Curriculum

Courses

Structured, free lessons taught upon the Qurʾān and the authentic Sunnah — from the essential obligations of every Muslim to the Arabic language itself.

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Isnād

Abū ʿAbdillāh Naʿeem al-Atharī (ḥafiẓahullāh)

Our teacher has studied under numerous scholars, and the institute is committed to spreading authentic Islamic knowledge. Among those from whom he has studied:

  • Shaykh al-Masnaʿī
  • al-Muḥaddith Yaḥyā al-Ḥujūrī
  • Shaykh al-Faqīh ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥujūrī
  • Shaykh Majdī Sulṭān
  • Shaykh Maʿmar al-Qadasī
  • Shaykh al-Faqīh Muḥammad ibn Hizām al-Baʿdānī
  • Shaykh al-Faqīh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAdanī (raḥimahullāh)
  • Shaykh Abū Anas al-ʿInād
  • Shaykh Muḥammad al-Anasī
  • Shaykh Muʿāfā al-Mighlāfī
  • Shaykh Zayd al-Waʿābī
  • Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Burʿī
  • Shaykh al-Faqīh Muḥammad al-Imām
  • Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Makphee

Isnād

Ustādh Muḥaymin (ḥafiẓahullāh)

Our teacher, Ustādh Muḥaymin, specializes in the study and teaching of Hanbalī fiqh and the principles and works of the Hanbalī madhhab. Through his teaching, the institute seeks to provide students with a structured study of Islamic jurisprudence according to the Hanbalī school.

Among the works and subjects he will teach are:

  • Akhtaṣar al-Mukhtaṣarāt (مختصر المختصرات)
  • Study of the Hanbalī madhhab
  • Foundational principles of Hanbalī fiqh
  • The development and terminology of the madhhab

Further details regarding his teachers, scholarly studies, and isnād will be added as they are provided.

Level one

Al-Wājibāt al-Mutaḥattimāt

A concise, beneficial treatise gathering the most important duties every Muslim man and woman should learn and understand — a beginner-friendly foundation before deeper texts such as al-Uṣūl ath-Thalāthah.

What you will study

  • ✦ Knowing Allah ﷻ and His rights
  • ✦ Understanding Tawḥīd and the purpose of worship
  • ✦ The importance of following the Messenger ﷺ
  • ✦ Essential acts of worship and the duties of a Muslim
  • ✦ Matters needed for the believer's faith and practice

The text

Book
Al-Wājibāt al-Mutaḥattimāt
Author
Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh) — as commonly attributed
Level
Beginner — no prior study required

Language

Madinah Arabic course

Brothers-only · Arabic fluency programme

We learn together, from day one all the way to fluency, in shāʾ Allāh. This is not a course where anyone claims to be the teacher; rather, specialised Arabic flashcards, lessons and videos have been paid for and made available for the brothers to use.

We go through the lessons together, watch the videos, use the flashcards, revise, and help one another along the way. The aim is consistency and steady progress.

  1. Day one basics →
  2. Grammar →
  3. Reading →
  4. Understanding →
  5. Advanced Arabic →
  6. Fluency

May Allah make it beneficial for us all and make the Arabic language easy for us. Āmīn.