only spent three years with the prophet
saw sallam
between the age of 10 and 13.
but subhanallah was so dedicated
to
the prophet saws that what he was able
to grasp in those three years
sustains us until now narrates over a
thousand hadith from the prophet saws
becomes
the scholar of this ummah becomes
someone that we look to
in tafsir someone we look to in someone
we look to in hadith i mean in every way
you look
the sahaba could have embraced islam at
the same time but allah subhanahu ta'ala
chooses to
bless certain companions with certain
things and when you look at abdullah ibn
abbas
the fact that he's distinguished by
knowledge
and when a person is in pursuit of
knowledge and doing the work of
knowledge
not only is it that the inhabitants of
the earth are benefiting and the animals
and the insects in the environment but
the angels continue to shower their
blessings upon that seeker of knowledge
and so just think about even
i mean he basically was in the presence
of angels
without any pause
right from the age of 10 years old his
pursuit of knowledge did not stop when
the prophet saws and passed away in fact
it continued all the way until the day
of his death so he's basically someone
who's perpetually in the presence of the
angels now allah ta'ala blessed him with
something else
and
that is that he was blessed with seeing
jibril his salaam two times okay so the
prophet saisa made durat for him at
least two times and he saw jibril
twice
in one of these incidents he goes out
with his father to meet the prophet
sallallahu alaihi
and when they get to the prophet saws
the prophet saw sallam is seemingly not
paying attention to
allah him
and the prophet saws is seemingly
ignoring him and so we left ibn abbas is
talking about himself and his father
saying we walked away and
was upset by that right i mean it seemed
like the prophet and i was ignoring him
so he said o my son have you seen that
your cousin turned away from me
and abdullah says i said to my father i
said o my father didn't you see that
there was a person sitting right next to
the prophet saws and he was speaking to
him and the prophet said son was giving
him attention allah says what are you
talking about he says there was a man
that was sitting with the prophet salla
you had it he was speaking to him and
the prophet saw some was being attentive
to that man and when you were speaking
you were interrupting and so the prophet
saws remained focused on what that man
was saying
says
that let's go back to the prophet saws
and ask him about this so he takes
abdullah back to the prophet saws and
the prophet saws this time immediately
receives him the way that he would
typically receive his uncle and he says
ya rasulullah o messenger of allah
abdullah says that when we came to you
there was a man that was speaking to you
and
i'm wondering whether or not that is
true so the prophet saws
looks at abdullah he says ya abdullah
did you really see him and abdullah says
yes i did and the prophet saws said that
was jibreel
and he was the one that kept my
attention from you oh my uncle
subhanallah so this situation here where
allah allowed abdullah to see jibril
islam with the prophet saws
but not necessarily
who of course is still a very righteous
man and someone that is beloved to the
prophet's islam and beloved to the ummah
another incident is when the prophet saw
sallam had abdullah in his home and
abdullah of course is one of those who
narrates the tahajud of the prophet saws
while being in his home because
was the aunt of abdullah so his maternal
aunt and abdullah got to spend the night
there
during the time when the prophet saison
was with her
in another incident al abbas sends
abdullah to the home of the prophet
salla sallam and abdullah goes to the
house and the prophet salallahu was
sleeping and the prophet saws wakes up
and he says
when did you come o beloved one when did
you come to my home and he said
about an hour ago i've been here for
about an hour he says
did you see someone with me
and he said yes he said i saw a
particular man so there's someone that
it's as if he was standing guard for the
prophet saws and the prophet says that
that was jibril
that abdullah actually saw jibreel
once again standing in the protection of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
in that moment and the prophet saws you
know in in one particular narration he
mentions that no one other than a
prophet sees jibril islam this way
except that at some point they lose
their vision and i hope that that would
be towards the end of your life and
indeed abdullah would lose his vision
actually he would go blind at the end of
his life but we know that the prophet
saws for him in this instance
teach him proper interpretation teach
him proper understanding of the deen and
make him from the people of iman so
abdullah abbas
was blessed with seeing jibril
and that was not because of his age that
was not because of anything except for
his dedication to the knowledge that
islam was bringing to the prophet
salallahu
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