Captioning provided by MUHSEN (www.muhsen.org)
The beauty of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in this one Hajj that he does with all of the people
is that he's constantly with the people.
So you have all of these incidents narrated,
where people come to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and they ask him certain things.
You have incidents
where things that would probably be deemed too small
to warrant the intention of the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
indeed warrant his attention. You have
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam comforting people.
You have the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam responding
to people's needs.
And this was what made him
Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Is that he was always amongst the people.
And this was a beautiful way for the majority of the Sahaba
to become introduced to him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
as he was guiding them through this important ritual.
(calm music)
The narrations of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
particularly on the day of Eid, the day of sacrifice.
And I say the day of Eid even though
even when we go to Hajj a lot of people are always surprised
that you don't pray Eid as a Hajji,
but instead you do the sacrifice.
The narrations are so plentiful of him just paying attention
to everything that is being done.
So for example, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is the one who is using his hands to dictate the speed
of all of the people that are going from station to station.
And you see the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
slowing people down.
Obviously there was an excitement for people
to get from one place to the next.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is constantly calming things down
as they move from place to place.
And every place of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is marked by his speeches as well as his dua,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
So obviously they got to Muzdalifah
and they were trying to rush to Muzdalifah and the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam told them to slow down.
They got to Muzdalifah, they prayed Maghrib and Isha
late and combined meaning in the time of Isha.
And then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam stays in
Muzdalifah and he makes dua from Fajr until sunrise
facing in the direction of the Qibla.
He hastens towards Mina.
He throws his seven pebbles Jamrat al-Aqabah.
The way that we do in Hajj at the main
one of the Jamraat.
And then this is the day of sacrifice.
Now, sacrifice is a time that
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
could have easily, simply moved to the side
and Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam could have maybe
sacrificed one animal just to fulfill that Sunnah.
But the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
had ordered Ali Radiallahu ta'ala Anhu
to bring a hundred camels from Yemen.
and Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu mentions this scene
and many of the companions they witnessed the scene
where the sacrificial animals
are brought to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
sacrificed 63 of the camels himself.
Now, one of the things that was interesting
was that they said that the camels were coming towards
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam for slaughter
as if they saw it as an honor, to be sacrificed
from the hand of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
whereas animals usually would flee
from the time of sacrifice.
But not only were they not distressed,
but rather there was an eagerness of sorts
for the camels to be sacrificed
by the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he sacrificed the other 37.
Now the question is,
why is it that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
sacrificed 63 in particular?
And the ulama mentions how a beautiful wisdom of this
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sacrificed
for every year of himself existing.
So his age SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was 63.
And you think about the Aqeeqah
which is a form of gratitude to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was showing gratitude to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
for every year that he lived on earth.
And indeed we are the ones that should express gratitude
to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for every blessed year
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
had on this earth and the Sunnah that he left behind
that continues to guide us until this day.
Then you have the narrations of the people that are afraid.
Did we do Hajj wrong?
Are we in trouble?
Especially on the day of Eid.
The day of the sacrifice where, you know,
there are so many rituals.
It's easy to get lost.
It's easy to maybe do things
in the way that you might think are out of order.
So you have people coming to the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and they're asking the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
about the order of which things are to be done on that day.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
permits all of the different orders
for people to do the sequence of the day of the sacrifice.
So you have obviously going to the Jamrat al-Aqabah.
Going and stoning the main pillar.
You have the Tawaf of Al Ifadah.
You have the sacrifice itself,
and then you have the cutting of the hair
or the shaving of the head and the exiting of al ihram.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam permitted that there
is some order that can be done or not a rigid order of the
things that are done before a person exits
out of their ihram.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam allows for those
things.
People come to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and they're worried about things
that they're not able to do. And the famous
statement of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
throughout the Hajj was ifal wala harraj.
Go ahead and do it, and there is no blame upon you.
So Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was making people
feel at ease as they wondered if their Hajj was complete
because of the various things that got in the way
and because of the hardships that were out of their control.
One of the most famous incidents
is the incident of Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha.
Where Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
was unable to perform the rituals of the Hajj
because of her cycle.
And so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says to her,
as he sees her crying, he says, don't be sad.
This is something that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has
written for the daughters of Adam Alayhi Salaam
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam tells her to do
everything except for the Tawaf.
And then the rest of it, the Tawaf you can do
when you're in a state of purity,
Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha,
though, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gave her
that and obviously she's put at ease by that.
She wanted to do Umrah with her Hajj. And all
of the other wives of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
were able to do Umrah and Hajj
and Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha felt left out
because of the circumstances out of her hands,
unable to do it Umrah.
So she tells the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
"I wanna do Umrah too"
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
"Ya Aisha, what you've done is enough."
She insisted and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam saw
that, you know what,
she didn't wanna be the only one of the wives of the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that did not to Umrah.
So Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sent her
with Abdul Rahman ibn Abi Bakr to Tan'im
and this is where the famous Miqaat is
or the famous place of Ihraam is in Tan'im
Aishah radiAllahu ta'ala Anha then performed her make up
Umrah as she was unable to do it
when they first came into Al Makkah.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is always responding to people.
He is listening carefully to his Ummah.
He's listening carefully to his family.
He's making arrangements SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
for some to leave Muzdalifah early.
And that excuse was given especially to the elderly
and some of the women
so that they could go to the Harram early
and they could perform their Tawaf Al Ifadah.
He's making all of these arrangements
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, recognizing, at all times
that there are people in his Ummah
that have different circumstances.
And this is something that's beautiful
about him, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
is that he did not make that Hajj
an unpleasant experience for the people, right?
He did not burden the people because
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la does not burden us beyond our
scope. Now, what we find
from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as well
is that he's always a teacher Alayhi Salatu Wasallam.
And one of the narrations
is from Al Fadhil Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
who narrates, most of the Hajj of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
because he was literally at a front row seat,
he was sitting behind the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
on his camel for most of the Hajj.
It was either him or Usama Bin Zaid radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
So Al Fadhil is narrating so much of what happened.
And so many of the conversations where people came up to the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and asked him questions.
And one of the things that Al Fadhil mentions
is that there was a group of women that passed by
and Al Fadhil kept on staring.
And he says the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
gently put his hand on my head
and he kept on turning my head away from the women.
So I kept on looking and Rasulullah
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam kept on turning my head gently.
And this was the teaching of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
to Al Fadhil radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu very gently
as he was doing that to his young cousin,
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. So the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is always a teacher.
He is always paying attention.
He is always giving advice.
One of the most famous hadith we have, obviously
is from Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu Anhuma
where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking to
him as they are riding an animal together.
So Al Fadhil mentions
that he was teaching me to lower my gaze
even in the days of Hajj. And then you have
the sermon of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
Or an address of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to
the people on that day that reinforces everything
that he was trying to set out to do in the day of Arafah.
Abi Bakrah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he mentions
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he spoke to us
on the day of the sacrifice.
And he said ayyu yawmin hadha?
"What's today?"
And he says, fassakatna
"We were quiet" why? Because
we thought that maybe the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was going to name the day something different.
Realize, that this Hajj,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is teaching them what remains from the days of ignorance
and what is abolished. So they're thinking
perhaps when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
asks us, what day is this,
then that means that he is about to change the name.
So we were quiet.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
Alaysa yawmin nahar?
"Isn't it the day of the Sacrifice?"
Qul naballa
We said yes oh Messenger of Allah.
He said, fa ayyu shahrin hadha?
"What month is this?"
So he said we were quiet because
we thought maybe the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was going to rename the month.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says
alaysa bidhul hijjah?
"Isn't it the month of Dhul Hijjah?"
They said "Yes oh Messenger of Allah".
And he said, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
fa inni di maakum wa am walakum wa aradakum baynakum
harramun kahurrmati yawmikum hadha fishah likum hadha fi
baladhikum hadha
"Then know that your blood, your property,
and your honor amongst yourselves
are more holy than this day, in this month, in this place."
So once again, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is explaining that to the people
and in one narration the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
even speaking to the Kabah about the Kabah itself,
says that the honor of your brother,
the property of your brother, the life of your brother
is more sacred than this kabah, on this day, in this month.