there are two major incidents in the
seerah where a large number of
companions encountered either the angel
being jubri salaam or the angels as a
whole the angels as a whole
is the incident of badr of course and
we'll talk about the battle of badr but
the most famous hadith in islam and the
most important hadith in islam is
probably hadith according to many of the
scholars this hadith which is known as
the hadith
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this hadith has been narrated by
ammunition but there are numerous other
narrations that give us the full context
so i want you to imagine that you're in
the masjid of the prophet saws
and according to the narrations of abu
dhabi
as well as
the prophet saw someone he would sit
with his companions
we wouldn't be able to distinguish the
prophet zlasan from his companions in
regards to where he was sitting
meaning that he would sit at the same
level as them it's not that he would sit
on a chair and they would all sit around
him and so when people would come from
outside sometimes they wouldn't be able
to know which one of the companions or
who amongst the people was the prophet
salallahu
so we said to the prophet salam let's
you know make something for you so that
if people come at least if a stranger
comes then they know who you are and the
prophet saw i said him while he refused
anything that would resemble like a
throne or something that was too pompous
they said to the prophet slice on them
how about we make a small bench for you
by just putting the dirt together and
it's like a little bench of clay it's
slightly elevated so that at least if
someone was to come
they would recognize your position right
so the prophet saison accepted that so
one day we're sitting with the prophet
saws and he's sitting in a spot
and suddenly a man comes amongst us
and he is the most handsome
and the most good smelling they said he
had a scent of musk that they had ever
smelled i mean a beautiful man comes to
the prophet slice of them in this
majeddus amongst the people now they
were used to being interrupted by
bedouins right this man looked very
different he had a different aura to him
his clothes were exceedingly white
his hair was exceedingly black and so he
had a very very white though
and it looked like no dirt ever touched
his garments on top of that we could see
no signs of suffer no signs of travel on
him but at the same time none of us knew
who he was so it's very mysterious right
i mean if he's someone from far away
then his clothes should show it and he
would look like he just traveled a long
journey and if he's someone that lives
in the city then we would have known him
especially when he looks like this so we
were very taken aback by his coming and
this shows you by the way that jibira
islam would not just come in the form of
deriya right because if it was only if
he was limited to that in any way then
that would have been the giveaway there
right so he comes and he enters into the
majority of the prophet saws and he
stops at the edge and he says
muhammad peace be unto you
the prophet saws responds with salaam
and he says can i come closer to ya
muhammad and the prophet sallallahu
islam says come close he asks three
times can i come closer prophet says
says come close
until eventually he comes right in front
of the prophet sallallahu and he is
sitting directly in front of him his
knees to the knees of the prophet sasam
and he puts his hands on his knees so
he's looking directly at the prophet
saws i'm very close to him
and he says
tell me what islam is
islam so the prophet saw islam says what
islam is he says islam means to worship
allah and not associate anything with
him in that worship to establish salah
to establish the zakah to fast the month
of ramadan and to perform the hajj when
you are able to do so and he then says
sadaqt
you've told the truth
and so the sahaba say
yes
like we were confused by that because he
asked the prophet saws the question and
then he was the one that said you have
spoken the truth as if he's quizzing him
as if he is testing him so he found that
odd as well then he says tell me about
iman tell me about faith so the prophet
saws says to believe in allah to believe
in the angels to believe in the books to
believe in the prophets to believe in
the day of judgment to believe in divine
decree and then he says
once again you've told the truth and
then he says and tell me what
is tell me what excellence is and he
said it is to worship allah as if you
can see him and even if you can't see
him then you know that he sees you and
he says you have spoken the truth
then he says
tell me about the hour so the prophet
salaam did not respond he lowered his
head he didn't respond so he said again
tell me about the hour the prophet saws
did not respond
then he asked him a third time and he
still didn't respond the prophet saws
done said the one who is being asked
does not know any more than the one
who's asking the question
okay so you know this
this hour has been concealed even from
jibril
and the prophet saison knows who he is
right so the prophet saws is taken aback
by the question
and he says
neither the one who is asking nor the
one who is being asked notes neither of
us know when the hour is so he says tell
me about its signs and so the prophet
salallahu mentions when you see barefoot
bedouins
competing to build tall buildings and
when you see a woman giving birth to her
master right so he gives some of the
signs particularly a facade of
corruption of the day of judgment and
jibril
you've told the truth and then he gets
up and he goes away and
you know they looked in every direction
and he was completely out of sight he
rapidly got up from the majesty of the
prophet slice on them and he disappeared
and we looked in every direction and we
couldn't find him so anyway this first
and foremost you know shows once again
that
islam could take the form of others not
just
when he came in human form secondly
that this was a great blessing to the
sahaba of the prophet saw islam because
anyone that was in the majesties that
day got to encounter jibril
and the prophet saws confirmed that to
them he said do you know who that is and
he even he even challenged themselves
and he said go look and see if you can
find him no one could find him and the
prophet salam says do you know who that
is and he said that is jibril
coming to teach you your religion coming
to teach you your religion and
what they're saying is that there are
four types of questions right so this
was the questioning of islam they say
there are questions that are
it's accusations right did you really do
this did you really do that
then there are questions that are called
istifham questions where you're trying
to understand something yourself
that you're trying to remove ignorance
from yourself
and then there are questions that are
ta'aleem education in general right so
to increase your knowledge of something
and then there are questions that are
called
questions like the questioning of
jibreel
which is
rafael to remove ignorance of someone
else you ask a question that you know
the answer to
in hopes that those who are listening
will understand and they will be
educated as a result so subhanallah
is making a scene here right and this is
going to be an unforgettable incident to
the people and the beauty of that is
that what did allah sent him to in this
unforgettable scene was it just some
miracle that takes place no it was the
fundamentals of the religion that would
then be solidified in the memory of the
people and subhanallah this goes on to
become as a result of that incident the
most important hadith in islam and so
mission was certainly accomplished