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Some of the most wicked people
had some of the most righteous children.
And we talked about Durrah radiAllahu Anha bint abi Lahab.
And what's, SubhanAllah,
very beautiful when you read about Medinah,
is that the children of the chief hypocrite,
Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul,
his children were righteous Muslims.
His children were devoted followers
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So here you have Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul,
and he is trying to do everything in his power
to dismantle the ummah of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
to undermine the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
to stop Islam, all for his seat of power, right?
And in his own home Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
brought guidance to his children.
And so his daughter is named Jamilah,
Jamilah bint Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul,
and his daughter is married to a man
by the name of Handala radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
ibn Abi Amr. Handala ibn Abi Amr.
Now, this Handala is not the same as the Handala
that is in the famous narration about
the angel shaking your hands in the street.
Okay, this is a different Handala radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
Handala was a young man in Medinah
who embraced Islam, and his father
is not like the father of Jabir, right?
So the father of Jabir, righteous companion,
elderly companion of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
His father actually went to Mecca to join the enemies
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So Abi Amr went to Mecca to help the Kuffar of Mecca
against his own people in Medinah
because of his hatred of faith.
Handala radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
instead became a righteous Muslim.
And imagine the situation of this young man.
His wedding day was the day before Uhud.
He got married the day before the battle of Uhud.
To who? To the chief,
the daughter of the chief of the hypocrites,
who is cutting up the army of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
You know, bringing the hypocrites back to Medinah,
trying to leave the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the believers on their own to be killed
in the battle of Uhud.
The night before, he gets married to Jamilah,
the daughter of Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul.
Now the day of Uhud comes,
he is immediately out the door when he hears the call
to come to the battlefield.
So he has his wedding night.
He comes straight to the battlefield
and he lines up where the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
tells him to line up.
And Handala is not, you know,
doing these calculations in his mind,
like, you know, "Let me, let me sit this one out.
I just got married. Let me kind of stay in the back here."
Handala is ambitious.
He looks to the heads of the enemies
that are coming forward.
And he sees at the head of them is Abu Sufiyan, right?
Abu Sufiyan is the most senior person now
on the other side.
And Handala decides he's going to pursue Abu Sufiyan
on the day of Uhud.
So as the battle starts, Handala goes forward,
and he's able to even knock Abu Sufiyan off of his horse.
Now, SubhanAllah, mercy to Abu Sufiyan
that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la would instead
bless him with guidance later on in his life.
And he would die fighting on the side of the Muslims.
But he was about to die right there.
Handala knocks him off of his horse.
And as Handala is about to strike him -
he had no horse, he was a foot soldier -
he got him off of his horse,
as he's about to strike him,
a man by the name of Shadaad bin Aswad
comes to him and stabs him from behind.
Okay.
So Handala radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu dies
literally the day after his wedding night.
Now as the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the companions are going through
the corpses on the day of Uhud,
this man has a very interesting situation.
He is soaked in water,
and they're saying
to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
"Ya Rasulullah, we don't even have water to drink.
We have no water."
But Handala radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
looks like he just took a bath.
This makes no sense to us whatsoever, you know.
We're seeing mutilated bodies.
We're seeing all of these different things,
but Handala radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
looks like he just took a bath.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
SubhanAllah, "Tughassiuluhul malaa'ika 'alaa tibaaqin
min fiddah bayna as-samaa'i wal 'ard,"
that he is being washed by the angels
between the heavens and the earth.
His ghusl is being done by the malaa'ika.
The angels are bathing your companion on this special tub
between the heavens and the earth.
So even the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is amazed by the sight.
And Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
"Ask his family what happened."
And they go to Jamilah and they say that, SubhanAllah,
it was the wedding night,
and they were intimate.
And when he heard the call in the morning,
he was so quick to the battlefield
that he didn't even do ghusl.
He didn't take his shower in the morning,
to answer the call of the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam quickly.
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la instead made it
so that the angels were doing his ghusl.
And so he becomes known as, famously, Ghaseel al-Malaa'ika.
His nickname amongst the Sahaba is Ghaseel al-Malaa'ika:
the one who was washed by the angels.
On top of that,
from that one night that he was with his wife,
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la blessed him with a son.
So she realizes sometime after Uhud that she's pregnant.
And she gives birth to his one son that would survive him
from SubhanAllah this one night of marriage.
And she names him Abdullah.
And Abdullah grows up being known as Ibn al-Ghaseel:
the son of the one who was washed.
The son of the one who was washed by the angels.
And SubhanAllah on top of that, actually,
if you keep going forward into the history,
you'll find that Abdullah lives long enough
to also become a mujahid fisabilillah,
and he fights alongside Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And he was also martyred by Yazeed ibn Mu'aawiyah.
So his son even goes forward,
and he dies in a very similar fate.
He dies as a martyr.
So you see this incident, and the scholars say, you know,
it's not just the fact that
the ghusl was done for him as a virtue.
It's that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la sends these angels
to take care of things that only
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la knows about, right?
Only Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
knew that he was in a state of janabah still,
and his wife who was at home,
and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
sends the angels to wash him radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
and to honor him.
And this is also a part of anything, literally,
anything, that you give up for the sake of
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la in this dunya,
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will compensate it more
generously in the hereafter.
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