Nine subjects

Arabic

Reading the language the sources are written in — grammar taught on the hadith you are already studying, not on invented example sentences, until you can parse a line yourself.

Begins with Al-Ājurrūmiyya — the matn of Ibn Ājurrūm (d. 723 AH), in thirty lessons

Beliefs

What Muslims hold to be true about God, prophethood and the hereafter, and how the classical schools argued for it.

Qur’an

Recitation, the rules of tajwīd, and reading the text with the classical commentaries rather than around them.

Hadith

The recorded words and practice of the Prophet ﷺ, the science of how they were transmitted, and how a report is graded.

Begins with Al-Arbaʿūn al-Nawawiyya — the forty-two hadith of Imām al-Nawawī

Fiqh

The law of worship and dealings — purification, prayer, fasting, zakāh, ḥajj, and then contracts, property and inheritance — taught within a named school rather than as a blend, so a student can follow one line of reasoning to its end.

Spirituality

The inward sciences — sincerity, repentance, the diseases of the heart and their treatment in the classical manuals.

Etiquette

Adab: how a Muslim conducts themselves with God, with parents, with neighbours, with strangers, and with the text itself.

Prophetic Stories

The lives of the prophets and the sīra of Muḥammad ﷺ, told from the early sources with the weak material identified as weak.

History

What actually happened, from the first generation onward — including the parts later retellings tend to smooth over.