The Three-Year Ilm Course.

Full 3 Year Ilm Course — online classes, distance learning, £40 a month with scholarships available. Modules: Aqidah, Hadith and Fiqh, Usool al-Fiqh, Sciences of Hadith, Tafsir and Sirah. Taught by Ustadh Ariff Olla.
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Umdat al-Ahkam — a structured study.

Al-Hafiz Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi's classical hadith collection — roughly 426 ahadith, all authentically narrated in al-Bukhari and/or Muslim — taught in two semesters with a written examination, accompanying quiz, and searchable hadith bank.

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عُمْدَةُ الْأَحْكَامِ مِنْ كَلَامِ خَيْرِ الْأَنَامِ
  • · 15 books, 426 ahadith
  • · Live classes, weekly notes
  • · Self-assessment quizzes
  • · Searchable hadith bank

One-year courses.

Focused, single-text courses alongside the three-year programme — the same method, one book studied properly.

Buloogh al-Maram — 1 Year Ilm Course, September 2026 to July 2027. Live on Zoom, Monday and Tuesday 19:30–21:00. £40 a month, scholarships available. Starts September 2026 — register your interest → Umdah al-Ahkam — short 1 year Ilm course. Distance learning, recordings and documents shared twice a week over two semesters. £40 a month. Distance learning — view course details → Tafseer: an explanation of the Quran — 1 year course, completed 2025–26. Recordings available as distance learning. Completed 2025–26 — ask about recordings →

Tuition & Enrolment

Every course is £40 per month, payable monthly, per term, or annually. Scholarships are available, subject to conditions. To enrol: request the application form, fill it in, and send it back — your weekly materials begin from the same week.

Two semesters per academic year — around eight months of study, with breaks between semesters.

£40/month
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Scholarships
Available on application

How we teach.

Live classes on Zoom and weekly recorded lessons. Accompanying PDFs of the studied texts. Regular exams. Direct tutor contact for questions and mentoring over WhatsApp. Modelled on the academic curricula taught in the Shariah faculties of Madinah and Riyadh.

Modules

Aqidah, Fiqh, Hadith, Usool al-Fiqh, Mustalah, Tafsir, Seerah, Tazkiyyah and Arabic — each delivered through the appropriate primary texts and classical explanations.

Materials

Custom handouts, PDFs of the primary texts, audio recordings of each class, and additional compiled benefits from Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim and senior contemporary mashayikh.

Assessment

End-of-semester examinations, progression between levels, and a pathway to specialise after the three-year foundation is completed.

From the course itself.

Selected lectures and overview videos drawn from the institute's YouTube channel — directly related to the Three-Year Ilm Programme and its modules.

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Ustadh Ariff bin Abee Bakr Olla

Ustadh Ariff Olla

Imam of Masjid Taybah (Leicester) and founder of AhleDhikr Institute, Ustadh Ariff has studied the Islamic sciences since 2007 under more than 30 scholars across traditional institutes in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom.

His teaching follows the classical method — grounded in authoritative texts, transmitted scholarship, and an emphasis on precision and practice.

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“I found it very, very beneficial, alhamdulillah — and learnt a lot of new knowledge.” — Z. Sheikh · Student of the Institute