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ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah: why the menstruating woman makes up the fasts but not the prayers • "Are you a Ḥarūriyyah?": the Khawārij, and excessive questioning about matters one does not need • ʿĀʾishah's ans...

Explanation of al-Mandhūmah al-Ḥāʾiyyah of Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd as-Sijistānī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • "Hold fast to the rope of Allāh": the rope is the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, and the prohibition of splitting • The ḥadīth of al-ʿIrbāḍ: "Upon you is my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs… bite onto it with the molar teeth" • Bene...

ʿAqīdat ar-Rāziyyayn, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh) • The Khawārij: why they are so named, leaving the straight path and revolting against the rulers • Their origin: Dhul-Khuwayṣirah's objection to the Prophet ﷺ, and the view of Ibn al-Jawzī in Talbīs Iblīs • "A word of truth by which falsehood is intended": ʿAlī's reply to them, and their misuse of the texts to shed blood • The...

Relaying the advice of the scholars we met during the ʿUmrah trip, a lecture by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Shaykh Walīd Fallātah's explanation of the ḥadīth of Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān: the good, the evil that follows it, and the callers at the gates of Hell • Asking about the men from whom knowledge is taken: "This knowledge is the religion, so look to whom you take your religio...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Our dealings with the Ummah of Muḥammad ﷺ: whoever outwardly shows Islām is treated as a Muslim and given his rights, such as praying the janāzah over him • What is required from the inward and the outward, and how the believe...

Explanation of al-Manẓūmah al-Ḥāʾiyyah of Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd as-Sijistānī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Completing the creed of Ahl as-Sunnah on the Qurʾān: "the religion is sincere advice… to His Book" • The Wāqifah, who will not say whether the Qurʾān is created: hesitation between truth and falsehood presented as moderation is deception • The...

ʿAqīdat ar-Rāziyyayn, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh) • The Qurʾān is the Speech of Allāh and not created: the consensus of Ahl as-Sunnah, and whoever claims it is created has disbelieved • Its proofs from the Qurʾān, and the statements of Imām Aḥmad in Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābilah • The Wāqifah, who will not say whether the Qurʾān is created: an innovation the Companions were never upon...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Point 51: the narrations about Allāh, such as "I saw my Lord in the most excellent form", must be submitted to, believed and accepted, and not interpreted according to desires • Whoever interprets or rejects any of them is him...

Explanation of al-Manẓūmah al-Ḥāʾiyyah of Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd as-Sijistānī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • "Hold fast to the rope of Allāh": the rope is the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, and the prohibition of splitting • The ḥadīth of al-ʿIrbāḍ: "Upon you is my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs… bite onto it with the molar teeth" • Benef...

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 grave...

ʿAqīdat ar-Rāziyyayn, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh) • The Khawārij: why they are so named, leaving the straight path and revolting against the rulers • Their origin: Dhul-Khuwayṣirah's objection to the Prophet ﷺ, and the view of Ibn al-Jawzī in Talbīs Iblīs • "A word of truth by which falsehood is intended": ʿAlī's reply to them, and their misuse of the texts to shed blood • The...

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 n...

Explanation of al-Manẓūmah 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 Allā...

Explanation of al-Manẓūmah 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,...

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...

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...

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 i...

Relaying the advice of the scholars we met during the ʿUmrah trip, a lecture by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Shaykh Walīd Fallātah's explanation of the ḥadīth of Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān: the good, the evil that follows it, and the callers at the gates of Hell • Asking about the men from whom knowledge is taken: "This knowledge is the religion, so look to whom you take your religio...

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 (raḥimahumullāh) • The effect of the Prophet's admonition on the Companions, an...

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 • Knowledg...

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 o...

The Hellfire and the justice of Allāh, a khuṭbah by Ustādh Abu Arwa Ali (hafidhahullāh) • "Fear the Fire whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers" • The descriptions of the punishment of the Fire in the Qurʾān • The fear the Companions had of the Fire, and ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb's state at his death • Allāh is praised even for the punishment He sends down: "So the last remnant of...

Preserving health: guidelines from the Book and the Sunnah, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) • The Qurʾān, the Sunnah and the prophetic medicine legislate many matters of worship, purification and lifestyle that preserve health • "Whoever wakes up safe in his body, secure, with his day's food, it is as if the whole world has been given to him" • Cleanliness of the body and...

A Ramaḍān reminder on the taqwā of Allāh by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh) • How fasting builds taqwā: knowing Allāh sees you and the angels are recording • Allāh's command to fear Him as He deserves to be feared, and Ibn Masʿūd's explanation • ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz: taqwā is leaving what Allāh forbade and doing what He obligated • If we kept even a quarter of our Ramaḍān effort...

Save yourselves and your families from the Hell Fire, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh) • The Fire as the punishment of Allāh, and the sins and love of this dunyā that lead people to it • Trials as a test from Allāh, and good tidings for the patient • The worth of Paradise compared with this world • "All of you are shepherds": learning the religion in order to teach and...