Prophetic Footsteps – Weekly Sirah with Shaykh Saad Al Attas

Prophetic Footsteps – Weekly Sirah with Shaykh Saad Al Attas
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Organizing Institution: Bradford Muslim College
Contact email: [email protected]
Start Date: January 6, 2023 (20:30)
End Date: January 27, 2023 (21:30 GMT)
Cost: Free
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Bradford Muslim College – Bradford – California – United Kingdom
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Bradford Muslim College and Al-Mustafa Centre present:

Prophetic Footsteps: An intricate two-year Sirah Programme traversing through the life events of the final Messenger of God ﷺ

  • Weekly public event
  • Fridays 8.30-9.30pm
  • Taught by Shaykh Sayyid Sa’ad Al Attas
  • Open to all
  • Free event
  • Bradford Muslim College, Al-Mustafa Centre BD8 9LN
  • First event Friday 4th November at 8.30pm
  • Friday evenings will never be the same again!

After a busy and stressful working week, join us on Friday nights to delight in the divinely blessed study of the Prophetic Sirah. Shaykh Sayyid Sa’ad Al Attas will take us on a two year spiritual journey through the life of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, his Blessed birth, childhood, revelation and establishment of Islam. Study the Sirah like never before at the feet of one of the off-spring of the Messenger ﷺ

Strengthen your faith, your knowledge and connection to Allah and his final Messenger and understand more about the greatest man to have ever walked this earth and the message he was sent with by Allah.

Free 2 year programme. Open to all.

 

About the teacher: Shaykh Sayyid Sa’ad Al Attas

Shaykh Sayyid Sa’ad al-’Attas, is a South African Yemeni Scholar and is a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

He graduated from the Shari’a Institute run by the Tahdib wa Ta’lim endowment in Damscus, Syria. He was in the four year accelerated program. His studies there included the following: Arabic, Ulum-ul-Quran, Usul al-Tafsir, Hadith, Aqidah, Fiqh (Shafi’i and some comparitive, Usul al-Fiqh, Sira (fiqh al-Sira, Sirat of the Khulafa al-Rashideen), Mantiqu and Khitaba.

Some of the more important books read during that time include:

  • Ibn Hisham’s Shudhur al-Dhahab and one year from Mughni al-Labib
  • Shadhr al-Arf
  • Zakiriya al-Ansari’s commentary on Jazariyya
  • Half of the Jalalayn, al-Subunis Tafsir in Ayat al-Ahkam
  • Dr. Nur al-Din Itr’s Ulum al-Quran
  • al-Nawawi’s Irshad Tulab al-Haqa’id
  • Umdat al-Ahkam with its commentary Ihkam al-Ahkam
  • al-Sawi ‘ala al-Jauhara, Dr. al-Buti’s book on contemporary paradigms
  • Umdat al-Salik, Kifayat al-Akhiyar
  • al-Mahalli ‘Ala al-Waraqaat, Dr al-Zuhayli’s al-Wajiz, half of al-Luma and Muftah al-Usul
  • Mukhtasar Minhaj al-Qasidin
  • Nur al-Yaqin, Itmam al Wafa, Fiqh al-Sira
  • Dhawabit al-Ma’rifah

Outside of this institute, Shaykh Sa’ad concentrated on Shafi’i fiqh. He read with Shaykh Hussayn Darawish for three years. During that time, he completed Zakariya al-Ansari’s Tuhfat al-Tulab with most of al-Sharqawi’s marginal notes. He also completed nearly the first third of the same authors’s Fath al-Wahhab with additional notes from al-Bujayrami’s marginal notes. While doing this, he also read al-Shirazi’s al-Tanbih with al-Sayuti’s commentary, Sharh al-Yaqut al-Nafis, portions of al-Sayuti’s al-Ashbah wa al-Natha’ir, I’yanat al-Talibin, and others.

Shaykh Sa’ad is a senior lecturer at Bradford Muslim College, teaching on our Diploma and Alimiyyah programmes as well as leading courses on other sciences throughout the week.


Location:
Bradford Muslim College
249 Kensington Street
Bradford , BD8 9LN United Kingdom
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