ʿUmdatul Fiqh: Book of Marriage – Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Defects that allow the contract to be annulled, such as leprosy and vitiligo
• The one who knew of the defect before the marriage may not annul it afterwards
• Shaykh al-Fawzān's explanation of the waiting period given for the husband's complaint: desire can differ with the seasons of the year
• The judge decides on the annulment and on the return of the mahr, depending on who is at fault

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 17/2/25

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• A Muslim woman may not marry a non-Muslim man, and the exception for the Muslim man
• The Muslim man who marries from the People of the Book must make Islam the dominant religion of the home
• The pillars of the contract: the offer from the walī and the acceptance from the groom
• Nikāḥ at-taḥlīl: marrying a woman divorced three times only to make her lawful for her former husband
• Conditions stipulated in the contract, such as the division of nights, are binding once agreed

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 10/2/25

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Breastfeeding makes the child the son or daughter of the woman, and of her husband as well
• Example: a man with two wives, one of whom breastfeeds a child five times, and the relationships this creates
• How a condition excludes certain cases, such as the khunthā whose milk does not cause the prohibition
• Marrying the daughter of one's wife before and after consummation, and the wife's mother, who is forbidden in either case

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 8/2/25

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The women who are forbidden permanently: daughters and granddaughters, sisters and the rest of the list
• Questions to the class on marrying the sister of a woman
• The wisdom behind the prohibition of combining a woman with her paternal or maternal aunt: preventing the cutting of family ties
• A free man may marry a slave woman only when he cannot afford a free woman

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 27/1/25

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The walī is a condition for the marriage, the position of the majority, compared with the position of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah
• The order of the guardians, and the ruler (sulṭān) as walī for the woman who has no walī
• The father may not marry off his previously married (thayyib) daughter except with her permission
• Marrying a chaste woman to a sinful man, and the walī's duty to choose a man who is upon the Sunnah

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 20/1/25

ʿUmdatul Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Marriage is from the Sunnah of the Messengers: "We sent Messengers before you and gave them wives and offspring"
• Its ruling differs with a person's situation and intention, including the one who fears he will not be just if he marries again
• Not proposing over the proposal of one's brother until he withdraws or is turned down
• A woman in the ʿiddah of a revocable divorce is still his wife, so no one may propose to her, and the spouses should not live apart in this period
• Q&A: dealing with several proposals one at a time

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 13/1/25