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"Wa biyawmi badrin heena tumha wujoohahum
"jibreelu tahta riwa'ina wa muhammadu."
The famous verses of poetry from
Ka'ab Ibnu Malik radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
as he looked out at the battlefield of Badr.
And he said, "the day of Badr.
"The day that their faces were disgraced,
"Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
"and Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
"are standing under our banner.
"Who's going to defeat this army
"with jibreel Alayhi Salaam amongst us
"and Mohammed SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam amongst us."
Before the battle starts,
the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says
"Hatha Jibreel akhithun bira'si farasihi
"alayhi athatul harb
He says, "Here's jibreel Alayhi Salaam
"holding the head of his horse
"and he is ready for battle."
He's ready to go forward.
This is going to now proceed.
And SubhanAllah
the miracles that the sahabah will witness
on the day of Badr from the angels,
which is the time that more companions witnessed angels
than any other moments.
So the scholars mentioned
more people saw the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam on
Hajjatul Wadaa
on the farewell hajj than any other time
in the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's life.
More people saw Jibreel Alayhi Salaam in human form
on the day of Hadith Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
than any other day.
And this is the day of Badr,
where more companions experienced the malaa'ika
than all of the other moments of the Seerrah combined.
So Abdullah Ibn Al-Abbas radiAllahu Anhu
describes the scene that as soon as the battle proceeds,
basically the Muslims are seeing their enemies
get pulled off of their horses
and flying right and left
and they don't even have to do anything.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu describes that moment
where you're going after someone
and then you hear a whip from the sky
and then the person falls off the horse.
So the enemies were falling without the Muslims,
in many cases, even having to strike them.
So in one situation,
there was a Muslim
that was chasing someone from the other side
as Abdullah Ibn Al-Abbas radiAllahu Anhu says.
And just as he was going to him,
he heard the sound of a whip over that man,
and he heard this voice that was so loud that said
"aqdim Hayzum."
go forward Hayzum.
So he said that when he heard that sound,
he looked up to see who it was,
and then he looked back at the man,
and he saw that the man had fallen off of his horse
and he had the scar from the lashing
on his nose and his face.
And SubhanAllah it had turned green
because of the severity of the strike that came to his face.
So he came
to the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam after that
and he asked the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
about what he saw
and the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"Hayzum was an angel from the third heaven."
Now, one of the things the scholar has mentioned is that
even the Kuffar,
even the disbelievers,
and of course, many of them were disbelievers
only at the time,
even they saw the angels on that day.
Suhayl Ibn Amr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
of course would not become Muslim until way later.
He said, "There were angels on horses
"that were gliding between the heavens and the earth."
I mean, these were men that were gliding
between the heavens and the earth effortlessly,
and they killed us and they captured us
however they saw fit.
There was nothing we could do against them.
And the only logical explanation they could come to
on the other side was they said,
this was some sort of magic or soothe-saying.
The same way they tried to dismiss the Quran
by saying that this is just magic
and soothsaying and poetry,
they tried to dismiss the experience they had at Badr
by saying maybe this was
just some sort of supernatural force
that was summoned that we can't make sense of.
There's another incident that took place with
Abu Yusr Asulami radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
Abu Yusr was a very small-statured man.
A very small-statured man.
And he goes up to Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
on the day of Badr.
Now, Al-Abbas was on the side of the disbelievers.
But, you know, there's a difference of opinion
about whether he'd already become Muslim
and he was concealing it
or whether Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu was still
not Muslim, but he wasn't gonna fight
against the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So he came out on that day
because he was forced to come out.
But Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
did not actually lift up his sword
against any of the Muslims.
So he didn't fight technically speaking the Muslims.
But Al-Abbas was a huge man radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
A very large man.
So what happens is that Abu Yusr goes to him,
and just the idea of Abu Yusr capturing Al-Abbas
is something that seems impossible
because that's what the variation of size looks like.
So Abu Yusr, he comes holding
Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
back to the Muslims and the Muslims are looking at him
with just complete shock and all
like there is no way
that Abu Yusr was able to capture Al-Abbas.
So Abu Yusr comes and he's excited.
And he's saying Ya Rasulillah
"There was this man that came.
"I've never seen him before.
"And he helped me tie him up.
"And he put him together
"and then he told me go forth."
And the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he smiled and he said
"Laqad A'anaka alayhi malakun kareem"
It was a noble angel that helped you capture Al-Abbas
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
and bring him back.
Now, there's an incident that takes place in Mecca
that's also describing what happened in Badr.
Abu Rafi' radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
who was the servant of Al-Abbas.
He says that, "I was sitting with the wife of Al-Abbas,
"who we know was a Muslim, Lubaba."
Lubaba um alfadil radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
So I was sitting with Lubaba
and Abu Lahab was pacing nervously back and forth,
waiting for the news from Badr.
So he's there,
he's already a Muslim and he's keeping it to himself.
Lubaba is a Muslim and she's keeping it to herself,
or rather she is a Muslim but she's not being threatened,
you know, because she's the woman of the house
and so no one is really touching her.
They're leaving her alone.
And then Al-Abbas is either a secret Muslim
or someone who's not hostile
to the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
but he's on the other side.
He is fighting technically
against the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So, Abu Rafi' says we're sitting in the room,
Abu Lahab is pacing back and forth Waiting for the news.
And then Abu Sofyan comes.
And when Abu Sofyan comes,
Abu Lahab stands up and says "mal khabar?"
What happened?
So Abu Sofyan says to him,
"We found a people that were small in number,
"but they were not deficient in courage.
"They had courage that made up for their numbers.
"They killed us as they wished,
"they captured us as they wished
"and they had with them these huge men,
"the size of mountains,
"that literally were filling up the space
"between the earth and the skies
"and they were striking at us
"but we couldn't strike back at them."
So Abu Rafi' says,
"I'm listening to this and I couldn't contain myself
"In joy"
So I stood up and I said "Tilka Wallahi heeya almalaa'ikah
"Tilka Wallahi heeya almalaa'ikah."
I swear by Allah, it was the angels.
I swear by Allah was the angels.
And Abu Lahab punches him in the face
and starts to beat him violently.
And that's when Lubaba radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
takes a pole and cracks it across the skull of Abu Lahab.
And Abu Lahab would actually die from the strike from Lubaba
radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
So SubhanAllah
that's even the way that the enemies
of the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
were perceiving the angels
and the ease with which the battle would flow.
Now, SubhanAllah
the interaction of the Muslims with the malaa'ika,
with the angels,
was not just limited to the battle
and not just limited to feeling the presence
and seeing the enemies flying.
But the Sahabah even experienced something else.
When Jibreel Alayhi Salaam was
with the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he was also giving the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
the command and the process of Salaat Alkhawf
how to pray in the middle of a battle.
So this prayer where some of the troops go,
they pray the first rakkah, they come out.
Another group goes and prays the first rakkah,
they switch out.
So it's a very interesting way of doing the salah
under those circumstances.
And the Sahabah could feel the warmth
of the hands of Jibreel Alayhi Salaam and the angels
as they were arranging their rows for salah.
So SubhanAllah
they could feel the hands of the angels
putting them in their rows in prayer
because even then,
the angels were straightening the rows for salah,
SubhanAllah
even in the midst of battle,
even in the midst of Salaat Alkhawf
So they encountered Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
and they encountered the malaa'ika
in ways on the day of Badr
that they would remember for all times.
Now, was it only memorable to the Sahabah, to the people,
or was it memorable to the angels as well?
Jibreel Alayhi Salaam comes
to the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And this a hadith in Al Bukhari
And he says to the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
Ya Rasulillah
"How do you and the companions,
"see the veterans of Badr amongst you?"
Like, what position do you give them?
And the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
"Kheyarana"
They're the best of us.
We put the veterans of Badr on a pedestal.
And that pedestal, by the way,
would last throughout the entire time of the Sahabah.
Like someone who was from the Badriyoon,
the people of Badr,
always maintained a position
that gave them a status amongst the Sahabah.
And Jibreel Alayhi Salaam says what?
He says "Kathalik hum 'induna khayar al malaa'ika"
He said, "You know what ya Rasulillah
Even the angels,
the Badriyoon from the angels,
the angels that came down and fought on the day of Badr,
we give them a status and they are the best amongst us.
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