About the Imam

Dr. Hamid Slimi is our Imam, Resident Scholar and Founder of Sayeda Khadija Centre. He has been serving as an Imam, Chaplain, Educator and Consultant in Canada for over 14 years in different religious and educational institutions.

He is also:

• The Founder and President of Faith of Life Network
• The current Chairman of the Canadian Council of Imams
• Lecturer at the Islamic Institute of Toronto
• Board member of different Interfaith and Community bodies/groups
• TV Host & Producer of Faith of Life TV Shows and documentaries.

Imam Slimi is a scholar who is specialized in Islamic studies and Law as well as Comparative World Religions. He holds two Masters degrees with High Honors in both disciplines from Morocco and the US and a PhD in Islamic Law from the U.K. He received both his traditional and Academic learning in Morocco and attended other renowned institutions and universities in other parts of the world.

Imam Slimi has been educated in Arabic, French and English since his early age as a little child. He received intensive training and learning in many Islamic disciplines including Aqeedah, Fiqh, Usul-ul-Fiqh, Maqasid, Tafseer, Seerah, Qur'an and Hadith Sciences. Both His Ijazah and Graduate Shahadat are in Fiqh - Islamic Jurisprudence - and Usul-ul-Fiqh - Fundamentals of Jurisprudence. His extensive research has been in the field of Jurisprudential Rules, the Science of Maqasid (Objectives of Law) as well as al-Fiqh al-Muqaaran (Comparative Jurisprudence) in the Four Madhabs.

Imam Slimi has been representing the Muslim community at many Multi-Faith Councils and in the continuous Interfaith Dialogues. He is also an adviser and consultant for a good number of different local and National institutions.

He has authored a few books and many articles in Arabic and English specifically in Usul-al-Fiqh and Muslim Outreach and he wrote a few papers in French mainly in Islamic Jurisprudence. His book published in 2001 and 2002 "Terrorism: An Islamic Perspective" has been widely distributed among thousands of readers in North America and did receive very positive responses and encouragement. To this date, Imam Slimi has hosted and produced over 200 TV Shows and over 200 DVDs and hundreds of CDs on different subjects related to faith and life matters.

Imam Slimi lectures mainly in English, French and Arabic. He can also speak and lecture in a few other languages. He appears occasionally as a guest and consultant on local and national TV networks both in English and French and has his own weekly TV Show which he has been airing all over Canada and other countries continuously for more than four years now.

Books, Works & Publications by the Imam:

1. The Islamic Jurisprudential Rules of Mitigation and Alleviation (Arabic & French, 1993)
2. Al-Dawaran fi al-Ahkam al-Shar'iyyah (Arabic, 1994)
3. An Easy Guide to Hajj & Umrah (English, 2000)
4. Terrorism: An Islamic Perspective (English, 2000)
5. Hajj: Meanings & Rulings (English, 2003)
6. Qur'anic Supplications (Arabic & English, 2006)
7. Concept of Life in Islam (English, 2009)
8. Your Guide to Learning and teaching the Arabic Language (English & Arabic, 2010)
9. Fundamentals of Islamic Jurisprudence (English - Under work)

Videos: (Shows & Documentaries)

1. 200 TV Shows (English) (Visit: www.faithoflife.net)
2. 175 Friday Sermons DVDs (English)
3. Hajj & Umrah: Meanings & Rulings (English, 2005)
4. The Hajj Experience (English, 2007)
5. Muhammad: The Prophet of Humanity (English, 2007)
6. Islam is built on 5 Pillars (8 DVD set in English, 2007)
7. Islam for Common Sense (2 DVD set in English, 2008)
8. Hajj: A Lifetime Experience (HD in English, 2009)
9. The Quest for Common Grounds (HD in English, Under Work)

Books and Works being taught (or taught in the past) by the Imam:

Qur’an & Qur’an Sciences

Tafsīr al-Qurṭubī: al-Jāmi‛u li Aḥkāmi al-Qur’an, by Imam Abu ‛Abdillah al-Qurṭubī (Arabic & English)
Al-Taḥrīr wa al-Tanwīr by Sidi al-Ṭāhir Ibn ‛Āshūr
Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr by Imam Isma‛īl Ibn ‛Umar Ibn Kathīr
Ṣafwatu al-Tafāsīr by Dr. al-Ṣābūnī
Rūḥ al-Ma‛ānī fī Tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-‛Aẓīm wa al-Sab‛ al-Mathānī by Imam Maḥmūd al-Alūsī
Al-Burhānu fī ‛Ulūmi al-Qur’an by Badru al-Dīn al-Zarkashī

Fiqh, Uṣūl al-Fiqh, Tashrī‛ & Maqāṣid

Al-Lubāb fī Sharḥ al-Kitāb by Shaikh ‛Abdul Ghaniy al-Maydānī    
Badā’i' al-Ṣanā’i' fī Tartībi al-Sharā’i' by Imam Abū Bakr al-Kāshānī
Al-Mabsūṭ by Imam ‛Ali b. Muhammad al-Bazdawī
Al-Fiqh ‛alā al-Madhāhib al-Arba‛a by Abdul-Raḥmān Al-Juzayrī        
Uṣūl al-Shāshī by Imam Nizām al-Dīn al- Shāshī
Uṣūl al-Bazdawī by Imam ‛Ali b. Muhammad al-Bazdawī
Al-Risālah by Imam Muhammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfi‛ī
Bidāyat al-Mujtahid wa Nihāyat al-Muqtaṣid by Imam Abū al-Walīd Ibn Rushd 
Fiqh al-Sunna by Shaikh Sayyid Sābiq
Subul al-Salām Sharḥ Bulūgh al-Marām min Jam‛i adillati al-Aḥkām by Imam Muhammad al-Ṣan‛ānī
Risalat Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qarawani    
Aḥkām al-Qur’an by Imam al-Jassass
Aḥkām al-Qur’an by Imam Abῡ Bakr Ibn al-'Arabī
Naẓm al-Waraqāt li al-Imam al-Juwaynī by Shaikh al-‛Amrīṭī
Kashf al-Asrār ‛an Uṣūl Fakhr al-Islam al-Bazdawī by Imam Abdul ‛Azīz Al-Bukhārī
Al-Mustaṣfā min ‛Ilm al-Uṣūl by Imam Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
Irshād al-Fuḥūl ilā Tahqīqi ‛Ilmi al-Uṣūl by Muḥammad al-Shawkānī
I‛lām al-Muwaqqi‛īn ‛an Rabbi al-‛Ālamīn by Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
Al-Ashbāh wa al-Naẓā’ir ‛alā Madhhab Abī Ḥanīfa al-Nu‛mān by Ibn Nujaym
Al-Ashbāh wa al-Naẓā’ir fī Qawā‛id wa Furū‛ Fiqh al-Shāfi‛iyya by Imam Jalālu al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī
Al-Burhān fī Uṣūl al-fiqh by Imam ‛Abdul Mālik al-Juwaynī
'Ilm Uṣūl al-fiqh by Shaikh ‛Abdul Wahhāb Khallaf
Uṣūl al-Fiqh by Shaikh al-Khuḍari Bik
Tārīkh al-Tashrī‛ al-Islāmī by Shaikh al-Khuḍari Bik
Sharḥ al-Qawā‛id al-Fiqhiyya by Shaikh Mustapha al-Zarqā
Qawā‛id al-aḥkām fī Maṣāliḥ al-Anām by Imam al-‛Izz Ibn ‛Abdil Salām
Maqāṣid al-Sharī‛a by Sidi al-Ṭāhir Ibn ‛Āshūr
Al-Muwāfaqāt fī Uṣūl al-Sharī‛a by Imam Abū Isḥāq al-Shāṭibī
Al-Wajīz fī Uṣul al-fiqh by Shaikh ‛Abdul Karīm Zīdān
Al-Madkhal li Dirāsati al-Sharī‛a al-Islāmiyyah by Shaikh ‛Abdul Karīm Zīdān
Al-Fiqh al-Islāmī wa Adillatuh by Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuḥailī
Al-Zarqā, al-Madkhal al-fiqhī al-Ām

Ethics, Beliefs, Spirituality & Taṣawwuf

Iḥyā’ ‛Ulūm al-Dīn, by Imam Abū Ḥāmid Al-Ghazālī (in Arabic and in English)
Sharḥu al-‛Aqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah by Imam Ibn Abī al-‛Izz al-Ḥanafī (in Arabic and in English)
Al-Risālah al-Qushayriyyah fi-'Ilm al-Taṣawwuf by Abul Qasim al-Qushayri
Al-Rūḥ by Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (in Arabic and in English)
Madārij al-Sālikīn by Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (in Arabic and in English)
Al-Targhību wa al-Tarhību by Imam al-Mundhirī
Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn 'an a'māl al-jāhilīn wa-taḥdhīr al-sālikīn min a'māl al-hālikīn by Imam Aḥmad Ibn Ibrahim al-Naḥḥās
Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa Faḍluh by Ibn ‘Abdil Bar

Sīrah & Islamic History

Al-Shifā bi Ta‛rīfi Huqūqi al-Mustafā by al-Qāḍī Abū al-Faḍl ‛Iyāḍ
Fiqh al-Sīrah by Shaikh Muhammad S R Al-Būṭī
Al-Raḥīq al-Makhtūm by Shaikh Ṣafiyyu al-Raḥmān al-Mubarakpurī
Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah by Imam Isma‛īl Ibn ‛Umar Ibn Kathīr
Zād al-Ma‛ād fī Hady Khayr al-‛Ibād by Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
Muqaddimat Ibn Khaldūn by Allama Ibn Khaldūn
Al-'Awāṣim min al-Qawāṣim by Imam Abῡ Bakr Ibn al-'Arabī

 Ḥadīth and Ḥadīth Sciences

Sharḥ Muwaṭṭa’ Imam Mālik by Shaikh Al-Zurqānī
Sharḥ al-Sunna by Imam al-Ḥussain al-Baghawī
Fatḥ al-Bārī Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Imam Ibn Ḥajar al-‛Asqalānī
Sharḥ Saḥīḥ Muslim by Imam Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Nawawī
Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn by Imam Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Nawawī
Jāmi‛u al-‛Ulūmi wa al-Ḥikam by Imam Abū al-Faraj al-Ḥanbalī
Al-Ba‛ith al-Ḥathīth Sharḥ Ikhtiṣār ‛Ulūm al-Ḥadīth by Imam Isma‛īl Ibn ‛Umar Ibn Kathīr
Sharḥ Muqaddimat Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ by Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ
Al-Jarḥ wa al-Ta'dīl by Dr. Farouq Hamada
Naẓm al-Bayqūniyyah
 

 
Arabic Language

Matn al-Ajrumiyyah by Ibn Ājurrūm
Al-Tuḥfa al-Saniyya Sharḥ al-Manẓῡmah al-Ajrῡmiyyah
Your Guide to Learning and Teaching the Arabic Language by Dr. Hamid Slimi

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To contact the office of the Imam:

Tel: 905.564.5509
Fax: 905. 564.5510
imam@skcentre.com