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ʿUmdat al-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 debt, the guarantor (ḍāmin), the one who undertakes to bring the debtor, and the transfer of debt (ḥawālah) - Whatever may be sold may be given as collateral, and whatever may...

ʿUmdat al-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) - Chapter of al-Khiyār: each party may cancel the sale as long as they have not separated - An option stipulated in the contract must be for a specified period, because an open-ended conditio...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Continuing Point 90 on buying and selling: lawful trade versus ribā - The conditions of a valid sale: an agreed item and price, the consent of both parties, a seller of sound mind who owns the item, and a permissible item - Co...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Completing Point 85: praying on time, and making up a prayer missed through sleep or forgetting - Point 86: Zakāh at 2.5%, and the wealth it is due on: gold, silver and currency, livestock, crops and trade goods - Point 87: Is...

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 84: Allāh punishes in the Fire whom He wills, in body and soul, refuting those who deny it - The ḥadīth of the three first thrown into the Fire: the scholar, the generous man and the fighter who acted to be seen - Point...

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 81 (point 78 in the teacher's Arabic text): the tidings given at death, of Paradise for the believer and of Allāh's anger for the disbeliever - Repentance is cut off at death; whoever dies upon a major sin is under Allāh...

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 80 (point 77 in the teacher's Arabic text): Allāh is All-Hearing, All-Seeing and All-Knowing, and knew His creation would disobey Him before He created them - The categories of Tawḥīd shown in this point - His Names and...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Completing the point on Qadar: all good and evil occur by Allāh's knowledge, writing, will and creation - The two kinds of will: universal (kawniyyah) and legislative (sharʿiyyah) - The ḥadīth 'whoever lives among you will see...

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 76: Allāh spoke to Mūsā on the day of aṭ-Ṭūr, and Mūsā heard His speech - Allāh also spoke to the Prophet ﷺ on the Miʿrāj, when the fifty prayers were reduced to five - Allāh's speech is real, with letters and a voice th...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Recap of the previous lesson on Qadar - Point 75: the prohibition of disputing and arguing about Qadar - Believing in the Decree, its good and its bad, as a pillar of Īmān - Expiating sins: a good deed wipes out a bad one, and...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Following on from the previous night's lesson on the souls of the martyrs - Point 74 (point 70 in the teacher's Arabic text): the soul is returned to the body in the grave and the deceased is questioned by Munkar and Nakīr - T...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Resuming the series after a long gap - Point 73 (point 69 in the teacher's Arabic text): the souls of the martyrs are in green birds in Paradise, the souls of the disbelievers in Barahūt - Belief in the Barzakh and the soul as...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - We have spent a couple of weeks on the Companions because of the importance of the topic - Review of the last lesson: the Rightly Guided Khulafāʾ and their order, and that opposing the consensus on that order is innovation (a...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - A short lesson on returning after Ramaḍān, to conclude the discussion of the Companions - Reviewing the names of the ten promised Paradise with the audience - Short biographies of the first four of the ten: Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq...

ʿUmdat al-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 twelve pillars of the prayer listed by Ibn Qudāmah - Its obligations, such as the first tashahhud - Movements that are acceptable in the prayer, such as closing a gap in the row, stoppi...

ʿUmdat al-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 Chapter of the Adhān and Iqāmah: facing the qiblah and turning right and left at "Ḥayya ʿalaṣ-ṣalāh" - The adhān is not obligatory upon women, and they do not raise their voice...

ʿUmdat al-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) - Bāb al-Ghaṣb: taking another's property without right, and how it differs from theft - The usurper must return it, and pay a fair rent for the time he held it - Returning it with any increa...

ʿUmdat al-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) - Kitāb al-Ijārah as an appendix to the Book of Sales: hiring a benefit rather than owning the thing - A binding contract that ends when the thing hired is destroyed or its benefit is cut off...

ʿUmdat al-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) - Bāb as-Sabq: competing is allowed, but a prize only in horse racing, camel racing and archery - The ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUmar on the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) racing horses, and the...

ʿUmdat al-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) - Bāb al-Juʿālah: a reward for a task, such as "whoever returns what I lost, or builds this wall, gets such-and-such" - The ḥadīth of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī and the ruqyah with al-Fātiḥah for a...

ʿUmdat al-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) - Musāqāh and muzāraʿah: working trees or land for a share of the fruit or crop, following on from partnership - The share must be a known proportion, such as a third, and when a fixed amount...

ʿUmdat al-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 recap of agency: the kafīl for a debt versus the wakīl in general, and the wakīl in marriage - Agency known by custom (ʿurf), general and specific - Bāb ash-Sharikah and its four types: ʿ...

ʿUmdat al-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 recap of loans, debts, bankruptcy and ḥajr, the guarantor and the kafīl - A recap of rahn (collateral), where a pledged animal may only be used to maintain it, and of ṣulḥ (settling or wa...

ʿUmdat al-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) - How ḥawālah, ḍamān, kafālah and rahn all strengthen a loan and give the lender peace of mind - Ḥawālah: transferring a debt, its conditions, and the one referred to a solvent person being b...

ʿUmdat al-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) - Returning a loan with its like or better, including perishable goods - Any benefit or expected return attached to a loan enters into ribā - Bāb Aḥkām ad-Dayn: giving respite to the debtor i...