These courses taught by Shaykh Hamza Wald Maqdul Chaudhry during the Rihla retreats in 2013 and 2014, cover the legal methods and regulations surrounding the most essential devotions of Islam according to the Maliki School: the daily prayer and fasting. Equipped with the knowledge provided in this course, students will be able to navigate and fulfill their religious duties in almost any situation, giving them the confidence to worship God properly.
To have access to the audios please click on the year below:
RIHLA 2013 RIHLA 2014
Shaykh Hamza’s biography:
Hamza Chaudhry was born in Whittier, California. He pursued a program of traditional Islamic studies. His educational tour took him to several countries, including Syria and Egypt, where he studied the Arabic language; Morocco, Mauritania, and UAE, where he studied the ethical and legal school (madhhab) of Imam Malik, grammar, transmissional criticism (usul al-hadith), and the Qur’anic recitation (qira’ah) of Imam Nafi`, according to its two renditions (i.e. those of Imam Warsh and Imam Qalun); and finally, Pakistan, where he had the opportunity to study Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir), tranmissional criticism (usul al-hadith), Prophetic traditions (hadith), narrator criticism (‘ilm al-rijal) and ethics and law (fiqh) according to the Hanafi madhhab.
Some pictures of Shaykh Hamza at the Rihla:
