Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah from Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī – Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Asking questions that lead to argument or tribulation

• Asking from the people only when necessary, as with eating carrion

• Extremism and excess bring hardship

• Conclusion of the series

• Questions and answers, including selling food to non-fasting people in Ramaḍān

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 4/2/25

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Answering last lesson's question: words of remembrance inside the prayer

• Preparing for the trial of the grave

• Ḥadīth 12: "Leave me as long as I leave you", and its narrators

• The nations before were destroyed by excessive questioning of their prophets

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 28/1/25

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 11: the narration of Asmāʾ and ʿĀʾishah during the eclipse

• A chain where a husband, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, narrates from his wife

• The khuṭbah after the eclipse prayer, and how the prayer is performed

• The questioning in the grave: "Muḥammad came to us with clear proofs"

• Authentic solitary (āḥād) narrations are accepted in creed

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 14/1/25

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 10 and its narrators, including the senior students of az-Zuhrī

• The reciters were ʿUmar's council, whether young or old

• ʿUmar's consultation (shūrā)

• The man who accused ʿUmar of injustice

• ʿUmar would stop at the Book of Allāh: reflecting on the verses

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 7/1/25

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: Abū Bakr and ʿUmar's discussion about those who apostated, and the categories of apostates

• Usāmah and the man he killed after he said lā ilāha illallāh: "Did you kill him?"

• The ruling on abandoning the prayer according to Mālik, ash-Shāfiʿī and Abū Ḥanīfah

• The people of kalām who call the true scholars ignorant

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 17/12/24

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The Prophet's ﷺ call was built upon good manners

• Not letting those who distort Islām become the loudest voice in daʿwah

• The leaders of Quraysh listening to the Qurʾān and admitting it was the truth

• Why some take issue with the praise of the elder mashāyikh of the daʿwah in the UK

• Knowledge may be with a younger Companion, as in Abū Bakr and ʿUmar's discussion

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 10/12/24

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 8 of the twelve selected aḥādīth, and its chain

• Holding to the Book and the Sunnah: obeying its commands and avoiding its prohibitions

• The Muslim wants good for others, and the greatest good for the disbeliever is guidance

• Islām is free of the barbaric acts done in its name

• Anyone can quote texts, but not with the understanding of the Salaf

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 3/12/24

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 7, which follows on from the previous narration: the angels' parable while the Prophet ﷺ slept

• The Prophet's ﷺ eyes sleep but his heart does not

• Those who refuse are of two types: the disbelievers, and believers who fall short through sins

• The first sin was Iblīs's arrogance and envy

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 26/11/24

Selected aḥādīth from Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām bil-Kitāb was-Sunnah (Holding Fast to the Book and the Sunnah) of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imām al-Bukhārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth 6: "All of my Ummah will enter Paradise except the one who refuses"

• Whoever obeys the Prophet ﷺ enters Paradise, and whoever disobeys him has refused

• Racing towards Paradise with righteous actions and by avoiding the ḥarām

• What happens to the one who refuses

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 19/11/24