You mentioned that you rented a house in Damascus in order to give lessons there
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The questioner : Okay, meaning it was established in the previous session that you had rented a house in Damascus in order to give!
The Shaykh : Yes, for the lessons.
The questioner : Lessons on the Salafi methodology and the like. What was the methodology followed at your place at that time? Did you read from a book, or were they general lessons for the students?
The Shaykh : No, I remember that the first thing I taught the brothers was the book *Zad al-Ma'ad fi Hady Khayr al-'Ibad* by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. So I would read them a section from the book *al-Zad*, then I would comment on it with whatever knowledge I had previously or with comments I had prepared before attending the lesson. The lesson at that time was between three-quarters of an hour and a full hour, then after that, half an hour for answering questions. And after I finished the first volume of *Zad al-Ma'ad*, I think, and Allah knows best, if I have not forgotten, they asked me to teach them the book *al-Rawdat al-Nadiyyah Sharh al-Durar al-Bahiyyah*, because the truth is that the book *Zad al-Ma'ad* is a scientific book, meaning not every student can handle it, whereas *al-Rawdat al-Nadiyyah* is condensed in its materials. So indeed I taught them this book from its beginning to its end.
And so on, afterwards I think the turn came for *al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib*. From all these studies, there was a scientific effort, the essence of which was preparation. And among the results of that were *al-Tala'iq al-Jiyad 'ala Zad al-Ma'ad*, meaning the first volume, and comments found in the margin of *al-Rawdat al-Nadiyyah*, and *al-Tala'iq al-Raghib 'ala al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib*, because it was my nature not to deliver a hadith to them unless after verifying its authenticity and confirming what is meant by its jurisprudence or meaning. This was how I delivered the lesson there.
But it is necessary to make a correction:
We did rent a room from a house in some stages, but later one of our brothers volunteered an apartment of his, so he made it a kind of endowment for this lesson. The apartment consisted of four units, but he did not raise the partition walls between them, so it became like a mosque, meaning without walls. So this place would fill up with those eager to receive knowledge. And now, perhaps we can suffice with this until another day, and let that be tomorrow, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Yes, for the lessons.
The questioner : Lessons on the Salafi methodology and the like. What was the methodology followed at your place at that time? Did you read from a book, or were they general lessons for the students?
The Shaykh : No, I remember that the first thing I taught the brothers was the book *Zad al-Ma'ad fi Hady Khayr al-'Ibad* by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. So I would read them a section from the book *al-Zad*, then I would comment on it with whatever knowledge I had previously or with comments I had prepared before attending the lesson. The lesson at that time was between three-quarters of an hour and a full hour, then after that, half an hour for answering questions. And after I finished the first volume of *Zad al-Ma'ad*, I think, and Allah knows best, if I have not forgotten, they asked me to teach them the book *al-Rawdat al-Nadiyyah Sharh al-Durar al-Bahiyyah*, because the truth is that the book *Zad al-Ma'ad* is a scientific book, meaning not every student can handle it, whereas *al-Rawdat al-Nadiyyah* is condensed in its materials. So indeed I taught them this book from its beginning to its end.
And so on, afterwards I think the turn came for *al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib*. From all these studies, there was a scientific effort, the essence of which was preparation. And among the results of that were *al-Tala'iq al-Jiyad 'ala Zad al-Ma'ad*, meaning the first volume, and comments found in the margin of *al-Rawdat al-Nadiyyah*, and *al-Tala'iq al-Raghib 'ala al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib*, because it was my nature not to deliver a hadith to them unless after verifying its authenticity and confirming what is meant by its jurisprudence or meaning. This was how I delivered the lesson there.
But it is necessary to make a correction:
We did rent a room from a house in some stages, but later one of our brothers volunteered an apartment of his, so he made it a kind of endowment for this lesson. The apartment consisted of four units, but he did not raise the partition walls between them, so it became like a mosque, meaning without walls. So this place would fill up with those eager to receive knowledge. And now, perhaps we can suffice with this until another day, and let that be tomorrow, if Allah wills.