Reflections on the Ḥadīth of Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān (from the Works of Shaykh Rabīʿ al-Madkhalī). From the 2025 Canadian National Summer Conference at Masjid al-Furqān (TROID), 2025/07/27-29.

We Were in Ignorance and Evil - Uways al-Ṭawīl

Based on the works of al-ʿAllāmah ʿUbayd al-Jābirī. From the 2025 Canadian National Summer Conference at Masjid al-Furqān (TROID), 2025/07/27-29.

Providing Relief Through Clarifying the Truth in Times of Differing 2/2 - Uways al-Ṭawīl

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

Shaykh Abdulilah—Points 17-22—09.08.25—Summer Conference

PART 1

- The punishment of the grave is real and true. The angels Munkar and Nakīr are real and true. Al-Kirām al-Kātibīn (the honourable scribes from among the angels) are real and true. The Resurrection after death is true.
- The punishment in the barzakh for the disbelievers. 
- Proof from the Qur’ān and Sunnah for the punishment of the grave. 
- The state of the believer vs the disbeliever and hypocrite in the grave. 
- The correct meaning of Lā ilāha illa Allāh. 
- The inevitability and severity of the trial of the grave. 
- The obligation of believing in the unseen without asking how.
- Preparing for our ākhirah.
- Sincerity in traversing the path.
- The reason the believer and disbeliever would want to be returned to the dunyā.
- The best gift a person can be given by Allāh. 
- The reason both the people of Jannah and the people of the Fire will say Alhamdulillāh. 
- Following the way of the Salaf in making space for others in the masjid. 
- Description of the angels who descend upon the disbelievers at the time of death.
- The manner in which the soul of the disbeliever will be ripped out vs the easy removal of the soul of the believer. 
- The reason ‘Uthmān b. ‘Affān (رضى الله عنه) would cry until his beard was full of tears. 
- The crushing of the ribs of the disbelievers and hypocrites in the grave. 
- The blessing of Allāh concealing our faults. 
- The best du’ā for seeking forgiveness. 
- The danger and destruction of the tongue if it is used in the wrong way. 
- Wherein lies salvation.
- Description of the angels. 
- The two types of people in times of fitan.
- Caution against being heedless of the remembrance of Allāh. 
- Abū Dardā (رضى الله عنه) on the three signs of ignorance. 
- The severity of saying that which you do not do. 
- The difference between Ibn Mas’ūd (رضى الله عنه) who did not want to be followed and people who strive for that in the current age of social media. 
- Following the example of our scholars who were fearful that their mistakes would follow them to the grave. 


7 Points 17 to 22 By Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami

Shaykh ‘Abdulilah—Points 17-22—09.08.25—Summer Conference. 

PART 2

- Those who commit major sins are subject to the Will of Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic. We do not declare those who face the qiblah (in prayer) to be unbelievers due to their sins—and we entrust what is concealed of their affairs to Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic.
- Proof that all of the Prophets and Messengers (عليهم السلام) warned against shirk.
- The destructive nature of shirk. 
- That which will give us security and guidance.
- The great station of the ‘ulamā’. 
- How the ‘ulamā’ considered the Khawārij.
- The levels of īmān and kufr.
- Proof that the Qur’ān is the Speech of Allāh and is not created.
- A lesson from Abān b. ‘Uthmān b. ‘Affān and ‘Abdullāh b. ‘Umar (رضى الله عنهم) on how to respond to the innovators. 
- The danger of speaking about the affair of takfīr without knowledge.
- A ḥadīth that illustrates tasfiyah and tarbiyah. 
- Establishing the proof and not rushing to make takfīr.
- Clarification from Shaykh Muḥammad b. ‘Abdul-Wahhāb (رحمه الله) regarding the claims that he unjustly makes takfīr of the Muslims.
- The conditions for declaring a person to be a kāfir.
- Rebuke of the Khawārij.
- Jihād vs fasād.
- Sayyid Quṭb’s blanket takfīr of the ummah, and how the scholars combat this deviant ideology.
- The takfīrīs’ revilement of the scholars.
- A ḥadīth that is glad tidings for Ahlus-Sunnah.
- Warning against debating with innovators and giving them the opportunity to be famous and spread their doubts.
- The humiliation and destruction of falling into sins. 
- The believer vs the hypocrite regarding how they see their sins. 
- The misguidance of adding a fourth category to Tawḥīd. 
- Clarification that the three categories of Tawḥīd are directly derived from the Qur’ān and is not a matter of ijtihād.
- Examples from the Sunnah of not changing an evil if it will lead to a greater evil.
- The chaos created by not following this principle.
- How ‘izzah is attained.
- Refuting bid’ah and establishing the Sunnah upon justice.
- Glad tidings to those who adhere to this blessed path. 


8 Points 17 to 22 By Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami

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 Iyad—Points 33-36—Summer Conference 2025


- The Khawārij shoot out of Islām.
- The meaning of murrāq, and its basis in the Sunnah.
- The two types of khurūj. 
- The matter all of the Khawārij unite upon. 
- The position of Shaykh Ibn Bāz (رحمه الله) regarding the Khawārij. 
- Names and descriptions of the Khawārij. 
- The two categories of the Khawārij (leaders and followers). 
- The motivation of the Khawārij and the excuse they use to cover their real objective. 
- The two types of Khawārij (al-Muḥāribah and al-Qā’idiyyah).
- The two types of Muhāribah, examples of such groups, and how they are to be dealt with by the ruler. 
- The type of debate/argumentation that is permitted in the Sunnah. 
- The reason for the harsh punishment prescribed for the Khawārij.
- Their evil views on Muslim societies.
- The issue of debating with the Khawārij.
- Characteristics of the Qā’idiyyah, how they are to be dealt with, and the spring of this ideology in the modern era. 
- Whoever claims that the Qur’ān is created is an unbeliever with the unbelief that removes him from the religion—and whoever doubts the unbelief of such a person from those who understand this matter, then he too is an unbeliever.
- What is necessitated by the claim that the Qur’ān is created.
- The ruling on the different groups and their positions regarding the Qur’ān. 
- Whoever doubts in the Speech of Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic, and withholds regarding it due to doubt, saying, “I do not know whether it is created or not created”, such a person is a Jahmī. As for the one who withholds in the affair of the Qur’ān out of ignorance, then he is taught and accused of innovation [for withholding] but he is not declared to be an unbeliever.
- The reason for these classifications. 
- Schemes employed by Ahlul-Bid’ah to create doubts and spread their poisonous ideologies. 
- The reason for the revelation of the āyah, “O you who have believed, say not [to Allāh 's Messenger ﷺ], ‘Rā’inā’ but say, ‘Unẓurnā’, and listen. And for the disbelievers is a painful punishment.” [Sūrah al-Baqarah 2:104]
- Proof that the voice and the Qur’ān are two different things.
- The tawfīq given to the scholars by Allāh to recognise and close the doors to misguidance.
- How deviants play games in order to avoid clearly stating their positions.
- The importance of returning to the books of the Salaf and the imāms of Ahlus-Sunnah in every era.

13 Points 33 to 36 By Shaykh Abu Iyaad

The Pillars of The Salafi Da'wah - Part 4

Shaykh Abū Khadījah discusses the manhaj of Ahl al-Haqq. From the 2025 Canadian National Summer Conference at Masjid al-Furqān (TROID), 2025/07/27-29.

Identifying the Victorious Group - Abū Khadījah

Lesson 31 | 24/07/2025: Usūl us-Sunnah of Imām Ahmad – by Abu Ukkāshah ‘Abdul-Ḥakīm. Lesson series at Tower Hamlets, East London, UK.

31 Usūl us-Sunnah of Imām Ahmad by Abu Ukkāshah ‘Abdul-Ḥakīm (24/07/2025)

●The importance of learning the 'Aqeedah (correct belief).

●Biography of the author.

●Being pleased and content with the Decree of Allāh.

●Eemān (faith) is speech, action and intention.

●Eemān: it increases with obedience and decreases with disobedience.

●Belief in the Pre-Decree, the good of it and the bad of it.

Q&A

●What are the recommended books on manners?

●Advice for one who is beginning their path in pursuit of knowledge of the religion.

●An advice to Markaz Anas bin Maalik in Brisbane, Australia.


7 Points 17 to 22 By Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami

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