The Precise Verdicts Regarding Deviant Methodologies – Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The lessons resume after a gap

• Question: "take the good and leave the bad" from the books and cassettes of the people of innovation

• The Shaykh's parable of honey that has poison in it

• You do not control what your heart accepts; the Shayṭān exploits small openings

• Refuting innovation is truth, but insults and mockery are not

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 15/6/25

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Question: declaring people innovators or sinners on assumption, without verification

• A "balanced" approach that mixes truth with falsehood is still falsehood

• The scholars declare someone an innovator upon proof: his own words, his companions and what is well known of him

• The five steps of the Shayṭān: shirk and kufr, bidʿah, major sins, minor sins, then the lesser good

• Reading Qurʾān while the adhān is being called, as an example of the lesser good

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 25/5/25

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Question: should our daʿwah focus on establishing the Khilāfah?

• Making this the aim of daʿwah is an error, as with Ḥizb ut-Taḥrīr

• Their aim is politics, like those who say Islām can only progress through parliament

• Callers to falsehood chase followers and attention

• Shaykh an-Najmī warned of this more than twenty years ago

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 11/5/25

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Disparaging names given to the Salafī youth

• Why we ascribe ourselves to the Salaf, and the ḥadīth of the sects

• Loving and hating for the sake of Allāh is part of tawḥīd

• Hating the innovation of the one who is upon bidʿah

• From uniting everyone who claims Islām to so-called interfaith dialogue

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 27/4/25

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Question: the claim that scholars should not refute one another in these times

• Refutation is to clarify the truth, and the one refuted may be the first to benefit

• The false principle of excusing one another in what we differ over

• Is criticising someone who erred in manhaj considered backbiting?

• When speaking about another person is not forbidden: seeking a ruling, seeking help to change an evil, warning the Muslims

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 20/4/25

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: what Salafiyyah is, and that it has no single leader

• Question 4: is there an "old" Salafiyyah and a "new" Salafiyyah?

• "Wahhābiyyah" is a name invented by the enemies of the Salafī call

• al-Muwāzanah: the innovated principle of listing the good points of the people of innovation when warning against them

• The good qualities of the disbelievers do not benefit them alongside their disbelief

• The Messenger ﷺ warned against the people of desires without listing their good points

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 13/4/25

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Opening of the book: selected questions and answers put to Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī on manhaj and the deviant groups

• The book as a revision of what was studied before, from al-Qawāʿid al-Arbaʿ to Kitāb al-Iʿtiṣām

• A brief biography of Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī

• What is manhaj, and what is Salafiyyah?

• Salafiyyah is a call revealed by Allāh: the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, with the Companions as the example

• Praying in places where innovation is found, and striving to be with the people of the Sunnah

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 6/4/25