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- SubhanAllah, I'm always amazed by how much
some of these companions love the Messenger
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Even though they only spent two or three years with him.
Like you think about those people in Medina, in particular,
the Ansar, who met the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And some of them died within one two three years
of meeting and receiving the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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This Sahabi Khubayib ibn Adiy radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
When you talk about the miracles of the companions
with the angels and otherwise,
he really is in a league of his own.
Now, Khubayib radiAllahu Anhu was a young man
from the Ansar, from the tribe of Ous
when the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam came to Medina.
And he embraced Islam and became one of the veterans
of Badr who are, of course
the best of the companions of the prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And just a short while after that,
he is captured in this ambush by Quraysh.
Now of course Quraysh from Mecca,
was trying to avenge their losses from Badr.
Immediately after Badr
so they captured Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
and a group of the Ansar.
And in fact, in that ambush, many of his companions,
eight of the ten were actually killed.
The head of them was a man by the name of
'Asim Ibn Thabit Al Ansari radiAllahu Anhu
who has own miraculous story.
but Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu who survived the attack
and was taken as a prisoner back to Mecca.
So, SubhanAllah you have a man
that embraced the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
coming from Mecca to Medina.
And now is a prisoner in this land that is foreign to him,
which is Mecca.
Now, when he's taken back as a prisoner to Mecca
the tribe of Al-Harith ibn 'Amr ibn Noufal heard
that Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
was taken as a prisoner.
Now Khubayib killed Al-Harith ibn 'Amr
in the battle of Badr.
So, his tribe realizes that the one who killed their father
is now a prisoner in Mecca.
Now of course the battle of Badr,
is, you know, a situation where the Muslims themselves
were not going out for battle,
but battle was forced upon them.
And Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
bravely rose to the occasion.
So you have the situation where the man
who was killed by Khubayib radiAllahu Anhu,
his family in Mecca hears about him
being a prisoner in Mecca.
They immediately go to those that captured him.
They purchased Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
And they say that, "we are going to take him as
a slave, take him as a prisoner,
and when the time comes, we're going to execute him."
So here Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
is in the strange land.
And he is with the tribe of this man,
Al-Harith ibn 'Amr, which are full of vengeance.
And they are ready to execute him in the worst of ways.
However, it was the time of the sacred months.
So because it was the time of the sacred months and the
people of Mecca in some strange way,
they still weirdly observed some of these rituals,
in a very strange way.
They said, "we're going to leave him
until the sacred months pass, and then we'll kill him then."
So basically at this point,
now Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
is in his chamber in Mecca,
and they're waiting for the sacred months to pass.
And then they're going to execute him in a very nasty way.
So you have the children of Al-Harith
and they're taking turns, watching him as a prisoner.
And many of these people that are going to be involved in
the story would become Muslim later.
One of them, either the daughter of Al-Harith
or she was a female servant from the womenfolk of Al-Harith.
So she tells the story when she became Muslim later on.
she says that, "we would take turns watching Khubayib,
the boys, the girls, the sons, the daughters,
we would take turns watching him."
And she said that, "it was my shift.
and I immediately realized that there was something very
strange about this man.
I would bring him food as we would with our prisoners.
And when I would bring him food while he was in his chains,
he already had grapes.
And these were grapes from a strange place.
And it wasn't even in season.
So there is no way he got these grapes from Mecca.
There's no way he was able to communicate
with the outside world. So I'm wondering,
where is he getting these grapes from, these special grapes
from? So I asked him one day, I said,
"where are these grapes from?" He said,
Inna rabbi yut'imunee wa yusqeen
He said, "my Lord feeds me.
And he provides me drink as well."
SubhanAllah
So just like in the story of Maryam Alayha Salaam
when Zakariya Alayhi Salaam would come to her mih'rab
and find that she already had food out of season
fruits out of season.
So this was one miracle for Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
Then she says that, "when it came closer to the time of his
execution, he requests a blade
so that he can remove from his body hair,
what was from the fitra and basically groom himself
before his martyrdom.
He wants to meet Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la in the best of
ways. And so he wants to groom himself before his Shahada.
He knows that the time of his execution is coming up.
So he requests the blade."
She said, "I brought him the blade. And while I left him,
my baby boy crawled to him while I wasn't paying attention."
So she said, "I rushed to the chamber
realizing that my baby boy wasn't around."
and look at the scene, she says,
"I found Khubayib radiAllahu Anhu sitting in one hand,
he had the blade and the other hand or on his lap.
He had my baby. So I gasped out of fear."
Right, I mean obviously he's a prisoner.
He's got nothing to lose, anyway.
we're going to execute him.
Either he could hold the baby ransom
or he could execute the baby
because he's going to be executed anyway,
sort of as a parting message to the tribe.
But Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu basically says look,
we're Muslims, we're not like that.
So when she sees him in that state
and then he sees her gasp,
he says, "did you think I was going to hurt him?"
He said, "I swear by Allah,
I would never do that. So this is not who we are.
We're not the people that do these types of things."
So she said "ma ra'aytu aseeran 'qatu khairan min khubayb."
She said "Wallahi I never saw a prisoner
better than Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu."
Then she says, "the time came for his execution.
So the tribe took him out to Tan'eem
to crucify him away from the kaa'ba
to Ten'aim to crucify him"
"So they strung him up to a tree and they said to him,
"Wallahi, we are going to kill you."
He said, "inna qatley filaahy la qaleel."
"he said, look, to be killed for Allah is no big deal."
And he says the very famous words,
wa lastu ubaaly h'eena uqtalu Muslimann
'ala ayyi jambin kaana fillaahi masra'ey
He said, "I don't care in any way how I will be killed
as long as it's for the sake of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la"
As long as I'm going to be killed for the sake of Allah,
kill me in any way that you're going to kill me,
do to me whatever you're going to do to me,
I'm satisfied with that being my fate.
So Uqba bin Al-Harith, who is the son of Al-Harith now.
He has him ready to be crucified.
He says to him, "Tammana?
He said "Do you have any wishes, any last requests?"
So Khubayib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu says
"let me pray two rak'ahs."
And so he's the first one to establish this practice,
which we we'll talk about as the series goes on.
So, he gives him that wish. He goes ahead
and he prays two rak'ahs and he prays two rak'ahs quickly.
So it didn't take long in his two rak'ahs.
And when he finished his two rak'ahs, he said,
"had I not feared that you people would think that I was
afraid I would have prolonged the prayer,
Meaning, I didn't want you all to think
that I was scared of this fate.
Otherwise, I would have enjoyed my prayer
and I would have not rushed it the way that I did."
And then he said
Allahuma Ah'seehim a'dada waaqtulhum badada
Wala tughaadir minhom ah'ada
Oh Allah, kill each and every single one of them
do not spare a single person amongst them."
Now, Quraysh, they just saw the miracle of Badr,
the angels in Badr.
They've seen some of the miracles of
the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
They know what the Dua with
the supplication of the believers is like,
so when he said that, Quraysh ducked.
They hit the ground thinking that
the Dua of Khubayib was going to hit them
at that moment.
They thought something was going to come down from the sky
and kill them at that moment.
One of them is Abu Sufiyan,
who lives on to tell the story as a Muslim.
Again, a lot of the people would move on from this
and tell the story as Muslims.
So Uqbah ibn Al-Harith is watching Khubayib.
And he says, don't kill him yet.
He says, beat him a bit while he's strung to the tree,
you know, torture him a bit.
And then Uqba bin Al-Harith wanted
to play a mind game with him. So he came up to him, he said,
"let me ask you Khubayib."
He says, "Afa tuh'ibu ana Muhammadan fi makaanak?"
Would you like that Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
be in your place "wa anta jaalisunn fi baytak",
and you could sit at home?
Would you like right now
that Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is in your place and you get to escape this?
He said, "Wallahi I would not even want a thorn to prick
Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
"wa ana jaalisun fi baytey", while I'm at home.
No, not at all."
This is SubhanAllah similar to the ending of Sumayyah
radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
And then there's one more thing he says,
as he's about to die, he says
"Allahuma", Oh Allah, laysaha huna aha'uduun yuballighu
Rasulluka a'ney salaam"
There is not anyone here to convey
to the messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, my Salaam.
"Fa balighu anta a'ney salaam"
So Allah deliver to him salaam from me.
You send him Salaam, Oh Allah, from me."
Now, realize again, some of these people
would become Muslim later on,
but this is an interesting last request.
And then he was crucified and
he was martyred radiAllahu ta'ala An
Back in Medina, the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was sitting with the companions
and suddenly the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
He shakes as if something happens and the prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says
"Wa Alaika salaam ya Khubayb",
and upon you Salaam Oh Khubayb.
And the companions are shocked by what
the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam just did.
And the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says
"Hatha Jibreel", Jibreel Alayhi sallam just came to me.
"Yuqre'uni min Khubayb al salaam",
And he's giving me Salaam from Khubayb and Khubayb is about
to be killed by Quraysh. So SubhanAllah at that very moment,
you know when we send Salaam
on the messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
it's after he has passed from this Dunya
that we maintain that connection by sending Salaam and
the angel sends Salaam to him
while we are still alive in this Dunya and
he has passed from this Dunya SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
In the case of Khubayb radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
Khubayb is passing from this Dunya to the next realm,
And still he is so truthful in his connection to Allah
and his connection to the messenger
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
that Allah does not just choose any angel
to take his Salaam to the messenger
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Allah sends the best of the angels, Jibreel Alayhi Salaam,
to convey Salaam to the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
from this great companion,
Khubayib ibn Adiy radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
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