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So, this is one of those narrations
where you have an unknown companion but clear instructions
that we can benefit from as an ummah
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So the first narration is actually
Musnad Imam Ahmed, it's an authentic narration
that there's this man who was looking at the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was standing and speaking to another man
for a very, very long time.
And he said that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was occupied by this conversation to the point
that I started to feel sorry for him.
Right, so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is a busy man and he gets stopped all the time.
You can imagine how many people want to talk to him
Alayhis Salaatu Wasallam.
So he said, "ashfaqto alayhi mintoori qiyamihee ma'ah"
"I felt sorry for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
because of how long he had to stand and talk to this man."
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"So eventually I waited for the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam came and I said,
"Ya Rasulullah,
"Who was that man that was talking to you
"because I felt sorry for you
"for how long you had to stand with him."
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
"Did you see him?"
And I said, "Yes."
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"Dhaakah Jibreel."
"That was Jibreel Alayhi Salam"
"Qa la walou salamta alayhi la radda alaykas salaam"
He said, "If you were would've come to him and said salaam
he would've actually answered your salaams
So it was a missed opportunity for you to come to him
and say salaam.
And then he said, ma zarah yuseeni biljar
hatta Dhanantu annahu suyawarr ithuhoo
He said, "Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
kept on coming to me and telling me
'Take care of the neighbor, take care of the neighbor,
take care of the neighbor,' until I thought
that he was going to assign inheritance to the neighbor."
Now, why do I start with that narration?
It actually proceeds a chapter in the book
Al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Bukhari
by Imam al-Bukhari Rahimahullah ta'ala.
Imam Bukhari, of course, Sahih al-Bukhari
has the most authentic ahadith
from Imam al-bukhari Rahimahullah ta'ala
Al-Adab al-Mufrad
are some of the mannerisms and etiquettes that we can learn.
And there's some ahadith
that he includes there that might have a weakness
in the chain.
So this chapter is called "Bab shikayat aljar"
The chapter of shikayat aljar
"The Complaint of the Neighbor."
And it's narrated by Jabaar RadiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
that this man comes to the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to complain to him
about how he is being mistreated by his neighbor.
And while he's sitting between
Ar-Rukn wal Maqam
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is between the Rukn and Maqam
This man approaches the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and he sees that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is with a man who's wearing a white garment.
And he mentions the beauty of this man.
And the fact that this man seemed completely unknown
and out of place, so he said they went to the Maqam
where they were praying upon the dead.
And he said,
"I asked the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
I said, "Ya Rasulullah, may my mother
and my father be sacrificed for you,
Who was this man that was with you?"
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says
"Did you see him?"
He said, "Yes." He said "Ra ayta khayran kathera"
"Then you have seen much good."
And he said, "That was Jibreel Alayhi Salaam coming to me."
And he said, "He kept on speaking to me about the importance
of the neighbors until I thought that Jibreel
Alayhi Salaam was going to command me
to assign inheritance to the neighbors."
So there's a parallel in both of the incidents
and they could indeed be the same incident.
You have a situation where the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking to Jibreel
Alayhi Salaam for a long time.
And Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
keeps on saying "Aljaar, aljaar, aljaar"
"The neighbor, the neighbor, the neighbor"
Be careful with the mistreatment of the neighbor.
Warn the Ummah about the way
that the neighbors are supposed to be treated."
And you know that famous story of the woman
that used to pray a lot and she used to fast a lot.
She used to give a lot sadaqah,
but she had an abusive tongue towards her neighbor.
Right, all of these ahadith,
all of these narrations, are coming from a place.
And there's a spirit that is often lost
in our discourse today
because the emphasis on the neighbor is not really there.
And that's something that even the Sahabah
you know, they took from the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and they didn't just take it
with one another.
There's a beautiful narration
in Abu Dawood, that's an authentic narration
that Mujahid Rahimahullah says that
Abdullah ibm Amr RadiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma
and we know who he is.
He sacrificed a sheep, and as soon as it was sacrificed
before they could start to take the portions of it
he said, "Have you given some of it to my Jewish neighbor?"
Ah, SubhanAllah, I mean, this is-
he's sitting amongst Sahabah,
he's sitting amongst Tabieen,
"What do you mean my Jewish neighbor?"
He said, "Have you given some of it to my Jewish neighbor?
for I heard the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam say,
"Jibreel Alayhi Salaam kept on coming to me
and talking to me about the neighbor the neighbor,
the neighbor, until I thought that Jibreel
Alayhi Salaam was going to make
the neighbor an inheritor."
And so we learned from this, SubhanAllah,
that if we could listen in on some of these conversations
that much of the conversations we would be able to witness
and see from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
would actually be about us with an issue
that, while it is not at the forefront today,
is still very much important to us.
Even if our neighbors are not Muslim
as was the case of Abdullah ibm Amr RadiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma
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