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- [Speaker] There are so many companions
of the Prophet Muhammad,
peace and blessings be upon him,
who knew for certain,
exactly how they would die.
Why?
Because the one who spoke to them
on behalf of God.
Who they knew God would disclose future events to,
would tell them just that.
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On one authentic occasion,
Anas ibn Malik,
may Allah be pleased with him, narrates,
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
climbed Mount Uhud,
a mountain beside Medina.
And with him was Abu Bakr, his right hand man,
and also Umar, his right hand man after him,
and also Uthman,
his son-in-law
and right hand man after Umar.
May Allah be pleased with them all.
Uhud began to tremble beneath their feet.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
informed them that Uhud is a mountain in paradise.
It will be relocated to paradise.
'And Uhud is a mountain that loves the believers
and loves us,' He said,
'and we love it.'
And then he tapped Uhud with his foot,
(tapping motion)
and he said:
"Uthbut Uhud."
Be calm, be still, O Uhud.
"Fa'inna 'aalayka Nabi."
Because standing upon you is a Prophet himself,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And the Siddeeq,
one of the strongest confirmers of truth,
meaning Abu Bakr,
may Allah be pleased with him.
And two Shahids,
two Martyrs,
the remaining two men are who,
Umar and Uthman.
May Allah be pleased with them both.
And in fact, Umar and Uthman
were the two out of those four men
who were neither a prophet,
and not the most known to be the siddeeqs,
and were martyred
during their respective rules.
Just as the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
told them they would be.
Then there is Ammar Ibn Yaaser,
may Allah be pleased with Ammar.
One of the senior
most, earliest, veteran companions of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
whose mother was the first Martyr of Islam.
When the Muslims migrated to Medina
as they were building the Prophetic Mosque in Medina,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
noticed the distinct toughness of Ammar.
He noticed that as everyone was carrying one brick,
Ammar was carrying two.
And so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
went over to him,
and began to dust off his clothing
with his own two hands,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And saying to him, in approval,
"Woe to Ammar!
He will be killed one day by 'Al fi-atulBaghia',
the transgressing party."
When the Battle of Siffin took place
three decades later,
it was, in fact,
a transgressing party of Muslims,
that without due right,
opposed the rightful Muslim leader,
although with the good intentions
of seeking to avenge the murdered Caliph,
Uthman at the time, may Allah be pleased with him.
And so Ammar was of those
who was with the rightful Muslim leader
to try to keep them at bay,
and died in the process,
May Allah be pleased with him.
Interestingly, by the way,
when that transgressing army
found out that Ammar had been killed,
and they were presented with this Hadith,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
called those who kill Ammar,
'the transgressing army.'
They did not claim the Hadith who was fabricated,
because all of the companions knew
that it was unfathomable
for any of them to lie about the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and forge a Hadith.
And so what they did instead,
was reinterpret the Hadith.
They say, yes, in fact, Ammar was killed
by the transgressing party,
but that's not us.
The transgressing party are those
who put this innocent, virtuous man
in front of us
when we were going after the murderous villains
who had killed Uthman.
And so notice they never differed
over the authenticity of that Hadith.
Rather how to understand or interpret it.
And moments before Ammar left this world,
in the Battle of Siffin,
they were passing around a vessel,
a container of milk.
And so he smiled, may Allah be pleased with him.
They asked him about the reason behind his smiling.
And he said, 'the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said to me:
"The last thing I would take away from this world,
consume from this world, would be a drink of milk.
And I guess here it is'."
Then he rose from there
to meet the promise of the Prophet,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and fought valiantly until that death.
Another very difficult, very bearing
on the heart example,
are his whisper,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
in his daughter's ears.
Aa'isha radia Allah 'aanha narrates,
that when the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was in his final illness.
His daughter, Fatima, radia Allah 'aanha
enters the room,
walking just as her father used to walk.
And he said, 'Welcome, my dear daughter.'
And he motioned her over.
She sat by his side
and he whispered in her ear,
and she began to weep heavily.
And then he whispered in her ear again,
and she began to laugh.
And so Aa'isha radia Allah 'aanha said
"I never saw someone pivot from crying to laughing so fast.
And so I asked her, 'What did he say to you?'
She said: "I would never disclose the secret
of the Messenger of Allah,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam."
And then when He died,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
I repeated the question,' Aa'isha says.
'And Fatima felt it was okay,'
radia Allah 'aanha.
'To explain now to me.
She said: "The first time
he whispered in my ear,
he says that Gabriel, peace be upon him,
The Archangel,
used to review the Qur'an with me in Ramadan every year.
And this year, he reviewed the Qur'an with me two times.
And this is an indication of my time,
it has arrived.
And you will be the first of my family
to be reunited with me in the hereafter."
She said: "So I wept.
And then he whispered in my ear and said,
'Doesn't it please you that you will be the Queen
of the believing women in Paradise?'
And so I smiled."
The great scholar, Imam An-Nawawi,
Rahimahullah.
He says: "This is actually not one prophecy,
but rather two."
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, foretold here,
that he would die from this illness.
And he never said this in any illness before it.
And he also foretold that young Fatima,
radia Allah 'aanha,
who was in her early twenties at the time,
would be the first of his household
to die after him.
And that, in fact, happened.
Both of those prophecies proved true exactly
as he stated them,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Aa'isha radia Allah 'aanha narrates,
and both of these Ahadith
are both in Bukhari and Muslim,
highly authentic chains,
'That we asked the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
which of your wives will be reunited
with you first in the year after?
He said: "The one with the longest arm."
She said: "So we began to speculate
all eager to be reunited with him after his death,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And Sawda bint Zam'ah,
she was the tallest of them.
She had the longest arm,
we assumed it would be her.
And then when Zaynab bint Jahsh died first,
we understood that we had misunderstood,
that by the longest arm,
he meant the one who spends the farthest,
the one who reaches furthest extending their charities.
And Zaynab was a craftswoman.
She would do things with her hand,
and she would donate her earnings.'
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