before we get started if everyone could
please make sure their kids are with
them in the mommy and me or Daddy and me
room
inshallah so if everyone could please
make sure your children are with you and
the mommy and me or the daddy and me
room all right
you know Subhan Allah when I started
this series a few years ago on the
firsts the biographies that I was most
excited about covering were the bi
biographies of people that were
completely
unknown and Subhan Allah one of the
things that happen happens as we go
through the lives of the companions of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
is that when you study them as
individuals you realize that some of
them had enormous impact but were not
celebrated as much as they should be and
some of them became footnotes in the
stories of someone else and the man that
we are covering today is probably one of
my favorite biographies in the entire
series because he has literally become a
footnote in the story of the the most
prolific narrator of Hadith in history
AB but his story in and of itself is
absolutely legendary and we're going to
learn Subhan Allah so much from the
twists and turns in his own life and the
Miracles that happened in his own life
as well as his dedication and I think
before I get into a story it's just a
reminder that it's one thing to have
noted influence it's another thing to
have Noble impact and this man likely
gets the a in our lives on a daily basis
and most of us do not know anything
about him except maybe the story of how
he called
AB to Islam and that man
is's nickname is similar to the nickname
of what is one of can someone tell me's
nicknames
the possessor of two lights why was he
called the possessor of two
lights primarily because he's the only
man in history to have married two
daughters of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam he married and she
passed away and then he
married is known as the possessor of
light and I'll talk about why in but he
is the possessor of light he was the
chief of a tribe that is known as ad do
now ad do is a tribe that is famous for
all of the wrong reasons they're famous
for partying they're famous for drinking
they're famous for dancing they're
famous for gambling they're famous for R
for interest in Usery so they're famous
for all of the wrong things and when you
read about for example the tribe
of when AB embraced Islam it was like
but what about like are the noted
Highway robbers they have a reput
reputation and it's not a good
reputation and
so survives a beat down in Mecca because
those that are beating him are reminded
that he's from watch
out happens to be the chief of a tribe
that is not known for stealing but it's
an affluent tribe that is known for
partying and a great level of
carelessness and recklessness now do is
from a place called Nan at that time it
was known as part of Yemen so it's it's
a yemeni tribe as well just like the an
are from Yemen but if you look at the
map if you all could put up the map
inshal this is where njan is today in
regards to what's Saudi Arabia right so
it's right today it belongs to what's
actually part of Saudi Arabia which of
course back then these were not the
countries that existed but back then it
was attributed to Yemen so when they
used to refer to Nan they used to refer
to it as a yemeni tribe and it's Subhan
Allah a very interesting part of Saudi
Arabia has anyone in here been to njan
by the way before anyone okay can you
show the picture of njan Nan is known to
be a a place of great Greenery so if
you've ever
seen uh for example and this was a trait
of t a trait of Medina a trait of njan
as well that there's a lot of greenery
so it's a place that is actually known
for being rich in terms of its resources
a beautiful place and it's a wealthy
place in the time of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and happens to be the chief of that
tribe now there's also something else
about this
tribe reported in an authentic Hadith
that the messenger of Allah sallam
said the hour will not be
established the hour will not be
established until the women of dose
dance around
again was the idol of the people of do
now obviously back then you had sort of
the chief Idols then you had personal
Idols in people's houses so was an idol
that they used to hold festivals around
they used to sacrifice towards and their
practices were very lewd around that
Idol and Subhan Allah some of you might
be thinking it's happening we're seeing
it happen and indeed Subhan Allah
anytime you see the rise of facade you
see the rise of corruption in places
where certain types of corruption have
become unfamiliar to us it should make
us Ponder upon the hour but by the way
this actually if you read about the
history of Mecca uh if you go back to
the 1900s the early 1900s it's actually
reported that the people in that area of
njan during a famine and a drought
rebuilt and they started to offer
sacrifices towards it and it was
destroyed and Al attacked them and it's
it's kind of written in some of the
books ofar meca of the history of Mecca
which shows you that you know Humanity
dips and then it comes back it dips and
it comes back we just don't know when
that dip is going to happen and people
will not return from it until the day of
judgment comes and it's upon us
obviously when we see facad when we see
corruption that's become unfamiliar to
reflect and to say this is you know uh
such a shame such a shame that you start
to see Idols rise again you start to see
corruption become familiar in the place
where the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam brought Islam right so these
are things that we're going to reflect
upon obviously when we see it but it's
spe it's specific to this tribe that the
prophet s mentioned a sign of the day of
judgment in them and of course that
could be in their descendants and
they're a larger tribe so some of their
descendants still reside um in Arabia
now the story of
T is that not only was he the chief of
his tribe but he was a person of great
presence a person of great power a
person of great poetry so just to kind
of get the image of the man he heads a
tribe that the Arabs want no problems
with the meccans have a serious vested
interest in making sure that their
Alliance is strong with do because you
saw where it is where it's located and
that they don't become allies to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and T
is exceedingly intelligent exceedingly
eloquent holds a lot of sway with people
and he used to come to Hajj of course
back then they had the Hajj of the days
of ignorance around their Idols he used
to come to every single year and even
more he used to come to Mecca frequently
and he would go to which was the primary
Marketplace he used to trade there and
he used to be one of the Poets of so he
would come and people would surround him
and they would listen to his poetry so
he holds a huge amount of presence and
you've got to think in the minds of Abu
jahal and Abu laab and their likes when
people who don't live in Mecca come to
Mecca they're going to hear about the
news about the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam so they want to preempt any
exposure to the prophet Al wasallam with
their propaganda especially the powerful
people so they've got a game plan
amongst themselves that when the time of
Hajj comes it's very sensitive now
you've got to go to all of the Chiefs
that are coming from the neighboring
tribes take them to the side tell them
all these horrible things about the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so
that they will not be affected by the
Quran now he in particular was very
feared in regards to his Islam because
if he becomes Muslim obviously he gives
a certain a certain certain type of
protection to the prophet s alaihi
wasallam it severs an alliance with qur
he also is an eloquent spokesperson for
Islam should he Embrace Islam so he
comes from Yemen he comes from
Nan and he actually
mentions that you know as soon as I got
there he was surprised to see that Abu
laab immediately and tells you the
status of a person that Abu laab is
going to be the one that's going to take
him to the side Abu lahab immediately
has this whole reception ready for him
he takes him to the side and he wants to
fill his ears with the propaganda about
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and realize that quray is going to use
the tactic that they know will work for
that particular person T was a man of
his tribe he loved his tribe being
together he loved the families of his
tribe being together he cares about his
people and so the propaganda is thatu
alh wasallam is a tribe record he's
going to divide the tribe he's going to
divide your families he's going to pit
people against each other and it's going
to cause huge dissent so they went to
him and ABAB starts and he says
listen you are a poet you are a
leader so they said listen we're worried
about you meeting this man because if
you meet this man his words are sorcery
his words are like his words are sorcery
so be very very careful it's a powerful
form of now usually what do do what's a
sign of in a family they tear families
apart right so they're they're trying to
basically portray the prophet Sall
alaihi wasallam as having this voice or
this spell that he casts on people that
suddenly makes a husband hate his wife
that suddenly makes a brother hate his
brother a father hate a son and so on so
forth so they say to him that we're
afraid
we're afraid he's going to do to you and
your people what he did to
us he's divided husband from wife he's
divided brother from brother he's
divided parents from their children so
they kept on talking to him and says
he said they kept on talking to me and
they kept on getting to my head until I
said to myself I'm not going to enter
the Masjid unless my ears are plucked
I've got to have ear plugs so think
about like one of those headphone
commercials or something like that like
I got to plug my ears so I can't hear
anything when I go to the Masjid so I
got to perform my Hajj but I hope I
don't run into this man and if I run
into him I'm afraid his is going to hit
me right so I've got to plug my ears cuz
the story sorcery might affect me so
what did he do he said that I put I put
cotton in my ears I stuffed my ears as
much as I could with cotton and I went
to the Masjid uh and I started to do ta
and he said so I saw the
prophet standing up in the Masjid
reading and praying close to the and I
basically Tred to keep a distance from
him but his curiosity got to him he
realized the silliness of this all so
you know he kind of wants to hear what
he's saying but at the same time he
wants to stay back so he wants to test
the waters a bit so he gets just close
enough he
said Allah refused except that I would
hear some of what he had to say so I
heard some of what the prophet s wasam
recited and I said to
myself like what a shame this is and he
said I'm a person who's I'm I'm a person
who's firm who's who's who intelligent
he
said he said I can distinguish between
good and bad and he said W I'm going to
go and listen to him and if he's a
person who makes sense if he's a person
of guidance then I'll listen to him and
if he's a person who's speaking nonsense
I'll be able to distinguish and I'll be
able to cast him aside so he said so I
removed the the cotton from my ears and
he said I started to listen closer to
what the prophet s was was saying he
said
never heard anything more beautiful than
what he was reciting so I'm not sure
what he was saying but it was beautiful
what he was reciting and the prophet
Sall alaihi wasallam is unassuming he's
doing his thing now T also says
Sorcerers had a particular look I'm from
New Orleans when you see someone that
does Voodoo they look weird all right
said had a particular look like the
prophet s didn't look like a sah not and
by the way some sah don't have that look
but but overall like they kind of spook
you out especially in that time they've
got they've got a certain type of Aura
to them he's like the prophet Sall
alaihi wasallam had beautiful manners
humble character he looks like he's calm
at peace tranquil he's minding his own
business he's reciting the Quran so he
said you know I followed him to his
house and I knocked on the door and
answered so I asked permission to speak
to the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam and
I said to him this is how he introduced
himself to the prophet he said
you're the guy that people say is a
sorcerer so the prophet s smiled and
said yes that's
me so he
said what do you have what is it that
you're actually teaching what are you
reciting so the prophet recited to
him Subhan Allah think about that
right right in one of the narration so
he read to him some of the Quran and
obviously parts of the Quran that are
seeking refuge in Allah subh from the
things that the prophet supposedly was
so he read to him some of the Quran
and was completely blown
away he said right away I I became
Muslim I said to him how do I accept
your religion how do I become one of
your followers so the prophet sallai
wasallam told him the shahada taught him
how to
say and he put out his hand he said I
extended my hand to the prophet Sall
alhi wasallam I held the hand of the
prophet sallai wasallam and I gave my
shahada and I gave my pledge to the
prophet Sall Ali wasallam and is an
intelligent man he's also a powerful man
and he also assumes that once he gets
back and tells his people his people are
going to become Muslim too because of
the presence that he has so he says to
the prophet y why don't you come back
with me to do to Nan to My Tribe of do
we will take care of you we will protect
you and we will be your allies against
everyone that is around so Subhan Allah
in a moment he went from kufur from
disbelief to hi to guidance to to
wanting to protect the prophet Salli
wasallam which is absolutely miraculous
in and of itself the prophet s wasallam
is nice about
this he says
to do you have anyone behind you I mean
are you sure this is going to work
basically like you're you're inviting me
to make a journey outside of Mecca and
this is relatively early in the da
before the prophet s is being attacked
in public in in in the vicious ways that
he was especially in the last few years
sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Mecca so
this is still earlier on in the mecan
period where it's really you know verbal
propaganda against the prophet Sall
alaihi wasallam whereas they're
attacking his weakest
followers so he says to him I mean do
you have anyone who's Muslim back there
do you do you really trust that you've
got people back there
so said I thought about it and I said to
him I said to myself you know I really
don't know if I'm being honest with you
I don't know if I have the protection
for you if you come with me to
Nan so he said that let me go back to
them and let me call them to
Islam so it may be that Allah will guide
them and he
said oh messenger of Allah
pray to Allah to give me a miracle to
Give Me A
Sign oh Allah give him a miracle by
which you will support him he doesn't
know what it is so he
said so I left I didn't talk to ABAB I
didn't talk to anyone else in Mecca so
he didn't cause any commotion right so
they're making the assumption that he's
done his Hajj he's done his shopping
he's done what he has to do and now he's
going back to uh to Yemen so he says I
went back to my people and I went
alone until I got to the valley of my
people so he mentions that you know I
had my father an old man my wife and my
children and they're they're there um
you know over that Valley and he said
that right as I was about to get into my
place Allah put right between my eyes a
light so what was his
nickname the the possessor of light
that's his nickname so imagine he gets
to the valley and suddenly there's a
light that's shining from his head and
this was the Ayah that the prophet made
Dua for now he said to himself as
powerful as that is and obviously you
wake up and suddenly you have a light
that's shining from your face he OD what
was happening he
said oh Allah Let It Be an other than my
face why he
said he said I'm afraid that my people
will think that this is actually a
punishment or something that was given
to me because I left their religion so
I'm afraid they might actually
misinterpret if I have a light that's
suddenly shining between my eyes that
something bad has happened to me that
I'm being made an example out of because
I left their religion so he
said said it moved the light moved from
my face and it moved to the top of my
can so he had a stick and he had a light
on it and this is one of the Kats one of
the Miracles that can happen to a people
obviously Kat usually the Kat of the the
Miracles of the righteous one usually
follow in the tradition of the Miracles
of the prophets so obviously we know M
had a similar miracle and you will find
that right people sometimes Allah has
blessed them to have a miracle as a
proof uh in in a way that resembles some
of those so he said that I had the light
on top of
it as as if it was a hanging chandelier
Subhan Allah like a beautiful chandelier
that was on top of my stick and I went
into uh the tribe of dose holding on to
it and as soon as I got there and I'm
holding on to this light he said AB my
father came to me now T wants to use a
certain type of rhetoric that's going to
work with his family so this is not if
you become Muslim this is what you do
you go home and you say this to them all
right but his father came to him and he
said no no you're not from me and I'm
not from
you now he's doing that to get a shock
out of his father his father loves him
respects him his father says well M what
happened to you why are you saying that
he
said I have become Muslim and I accepted
the religion of
Muhammad and he
said my son your religion is my religion
so whatever it is that you just embraced
I embrace it too so he explained to
him and the Oneness of Allah subh what
he learned from the prophet Sall alaihi
wasallam and his father became Muslim
quickly and he says
and then my mother as well she came and
she found my father and she said what
happen what is this light I explained to
her what had happened and she became
Muslim as well so both of my parents had
become Muslim he said I went to my wife
and the same thing
happened I
said I'm not from you and you're not
from me she said why why are you saying
that he said I became Muslim and I
follow the religion of Muhammad she said
what is that so I told her about Islam
she said but will the sh which is an
idol that they had will he harm us if we
Embrace Islam see there are
superstitions so if I leave the religion
of my people are we going to be harmed
and he
said I swear by Allah it will not harm
you and she repeated it again and I
repeated it again and she repeated a
third time and I repeated it a third
time and I said go and and bathe
yourself and it will not harm you so she
went and she bathed herself she did she
came back and now his father his mother
his wife and his children were still
little at the time they're Muslim so he
thinks now now let me go to my people
and they're going to become Muslim too
so far this is going exactly as you'd
want it to
gol I called do to Islam and all of them
rejected
me except
for a handful or except for one just a
handful like it's a little bit few
people that listened to my
message and one of those was a young
poor Shepherd orphan Shepherd
named who is
that AB his his name was actually the
slave of the Sun
abam so he embraced Islam with me
everybody else
rejected and the implication of the
narration is that maybe one or two other
people so he's got his family and he has
an orphan Shepherd poor orphan Shepherd
ab and that's it so he kept trying with
them and it didn't work and he's getting
frustrated with his people and he keeps
on trying different ways and he and he
starts mentioning his favors you know me
you know my standing amongst you you
know my nobility amongst you I'm telling
you this man is a prophet of Allah I'm
telling you this religion is the
religion of Truth they did not want to
embrace Islam not because because they
didn't think that t had a compelling
argument why didn't they want to embrace
Islam because they were afraid of the
moral implications of embracing Islam
but what about the partying what about
all the stuff that we do so we're not
going to give up all of these other
things and obviously certain things are
Haram at that point certain things are
not but you can tell this is an ethical
religion that's going to require you to
change your ways as a tribe and so do
rejects to fade
they don't reject him as their Chief but
they reject the
religion and T said I tried for some
time and then he comes back to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
he's got this little orphan boy Shepherd
the only thing he has to show for
himself is his father his elderly father
his elderly mother his wife and this
Little Orphan child that he's coming to
the prophet
wasallam he says I met the prophet Salli
wasallam the first time he said where
are you from I said do the prophet
said I didn't know do had good people in
it like people that had good in them
meaning people that were embracing Islam
that's what he meant by that s wasallam
like wow okay a child from dose toil
comes to the prophet s
wasallam and says to the prophet
wasallam I called them to
Islam but do was over over come by their
adultery and their Usery and interest
basically their dirty practices they
couldn't see the
truth because of their
practices this message is too ethical
for them and T says to the
prophet go ahead and make Dua for Allah
to destroy them now imagine this is a
chief of a tribe who's saying I tried
everything with them no
chance no chance
make Dua against
them is mentioning the prophet's hands
go
up said that's it dose is done dose is
destroyed right as as soon as the
prophet s
says oh Allah destroy do they're going
to be destroyed
right raises his hands he's ready as
well for this Dua against his own people
because of what they did and you can
imagine how rough the rejection was and
how how much he tried with them to make
them Embrace Islam and the prophet s
wasallam
said guide those and bring them to me oh
Allah guide those and bring them to me
oh Allah guide those and bring them to
me Subhan Allah the prophet Sall alaihi
wasallam was more merciful to a people
even than their own Chief in this regard
and and he turns
to and he says to
him go back to your people call them to
Allah and be gentle with them be lenient
as you call them to Allah subhanahu wa
tala so the implication here is that the
first time tfil went he invoked his
power over them he invoked his like his
status over them like I'm your Chief why
are you rejecting this religion you know
better so the prophet Sall alhi wasallam
is telling him to go back and call them
with call them with leniency call them
with gentleness
and is the one who narrates the Hadith
that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam
said Allah is gentle and Allah loves
gentleness Allah gives through
gentleness what he does not give through
harshness Allah gives through gentleness
what he does not give through harshness
Subhan Allah what a what a lesson in da
today right shout someone down humiliate
them what did you what did you achieve
break them what did you achieve was that
the message of the Prophet Sall alaihi
wasallam I was not sent as one who
curses I was sent as a mercy to the
people and that's what the prophet Salli
wasall is calling us to be as well now
did the prophet was ever make Dua
against people yes but it was when they
were actively in place place of
oppressing of harming and so the goal of
the Dua is to restrict them in their
harm to hold back their harm to stop
their to stop their oppression that's
what many of the say and they say that
even if that's not the sa if that's not
the main reason still every single time
you find the prophet finally making Dua
against the people it's when they have
reached a certain stage in their
oppression a certain stage in their
wrongdoing and their harmfulness that
they are people who put out violation
after violation after violation after
violation Prophet sallai wasallam said
and Allah gives through gentleness what
he does not give through harshness go
back to your people to fail try again
try a different way so go back to them
this time no light in your hand nothing
particularly miraculous give them in a
gentle way so he said so I went back to
them and I called them again and this
time the implication is that he spent
some time with them calling them to
Islam it's not easy we all want the da
to succeed in 10 minutes 15 minutes 20
minutes it took years right for him to
get his people to come on board but at
the end of it he had about 90 families
from dose Embrace Islam so he said so I
went back to my people and basically he
was between the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam in Medina and his people in
dose so he mainly was still amongst his
people calling them to Islam Abu who
still was with him as well in dose
calling them to Islam and he would go
see the prophet occasionally in aladina
so he said so I missed and and then
after I brought 80 or 90 families with
me from do to the prophet so this was
the answer to the Dua of the Prophet
sallallah alai
wasallam oh Allah guide those and bring
them to me and so 8090 families is a big
deal at that time right for 8090 amilies
to come from a different place and to
resettle in a strange place is very
difficult and Subhan Allah many of the
here when they when they mention this as
a side note they talk about the
difficulty of Hijra at the time of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam back
then you don't make Hijra like this
unless you are fleeing persecution or
something significant is happening the
trade routes are seasonal you go out for
this purpose and that purpose but the
idea of moving and picking up your life
and being in what might become hostile
territory in a moment where where
tribalism is rampant and people kill
each other the minute that someone kills
someone else as camel or does something
then you have a 40-year 50-year war I
mean that's the reality of of Arabia at
the time so for 90 families to come with
their Chief and say we're going to
settle in Medina As migrants and we're
going to Bear the difficulties of being
muhaj at this point is deeply
profound and so he brought with him 90
families now Subhan Allah the narrations
become extremely interesting in this
regard um some of you may have watched
for those left behind I mentioned this
narration in particular so I'm going to
go through it now with the context
of narrates that went to the prophet
sallallah Al wasallam he
said said y do you want to come and
settle in dose under a strong Fortress
like we will protect you from everybody
if you come to dose we'll make that the
headquarters for you but the prophet
Sall wasallam he refused because of what
Allah
subh because what Allah had already
promised the an the an had the blessing
of having the prophet Sall alaihi
wasallam not Mecca ever again nor any
other place no matter what they could
offer Medina is Medina s wasallam so the
prophet sallai wasallam made Hijra to
Medina and that was it he was going to
stay in Medina
now goes on to
say that one of the people that made
with so he came to Medina he got sick
the weather the climate the distress
like it it over took him with sadness
now remember when the mechans made Hijra
to
Medina the scene from where she says
they were stretched out with their
fevers and they both look like they're
about to die and they're authoring all
of this poetry about how much they miss
meca Medina was a difficult place for
them to initially make their Hijra even
if Medina is more beautiful it's
agriculture the water was not
necessarily healthy when you drank the
water in Medina at that time you got
sick especially if you wen't used to it
right think about when you go visit I'm
not going to go there all right but you
all know where I'm going with this right
I know a lot of you when you go to a
country that you're unfamiliar with you
drink the water for the first time what
happens you're going to get sick for a
week so when people would make Hijra to
Medina they'd get sick now subh Allah
this narration is very very
interesting um and it requires a deep
study so he got sick and the sickness
prolonged
uh he was overtaken by basically a form
of sadness
depression um and what he did
was he he took his um he took basically
like a sharp Stone and he cut off his
fingertips so he cut off his own
fingertips and that's what the uhu means
the tips of his fingers now when he did
that
uh basically the blood flowed from his
hands until he
died this is a very interesting story
because he's a muhaj he's a Muslim a new
convert he just made Hijra and whatever
his intention was when he cut off his
fingers right I mean that basically
caused his death right so his situation
is deeply perplexing
so saw him in his
dream said is he he looked beautiful
right he had he had the full clothes of
Jenna it was a good dream and he said
but at the same
time means that his uh his hands were
covered so it's really interesting like
he has the clothes of Jenna but his
hands were covered
to asks his friend who he brought from
do what did your lord do to you what did
he do for you what happened to you at
this
point he said that he forgave me because
of my Hijra to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam so this is the hopeful
part of the Hadith he said but why are
your hands covered he said because then
he said to
me we're not going to fix for you what
you yourself have
severed we will not Rectify what you
yourself have
corrupted interesting so he's in Jenna
per se or he has he's in some sort of
place that resembles a good place of
Jenna but he didn't get his hands back
so he came to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and he told the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam this dream
what did the prophet wasallam do what
what do you think the prophet sallai
wasallam
did he said
oh Allah and for his hands forgive him
oh Allah for his hands forgive him so
the prophet Sall made Dua for his hands
to be restored as well now subh Allah
this Hadith is one of the proofs that if
a person took their own life it is of
the worst major sins but the janaza is
still prayed on that person and Dua is
still made for that person so this this
Hadith actually has
great hope but it also has a great
warning the great hope is that you still
make Dua for the person even with the
major sin the major sin does not make
you a cafir in Islam right that's not
our Creed it is of the worst of sins but
it doesn't make a person a disbeliever
so that's the hope of this is that Allah
eventually forgave him the warning is
that even a person who made Hijra to the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam and
underwent that Journey still he had to
face some of the consequences of his own
action because of the severity of that
act now how did the balance wait a
minute if you enter Jenna you enter with
perfection the the correct opinion Allah
knows best and of course this is all you
know extrapolations is that this is
because in you can be both rewarded and
punished in ways which is the realm
between this life and the Hereafter
because this um also is punished in its
grave sometimes that may Allah protect
us from Al together but there are people
that are somewhat punished and people
that are somewhat rewarded but if you
enter into Jenna then obviously when you
enter into Jenna there is no more uh
Corruption of the body no harm no ills
and things of that sort so this
companion of that he brought to Islam
Allah knows best but this was a scene
perhaps from where he still had to face
the consequences of what he did but
Allah subhana tala still forgave him and
the meaning is very profound that we
will not correct what you yourself have
messed up so this is an am your body is
an AM do not harm the body that subhana
tala has given to you so this is uh one
of the the interesting narrations
about with the companion that he brought
with him to Alina now after that says
that I and my people we settled in Alina
with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and we stayed with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam until fat
meah until the conquest of Mecca and he
said that when we went to the conquest
of Mecca I asked the prophet sallallah
alai
messenger of Allah allow me to be the
one that destroys the idol that's known
as it's literally it's two branches two
hands that are coming out of that Idol
and it was the idol
of now was the person who used to
host he was one of the powerful people
of Mecca and usually the elites hosted
the elites right and his
Idol was an idol that he used to show
off a lot it was a huge Idol that was
made of a particular type of copper and
it had all sorts of features to it so he
asked the prophet s Ali wasallam y allow
me to be the one to remove that Idol
because other people will be removing
the idols obviously the
prophet so he went to uh that to that
Idol
of so that he could burn basically he
had to set a fire within it so that he
could completely demolish it and while
he did that he
said so it's a poem that he said that oh
the we are not from your slaves we
preceded you to this world and I am the
one who has put fire into your belly why
because they used to have all these
superstitions that if you harm the idols
or if you don't honor the idols that
they're going to cause all sorts of
horrible things to happen to you and so
there's something symbolic as well about
kindling the fire within the idol and
destroying that Idol from within where
they used to say that if you harm this
Idol if you don't honor this Idol you're
going to develop all sorts of diseases
and certain things are going to happen
to you so he said
after I stayed with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam until he
passed away so I went back with the
prophet Sall alaihi wasallam until until
he passed away now Subhan Allah usually
his story ends with AB but it
continues he said so
abak appointed me as one of the Warriors
one of the Chiefs
against now does anyone know who
is anyone heard this name so you who's
the most famous false prophet after the
prophet s the person who declared
prophet and killed many Muslims and was
was known
brutality is a man who also claimed
prophethood okay but listen to this
because it gets very interesting he
claimed prophethood he fought against
the Muslims and then he repented and
became Muslim and then became
a very interesting character so you
actually
say which is it's strange Subhan Allah
what happened with him and some of the
scholars they debated well what happens
to a person who apostate and didn't just
apostate became a false prophet and then
repented and came back and Islam whose
Islam was actually firm very interesting
and uni unique case but was a man who
claimed prophethood and fought against
abak for some time and then went on to
become
a afterwards
so says So I entered into uh you know
into the uh the battle with and Allah
gave us Victory and then came the Battle
of Al Yama now the Battle of yamama was
the battle in which many many companions
died and this was of course what
catalyzed the compilation of the Quran
uh once again into the
by why because so many were going to be
killed
by in this particular Battle of Alama
so continues to be with the prophet
wasam he continues to be with
abak and here you will see his last
miracle this
man in the battle
ofama he goes out in the Battle of
yamama and his oldest son is so he
hasb so his oldest son is named after
his father which is common at the time
right so he's with his oldest son and
basically they're going from Battle to
battle now so he went from being the
chief the poet to just being a warrior
now in the
of and Subhan Allah another interesting
dream so you had the dream of His
companion where he saw what happened to
His companion and now you have another
dream he wakes up on the way to Al
Yama and he tells his son and he tells
the people around him he said I saw an
interesting dream last night so listen
to this dream
so he said that I saw in this dream that
my head was cut so I was
beheaded but he saw that as he was
beheaded a bird came out of his
mouth now the prophet sallai wasallam
said that when a person passes away that
the soul leaves from the
eyes and the eyes follow the soul as as
it is leaving May grant us may Allah
grant us a good
ending so he says so in this dream my
head was was cut and then a bird came
out of my mouth and it flew and then
this bird entered into a
woman and then my son in the dream so
he's now basically in the bird and he's
in this woman woman and he said my son
is looking around for me and he can't
find me what an interesting dream Subhan
Allah so he said what do you all think
the dream means what do you all think
the dream
means so no one was able to answer it in
particular right so they said we hope
it's good inshallah so he then went
ahead and he gave the own t of his own
dream the explanation of his own dream
so he said as for the first
one uh
my head being cut what does it mean what
do you think it means that he was that
he's going to die that he's going to be
murdered in this battle ofama and was a
brutal brutal brutal man Subhan Allah he
was someone who used to crucify who used
to make examples out of the people he
would kill MIM as a brutal man so I see
myself being martyred in this battle he
said as for uh the bird what do you
think it
is what do you think it is
his soul because the prophet Salli was
mentioned that the souls of the
sh are in birds that are hanging from
chandeliers that are suspended from the
throne ofman they go out and they fill
themselves with the water from the river
banks of Al jna and some of what Allah
has given them from the food of Al jna
They roam through and then they come
back and they situate themselves in
these beautiful
chandeliers so The Souls of the sh are
in in the bodies of birds and not like
the birds that you know Subhan Allah
they're in the bodies of birds mayel
allow us to have that blessing of a sh
so he said that was the second part so
the first one is that I'm going to be
killed the second one is that this is my
soul what about the entrance into the
woman this is the hardest one of them
all he says that as for my entering into
the body of that woman he says that
this is the Earth and I will be buried
in it once again so as I came into this
world now I'm going back to this
world okay so I've returned back to the
Earth and he said as for my
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son I feel like this means that he's not
going to achieve shahada with me and
he's going to be looking around for me
after the
battle so you can imagine Subhan Allah
his son hearing this dream
and his son is terrified at what he just
heard but this
was this was the dream that he had so
the Battle of yamama takes
place he was looking for his father the
whole battle he's trying to stay near
him and obviously Fathers and Sons
fought next to each other they tried to
keep with each other this was the habit
of battle at the time that tribe Stay
Together family stay together as they go
into the battle and at some point in the
battle battle as it got rough he was
losing sight of and every once in a
while would wave to his son to let him
know where he was in the Battle and
would call out to him and then they
would reunite they would reunite they
would reunite and they kept on fighting
and kept on fighting and they kept on
fighting and the battle became extremely
Fierce and he lost his
father and then he found him martyred in
the battlefield exactly as he
said and he was so sad and something
that happened to him as well is that his
he lost his right hand in that
battle the son lost his right hand so he
lost his father and he lost his right
hand and he was extremely sad so it was
exactly the dream that his father had
that he was martyred and he couldn't
find his father Subhan Allah and he was
saying that my son would not be granted
shahada with me in this battle that I'm
going to be granted shahada but not my
son in this battle so he was very sad I
mean he was extremely uh um remorseful
missing his father and obviously as well
lost his lost a significant part of his
right hand and due to his sadness he
wasn't eating he wasn't he wasn't being
himself and listen to what said to him
om told him that I see you sad I see you
down he
said he said I swear by Allah that there
is no one amongst us who a part of him
is already in Jenna except for you
meaning your hand is already in Jenna so
you're you're talking about you miss
your father and obviously your father
was killed and he wanted to be able to
protect his father he wanted to be with
his father in shahada that was what he
had envisioned and he's saying your hand
has already gone to Al J and there is no
one amongst us who already a piece of
them is in Jen except for you so go
forth and Subhan Allah his
son who they used to call oh son of the
possessor of light oh son of the
possessor of light because that was the
famous nickname
of and so oh son of the possessor of
light he went forth in the Battle of
fighting with one hand and he was
martyred in the Battle of yuk so he was
a Shah the son of Shah may Allah subhana
wa tala be pleased with them and joined
his father in that blessing of of
obviously the scene that the prophet
Sall alhi wasallam uh had proph ized for
the sh may Allah subhana be pleased with
them both and be pleased with the
companions who came before us so this
was the story
of and his
son he had two other Sons one of them
named
and and they both died as Muslims both
of his parents died as Muslims his
father actually seems to have outlived
him despite being a very old man um and
his father father narrates two from the
prophet Salli wasallam one of them
praying behind the
prophet and describing the S of the
Prophet Sall alaihi wasallam when he
recited and also he said I prayed with
the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam or I
heard the prophet Salli recite and then
he made SJ and I made SJ with the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so
the only two narrations he has are the
narrations about the prophet s SJ when
he is reading the Quran and Subhan
Allah do
does not narrate a single Hadith from
the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
not one why cuz he died too early right
I mean the companions that died in
yamama did not live to be able to
narrate traditions on behalf of the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam and
his son who was the primary narrator on
behalf of his father died in in
the which was one of the most famous
battles that took place in the
of but with all of that being said and
this is is the the most powerful and
profound part about this man every
single time you
recite he has a share of that
reward and this is one of the greatest
lessons Subhan Allah that you take from
these lives the one who causes good the
one who calls to good the one who
facilitates good is like the one who
does good not a single Hadith from him
not a single Hadith from his children
but he inspired Ires the man to become
Muslim that will narrate over 5,000th
from the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam and gives us access to the
prophet Sall alaihi wasallam in a way
that we would otherwise have absolutely
no access and all of that is to his
credit and that really makes you think
Subhan Allah this man who you hear such
little you know in terms of narrations
about
himself look at the profound impact that
he had on the history of Islam and think
about yourself when you feel like you
know I'm not doing these great things
I'm not doing these great things I'm not
doing these great things and I mentioned
this Subhan Allah when Muhammed passed
away and one of the sentiments was you
know Subhan Allah everyone was
celebrating
Muhammed everyone was talking about you
know this man and the impact that he had
on so many people it's all over there
was a sentiment like wait am am are
people even going to really know when I
pass away is it or is it just going to
be like one of those quiet janas and
only a few people doesn't matter cuz
Allah writes down
the impact of a person it doesn't matter
if the Muslims don't say the name of
Allah writes down the of every time we
say the name
of and when a person looks into these
biographies they should see where they
fit in the scheme of the to Allah and to
his messenger
sallam may Allah subhana be pleased
with and reward him for his service to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
may Allah reward him for his shahada May
Allah subhana reward him for his da may
Allah gather us with him and with the
Companions and with our beloved prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and his
family in the highest level
of I'll take a couple of questions
before thean of and next
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