Questions & Answers – Kitāb as-Sunnah of Sunan Abī Dāwūd – Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell – After Lesson 13

Questions and answers after the lesson on Kitāb as-Sunnah of Sunan Abī Dāwūd, with Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

It opens with a discussion of the preceding lesson (the statement of Sayyid Quṭb on the khilāfah of ʿUthmān and ʿAlī, and the conditions for accepting narrations from an innovator), followed by the questions:

1. The ruling on a woman going to a women-only gym: uncovering only before Muslim women, and avoiding places with music 2. How to explain to a child that we have a choice when everything is decreed: the two types of qadr 3. Boycotting a brother over a worldly matter, and for how long: boycotting is for the sake of one's religion, no more than three days for worldly matters, and until sincere repentance 4. Whether the Salafī brothers must be united in boycotting a clear innovator, and the weakness of personality: the difference between companionship (muṣāḥabah) and advising (munāṣaḥah) (Shaykh ʿUbayd) 5. Whether the forehead must touch the floor in sujūd if a cap covers it 6. The ruling on free mixing with female cousins at family gatherings, and how to advise the family with wisdom 7. How to deal with a split among the brothers: refer to the elders and the experienced

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 26/8/19