ʿUmdatul Fiqh – 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)

• What can be slaughtered must be slaughtered, and game that cannot be caught is lawful when wounded, with six conditions

• A hunting dog must be trained and sent by the hunter, and the virtue of knowledge shown by this ruling

• Game is not lawful when a trained and an untrained dog share the kill, when a poisoned spear may have killed it, or when the dog has eaten from it

• Chapter of the person in dire necessity (muḍṭarr): he may eat what is ḥarām only to the extent that keeps him alive

• A student loan is not a necessity, and taking it is ribā even before repayment begins

• Alcohol may not be drunk for thirst or used as medicine

• Questions on matters where the scholars differ, such as the turtle, and on qiṣāṣ and blood money

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 13/10/25

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)

• Recap of the three types of slaughter and which animal each is recommended for

• Slaughtering a cow by naḥr or a camel by dhabḥ is still valid, as the distinction is only what is recommended

• Recap of the three conditions: the slaughterer, mentioning the name of Allāh, and a sharp tool

• An animal that dies from strangling or from the means used to catch it is not lawful

• The purpose of slaughter is to drain the blood, which is impure

• Next lesson: hunting and the person in dire necessity

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 6/10/25

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)

• Sea creatures are lawful without slaughter, unless they live on land, and crabs are mentioned specifically

• The two dead animals (fish and locusts) and the two bloods (liver and spleen) are permitted

• The types of slaughter: naḥr for the camel, dhabḥ for other animals, and wounding an animal that cannot be caught

• First condition: the slaughterer must be a sane Muslim or one of the People of the Book

• Second condition: the name of Allāh is mentioned, and it is excused if forgotten when slaughtering, but not when hunting

• Third condition: a sharp tool is used, not a tooth or a nail

• Questions on stunning, and who counts as the People of the Book today

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 29/9/25

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 start of Kitāb al-Aṭʿimah after the Book of Divorce: food is either from animals or from other than animals

• The default for food is that it is permissible, except what is impure or harmful, such as poison

• Every intoxicant is khamr and every khamr is ḥarām, whatever it is made from, and a small amount of it is ḥarām too

• Animals of the sea are permissible, from the ḥadīth "its water is pure and its dead are lawful", except the frog and the crocodile

• Land animals with fangs and birds with talons are forbidden, as are the domestic donkey, the mule and vermin

• The ḍabb (lizard) was eaten in the Prophet's ﷺ presence, so it is permissible

• Q&A: medicines that contain alcohol or pork products

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/9/25

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 final topics, concluding the discussion of marriage and divorce: maintenance (nafaqah) of relatives and of what one owns

• Maintenance follows an order: a person must provide for his parents and grandparents, with shelter and all their needs and not only money, and not put them into care homes

• When the parents cannot afford to provide for a child, the obligation passes to the heir, in proportion to his share of the inheritance

• Maintaining slaves and animals: an owner who cannot afford the upkeep must sell what he owns, unless the parties agree another arrangement

• The walīmah is mustaḥabb (recommended), accepting the invitation, the genuine excuses for not attending, and scattering money at the walīmah

• Q&A: the rights of grandparents, calling one's parents beginning with Tawḥīd, and choosing between supporting grandparents and children according to need

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 1/9/25

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)

• Continuing from liʿān: a child born to a man's wife or slave woman, with relations established, is ascribed to him: "The child belongs to the bed, and for the fornicator is the stone"

• A husband can disown a child only through liʿān (a slave owner by his claim), and a child is not ascribed to him if born less than six months after relations became possible

• Two men who had relations with one woman in one period of purity through a doubt (shubhah): the qāfah, experts in resemblance, decide, and the conditions for accepting their word

• Custody (ḥaḍānah) follows a set order: the mother has the greatest right to a young child, then the closest women, then the closest men

• No custody for a slave or a fāsiq, one who commits major sins short of shirk (with a note from Shaykh al-Fawzān hafidhahullāh), nor for a mother married to a man who is a stranger to the child

• The right of custody returns once the impediment is removed, e.g. a slave who is freed

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 18/8/25

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)

• Ẓihār: saying "you are to me like the back of my mother", and why it is named after the back (ẓahr)

• Comparing the wife to one's mother goes back to the intention: whether he meant to make her forbidden

• The one who repeats ẓihār many times before expiating makes a single expiation, as does the one who says it to all his wives in one statement

• A reminder that death will come to every soul, and to be plentiful in remembering it

• Remembering a scholar (raḥimahullāh) who was a mountain of knowledge and dealt with the people of the Sunnah like a father with his sons

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester

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)

• Continuing from the ʿiddah: the mourning of the woman whose husband has died

• She stays in her home and avoids perfume, adornment, fine clothing and jewellery

• Mourning is obligatory for the widow for four months and ten days, while others may mourn for three days only

• Leaving the home when needed, and what being close enough to return means today

• The ʿiddah still applies when a marriage ends because one spouse enters or leaves Islam, to preserve lineage

• Housing and maintenance during the ʿiddah: the woman who can be taken back, the irrevocably divorced woman who is pregnant, and the widow

• Shaykh ʿUbayd: hold to the rulings as far as you are able, and act by necessity beyond that

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 7/7/25

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)

• Seclusion (khalwah) after the contract takes the ruling of consummation, so there is no ʿiddah without one of them

• The four types of women in ʿiddah, beginning with the woman who does not menstruate

• Ages in the Sharīʿah are counted by the Hijrī calendar, as with commanding children to pray at seven

• From the wisdom of the ʿiddah: making certain of lineage

• The woman with irregular bleeding follows her known pattern, otherwise the general custom; a pregnancy is generally nine months

• Q&A: the mother's husband is a maḥram to her child born outside marriage, but should not act as her walī

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester

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)

• One divorce ends a marriage that was not consummated, and that woman has no ʿiddah

• Saying the divorce three times in one sitting, and the role of intention when the repetition is for emphasis

• Doubt in divorce: the wife need not be present, and the husband who cannot remember whether he said the words

• Divorcing part of the wife, such as "your hand is divorced", divorces all of her; drawing lots when the divorce is unspecified

• Both spouses must be honest, including the wife who claims to fear for her safety in the home

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 16/6/25