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The title for this companion
in the collection of Imam adh-Dhahabi Raheemullah Ta'ala
says it all about him.
Al-Amir, Al-Nabil, Al-Jamil.
Abaa 'Amr Jarir ibn AbdAllah.
Al-Amir, who is The Chief.
Al-Nabil, the Noble One.
Al-Jamil, the Handsome One.
Abu 'Amr Jarir ibn AbdAllah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
(gentle music)
Now usually,
the name Jarir ibn AbdAllah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
is a name is that is kind of lost
because he's mistaken often for Jabir ibn Abdullah
who's a much more famous companion radiAllahu Anhu
and he has a story in this series as well.
But Jarir is a very special man
and someone who had a very special trait.
Now he was a man from Yemen,
and he was the chief of his people.
And he does not come to embrace Islam
until what's known as 'Aam al-Wufood,
the year of the delegation.
So we're talking about nine years after the Hijrah
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
from Mecca to Medina.
And he hears the message of Islam from Yemen.
And he brings with him 150 people from Yemen
to meet the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in Medina
and to embrace Islam.
So Jarir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
says about the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam famously
and this is probably the most famous narration about him.
He says, "Maa ra'Aani Rasullulahi SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
mundau Aslamtu Illa Tabassama fee wajhi
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam never saw me
from the day that I embraced Islam,
except that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
smiled at me.
Now, of course, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
always would smile in general, but Jarir says,
"I actually cannot remember a single time
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
looked at me without a smile."
Now, of course, that's
the trait of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
but there's also a story to it
with Jarir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
So what's his story?
Rasullulah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is sitting
with his companions in the Masjid,
in Medina, Masjid an Nabawi
and in the middle of his speaking,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam stops.
And he says "Yath khulu min hath al-bab
rajjul min khairi dhi Yemen."
That someone is going to enter from that door,
who is from the best of the people of Yemen.
And he described him, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he says, "'Ala wajHihi masHatu malek."
And his face has been touched by an angel.
(repeats) His face has been touched by an angel.
What an interesting description of him, right?
So, you're going to see this man that's about to enter
into the Masjid and his face has been wiped
or touched by an angel.
So Jarir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
he comes into the Masjid
and everybody stops
and in complete silence,
is staring at him.
So Jarir walks in,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is all the way at the front of the Masjid.
Jarir is coming and he's at the back of the Masjid
and everyone's staring at him.
So he says to the person that's nearest to him.
He says, "Ya Abdallah!"
Oh, servant of Allah!
Right? That's the way they'd call someone they didn't know.
He says, "Ya Abdallah,
A qalan Nabiyyu SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
fee ya Shai'a?"
Did the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
say something about me?
You know, he either said something really bad.
Or he said something really good
because it's clear that everyone is staring at me because
of something the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said.
So the man told me
what the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said.
So I said "Alhamdullilah for that."
And he went on to embrace Islam and to become this
companion of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in the final year of his life Alayhi Salatu Wasallam.
Now what does it mean to say that an angel wiped your face?
You might remember the Hadith where the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions three men,
a man who was bald,
a man who was a leper, and a man who was blind.
And an angel comes to each one of those three men
and gives them all a different set of rizq,
a different set of sustenance.
But in the process of that,
when the angel wipes the head of the bald man,
the man has hair now.
When the angel wipes the eyes of the blind man,
the blind man can now see.
And when the angel wiped the skin of the leper,
the leper no longer had leprosy.
So the ulema say that
in the case of Jarir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
an angel wiped his face
in such a way that there was no defect.
It just beautified him tremendously.
He had an extreme beauty to him radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And so anywhere he went,
he attracted attention to himself
because of the wiping of the angel on his face.
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa At-A'la knew what he was giving
to this companion of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Some of the narrations, he says,
"I told the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
one time that I had a hard time keeping stable on my horse."
You know, he's the chief of his people.
And he would go out and battle.
And he said, "I'm having a hard time staying on my horse."
He said the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
struck my chest. And he said, "Allahhuma thab-bit Hu,
wajha'lhu haadiyam mahDiyya."
He said, "O, Allah, keep him firm", meaning on his horse,
"and make him one who is guided,
and who others are guided through."
So SubhanAllah,
the dua of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
for a person is always better than what they seek from the
Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And He says, "Wallahi, I never fell off of my horse again,
after that dua of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam."
What was his nickname?
Umar bin Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
called him "Yusufu hadhihil umma." The Yusuf of this Umma.
SubhanAllah. So he is the Yusuf of this Umma.
And Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu praised him and he said,
"Ni'mas sayyid kuntafil jahalliya,
wa ni'mas sayyid fil Islam."
"What a great chief of your people you were
in the days of ignorance
and what a great chief of your people you are in Islam."
Now, we don't find much from Jarir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
in terms of, you know,
interactions with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
In fact, most of it surrounds his initial embracing Islam.
He said, "Bay'atu Rasullulah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam."
I gave my allegiance to the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
"Ala Shahadati al La Ilaha illa Allah
wa Anna Muhammadur Rasullulah."
Of course upon the Shahada that there is only one God.
And that Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.
Wa Iqamis Salah, Wa Ita'iz zakah
and to establish the prayers and to pay the zakat.
Was same'ee wataa'an
And that I would hear,
and that I would obey.
Wan nus hi, li kulli Muslim."
This where it gets interesting.
And that I would be a sincere advisor to every Muslim.
That I would treat the Muslims with sincerity.
And so SubhanAllah what we find with
Jarir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
who had this power of persuasion
because of the unique way that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
blessed him and that an angel wiped his face.
And he had such beauty
like Imran ibn Husain radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
When the fitna broke out,
when trials and tribulation broke out and
people started to fight and power struggles arose.
He was a person who said,
"La Uqatilu man qaala La Illaha Illallah"
He said, "Listen, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
sent me back to Yemen With very clear instructions."
He says, "I'm not going to fight
people that say 'La Ilaha illa Allah'."
And the Ulema say that's the blessing
of Jarir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
He had the persuasion of his -
of his beauty.
He had the persuasion of his leadership.
He had the persuasion of so many different things.
How did he use his persuasion?
He used it in Da'wah.
And that's why the Ulema say the greatest virtue of him
is that on the day of Qadisiyyah,
which was one of the most important battles
in the history of Islam.
A third of the Muslims that were fighting
on the day of Qadissiyah were from the people of
Jarir ibn AbdAllah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
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