Sheik Abu-Khadeejah

Sheik Abu-Khadeejah.....

According to the mosque director, Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid, more than a thousand men, women, and children pray the Friday 'jum'ah' Prayers there, and the mosque also contains a primary school and an evening Qur'an memorization school.[1] According to mosque flyers, there are usually Islamic-based lessons every day of the week[4] as well as seasonal conferences[5] which can attract around 3000 attendees from the UK and around Europe.[6]

During a 2002 season conference, the international media spotlight was set upon Masjid As-Salafi when a Swedish ex-criminal Kerim Chatty, who was due to attend the conference, was arrested in Sweden for carrying a firearm, presumably forgotten in his luggage, and later charged with firearms offence (not attempted hijacking).[6] Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid issued a public statement, stating that the individual was unknown to the organizers of the conference, and he then relayed the positions of Salafism in regard to terrorism based on the rulings (fatwa) of Islamic scholars like Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al Shaykh, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen, and Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i.[7]

Dawud Burbank (Abu Talhah) was a former senior lecturer, before his death in 2011, in Masjid Salafi.[8]

Masjid Salafi is one of the 163 mosques in the city of Birmingham, England.[9] It is also one of six mosques in the area of Small Heath Park.