṭṭilah: the Jahmiyyah, the Muʿtazilah, and those below them in negation, the Ashāʿirah, Kullābiyyah and Māturīdiyyah

• Allāh has two Hands, mentioned in the dual, the singular and the plural; attributes of the Essence and attributes of action

• Refuting the Mushabbihah from the Revelation, the intellect and what is perceived

• Five angles refuting those who make the Hand mean power or blessing, including "what I created with My two Hands" (38:75)

Streamed LIVE from Oldham on 15/11/25

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)

• Ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah: why the menstruating woman makes up the fasts but not the prayers

• "Are you a Ḥarūriyyah?": the Khawārij, and excessive questioning about matters one does not need

• ʿĀʾishah's answer is what the Prophet ﷺ commanded, and that convinces every follower of the Sunnah

• The striving of the Salaf to research and understand the wisdom behind the rulings

• Completing the Book of Purification

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 7/7/24

Explanation of al-Mandhūmah al-Ḥāʾiyyah of Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd as-Sijistānī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• "Hold fast to the rope of Allāh": the rope is the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, and the prohibition of splitting

• The ḥadīth of al-ʿIrbāḍ: "Upon you is my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs… bite onto it with the molar teeth"

• Beneficial knowledge is knowledge that is acted upon; the guidance of direction and the guidance of acceptance

• "Do not be an innovator": whoever introduces an innovation and deems it good claims the Messenger ﷺ betrayed the message

• Making the Book of Allāh and the Sunnah one's religion; the Companions did not differ in the fundamentals

• The Qurʾān is the Speech of Allāh, revealed and not created, and the origin of the Jahmiyyah's innovation

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 14/11/25

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

• The Khawārij: why they are so named, leaving the straight path and revolting against the rulers

• Their origin: Dhul-Khuwayṣirah's objection to the Prophet ﷺ, and the view of Ibn al-Jawzī in Talbīs Iblīs

• "A word of truth by which falsehood is intended": ʿAlī's reply to them, and their misuse of the texts to shed blood

• The Prophet's ﷺ foretelling of the Khawārij as a sign of prophethood, and the Companions' consensus on fighting them

• Their declaring the sinners from the Muslims to be disbelievers

Broadcast LIVE on SunnahRadio on 16/1/21

Relaying the advice of the scholars we met during the ʿUmrah trip, a lecture by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Shaykh Walīd Fallātah's explanation of the ḥadīth of Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān: the good, the evil that follows it, and the callers at the gates of Hell

• Asking about the men from whom knowledge is taken: "This knowledge is the religion, so look to whom you take your religion from"

• The steps of Shayṭān: shirk and kufr, then bidʿah, from which a person rarely repents, then sins

• Allāh's universal will and His legislative will, and holding to the Jamāʿah when splitting appears

• Not everyone is a caller: begin by saving yourself and your family from the Fire

• Questions and answers, including moving to a Muslim land and working alongside groups

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore Manchester on 21/9/25

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Our dealings with the Ummah of Muḥammad ﷺ: whoever outwardly shows Islām is treated as a Muslim and given his rights, such as praying the janāzah over him

• What is required from the inward and the outward, and how the believer differs from the hypocrite

• The slaughter of the Muslim and of the People of the Book is lawful

• Farḍ ʿayn and farḍ kifāyah, with the janāzah as an example

• The major sinner: the Muʿtazilah's "position between two positions" and the position of Ahl as-Sunnah

• Rejecting well-known authentic narrations is kufr, and the excuse of the one who does not know them

• Questions: stunning animals before slaughter

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 20/10/24

Explanation of al-Mandhūmah al-Ḥāʾiyyah of Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd as-Sijistānī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Completing the creed of Ahl as-Sunnah on the Qurʾān: "the religion is sincere advice… to His Book"

• The Wāqifah, who will not say whether the Qurʾān is created: hesitation between truth and falsehood presented as moderation is deception

• The speech of the Salaf is clear: the Qurʾān is the Speech of Allāh, not created

• The believers will see their Lord: the removal of the veil, "the best and more" (10:26) and "looking at their Lord" (75:23)

• Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ and the categories of tawḥīd

• Refuting the claim that ʿĪsā is the son of Allāh: his example is like that of Ādam (3:59)

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 14/11/25

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

• The Qurʾān is the Speech of Allāh and not created: the consensus of Ahl as-Sunnah, and whoever claims it is created has disbelieved

• Its proofs from the Qurʾān, and the statements of Imām Aḥmad in Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābilah

• The Wāqifah, who will not say whether the Qurʾān is created: an innovation the Companions were never upon

• The Lafẓiyyah: "my utterance of the Qurʾān is created", an ambiguous phrase used by the Jahmiyyah to deceive

• The detailed answer: what is recited is the Speech of Allāh, while the reciter's voice is created

• Using clear words rather than ambiguous ones: "Do not say rāʿinā" (2:104)

Broadcast LIVE on SunnahRadio on 23/1/21

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 51: the narrations about Allāh, such as "I saw my Lord in the most excellent form", must be submitted to, believed and accepted, and not interpreted according to desires

• Whoever interprets or rejects any of them is himself rejected

• The two deviations: the Mushabbihah who liken the Creator to the creation, and the Muʿaṭṭilah who negate the attributes, the most extreme being the Jahmiyyah

• Abū Bakr: "Whoever worshipped Muḥammad, Muḥammad has died; whoever worships Allāh, Allāh is Ever-Living and does not die"

• Affirming the Names and Attributes in a manner befitting His Majesty, without asking how

• To be Salafī is to establish three obligations: Tawḥīd, the Sunnah, and the understanding of the Salaf

• Questions: making up the Sunnah of Fajr after the obligatory prayer

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 26/10/24