Shaykh Ahmad Darwish 1st UK Tour

Lecture: Miraj un Nabi followed by Q&A

Sunday 10th August 08, starts after Dhur pray (2pm)

Masjid Ghosia, Warren St, Dewsbury

 

Dars: A Road Map of the History of Hadith

Monday 11th August 2008, starts at 7pm till 9pm

Al Farghana Institute' of Manchester, 122 Withington Road, Whally Range, Manchester

 

Jumuah Khutbah: How to love the Prophet

Friday 15th August 2008

Dar ul Uloom Qadiri Jilani, St Johns Road, Manchester

Lecture: The greatness of Laila'tul Baraat & Remembering the life of Hafidh Abdullah ben as Siddiq al Ghumari

Saturday 16th August 2008, starts at 8:30pm - Jamia Islamia Ghousia Trust Westbourne Road, Luton

Other guest speaker: Ustadh ul Ulema, Alama Syed Zahid Hussain Shah Rizvi

 

Lecture: How to become like the Sahabah

Dars: An Introduction to greatness of Hadith and its sciences

The Shah Jahan Mosque, 149 Oriental Road, Woking

TBC

 

Lecture: Mercy and Forgiveness

Sunday 17th August 2008, starts after 2pm

Makkah Mosque, 36 Thornville Road (off Brudenell Road), Leeds LS6 1JY

We are pleased to announce that the Egyptian scholar and Hadith scholar, Shaykh Ahmad Darwish, the servant of the Prophetic way is coming to the UK for lectures and traditional classes on Hadith and its related sciences.  Shaykh Ahmad Darwish is a servant of the Hadith and is known amongst his peers as a man of piety and knowledge.

Shaykh Ahmad Darwish is founder of Dar al Hadith (Indonesia and UK).  Shaykh Ahmad's forthcoming visit to the UK is totally dedicated to the preservation of the heritage of Hadith and its scholars and how modern Muslims can learn and empower themselves to become better human beings and Muslims in line with the way of our beloved Messenger (sallaho alayhi wa alihi wa salaam).

Aim of Shaykh Ahmad visit to UK:  "The distribution of the sacred knowledge of Hadith to everyone"

Objective of Shaykh Ahmad Visit to the UK:

• To reconnect young Muslim with the specialists of Hadith.

• To demonstrate the greatness of the study of Hadith.

• To connect people to the Messenger of Allah (sallaho alayhi wa alihi wa salaam)

What other leading Ulema and influential people have to say about Shaykh Ahmad  Darwish:

Al Muhadith Alama Dr. Farqooq Hamada, Professor of Sunnah, Muhammad 5th University, Rabat, Morocco,

"I pray that Allah supports you to service Hadith more and more"

Dr. Hamza al Kitani – one of leading scholars of Hadith from the famous Kitani Family of Morocco.

"I do not believe in terms of Giant Hadith projects - there are people like you nowadays"

Shaykh Abdur Rahman weld Hajj – Son of Sh Murabit al Hajj and teacher of Hamza Yusuf from Mauritania.

"A man of piety who as contributed immensely to the science of Hadith and its related subjects, May Allah protect him"

Dr. Muhammad Ali Ghumari, Hadith scholar at Tatwan Principal of Religion, has gifted his book saying:

"Out of love to the poor the lover, the honourable sufi, the guidance to Allah, teacher of grace Ahmad Ben Kamel Darwish, may Allah open for him and bless his footsteps and benefits others with"

Dr. Wisam, Morocco – Leading Islamic Scholar of Morocco

"I would like to express my admiration of your arranging Islamic books by date and this is very critical approach what many people do not pay attention and this  effort of yours will  open a wider methodological Islamic studies that will benefits us, I congratulate you and your efforts".

Mr Alshareef Nabawi of Egyptian TV talking About Shaykh Ahmad Darwish's Hadith project

"Indeed this is blessing and spiritual enlightens of the truth, which Allah makes it appears on whosoever He chooses to make His signs and well clear t o the people

Brief Biography of Shaykh Ahmad Darwish:

Shaykh Ahmad is the servant of the late-Hafidh Abdullah ben as Siddiq al Ghumari.  He is he founder of the first and largest Islamic websites Allah.com and Muhammad.com, he and his respectful wife are both in their late fifties.

Shaykh Ahmad studied at Al Azhar University in Egypt alongside with other senior scholars.  During his youth he became extremely close to the greatest Muhadith of the last 200 hundred years, the scholar of scholars, the Imam Ahmad ben Hanble of his time, Al Hafidh al Hadith Sidi Abdullah ben as Siddiq al Ghumari (rad) and with this blessings he was able to host Hafidh Abdullah (rad) in Dubai, England and the USA on numerous occasions.

Shaykh Ahmad moved to the USA after receiving an invitation from the Muhammad Ali Foundation.  It was while Shaykh Ahmad was in the USA that Hafidh Abdullah (rad) was invited as guest to stay in the house of Muhammad Ali the former heavyweight boxer, during this period history was made when Hafidh Abdullah (rad) after the request from his servant and student Shaykh Ahmad began the critical analysis of Kanz ul Amal by Al Hindi which contains over 46,600 Ahadith.  Shaykh Ahmad Darwish was the official seal of authorisation of certificates of Hadith transmission for Hafidh Abdullah in the west that included close to 473 books Ijazas.

He spent over 25 years in Dubai, England and America teaching and researching on various subjects before returning back to Egypt to finish the work he began back in Chicago in 1980s with Hafidh Abdullah (rad) on producing the first most comprehensive Islamic Search and Hadith Data Warehouse.

He is the first scholar in the history of science of Hadith to demonstrate and proof intellectually and academically that Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal has 11592 Hadith according to the conditions of both Bukhari and Muslim, he is also was the first person in the entire world to compile together Sahihain of Bukhari and Muslim and Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal famous al Musnad into one unique collection of around 40,000 Hadiths which he then distributed completely free of charge for everyone to benefit from.

He currently resides with his wife both as full time research scholars in cities of Jakarta and Cairo for Dar al Hadith.