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Selected questions and answers on the manhaj of the Salaf from Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī and Shaykh Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī (raḥimahumallāh), explained by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

1. Shaykh Muqbil on holding to the Sunnah, from what he saw on his journey to America; the truth is not known by the people, the people are known by the truth

2. Those who slaughter at graves: when is the grave-worshipper a mushrik, and praying behind him

3. Praying behind an imām upon innovation: put a Sunnī forward, pray in the masājid of the Sunnah, or build one

4. What makes a person an innovator?

5. Is the knowledge of al-jarḥ wa at-taʿdīl only for the narrators of the past? The Salaf's books refuting the people of innovation

6. The principles that distinguish the Sunnah from bidʿah

7. Is there a difference between bidʿah and opposing the Sunnah?

8. Should a refutation be harsh or gentle?

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore Manchester on 12/10/25

The Promise of Allāh to Mankind, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• Deeds that seem small and simple will carry great weight on the Day of Judgement

• Only what comes with the Sharīʿah of Muḥammad ﷺ is accepted: "Whoever seeks a religion other than Islām, it will never be accepted from him"

• The promise of Allāh: whoever follows His guidance will have no fear and will not grieve

• Following the Qurʾān and the Sunnah upon the way of the Salaf

• Questions and answers, including advice to the student who feels he is not learning fast enough: check and correct the intention

Streamed LIVE on 23/5/15

Explanation of al-Mandhūmah al-Ḥāʾiyyah of Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd as-Sijistānī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān, taught by Ustādh Abu Abdir-Rahmān Hilāl (hafidhahullāh)

• The lines on the best of people after the Prophet ﷺ: Abū Bakr, ʿUmar, ʿUthmān, then ʿAlī

• "The best of people is my generation"; the Muhājirūn and the Anṣār, and what the Muhājirūn left for Allāh

• Those who revile the Companions are really attacking the Qurʾān and the Sunnah that they carried

• The virtues of Abū Bakr, ʿUthmān and ʿAlī, and the consensus on their order of virtue

• "Speak with the best words about all of the Companions": praise of them in Sūrat al-Fatḥ, and the threat against reviling them

• A closing call to unity upon the truth

Streamed LIVE from Oldham on 15/11/25

Explanation of al-Mandhūmah al-Ḥāʾiyyah of Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd as-Sijistānī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān, taught by Ustādh Abu Abdir-Rahmān Hilāl (hafidhahullāh)

• The blessing of unity upon the truth, and communities coming together for knowledge

• The lines on the ḥadīth of the descent: Allāh descends to the lowest heaven in the last part of every night, "Is there anyone asking forgiveness, that I may forgive him?"

• Seizing the last third of the night, and the one who wastes it in front of screens

• The ḥadīth of the descent is mutawātir, narrated by some twenty-eight Companions; the loss of those who reject it

• The danger of being a caller to misguidance and carrying the burdens of those one misleads (16:25)

• Ahl as-Sunnah affirm the descent as Allāh wills, without likening Him to His creation

Streamed LIVE from Oldham on 15/11/25

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

• The Rāfiḍah: the origin of the name, and their founder ʿAbdullāh ibn Sabaʾ the Jew

• The Zaydiyyah and how the Shīʿah split over Zayd ibn ʿAlī

• Statements from their own books that oppose the Qurʾān, including their extremism over ʿAlī and likening Allāh to His creation

• Their hatred of the Companions, and the virtue of the Companions: "Do not revile my Companions"

• Questions and answers: the Qurʾān recited by the reciter, answering "Are you a believer?", and the sign of the people of innovation: speaking ill of the people of narrations

Broadcast LIVE on SunnahRadio on 9/1/21

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

• Why the imāms set out the beliefs of the deviant sects: knowing the evil in order to avoid it, with a benefit from Shaykh ʿUbayd

• The Qadariyyah: those who deny Allāh's prior knowledge, and those who deny that Allāh creates the actions of His servants

• "Allāh created you and what you do" (37:96); refuting the Jabriyyah: the servant has a will, beneath the all-encompassing will of Allāh

• The Jahmiyyah: their origin with al-Jaʿd ibn Dirham, taken from the Jews

• Negating Allāh's names and attributes likens Him to the non-existent

• The ruling of the imāms on the Jahmiyyah

Broadcast LIVE on SunnahRadio on 2/1/21

Lessons in giving daʿwah, extracted from the ḥadīth of the sending of Muʿādh to Yemen, a lecture by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās: the Prophet's ﷺ advice to Muʿādh ibn Jabal, the first ḥadīth in Shaykh Rabīʿ's collection of ḥadīth on creed and methodology

• Beginning with the testimony of Lā ilāha illallāh, and that the word tawḥīd is found in the Sunnah itself

• Seeking aid from the creation: what is allowed and its conditions, and what is shirk

• The meaning of the testimony that Muḥammad ﷺ is the Messenger of Allāh

• Benefits of the ḥadīth: tawḥīd is the basis of Islām, then the prayer, then the zakāh and to whom it is paid

• The methodology of the prophets in daʿwah: beginning with the most important, then what follows it

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 16/6/22

Upon You Is My Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Khulafāʾ, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Inaayah Seif ad-Deen (hafidhahullāh)

• Benefits from the ḥadīth of al-ʿIrbāḍ ibn Sāriyah, the farewell advice of the Messenger ﷺ, mainly from the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ, with points from Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī and Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Luḥaydān (raḥimahumallāh)

• The effect of the Prophet's admonition on the Companions, and their eagerness for his advice

• Why taqwā of Allāh is coupled with hearing and obeying the Muslim ruler

• A warning against differing: "the differing of my Ummah is a mercy" is not a ḥadīth

• Returning to the Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided Khulafāʾ when differing appears, and the obstacles people put in the way

• Every statement is taken or left except that of the Messenger ﷺ; Shaykh Rabīʿ's advice to the youth: biting onto the Sunnah with the molar teeth

Streamed LIVE from Oldham on 25/1/26

Tafsīr Sūrat al-ʿAṣr, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Rayhaanah Yahya (hafidhahullāh)

• Allāh swears by time: the importance of time and using it wisely

• "Two blessings in which many people are cheated: health and free time"; the hours lost to phones and social media

• The four qualities that save a person from loss: īmān, righteous action, advising one another with the truth and with patience

• Knowledge comes before speech and action; knowledge as the first condition of the shahādah

• Taking knowledge from its people: "This knowledge is the religion, so look to whom you take your religion from"

• Imām ash-Shāfiʿī: had the people reflected on this sūrah alone, it would have sufficed them

Streamed LIVE by The Salafi Centre of Manchester from Manchester Academy, Moss Side, on 12/1/25

A reminder after Jumuʿah by Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami (hafidhahullāh)

• Life is short and passes quickly; time wasted on social media instead of the Qurʾān and the morning and evening adhkār

• Guarding the five daily prayers, and man created anxious: withholding in ease and despairing in hardship (70:19–21)

• Know Allāh in times of ease and He will know you in times of difficulty

• The sacredness of the masjid, and remembering Allāh much to keep Shayṭān at bay

• The virtue of wuḍūʾ, and purifying the heart from doubts and desires

• Choosing righteous companions; the Companions feared hypocrisy for themselves

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 30/7/21