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To this day, Hajj is actually a time
where scholars from around the world
get to meet each other
that otherwise don't get to meet.
It's a time where Muslims get to interact
with all sorts of cultures
that they otherwise have never heard of.
And you can imagine at that time, right,
if you had not traveled the world,
and most of the people that were coming
from Madinah at the time had not seen the rest of the world,
imagine what it was like to see the first expressions
of Islam from Africa,
from Yemen,
from Assam,
from all these different places,
and to interact with those people.
Now one of the things about this particular Hajj,
the Hajj of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is
that the majority of those who we call Sahabah,
who we call companions today,
became companions only because they met
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in Hajj.
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So when you go to the books of Hadith,
you find baab hajjatin ya Nabi
Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam,
and it is one of the longest chapters,
and you will find one of the longest narrations
about the Hajj.
In fact, this long narration from
Jabir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
that goes point by point in everything
that The Prophet sallalahu SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did
for the Hajj, but he starts off with this.
He says that The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he stayed in Madinah for a total of nine years.
And The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
announced in the 10th year
that he had intended to do the Hajj.
And so, people found out about that
and they started to gather around Madinah, so excited
to do Hajj with The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Imagine anywhere in the world that you were
when you heard that Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is going to do Hajj this year
and that this is going to be
the first Hajj purely of Muslims,
how would you react and what type of VIP package is that?
Right?
So, what ends up happening is that
you have tens of thousands of people
that start to pitch tents on the outskirts of Madinah
way before the Hajj starts,
waiting for The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to embark
on this journey so that they too could be with him.
So, tens of thousands of people around,
and this was the time as we said,
more people became Sahabah
during this Hajj than any other event in Islam.
Up to 144,000 people would do Hajj with
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and that's all that you have to do to become a Sahabi
is to see the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
as a believer.
And so all of these people that
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had never met,
and there they are waiting to go with him,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
Now, even during The Prophet's lifetime,
this was called The Farewell Hajj,
Hajjatul Wada'
because The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
kept on indicating that this was perhaps
going to be his final year in this world.
However, the people still held out hope
that The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was going to be amongst them for a long time.
So, Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he appoints the famous companion Abu Dujana
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu the warrior
to be the governor of al Madinah during his absence.
And on the 25th of Dhul Qa'dah
which corresponds to February of the year 632,
he makes his way out of Madinah
accompanied by all of his wives, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
So, all of Ummahat-ul-Momineen, all of the Mothers of the
Believers went on this Hajj with The Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
It was Saturday, the 25th of Dhul Qa'dah,
and as we said, this is the fourth Umrah of
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and all of his umrahs were in Dhul Qa'dah.
He prayed The Zuhr, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in his own masjid nabawi.
And then he goes out to the furthest miqat,
the furthest station where people enter into Ihram,
and this is the miqat of Dhu al-Hulayfah.
This is the miqat that Isa Alayhi Salaam,
that Jesus peace be upon him,
will enter into Ihram from when
he comes back to do his Hajj or his Umrah.
So, The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he gets to Dhul Hulayfah and he does his ghusl,
and he changes into his ihram,
and he says that a messenger came to me last night,
and he told me to pray in this blessed valley of Al 'Aqiq.
So, he prayed 2 rakats SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And then he dressed himself Alayhi Salatu Wasallam
in two plain white garments of cotton from Yemen for ihram.
And this is significant, by the way, that
Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's ihram was
indistinguishable from everybody else's ihram.
He was wearing absolutely nothing,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
that would set him apart from everyone else.
As the leader of the people,
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is on a camel,
just like everybody else.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is carrying his luggage, just like everyone else.
And The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is wearing the same ihram as everyone else.
Now, something significant that takes place there
is that Asma bint Umais radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
she gives birth to the only child of Abu Bakr al-saddiq
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
in Islam.
Asma radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
was married to Ja'far radiAllahu Anhu
And then when Ja'far died, she married Abu Bakr,
and then when Abu Bakr died,
she married Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And this child that she gave birth to at the miqat
when The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the companions were about to go out because it was the
only child of Abu Bakr in Islam,
he named this child Muhammad.
So, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr is born, but guess what?
Asma radiAllahu Anha still wants to go to Hajj.
Literally the same day that she gives birth
she tells The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
that she gave birth,
but she is in nifaas and she still wants to go to Hajj.
So, she takes instructions from
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
with her postnatal bleeding
to cover herself and to still proceed with
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
So subhanAllah
what a woman to go out on that day,
the day that she gives birth to Muhammad,
the son of Abu Bakr,
she makes her way on the Hejj
with The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So, The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he prays his two rakats and he mounts the famous camel,
Al Qaswa which was the camel that
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
used for his journeys between Mecca and Madinah.
It was his favorite camel
Alayhi Salatu Wassalam. And Jabir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
describes the scene of looking at
The prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in al Baydah
when he is surrounded by people from all over the world.
And he said
nathartu illa maddi basari
I looked at the furthest where my eyesight could reach,
bayna yadhaihi mirraqibin wama shin wa an yaminihi mithlaa
dhaliq wa anyisaarihi mithlaa dhaliq wa min khalfihi mithlaa
dhaliq wa Rasullulahi SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam bayna
adhurinaa wa alayhi yanzilul Quran wa huwa yaalifu ta'wila
He said that I looked out that day
and the furthest of my eyesight
I just saw a seas of people.
Think about that many people at that time.
This wasn't a world where you had six, seven billion people.
Over a hundred thousand people,
and I looked to my right to my left, in front of me,
behind me. And there was either someone who was
mashi
who was walking or someone that was riding something
and The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was amongst us.
He wasn't, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
distant from the people.
He was riding amongst us.
Wa alayhi yanzirul Quran, Allahu Akbar
And the Qur'an was descending upon
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
while he was riding amongst us.
subhanAllah
So, we're looking at him and the Qur'an is coming upon him.
And they knew how The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
looked when Qur'an would descend upon him.
And he said
Wama amila bihi min shay-in amina bihi
Whatever The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did,
we did the exact same thing.
So, we're looking at him throughout this entire journey
and we're conveying to those that are not in the vicinity of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to see him,
what he is doing.
Fa ahalabi tawheed
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam started to chant out
with monotheism, with the chant of Tawheed.
Labbayk, Allahumma Labbayk.
Labbayk La shareeka laka Labbayk
Innal-hamda wan-n'imata laka wal-mulk. La shareeka lak.
So, we started to chant just as the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam chanted the entire time
until we made our way to Makkah.
So, we arrived in Makkah on the fourth day of Dhul Hijjah
and The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he camped out at night at the Valley of Tuwa.
And the scholars say that
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
did not like to enter during the nighttime.
So, he stopped with his companions there
and they waited in the Valley of Tuwa.
And then in the morning
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam woke up.
He did ghusl
once again in ihram.
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
enters into Makkah on Sunday morning,
the fifth of Dhul Hijjah
and Jabir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
who describes portion by portion him doing the tawaf.
And as he did the tawaf, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he touched Rukan al-Yamani, the yemeni corner of the Kaaba.
And he kissed the Black Stone, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
because these are the two foundations of
Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
Remember the Kaaba used to be a rectangle,
but it was built now as a cube shape,
the original foundations are on the side of the
Yamani corner as well as the Black Stone,
and that's why The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
would touch the Yemani corner.
And he would kiss the Black Stone,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
And Hijr Ismail
is the original shelter that
Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
constructed for
Hajar and Ismail Alayhi Salaam
So, at that point The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he does tawaf and when he finishes the tawaf,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he goes to Maqam Ibrahim.
The station of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.
And it used to be attached to the Kaaba.
It was literally the place where Ibrahim Alayhi Salam stood
as Ismail Alayhi Salaam
handed him the bricks as he was building the Kaaba,
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam recites
wattakhithoo minmaqami ibraheema musallan
and take from the station of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam,
a place of prayer.
And he prays placing the station of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam,
between him and the Kaaba and honoring his father.
subhanAllah
who built that house one day making dua for him
hoping that this exact scene would happen. You know,
Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam never lived to see the scene,
but imagine
subhanAllah
this was the true realization of the dua of
Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.
People coming from all over the world on the backs of every
single animal, speaking, all types of languages,
all saying
Labbayk, Allahumma Labbayk
chanting the chant of monotheism.
And The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam recited in these
2 rakats Surat al Kafirun and Surat al Ikhlas
The first Surah is one in which all of the Gods,
besides Allah are negated.
The second surah is of course, al ikhlas
Qul huwa Allahu ahad
the affirmation of Tawheed,
the affirmation of monotheism.
Then he says that The Prophet sAlayhi Salaam drank Zamzam.
And he climbed to a As-Safa,
the same mountain where he started his call
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he faced the Kaaba, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And as he was looking out to the Kaaba from As-Safa,
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam recited
Inna assafa walmarwatamin shaAAa-iri Allahi
that Verily Safa and Marwah are from the signs of Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
and he said
abda au bima badaAllahu bihi
I start with what Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la started,
and then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He raises his hands like he's making dua looking towards
the Kabbah. So imagine him standing on As Safa.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, looking towards the Kabbah,
raising his hands in dua
and he recites la ilaha ill-Allah, Wahdahu la sharika lahu,
lahul-Mulk, wa lahul-Hamd, wa Huwa 'ala kulli shay'in Qadir
So the famous way of declaring the oneness of Allah.
And then he says la 'ilaha 'illallahu wahdah, 'anjaza
wa'dahu, wa nasara 'abdahu, wa hazamal 'ahzaba wahdahu.
The same thing the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said on the date of fateh Mecca
That there is no God, but Allah alone.
He fulfilled His promise.
He aided His servant.
Being the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And he alone destroyed the confederates.
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
repeated this dua three times.
And he made your dua between them.
Now, by the way, this is significant. Why?
Because this was the place where
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam stood up
and he called the people to La ilaha 'illa Allaah
And no one responded to him except for his uncle,
Abu Lahab. And his uncle Abu Lahab cursed him on that day.
SubhanAllah, and this was the context of the revelation of
Tabbat yada abee lahabin watab
where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la responded to
Abu Lahab on behalf of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
So imagine the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
standing on as Safa for the first time.
And it was a large hill at the time.
And he stands on top of it.
And the memories
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
looking out to his people
and his people staring at him blankly
and rejecting his message
and him feeling like a complete stranger
amongst his own people.
And now Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
is surrounding him with over 100,000 believers
in his message, as he standing on as Safa,
looking at the Kabah without idols
and looking at his people,
which are the believers from all over the world,
that worship Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la without partners
and reminding himself with this dua.
And we acknowledge this.
Just as Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
supported Hajar Alayhi Salaam
running between As Safa wal Marwah
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la supported the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam when he was alone on that day,
standing upon as Safa
and every time we go to as Safa and al Marwah
we remember those moments
with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
After the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam finished,
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
made his way to Hujun
And this was the same place
he pitched his tent in fateh Mecca,
near where Khadija radiAllahu ta'ala Anha is buried.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam waited there
until the days of Hajj, where he made his way to Mina
for the day of at-Tarwiyah.
Where the camels would rest before he would make his
way to Arafah, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasalla
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
at this point, by the way,
he was performing the type of Hajj which is known as Qiran.
Which is where you combine the same ihram
of Umrah and Hajj.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
had advised those that were not with the same intention
to break between their ihram of Umrah
and their ihram of of Hajj
which is Hajj Tamattu,
which is the most common way of doing the Hajj
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned
that if he was to be able to do it again,
that he would do Hajj in Tamattu form.
So he stayed in his ihram SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
until the days of Hajj,
combining the ihram of Umrah and Hajj,
and then came the beautiful moments
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
at Arafah