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- When you talk about using your time wisely
and taking advantage of the years that you have on earth,
the Companion whose name comes up in my mind
is always Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu.
Now, Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh was a chief of Al-Aws in Madinah.
Now, if you remember,
when Mus'ab Radi'Allahu Anhu went to Madinah,
he basically got the buy-in of three people,
and that spread Islam throughout Madinah.
It was Usayd ibn Hudair,
who we've spoken about, Radi'Allahu Anhu,
and then Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh and Sa'ad ibn 'Ubada,
may Allah be pleased with them all.
So it was these three men, at the direction of Mus'ab
that brought Islam to and through Madinah.
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And Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu was only 31 years old,
and he died at the age of 36.
So, in those five years, the position
that he's going to have
with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is almost unheard of.
It's absolutely stunning
how much the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam revered
this particular man.
And of course,
that was not just the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
because if the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam loves him
that much, then surely that is the love of Allah for him,
and the love of the angels.
Now Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu participated in Khandaq
and he had a wound that he would not succumb to
until sometime afterwards.
And of course, that was after he would give the judgment
on Banu Quraydah as he was looked at
as the most trusted person to be able to do so anyway.
When the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam hears about
Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu taking his last breaths,
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam prayed Salatul Fajr
and he goes quickly towards Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu.
And, Subhanallah, as he is making his way
towards Sa'ad, the Sahaba are walking with him
and the straps of their shoes are falling off
and their shawls are being lost
because of how fast the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is proceeding towards Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu.
And that was not common.
So they said to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
they said, "Ya Rasulullah!
You're walking so fast that we're losing our shoes,
we're losing our shawls.
What is it, ya Rasulullah?"
And listen to what he says.He says,
Inni akhaafu antasbiqanal malaa-ikatu ilayhi kamaa
sabaqatnaa ila Handhala
SubhanAllah!
He said, "I'm afraid that the angels are gonna get to him
before we do, the way they got to Handhala."
SubhanAllah!
So it's like, I want to get to him before he passes away.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam quickly comes
to the bedside of Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu
and Rasul SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is looking around
and he is seeing the angels filling the room
of Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu,
and he says, Haniian laka ya aba 'amr
He's looking around, he's saying,
"Congratulations to you, O, Abu 'Amr.
Congratulations to you.
You know, what an amazing life that you lived,
just five years in your thirties
and what an amazing death
that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala is blessing you with."
The angels are all over Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu
when he passes away.
And in one narration,
70,000 angels came down
for the janazah of Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh
that had never tread the earth before.
70,000 Mala'ika, especially sent for the sake
of attending and participating in the janazah of this man,
Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu.
Now, when they took Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu
to be buried,
one of the things that the Sahaba said
that, "It was, as if his body was carrying us.
The body was so light and it was going so fast
that it was proceeding and rushing towards the grave.
And we couldn't keep up with it."
And the hypocrites, they mocked Sa'ad.
They said he's light in a way of mockery.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said what?
That that was the angels that were rushing him to his grave.
Remember, the believing soul says, QaDdimuni QaDdimuni
"Hurry up, hurry up, take me to my grave,
take me to my grave."
So that they can enjoy
what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has prepared for them.
One of the narrations, as well,
is that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
Ihtaza 'arshurRahman
"The Throne of the Most Merciful shook
by the death of Sa'ad ib Mu'adh Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu."
The man's death shook the Throne of Ar-Rahman.
Now that's a powerful narration and it needs some context
because what does that even mean?
Did it shake because of tragedy or did it shake out of joy?
You might remember, there's a Hadith
that's the Ulema likened this to.
That the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was walking
on Uhud with Abu Bakr, 'Umar and 'Uthman,
may Allah be pleased with them.
And Uhud shook. Why did Uhud shake?
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"Uhud is a mountain that loves us, and we love it."
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he kneeled down and he tapped Uhud and he said, to Uhud,
Uthbut ya Uhud
"Be firm, O, Uhud
because you have upon you a Prophet, a Siddiq
and two martyrs."
So: the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Abu Bakr,
'Umar and 'Uthman.
So, it shook out of love, out of honor,
out of haybah for who was on it.
And so when we talk about the Throne of the Most Merciful,
it shook out of joy for Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu.
And one of the ways,
that the scholars explained that is what?
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned
that the souls of the Shuhada',
the souls of the martyrs are placed in the bodies
of green birds.
Now, these green birds are not like the green birds
that we would see or any birds that we would see,
something that is heavenly.
And, those birds roam the gardens
and the sustenance of Paradise.
And they eat from the fruits of Paradise, as they please.
And then, they come back to these chandeliers
that are nestled from the Throne of Ar-Rahman.
So their nests, where they come back to, are these lamps,
these chandeliers, that are hanging
from the Throne of the Most Merciful.
And so, the Throne of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
as the Ulema mentioned it,
the Throne of Allah shook in a way of joy
from receiving the soul of this blessed man
for whom the angels crowded his janazah
and accompanied him to his grave
and a man that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam loved
so much but Subhanallah, he said,
"Even Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Anhu,
if anyone was gonna be spared from the squeeze of the grave,
it would've been Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu.
But even Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu had the squeeze
of the grave."
So it's a reminder that every human being has to go
through certain things but all of us can aspire to receive
what the soul of Sa'ad Radi'Allahu Ta'ala Anhu received.
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