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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) - Bāb as-Salam: the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās, paying in advance with a known measure, a known weight and a known term - Goods sold by count, such as watermelons and pomegranates, and why some sch...

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 ḥadīth of ʿUbādah ibn aṣ-Ṣāmit on the six commodities: gold, silver, wheat, barley, dates and salt, like for like and hand to hand - Ribā as one of the seven destructive sins, and the w...

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 start of the muʿāmalāt (dealings), after the books on acts of worship - What a sale (bayʿ) means, linguistically and in the Sharīʿah: the exchange of property for property - The proof t...

Kitāb aṣ-Ṣiyām (the Book of Fasting) of ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - After the definition of fasting in the previous sitting, the rulings of the fast taken from different sources, here ʿUmdat al-Fiqh of Ibn Qudāmah - Fasting Ramaḍān is obligatory on e...

Kitāb aṣ-Ṣiyām (the Book of Fasting) of ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Opening a series of lessons on the rulings and virtues of the month of Ramaḍān, continuing from the earlier ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām lessons, now with the Book of Fasting - The lingu...

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 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 pa...

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) - 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 h...

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 ruling of the prayer and the four types of people who leave it - The difference between laziness and negligence in leaving the prayer - The prayer is obligatory on the Muslim w...

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: unity can only be upon the correct ʿaqīdah - The statement "let us cooperate in what we agree upon and excuse one another in what we differ over": what is true in it and what is false - Matters of creed in which there i...

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 more than a month - Al-Barbahārī mentions points of creed and of rulings (prayer, zakāh, marriage, divorce), and now buying and selling - Point 90 (point 87 in the teacher's Arabic text, the first poi...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Concluding Point 77 on the intellect: it is a favour from Allāh, not something a person earns - Point 78 (point 75 in the teacher's Arabic text): Allāh has favoured some of His servants over others - There can be no unity with...

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: the so-called Qurʾāniyyūn, and why that name does not truly fit those who reject the Sunnah - The sources of evidence: the Qurʾān, the Sunnah, consensus (ijmāʿ) and the statement of a Companion, with its conditions - Wh...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Muʿādh ibn Jabal sent alone to Yemen to call to Tawḥīd: the narration of one trustworthy person is accepted in ʿaqīdah - Point 70: the Qurʾān is in need of the Sunnah to explain it - Questions and answers, including using AI i...

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, resuming the series after an extended break - Point 65: Allāh expiates sins through illness for the patient believer - Every trial a servant faces carries expiation and reward: glad tidings for the believer - P...

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 63: an angel descends with every drop of rain - Belief in the Angels, general and specific: they exist and were created from light - Knowing Allāh through the fiṭrah, the intellect and the revealed texts, which always ag...

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 after a long break for travel and conferences - Continuing the creed of Ahl as-Sunnah on Qadar: what Allāh has not decreed will not reach you - Not saying "if only I had done such-and-such" - Point 62: the funeral pra...

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 36: there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to Allāh - Point 37: not testifying that a Muslim is in Paradise or the Fire because of a deed; hoping for him and fearing for him - Point 38: Allāh accepts re...

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 61: belief in al-Qaḍāʾ wal-Qadar is one of the six pillars of Īmān - The ḥadīth of Jibrīl: Islām, Īmān and the foundations of the religion - Patience with what Allāh has decreed, and taking one's complaints only to 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 59: Allāh will establish justice between all of His creation on the Day of Resurrection - Every right will be taken back, even between animals, and between the people of Paradise and the people of the Fire - Even the wro...

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 53: all of creation acts by Allāh's Will - Ibrāhīm's argument with the tyrant: "Allāh brings the sun from the east, so bring it from the west" - Splitting and differing occur by Allāh's universal Will (irādah kawniyyah)...

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 50: accepting the narrations about Allāh's Attributes, such as His descent to the lowest heaven - Allāh's coming on the Day of Resurrection to judge between His servants - The meaning of an Attribute is known, how it is...

Tafsīr Sūrat al-Fātiḥah and the Categories of Tawḥīd, based on the work of Al-ʿAllāmah al-Muḥaddith Ḥammād al-Anṣārī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh) - The sūrahs dedicated exclusively to Tawḥīd - Tawḥīd should be central in every part of our lives - How al-Fātiḥah encompasses the entire Qurʾān - The categories of Tawḥīd: terms taken from the Qurʾān and Sunn...

Tafsīr Sūrat al-Fātiḥah and the Categories of Tawḥīd, based on the work of Al-ʿAllāmah al-Muḥaddith Ḥammād al-Anṣārī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh) - Duʿāʾ must be made according to the Qurʾān and Sunnah - No one loves praise more than Allāh - Tawḥīd ar-Rubūbiyyah: the Oneness of Lordship - Why no one truly denies it, and the example of Pharaoh - Rubūbiyya...

Tafsīr Sūrat al-Fātiḥah and the Categories of Tawḥīd, based on the work of Al-ʿAllāmah al-Muḥaddith Ḥammād al-Anṣārī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh) - Belief in one Creator is natural to every person - Affirming Allāh as Lord obligates worshipping Him alone - Belief in Rubūbiyyah alone did not make Quraysh Muslims - Rubūbiyyah and Ulūhiyyah do not share 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) - 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...