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Description: The Tree of Faith by Imam AbdurRahman b. Nasir as-Sa'di (May Allaah have mercy on him) translated and read by Dr. Abdulilah Lahmami.

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Selected aḥādīth from the powerful introduction to Sunan Ibn Mājah, a section rich in ʿaqīdah, manhaj, and foundational guidance for every Muslim. Explanations from al-ʿAllāmah ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (رحمه الله), Imām Muḥammad ʿAlī Ādam al-ʿIthyūbī (رحمه الله), and other scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah.

Gems from the Introduction to Sunan Ibn Majah: 04 - Munīb al-Ṣumālī

[18/07/2025] [Lesson One] Al-‘Allāmah Rabee’ Al-Madkhali on the Methodology of Giving Da’wah with Wisdom & Understanding. – By Shaykh Abu Khadeejah ‘Abdul Wāḥid حفظه الله. Lesson at Masjid As-Salafi, Birmingham, UK.

Part 1 Al-‘Allāmah Rabee’ on the Methodology of Giving Da’wah By Abu Khadeejah

Abū Iyaad—Points 1-6 —08.08.25 — Summer Conference 2025

- The linguistic and religious definition of the word ‘aqīdah.
- Basic guidelines to understand the meaning of ‘aqīdah. 
- The sound ‘aqīdah vs corrupt ‘aqīdah. 
- “And hold fast, all of you together, to the Rope of Allāh, and be not divided among yourselves…” [Sūrah Āl ‘Imrān 3:103]
- The prerequisite for this command to be fulfilled. 
- The way we know what the correct ‘aqīdah is. 
- The reason the Salaf began to write down the ‘aqīdah. 
- The reality that this is a transmitted creed and it did not come by way of fallible human extraction. 
- Brief biography of the imāms Abū Hātim, Abū Zur’ah and Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdur-Raḥmān (رحمهم الله). 
- The necessity of humility and gratitude to Allāh when seeking knowledge. 
- The topics covered in this book. 
- The importance of isnād. 
- Those whom the religion is taken from. 
- The importance of returning to the major scholars in every era. 
- The great scholars of the 20th century, and some of the issues they clarified. 
- Īmān is speech and action; it increases and decreases.
- Methods used by the opposers of Salafiyyah to undermine the creed of the Salaf. 
- The reason for the emergence of differing views regarding the reality of īmān. 
- The deviant beliefs of the Jahmiyyah, Ashā’irah, Karrāmiyyah, Murji’atul-Fuqahā and Khawārij regarding īmān. 
- Clear proof from the Qur’ān and Sunnah that īmān is speech and action, and it increases and decreases. 
- How the Murji’ah resembles the Christians. 
- Proof that sinners will be punished for their sins. 
- The evil of the Ḥaddādiyyah, and their war against Ahlus-Sunnah. 
- Proof that the believers are not all on the same level. 
- How irjā emboldens people to commit sins and erodes the foundation of the religion. 
- Mundane/neutral knowledge vs knowledge of Allāh. 
- The impossibility of īmān being solely tasdīq without inqiyād and maḥabbah, which is outwardly manifested by necessity. 
- The Murji’ah’s expulsion of actions of the heart from īmān. 
- Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) on the battle between the Murji’ah and Ahlus-Sunnah, and the way to fight them. 
- The evil effects of corrupt ‘aqīdah. 
- The Qur’ān is the Speech of Allāh, uncreated from every aspect.
- The reason why the issue of the Qur’ān and Speech of Allāh became controversial. 



1 Intro and Points 1 to 6 by Shaykh Abu Iyaad

Abū Ishaq - Points 7-11 — 08.08.25 — Summer Conference 2025 

- The importance of understanding the Names and Attributes of Allāh, and matters we must stay away from as it relates to them. 
- And that Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic, is over His Throne. He is separate and distinct from His creation just as He has described Himself in His Book and upon the tongue of His Messenger ﷺ without asking how.
- The differences between Istiwā and al-‘Uluww.
- The two categories of Allāh’s Attributes, with examples. 
- Five ways in which the proof for al-‘Uluww is established.
- Imām al-Awzā’ī (رحمه الله) on ijmā’ regarding ‘uluww. 
- How the fitrah and sound intellect establishes ‘uluww. 
- The blessing of learning about this issue.
- The three categories of ‘uluww. 
- The category that is the point of contention between the innovators and Ahlus-Sunnah. 
- Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) on how the one who denies Allāh’s ‘Uluww is in opposition to the fitrah, sound intellect and all the divine scriptures. 
- The meaning of Allāh being separate and distinct from His creation.
- The two main approaches as it relates to those who deviated regarding the Names and Attributes of Allāh. 
- Ibn ‘Uyaynah (رحمه الله) on the reality of those who compare Allāh to the creation and those who deny His Attributes. 
- The impermissibility of describing how Allāh rose above His Throne. 
- The famous narration regarding what occurred between Imām Mālik (رحمه الله) and the man who asked about this issue. 
- How Ahlul-Bida’ah try to misrepresent this narration. 
- Seven clear verses from the Qur’ān that establish al-Istiwā. 
- Shaykh as-Sa’dī and Shaykh Rabī’ (رحمهما الله) on the verse, “Who created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six Days. Then He Istawā (rose over) the Throne. The Most Beneficent! Ask Him, as He is Al-Khabīr.” [Sūrah al-Furqān 25:59]
- How the verse, “There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer” refutes the Mushabbihah and Mu’aṭṭilah. 
- Four uses of the word istawā. 
- Explanation of the proofs for al-Istiwā from the Qur’ān and Sunnah.
- He encompasses everything with His Knowledge.
- The two types of ta’wīl. 
- Imām aṭ-Ṭabarī (رحمه الله) on the Knowledge of Allāh encompassing everything from His creation. 


3 Points 7 to 11 By Shaykh Abu Ishaq Nadeem

Abū Khadeejah—Points 23-27—09.08.25—Summer Conference 2025

 
- And we establish the obligation of Jihād and Ḥajj alongside the Muslim rulers in every time and age.
- An example of how people today oppose this principle and speak about the religion without knowledge.
- The obligation of performing jihād and Ḥajj behind the ruler of the Muslims.
- We do not hold it permissible to revolt against the rulers, and we do not fight in times of tribulation. And we hear and obey those whom Allāh has placed as rulers over our affairs, and we do not remove ourselves from the obedience to them.
- The Khawārij’s opposition of this principle, and disgraceful affairs they have fallen into. 
- Al-Kufr al-Akbar vs al-Kufr al-Aṣghar. 
- The command of the Prophet ﷺ to kill the Khawārij. 
- The path of the Khawārij in every time and place.
- The implausibility of the Prophet ﷺ not informing us of how to deal with the rulers. 
- The evil and corruption that results from opposing the guidance of the Messenger ﷺ.
- The meaning of kufr bawāḥ.
- The conditions that must be met in order to remove and replace the ruler.
- The Battle of al-Ḥarrah.
- Banū al-‘Abbās, Bayt al-Ḥikmah, and the destruction of Baghdād.
- The real golden age of Islām.
- The example of Somalia and Iraq regarding what results from rebellion against the rulers. 
- Clarification that demonstrations have nothing to do with Islām.
- The injustice present in foreign ideologies. 
- The obligation of obeying Ūlul-Amr.
- The instruction of the Messenger ﷺ regarding what should be done if there is fighting in times of fitnah. 
- The position of the Companions (رضى الله عنهم) when fighting occurred in times of fitnah. 
- The true aspirations of the Khawārij.
- We follow the Sunnah and the Jamā’ah—and we leave off contradiction, differing and splitting.
- The call of Salafiyyah.
- Proof for the prohibition of splitting.
- The audacity of Ahlul-Bid’ah to accuse the Salafīs of splitting the ummah. 
- The command of the Messenger ﷺ to cling to his Sunnah and abandon all of the sects.
- The one who dies the death of the people of Jāhiliyyah.
- The obligation of giving precedence to obeying the Messenger ﷺ over the opinion of anyone else.

9 Points 23 to 27 By Shaykh Abu Khadeejah

Abū Khadeejah—Points 23-27—10.08.25—Summer Conference 2025


- Principles regarding prohibiting and removing evil. 
- The response of Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (رحمه الله) when he was approached by some youth who wanted to rebel against Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf. 
- The end result of all of the rebellions and revolutions of the political agitators. 
- Clarification that prohibiting and removing evil must be done in accordance to what has been legislated in the Sharī’ah. 
- Those who are the tools of Shayṭān used to weaken the Islamic nations.
- Jihād remains in place from the time Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic, sent His Messenger ﷺ until the establishment of the Hour behind those in authority from the Muslim rulers—there is nothing that cancels it—and likewise is said regarding Ḥajj.
- The jihād in the time of Makkah. 
- The correct understanding of jihād remaining until the establishment of the Hour.
- Jihād ad-Difā’ vs Jihād al-Fatḥ.
- Examples of the mentality of the kāfir in warfare vs the Muslim. 
- Clarification that Jihād al-Fatḥ does not mean compulsion. 
- How Islām creates the atmosphere of justice such that the people willingly enter into the religion, and remain upon it.
- The reason westerners, communists and socialists fear (the legislated) jihād. 
- The reality that the vast majority of the ummah have deviated in their dīn and dunyā. 
- The only way to exit this cycle of humiliation and misguidance that has come upon the Muslims. 
- The treatment of the Jews under the rule of the Muslims vs the non-Muslims. 
- How the political activists allow bid’ah and shirk but wage war against Ahlus-Sunnah. 
- The fiqh of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad b. ‘Abdul-Wahhāb (رحمه الله). 
- The strangeness of Ahlus-Sunnah in every land. 
- Clarification that the only Abrahamic faith is Islām. 
- The true meaning and intent of jihād.
- The obligation and importance of hijrah.
- A ḥadīth that refutes the lies invented by the enemies of Islām regarding jihād. 
- The Zakāh due upon beasts and cattle is to be paid to those in authority from the Muslim rulers.
- The wars of apostasy in the time of Abū Bakr (رضى الله عنه).
- Proof that the ruler has a right to take zakāh. 
- The apparent and hidden zakāh. 
- Clarification that zakāh is not just upon cattle.

10 Points 23 to 27 By Shaykh Abu Khadeejah

14 The Distinguishing Signs of Ahlul-Bid’ah & Ahlus-Sunnah By Shaykh Abu Khadeejah

The Pillars of The Salafi Da'wah - Part 4

[Lesson Eight | 23/08/2025] Selected Benefits from Madārij Al-Sālikīn of Imām Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه الله– By Shaykh Abu ‘Iyaad Amjad Rafīq حفظه الله. Monthly class at Masjid Salafi, Small Heath, Birmingham, UK.

Some points discussed during this lesson:
- Recap of the previous lessons. 

- An explanation of how al-Fātiḥah comprises a refutation against those who deny that Allāh’s Knowledge is connected to the particulars.

- The reason this issue is discussed. 

- How the misguided philosophers (Aristotle, Plato etc) tried to make sense of the world in the absence of revelation. 

- Examples that explain the meaning of this corrupted statement. 

- The two groups of the Qadariyyah. 

- How misguided Muslims used these ideas to solve what they deemed to be problems they could not understand with their intellect. 

- Clear proof that Allāh has knowledge of the particulars. 

- Seven angles by which the claims of the philosophers and those affected by them are nullified. 

- Ten matters present in al-Fātiḥah that are repeatedly used to refute every false belief and sect. 

- How al-Fātiḥah is a refutation of those who deny/reject the notion of prophethood.

- Ten angles of refutation. 

- How the one who denies prophethood is like the one who denies the Attributes of Allāh or the one who affirms partners for Allāh. 

- The reality of Rūbūbiyyah. 

- The two types of Allāh’s governance of His creation. 

- The three groups the creation is divided into. 

- Refutation of those who deny the resurrection of the bodies to be rewarded or punished. 

- The reality of ar-Risālah. 

- The affirmation of Speech for Allāh. 

- How those who deny Allāh’s Speech negate the messengership of all of the Messengers and resemble the pagan Arabs. 

- How these deviant beliefs lead to pure atheism. 

- Three angles by which al-Fātiḥah refutes those who say the world is eternal. 

- Examples of āyāt in which Allāh is being praised for His actions.

- How Allāh being praised necessitates that He has actions.

- The impossibility of something being simultaneously marbūb and qadīm. 

- An explanation of how al-Fātiḥah comprises a refutation of the Rāfiḍah.

- The one most worthy of being upon the Straight Path. 

- The impossibility that the Companions of the Messenger ﷺ were ignorant of or rejected the truth while the Rāfiḍah knew and acted upon it. 

- The effects of the Companions upon the lands and the people vs the Rāfiḍah. 

- The Rāfiḍah’s intense hate for the Companions of the Messenger ﷺ and Ahlus-Sunnah.

- Sūrah al-Fātiḥah’s refutation of the Khawārij.

- The reason they are called Rāfiḍah.

- The claims of the Rāfiḍah and Khawārij against the four Rightly Guided Calips. 

- The explanation of إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ.

- How al-Fātiḥah is divided. 

- The meaning of al-‘Ibādah, and its two foundations. 

- The two foundations of al-Isti’ānah.

- The connection between tawakkul and isti’ānah. 

- Eight reasons why Allāh put إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ before إِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ.

- Summary of the lesson. 


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