who is known as the poet of the prophet
saw sallam has a very interesting story
and
he's actually a lot older than what
might be suggested
when you're reading about him he was
actually older than the prophet saws
was about seven years older than the
prophet saws and he grew up in yatrip
which would of course become madinah and
he actually could recall when the
prophet saw son was born some of the
rabbis in madina expressing objection or
speaking about the coming of ahmed that
this prophet had been born that they had
a feeling that this prophet had been
born so he remembered quite a bit and he
was quite traveled
now his role even as a young person was
to be a poet and hasano
would do nothing but
poetry
and he had a very unique genre of poetry
right and this is going to span by the
way uh what he's believed to have lived
of a total of 120 years okay 60 years
before islam and 60 years after all the
allah
and
his whole life is poetry so
growing up all he wanted to do was read
poetry attend poetry festivals write
poetry
and eventually he got so good at it that
when he's traveling the world whether it
is damascus or it is the rest of hashem
greater syria or it is yemen he is
meeting these empires and he's meeting
these powerful people and they start to
pay him
author poetry on behalf of the rulers of
those areas and so what he does is he
authors these poems but as we said it
was a unique genre all he did was satire
so if you wanted to
ruin your enemies then you would bring
hasano the
and he would speak on behalf of the
emperors in different places and that
was enough to make him a very rich man
in fact he would be invited to poetry
festivals around the world and if you
really wanted to put someone down you
hired hasan allah
to come and to author a poem on your
behalf so
he was actually hired by some of the
hypocrites in madinah
to go out and see the prophet saisam and
he was older than the prophet saws and
to you know author poems against the
prophet saws instead what ends up
happening is he comes out he sees the
prophet saw sallam and he's the most
beautiful person he's ever seen he is
the most noble person he's ever seen and
he falls in love with the messenger
salla islam and dedicates himself
to being the share of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam to being the
poet of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam now we know when we look at the
prophet sallallahu islam rasool allah
did not used to respond in like manner
to people
but hasan al-allah could right so if
someone came and they started to speak
ill of the prophet
salallahu stood up and he would
basically run them out of the room so
that was hassan's job was to stand up
and that was his natural talent he
didn't fight in battles he could not
throw a spear that's what they said
about hassan you couldn't give the man a
spear all he could do was write poetry
but he used that talent to defend the
prophet salallahu and one time
he had this conversation an interesting
conversation with the prophet saws which
was about the way that he would do
poetry usually he insults the usually he
insults the people so he will either
insult uh you know your tribe or he will
say that you are not worthy of your
tribe and in the case of the prophet
salallahu rasulullah
is
you know fighting against his own people
right or rather his own people are
fighting against him this is quraish
versus quraish
so
this is an interesting situation because
you can't insult abu sufyan he's my
cousin you can't insult abu lahab he's
my uncle you can't go after the and
start to assign certain things towards
the poem towards their their tribes and
so hasan ali
says to the prophet saw some what he
says
i'm going to extract you the way that a
person would take hair out of dough
right so if someone someone's preparing
the dough and a piece of hair is in
there but he's saying that ya rasulullah
i'm going to take you out so carefully
to make sure that i never insult you
when insulting quraish on your behalf
because of what they throw towards you
so what does he do he studies the
lineage of the people from mecca through
abu bakr allah
so he goes to the record of the allah
and who was the most knowledgeable
of the companions of the prophet saws
about the various lineages that existed
in the tribes and where they came from
and he learns all of those tribes so
that he makes sure he never says
anything about the tribe of the prophet
saws or anyone even remotely related to
the prophet sallam in a direct way so he
has the help of abu bakr allah
but he also has the help of who he has
the help of jibreel
and that is a notable distinction for
him there were three poets that were
notable amongst the companions of the
prophet slice
who was so skilled
that they literally put a member up for
him and the messages of the prophet saws
you had the member of the prophet saw i
saw him and then you had the member of
hastan of the allah
where if someone came forth he would
stand up and he would praise the prophet
sallam and if someone tried to insult
the believers
who responded with satire towards the
disbelievers and those that were hurting
the prophet salisa and hurting the
believers and rasulullah salazar looked
up at hasano
one time and he said to hassan that
jibril
is standing next to you and he is
supporting you and jibreel
supports hassan
so long as he defends the prophet
salallahu as long as he is arguing on
behalf of the prophet saws
is standing with him and so we find that
hassan of the allah on the way to battle
he is the one who is chanting out
rasulullah
that we are marching and the messenger
of allah
is amongst us and
the holy spirit islam has no match and
the prophet saw some would encourage him
and say uh
that respond to the disbelievers and
jibril
is with you and something very powerful
about this is that the prophet saw islam
said that while hasan al-allah
was authoring this poetry that the
poetry of hassan
was more impactful than any arrows that
would be thrown towards them
okay so the prophet saw islam told hasan
of the allah that your poetry hurts them
more than arrows and that is certainly
due to the support that would come from
jibril islam and that should be a lesson
for us as well but when you defend the
prophet salla islam intellectually when
you speak on behalf of the prophet
sallallahu that you can be more
impactful than any other way of
defending the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wasallam however and i hesitated
to mention this but i will mention it
because i think it's important that
hassan allah
was aided by jibril islam so long as he
defended the prophet saws however hasan
of the allah fell into
a major sin and that was that he was one
of the people whose tongues passed the
slander of israel
so can you imagine subhanallah this was
the man that would defend the prophet
saws
and jibril islam would be there on his
behalf but hasan of the allah slipped
and that same tongue that would defend
the prophet sallam hurt the prophet saws
by passing the slanderous
and of course he repented and he was
punished and he was forgiven and the
prophet salallahu did not hold that
against him even though that was very
hurtful to the prophet saws and this
part is really to the virtue of
that
was the one that would defend hassan
when other people put him down because
of that mistake that he made even though
she was the primary victim of that and
so the virtues of hassan some of them
are narrated by
she's the one that will speak about the
virtues of hasad
and that is from the heart and the
forgiveness
and there was a time where hassan visits
her
at the age of 120 years old
and
honored him even though subhanallah one
time he slipped and he said of aisha
what he should not have said about her
and she honored him and she had a chair
placed for him and she treated him with
respect
and abdur-rahman the brother of isha
found out about that because people
talked they said you know hassan visited
aisha she let him in in the house and
she honored him despite the fact that he
was one of those that fell into the
slanderer of aisha at one point and
abdulrahman came to haiti and said is it
true did you let him into your home did
you honor him in this way and what does
she say she says you know may allah
forgive him first of all he's blind he's
old but secondly can you defeat or
underneath isla island he used to defend
the prophet's islam and rasulullah
was pleased with that defense urdu
zubair who
captures much of the seerah for us
he
he once was sitting with
he was his maternal aunt
and he said to a son that i once started
to say some bad things about hassan
do not say anything bad about hassan
because he used to defend the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam so
subhanallah in it is you know a lesson
for us of the blessing of a man when
he's doing right but also that a person
can get caught up in their own talent
and that a tongue that was you know
frequent in defending the prophet saws
and studying environments and
you know
putting satire forward and things of
that sort also slipped for a moment
however because of the redemption of
islam he's held by the standard of which
he was supporting the prophet saws islam
aiding him not the time that he fell to
the temptation of on and used his tongue
to hurt the prophet's