So you want to enter Jannah and you want to visit
the neighborhood of the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.
So when you get to the house of the Prophet
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam and his family,
you're going to notice there's another family there.
And this is the family that Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la
mentions, that He has chosen in the Qur'an.
And it is Ali 'Imraan, the family of 'Imraan.
So, the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
Al-Hasanu wa al-Husain sayyida shababi Ahl al-Jannah
The two masters of the youth in Al Jannah are
Al Hasan wa Al-Husain radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhuma.
And they are leading all of the young people of Jannah.
He said,
illa ibn khaalah 'Isa wa Yahya
Except for the two cousins,
'Isa 'Alayhi Salaam and Yahya 'Alayhi Salaam.
So imagine of the youth of Paradise, Al-Hasan wa Al-Husain.
And then you have the family of 'Imraan, Yahya and 'Isa,
Jesus and John 'Alayhimus-Salaam.
And then the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
wa Fatima tu sayyidahtuh Nisaa-e Ahl-al Jannah
And Fatimah is the master of all women in Paradise.
She's the queen of the women of Jannah.
illa ma kana min Maryam ibnati 'Imraan
Except for Maryam 'Alayhi Salaam because remember
Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la said about Maryam.
(Qur'an 3:42) Inna-Allaha astafaki watah-haraki
wa-astafaki 'ala nisaa-il-'alameen.
That Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la has chosen you
and purified you and chosen you above
all of the women of all time.
And so in the highest level, the family of Rasullulah
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam, the noble Ahl al-Bayt
and the family of 'Imraan together.
And the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam says that the
leaders of the women in Jannah are four people,
Maryam, Fatimah, Asiya and Khadijah.
And the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam, of course,
as he talks about them each one of them has a virtue.
So when you talk about Fatimah radiAllahu ta'ala Anha,
she resembled the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
more than any other human being.
And when you talk about Maryam 'Alayhi Salaam,
Maryam 'Alayhi Salaam was this pure woman who led the way
with her 'ibaada and was slandered in this world.
And so Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la
honors her in ways that we cannot imagine.
And then you talk about Asiya 'Alayhi Salaam
who gave up
the luxury of the palace Fir'oun and all of that comfort.
And she said,
(Quran 66:11) Rab-ibni lee 'indaka baytun fil Jannah.
Oh Allah build for me a house with You in Paradise.
So imagine now how that special house looks like with
Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la that you used to read about
in the Qur'an when you were in this dunya.
And then you have, Khadijah radiAllahu ta'ala Anha.
And Khadijah was the woman who received the Prophet
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam in her arms when the
Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
first received revelation.
And SubhanAllah if you read about Khadijah in the days
of jahiliyyah, in the days of ignorance, Khadijah
radiAllahu 'Anha used to have this famous house
in the days of ignorance that had a green silk
pavilion right in front of the house.
And that was a sign of two things.
Number one, her extraordinary wealth.
And so it was just there for beauty and adornment.
Number two, even in the days of ignorance
Khadijah radiAllahu 'Anha was a generous woman.
So it was a sign for the poor to come
and to receive donations from her.
And she would pay the dowries of the poor people
in Makkah at the time and whatever it may be.
So she had this distinct house in the days of ignorance.
And now you walk into Jannah and you see this
distinct house, of Qasab, of pearl that only
Khadijah radiAllahu ta'ala Anha has.
And SubhanAllah look at the reward
from Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la.
She gave up that distinct house in the days of
ignorance for now a distinct house in Jannah
that all of us can admire.
So you're going up to Jannah, you're meeting the
Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam and
Khadijah radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anha
who has a special house unlike the house of anyone
else and this home that Asiya has and the family of 'Imraan.
But you know, when you read about Madinah and it feels like
Jannah when you talk about it, you would've loved to go
visit the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam in his various
hujuraats, in the homes of his wives.
And when Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la speaks about the reward
for the wives of the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam,
He says,
(Qur'an 33:31) nu'tiha ajraha marratayn
wa 'atadna laha rizqan kareema
That should they be dutiful to Allah and His messenger
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam, we will give her, her reward
two times and we will give her a generous sustenance
on the day of judgment.
And Imam Kathir Rahimahullah
he says that the reward that Allah is talking about
is a special place in Jannah.
In al 'Illiyeen
In the highest place.
So just like you had the in hujurat in Madinah that the
companions used to come around and they would know that
these are the dwellings of the wives of the messenger
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
Now in Jannah, the neighborhood of the hujurat,
the neighborhood of the homes of the wives of the
Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam is in the highest level.
So that's the family of the
Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
and you may want to go visit him in the guest house
from 'Aisha radiAllahu 'Anha or Hafsa radiAllahu 'Anha
one day or whatever it may be.
And then you have those that the
Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said
were the ten promised Paradise,
al-ʿashara al-mubashshareen.
And we should memorize these ten companions names
and we should teach our children to memorize them as well.
And they are Abu Bakr and 'Umar and 'Uthmaan and 'Ali
and Talha and Zubayr, 'Abdur-Rahman ibn 'Awf
Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas, Sa'eed ibn Zaid
and Abu 'Ubaydah bin Al-Jarrah
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhum ajma'een.
These are the 10 famous promised companions of Paradise.
And the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
that the first two of them Abu Bakr and 'Omar
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma will be the leaders
of all of the men of Paradise.
So you have the leaders of the men
You have the leaders of the women
You have the leaders of the youth Al Hasan wa Al Husain.
And now you have the 10 promised Paradise of the companions
and how lofty is their position.
RasulAllah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam on the night of
al Israa wa al-Mi'raj
He was walking through Jannah and he saw this beautiful
golden palace and he thought this must be for me.
So he asked for the keys, right.
He said to Jibreel 'Alayhi Salaam, can I go inside?
And Jibreel 'Alayhi Salaam said, actually this is the
house of 'Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhum
And the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, that I
remembered how jealous of a man Omar radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu
was and so I immediately moved away from the house.
And 'Omar radiAllahu 'Anhu starts to cry.
And he says,
awh yugharu 'alaika ya RasulAllah
Can anyone be jealous from you oh Messenger of Allah?
Like he felt bad that even though the Prophet
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam just gave him the bushra,
gave him the glad tidings of a golden palace in Paradise
that the Prophets SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam did not feel
like he could walk into that home.
Like who am I that you would be embarrassed from me
oh Messenger of Allah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.
So imagine the golden palace of 'Umar ibn Khattab
radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu who is such a beloved companion
of the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
and someone that the Ummah loves so much.
And then you move over from the family of
the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
and Rasullulah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said
Talha wa Zubayr jarraiyya fil Jannah
My two neighbors in Jannah are Talha and az-Zubayr
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma
And there's something very special to this because those
were the two young men who defended the Prophet
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam through and through.
As Zubayr being the first one to stand in front of the
Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam with a sword
and to protect him.
And Talha radiAllahu Anhu, who was literally called the
walking shaheed, the walking martyr because in Uhud he was
catching the arrows coming at the
Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
and suffered tons of wounds throughout his body
trying to protect the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.
And now they're the neighbors of
the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.
Now, who are some of the other people the Prophet
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam saw in Jannah
and gave us specific scenes of?
You have Shuhadaa from the sahaaba,
the martyrs from the companions.
And it's one of my favorite narration.
The Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
I entered into Jannah and I saw Ja'far
radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu
with two wings flying amongst the angels.
And then he said, and I looked down and I saw
Hamza radiAllahu 'Anhu reclining on a couch.
So imagine Sayyid ul-Shuhada, the master of all martyrs,
Hamza radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu reclining on his couch.
And Ja'far radiAllahu 'Anhu, who lost his arms
and carried the banner of La ilaha illAllah
Muhammad ur RasulAllah with the stubs of his arms.
And now he's flying in Jannah with the angels.
And as for Zayd ibn Haritha radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu
hibbu RasulAllah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
The beloved one of the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.
RasulAllah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, I entered
into Jannah and I was welcomed
by this young girl and I said, to whom do you belong?
And she said, I'm for Zayd ibn Haritha
radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu
And Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh radiAllahu 'Anhu
who the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
The throne of a Allah shook
out of joy when the soul of Sa'ad returned to it.
RasulAllah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam was one day
wearing this beautiful garment that was gifted
to him by a foreign leader.
And as the Sahaba were looking at it and they were enamored
by it the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
you think this is beautiful?
He says, wAllahi
the manadeel,
the handkerchief of Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu
in Jannah is better than this garment.
That's the thing that you blow your nose with.
And Sa'ad radiAllahu 'Anhu's handkerchief was so beautiful
that the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
it's more beautiful than any garment that you would see.
RasulAllah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam also one day is
approached by a mother and this is the mom of
Harithah ibn Suraaqah radiAllahu 'Anhu,
who was a young man that was
struck by an arrow in the battle of Badr.
And she said, Ya Rasulullah tell me what happened to my son.
If he's in Jannah, then I'm going to be patient.
But if he's not in Jannah then I'm just gonna
cry and cry and cry.
And the Prophets SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
Yaa Umm Harithah, Jannah is not just one level
and it's not just that your son made it to Jannah,
but your son reached Al Firdous Al 'Alaa.
And so you find Harithah ibn Suraqah, who was struck
by an arrow in battle Badr
and the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam says
that he's in Al Firdous.
May Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la grant us that place as well.
Allahumma Ameen.
And then you know, the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
used to walk around and listen
to the recitation of his companions in Al Madinah
And Rasullulah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, I entered
into Jannah and I heard someone reciting the Qur'an.
And I said, who is that?
Who's that beautiful voice?
So imagine you're walking the alleys of Jannah
and you hear the recitation of the Qur'an.
And they said Haritha ibn Nu'maan,
the righteous man radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu.
And the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
kadhaalikal birr, kadhaalikal birr
Indeed, this is a righteous man.
So you may hear the recitation of the Qur'an
of some of the Sahabah in Paradise as well.
The next category are the sincere seekers of truth
that the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam mentioned
lofty positions for in Al Jannah.
The first of them, Abdullah ibn Salam radiAllahu 'Anhu.
That noble rabbi of Madinah who embraced Islam as soon as
the Prophets SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam came to Madinah.
Rasullulah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
Abdullah ibn Salam
is the tenth of the first ten to enter into the Jannah.
The tenth person to enter Jannah SubhanAllah,
is this man Abdullah ibn Salam radiAllahu 'Anhu.
And the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam gave him
the glad tidings of Jannah on multiple occasions.
Then you have those people that embraced monotheism,
but they didn't live to accompany the Prophet
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam in his mission.
The first of them is said that Zaid ibn Amr
ibn Nufayl radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu.
And Rasullulah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said
that this man who embraced the way of
Ibrahim 'Alayhi Salaam even before
the Qur'an was revealed to the
Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
he said, on the day of judgment, when the Ummahs
are lined up behind their Prophets,
Zayd ibn Amr will be an Ummah by himself.
What does this look like in Jannah?
The Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
I entered into Jannah and I saw that Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl
had two levels of Paradise all by himself
radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu.
Can you imagine someone who reserves
two levels of Jannah all by himself?
And some of the scholars said because he believed in
Ibrahim 'Alayhi Salaam and then he believed in Muhammad
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam even before Muhammad
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam received the revelation.
Speaking of whom, Waraqah ibn Nawfal radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu
who was an old man when he confirmed the mission of the
Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam, who he had been waiting
for as a messenger of Allah but he was too old to serve
alongside the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.
And Rasullulah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
do not speak ill of Waraqah for I have seen that
he has one or two gardens in Jannah all by himself.
And then you have those that struggled
with the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.
And who other than Bilal radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu
sayyidu muadhineen, the master of the muadhins
on the day of judgment.
And Rasullulah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
I entered into Jannah and I heard footsteps ahead of me.
And I said, Yaa Jibreel, what is that sound?
And he said, those are the footsteps
of Bilal radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu.
And some of the scholars, they said that the wisdom of that
is in Madinah, when the Sahabah saw Bilal radiAllahu 'Anhu
walking to the masjid to do the adhaan,
he was preceding the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.
So just like he used to do that in Madinah, he's doing that
now in Jannah as well, radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu.
And then finally you have those companions that
just took advantage of opportunities when
they presented themselves to them.
Rasullulah SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, I saw myself
entering into Jannah and immediately I saw Umm Sulaym
radiAllahu 'Anha, the wife of Abu Talha and the mother
of Anas ibn Maalik radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhum.
So SubhanAllah, this woman who gave her son in service
to the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam and Abu Talha
radiAllahu 'Anhu who gave his best garden,
now they have that garden that Allah
Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la promised them in return.
And you can enter it and see it for yourself.
And you can remember, that's the garden
that Allah was saying.
(Qur'an 3:92) Lan tanalu-lbirra hatta tunfiqu mimma tuhibbun
You will not achieve the reward of righteousness
until you spend of that which you love.
Here is that garden now.
And speaking of gardens you may want to visit the garden of
Abu Dahdah radiAllahu 'Anhu, who the
Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
How many date palm trees are in
Jannah for Abu Dahdah radiAllahu 'Anhu?
So you see this huge garden of palm trees in Jannah.
And you remember that's the story of
Abu Dahdah radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu.
And you may want to meet those sincere seekers along the way
who just volunteered themselves for an amazing reward in the
moment that the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
who wants it?
Ukasha radiAllahu ta'ala 'Anhu
who when he heard the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
say that 70,000 people will enter into Jannah without
any form of questioning and any form of punishment,
he said, Ya RasulAllah make du'a that I'm amongst them.
And the Prophets SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
Anta minhum
You are amongst them.
And another man said, what about me?
The Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
Sabaqa qabiha Ukasha
Ukasha beat you to it.
So Ukasha being amongst that lofty group of people that
insha'Allah Ta'ala, we can aspire to be amongst as well.
And finally, there's one woman that you may want to meet.
You remember that woman who suffered from epilepsy
and she used to have seizures and when she would have
seizures, her hijab would fall.
And she came to the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
and she was just an unknown abyssinian woman.
She said, Ya RasulAllah sometimes I have seizures
and when I have seizures
Ata kashaf
I'm exposed.
Can you ask Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la to cure me?
And the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, listen,
oh woman I can make du'a and you'll be cured or
you can be patient and you have Jannah guaranteed for you.
And she said, Ya RasulAllah, if that's the case
I'll take the guaranteed Jannah.
But can you make du'a to Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la that
at least when I suffer a seizure, I'm not exposed?
So SubhanAllah she cares about her hijab
even as she wants her guaranteed Jannah.
And the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
for you is that.
So imagine how many people that you will be meeting
from the Sahaba whose names maybe you didn't even know,
but whose stories went on to inspire some of the
greatest people in the history of Islam
and now you're in their neighborhood.
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