Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Imam Abdullah ibn alMubarak The Life of the Wealthy Ascetic
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This series of yours that you've just launched in which we'll be
discussing different tab you're in which follows on from your series
of last time, which was dealing with the different companions of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. This is a very blessed
task. And the reason the reason for this is that we are today in
sha Allah in the first part of your series, we are in sha Allah
going to be drinking from the springs of these great people and
what they've left for us. These are quite amazing individual
because the scholars say that purely just the mention of these
people, because of what they did and what they achieved. It brings
about the Mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala and his forgiveness
or the man say that we can actually expect to attain paradise
through the love of these individuals, and especially
through following in their footsteps.
This is a person who we're going to speak about today, Abdullah
hymnal Mobarak.
Just the name on its own has always inspired me just the name
on its own Abdullah, one of the most beloved names to Allah
subhanaw taala, the servant of Allah saying it as it is the son
of Mubarak. Mubarak means the Blessed One. That name on its own,
the servant of God, son of the blessing, it is just amazing
within its own, it's not an exotic name. It's a real name. It's a
meaningful name. It's a rich name, not just a nice sounding star name
as such. Abdullah Hajnal Mobarak. This person that we're speaking
about is one of the most unique of these individuals is always
inspired. He's always inspired so many people. He is from the Hyrule
Quran, the Hadith that is related. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said hi Eurocom currently the best of you, meaning the best
of this entire nation until the Day of Judgment, the Ummah of
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is going to be my
generation, he was speaking to them, the people who were there
when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was alive, these are the
companions, he says, the best of you are my name, my generation,
then those who follow them, and then those who will follow them,
he spoke about three generations, his generations and the to, to
follow them to to follow the companions. So this generation of
the companions, generation of who we call the successes that are
Berrien and then the Tabata between who are the followers of
the followers. So there we speak about approximately the up to the
second century to the bar October in Abdullah Abdullah Mubarak,
amazingly, he is born in 118, HD 118 Hijiri. That is, as you know,
after the migration of Rasulullah, sallAllahu Sallam 118 years, he
was born in 118. And he dies. Very interestingly, in 181 Hijiri. So
it's very easy to remember his date is 18 and 81. Just flip it
around 118 181 That's when he passes away at the age of 63. But
what a life, what alive, an absolutely amazing life. These he
is among the people and at the forefront of those people who
sacrificed who sacrificed their lives for the preservation of this
faith, and the spread of this faith. So that this faith could
come to us in its pristine purity, as it had been revealed to the
messenger of allah sallallahu, Sallam uncorrupted, as close as
possible to the original by going far and wide, as you will
understand from his travels to try to garner all of this information,
all of the traditions of Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi
wasallam, so that it could be recorded, preserved and then
passed on and conveyed throughout the generations.
We learn about these people so we can be inspired. So we can be
inspired, we can learn from them. And we can then similarly aspire
to attain what they did. And Insha Allah, allow God to be happy with
us as well, and thus to be in paradise, gender to fit those and,
above all, to also be a means today of continuing to propagate
this religion to the people after us despite wherever we may be in
the world. So today, we're speaking about a very, very unique
individual. A sign of the signs of Allah, I mean is tila. He is
considered to be somebody who has been agreed upon
We have many, many scholars of our past when you read about them,
somebody or the other may have criticized them for something or
the other. But one thing that's very unique about Abdullah hymnal
Mubarak is that he is an agreed upon personality. He is an agreed
upon personality, personality. In fact, as we will read later on,
some of the scholars have said that there's no virtuous
characteristic. There is no good meritorious character that Allah
has revealed, except that he also gave it to Abdullah him normobaric
he was just a combination of somebody who incorporated all of
these great and wonderful characteristics. That's why the
OMA has referred to him as the shithole Islam, the shape of
Islam, the foremost teacher of Islam. In fact, you know, the
Mohabbatein, the Hadith scholars, they give him the title Ameerul
Momineen of Hadith, the leader of the believers in Hadith, so he's
not in the middle of what meaning as in somebody claiming to rule
over the the land, but he ruled over the hearts of people without
without a police force, just by mere the the power of His
righteousness and his learning, and his beauty and his goodwill
towards the OMA. So let's understand who this person is.
Abdullah hypnobirth His name is Abdullah Hypno Mobarak that's his
father's name IGNOU wild al humbly so he's from this humbly tribe is
not from the hunter, Tamimi Mola home now let me give you an
explanation. He is not an original Arab. His father was Turkic origin
was of Turkic origin. His mother was Howard is me, which is Hawaii
ism today is in the northern parts of Uzbekistan. So we can say that
they were transaksi. Iranian, in a sense, non Arabs, both his mother
and father were non Arabs. However, in the time of the Omiya
rule in the during the Obama years, the non Arabs to be able to
stay in the within the realm of within their realms, they would
have to become a client of one of the Arab tribes, they would have
to make an agreement. That's one way that they would become what
they call a client or a Mola. And thus, he was linked to the Tamimi
tribe, the famous blue Tamim tribe of the Arabs, other say that his
father was actually a slave of this man at the time, there was
slavery at the time. So he was a slave. Later, it seems like he was
freed. And then Abdullah Hassan Barak became what he was. This
actually tells you that in Islam, slavery is a whole different
ballgame when it was around that slaves became great scholars,
great leaders. In fact, you actually had a whole dynasty
called them Luke's you call them Luke's they were originally
slaves, but they became actually the leaders of the Muslim world at
one time in Egypt and other places. So that's a different
subject. Let me not take us off track here. So that that is his
father's of Turkic origin. His mother is from Khaled ism, and
YBNL. Josie mentioned that when you do look into the books of
history don't get confused sometimes because there are
actually four people with this name. Abdullah Abdullah Mubarak,
Abdullah, the son of Mubarak, there are actually four people,
but by far, the one we're speaking about a morosi, he is the most
famous one. So he is called a morosi. The reason it's called
morosi is because he came from a place called Maru. My
investigation into Morrow leads me to a place a town in Turkmenistan
today, which is on the Oxus River, which was one of the very famous
roots in that time and the Oxus River was very famous. And it's
still famous, but it's called Murray or marry. Right. So that
relating to that as being connected to that he's called
morosi. There's other scholars who are called Maru the, because they
came from another place called mer Ruth, which is also in Hora sun in
that area. So he is from Morocco, which at that time was one of the
greatest cities of the Muslim lands. And what tells us that,
from that same city of Morocco, we had such great scholars that I'm
sure majority of us may have heard of them. The likes of Arma Dibner,
humble Imam, Ahmed, even the humble. That's where he is from,
though he was in Baghdad later and he pretty much spent the rest of
his life and he's buried about that, as far as I know. He was
from Sofia and authority is another one who was from Marvel,
and is hard to ignore, ah, Hawaii, or Ahuja, another very famous
scholar of Hadith and jurisprudence. I just read
yesterday from YBNL Josie, one of the great scholars of Baghdad, a
very prolific writer, historian, Hadith scholar, theology scholar,
an amazing an amazing polymath of, you know, numerous sciences. He
says that I did an investigation of the early scholars to see
who had become absolutely complete and fully accomplished in two
fields, one in the sciences who had mastered all the sciences that
were available at the time. And number two, who had also mustered
their obedience and devotion to Allah. So if they are in sciences
up there than in their obedience, their worship, their piety, their
righteousness, and their devotion to Allah, they are also up there.
And he says, after looking at everybody, what I noticed is that
if somebody is very good in his sciences, his his worship will be
sacrificed. And if somebody is very good in devotion, then he
doesn't have the same amount of knowledge. But he says, There are
three people that stood out. And when I read that, I was like, wow.
And he said, he said, the three people one was Hassan Al Basri.
And I don't think there can be any disagreement about this. A
scholar, and yet such a righteous individual has an old bursary. The
second person you mentioned was Sophia and authority SubhanAllah.
And the third person you mentioned was Mr. Mohammed no humble and
then he mentioned the fourth person he says that if somebody
wants to add a fourth I won't have any problem with this name. I
personally would add Abdullah him and water because number four,
because he is a name that sticks out in that regard, because he had
mastered all of the sciences as well. Amanda OB, Imam the hubby
says about him in his cry lamb in novella he says, Now listen to
this, he says, an Imam, che whole Islam or any Muslim Ernie he was
Amira Amira al Attiyah if you want to hear
how al Hatfield hola Ozzy or huddle LM. Now, what does that
mean? It's combining a number of different things. He's saying he
is the Imam, the leader, he is the CHE of Islam. He is the he is the
scholar of his time, the foremost scholar of his time, like if you
want to say this is the scholar of his time, then he is the leader of
the righteous ones of his time. He is a master a hadith master, which
means somebody who's memorized at least 100,000 Hadith, at least
100,000 Hadith by by heart is a half it's today, the half within
our community, somebody who's just memorized the Quran. But these
people will memorize that they've memorized the Quran and 100,000
Hadith. And that's quite small. There were people who had million
Hadith to their name, like Mr. McDermott, immuno humble 1000 1000
aerations. He was a he was he he was a warrior in the path of
Allah. And he is considered to be one of the great luminaries, I'm
not going to go through all of the other. There's numerous other
people who have spoken about the various different sciences that he
was a master in. I mean, I think this suffices to tell you now,
where does all of this come from? This is very important.
If we cannot do something, but we can definitely lay the foundations
for our next generation. This is what I learned from it has to come
from somewhere. Where did it come from? It comes from his father
this time generally comes through the mothers right? But this time,
it's his father, who who's taking the light here. His father was, as
I mentioned, a slave or a worker, an employee. There's both opinions
that I found in the books of a man from the Hamada from Hamadan,
Hamadan is in Persia. And he used to work in an ocean. This was a in
one narration, he mentions grapes in another one mentions Romain,
which means
pomegranates, so he is a caretaker of this orchard. He is the
gardener, he looks after it. And, you know, he works to protect it,
he works to clean it up, or whatever it whatever it is that he
has one day, the owner comes along his employer, his master, whoever,
whatever it is. And he says to him, bring me bring me a piece of
fruit, meaning bring me a pomegranate. So he quickly goes
on, he thinks this looks nice. So he goes and he gives it to him.
And the master takes a bite of this and it is extremely sour. He
says, What's wrong with you? Get me another one. Get me a nicer
one. This is this is very sour. So he goes on he goes and he picks up
another one very innocently. Oh, this must look nice. And he goes
and gives it to him again. Same problem. It's very sour. He sends
him a third time and then and finally he says, What's wrong with
you? Can you can you not understand what's a good
pomegranate from a bad pomegranate? You know, a ripe one
from an unripe one meaning in a sense, what's the sweet one and so
on? He says no, I don't know. And his his his must is just
completely dumbfounded. Is this what's wrong with you? How come
you don't know you must meet him this stuff every day. He says no,
I've never tasted a single one. This is what you haven't had a
single pomegranate from he says no, I have not seen because it's
not mine. I don't have permission to do so. And he's just totally
dumbstruck and he says fuck events, you know, like go and eat
some you know, I give you permission. You know, because the
default in a lot of places that they just
Eat things, you know, because they think well, all of these they
dropped, you know, maybe they dropped or maybe it's a bit
defective when people just justify, he says, No, I didn't
have the permission. So that's why I didn't do it. Now you see, his
father is so, so righteous in this regard, that he's been working
there for so many years. And he hasn't tasted a single pomegranate
from that, from that place. So anyway, this farmer goes and
speaks to his,
this farmer goes and speak to his wife, and says that, you know,
this is what happened today. So his wife said, you know, we've got
a daughter we need, this is a perfect man to marry him to people
are looking for honesty, they love honesty, people are looking for,
you know, honest people, they said you should marry, marry him to our
daughter. So the master comes along and says that, you know, to
Mobarak, that we want you to marry our daughter. So again, he's a man
of principles. And he says, you know, he says, the people in the
time of ignorance used to marry women for their lineage for their
family tree, right? Because that was very important for them to get
it. Get a girl from a good family, right? And then he mentions a
number of other people. He says, this particular type of people
they used to, they marry people for beauty, this particular group,
they marry for wealth, but in the in Islam, we marry for Deen, we
marry for religion. So he goes back and he tells his wife that
this is what he's saying. But then he comes in, he persists, says and
his wife says, No, you must. You must get him married to our
daughter. So then he marries his master's daughter, who's
originally from Howard ism. So that's his mother. That's mobile
era. That's the wife now of Mubarak, right Mubarak's wife. And
from them comes this great man called Abdullah of normobaric.
Right from this really beautiful union. We don't know too much
about his childhood. This is one story that's mentioned in the
biographies. Hatim Al Baghdadi, the great historian of Baghdad, I
mean, an amazing individual. Right. And I think we need to
speak about him one day, he is just an amazing written a 50
volume book on Baghdad. Right, the great city at that time, it was
one of the greatest cities of the Ambassade caliphate. So he writes
about Lebanon Mubarak, he is quoting from a friend of Abdullah
Hunan Barak, who is a friend from a young age. He says once we were
just students in the local mother assign the local school. And we
pass by a person giving a speech, a sermon, right? This lengthy
sermon, somebody was giving a sermon. And it was quite a long
sermon. So we sat in there throughout. As we came out,
Abdullah robotic said to me that you know what, I've actually
memorized all of that. I've memorized that entire sermon. So
there was a man who was standing, then he heard this conversation.
So just to test him, he said, repeat it to us, then, you know,
let's see if you know it. And he started repeated the whole sermon
in the way that individual had had delivered it. So we learned that
he had a, he had a really extensive memory, and really
extensive memory from that time. We don't know too much else about
him at that time. But
another thing that another thing that we understand is that he
then seemed to have gone through a bit of a patch, as some people do,
right away, started enjoying life as such in a different way. Right?
You enjoy life, you don't, this is just a different way where he
started drinking no beef, right, this was just kind of semi, it
could be semi fermented, because you couldn't have wine in many of
these places. So what you took is you took some dates and so on, you
soak them overnight. And if you soak them for too long, they would
actually become fermented and give you a bit of intoxicated as a
homemade kind of a brew, as such, right. So you said once Imam Abu
Hanifa, who was his teacher, because he later went to study
with him on Abu Hanifa in Kufa, in Abu Hanifa, once asked him he said
that, how did you start off, you know, he saw something about him,
he says that, what's your story? He says, Well, when I was much
younger, I was sitting with my friends, I was just having a
party, basically, in our orchard. I was having having a party, and
we just kept eating and drinking until the nightfall and we had
drink drunk too much. And we were playing the route, we were playing
the road, which is a musical instrument, you know, used in
those places, and the tambul Right? So we just basically
enjoying ourselves right with the music was, you know, the music was
there, the drinks were flowing and so on. And then I slept very late.
And I saw in my dream at this time, I saw in my dream that there
was no there's two versions here that's related about this, right?
They're very similar that he says I saw in my dream a bird above my
head on the tree because I fell asleep under the tree. I saw the
bird saying, and that's where I was going to ask where's our car
Yvonne? Who just read? What Why did you pick that verse?
Okay, but you you you don't you didn't see. I mean, you haven't
seen any relevance to that with Abdullah and Barack right. Okay.
Well, what's very interesting is I was surprised and I say this is
from Allah. Right? This is the verse that he heard from the from
the birds. That bird said Allah Mia Nene Lavina Armando and Tasha
Aquila womb LiveChat Allah. So I was when I
I was listening to you read, I was just like, Well, my, you know, the
hairs on my body was standing out and I said like either this guy
knows the story, or this is from Allah subhanaw taala that he's got
the right verse, because it is such a wonderful verse hasn't the
time come for the people who believe I mean, Abdullah and
Barack was a believer he was from a Muslim household, right, but
he'd now gotten engaged with all of these playful, you know, these
play things, right? In law, hilarious as you call it, right in
past times of the world for without any substance. So hasn't
the time come for those people who believe that their hearts succumb
and submit to the remembrance of Allah and what ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada has revealed of the truth, and they should not be like the
people of the past, that they waited for too long, and then
their hearts became too hard. Because of the dunya, the heart
becomes too hard, then it becomes very difficult for a person to
change or then to turn to Allah subhanaw taala. That is a verse
that he heard. And he said, Bala, of course it's come. When he woke
up, he just woke up. And he came to realization. And he says that I
broke my root, you know, my musical instrument. And I just
burnt everything that I had with me of these, these instruments. So
I basically burned my iPhone, right? And all the rest of it,
right. And he says that this was the beginning of it, this was the
beginning of it. He then said that that's when I started turning to
knowledge and worship, and then he didn't leave it behind. So this
tells us something and you know, he's he started traveling for
knowledge at the age of 23.
So he tells us that, you know, even if you've messed around for
two years, three years, four years, you still got a lot of
time. This is a man who started studying at the age of 23. Right,
you know, studying the deen in great depth to become a scholar as
such, right? He started studying at the age of 23, not 50, not at
12, not at name, right. He probably studied a bit at that
age. But this is when he seriously started studying. He left his city
and the city of Monroe. He left the city at the age of 23, and
about 141 Hijiri ah, and then he started traveling how table
Baghdadi says that Imam Malik no humble says and when Imam Ahmed
speaks, he doesn't speak nonsense. He is an authority Imam Muhammad
didn't know humble said, Let me a confused mind, if you will.
Mobarak in the time of Abdullah, who Mubarak, there was nobody who
was a greater and more avid speaker or seeker of knowledge
than him. Where did he travel? He traveled to Yemen. Now remember
where he is. If I could bring up a map here, I would show you right
go and consult a map afterwards. He traveled from murder which is
in Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan is above Iran. So you got to
Turkmenistan, you've got Iran. Next to it, you've got Iraq. And
then after that, you've got Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. Right.
And then at the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula, you've got
Yemen, and then further out still you've got Egypt. Now we're
talking about a few 1000 kilometers, right, we're talking
about, you know, over 1000 Miles we're speaking about and if you
have tried sitting on a camel, and just going a mile on a camel,
believe me it is very different to sitting in a nice seat in a car.
Because you are there exposed to the elements bumping up and down
going very, very, very slowly. And it's not that comfortable. You
know, then the nice seats that you have in your car and the speed
that you go with. And the smoothness of the roads that we
have are the flights that we can take despite us having facilities
available to us we cannot do what he what he did. And you haven't
even heard anything yet. So I'm not even know humble Rahim Allah
is saying he traveled to Yemen. He traveled to Egypt, he traveled to
the Levant, Syria. He traveled to Kufa and bussola which were the
main cities in Iraq at the time, but that didn't exist. At that
time.
He was from the narrator's of the science. He was from the
transmitters, those who took from the earlier generation and was
pivotal in conveying and transmitting this knowledge to the
next generation. He comes in if you pick up Bukhari sahih al
Bukhari Muslim and all these other books, you will see Abdullahi
Mubarak there, which means that he is a means of conveying this
religion to us, because this is where all of this came from.
Right? This is why when you read him, you will say Rahim Allah may
Allah have mercy on him. And you are remembering this person.
He took now he was very interesting. He took from wherever
he could get knowledge he took from the those who are older than
him. He took from those who are His contemporaries, and you know,
his age and he also took from people that were younger than him.
He didn't care where it came from. He would just take whatever was
correct sahih whatever was authentic, he would take from
wherever it wherever it was, if not what DA says that YBNL Mubarak
has related
About 25,000 Hadith right? Now in our lifetime, if we can just
relate 40 Hadith that would be wonderful. He'd related 25,000
Hadith. And towards the end of his life, he's still still he's still
acquiring knowledge and teaching. And one day somebody said to him
up until when are you going to study your knowledge? He said, I
hope that you will find, I hope that you will find find me doing
that until I die until the last moment. And even until his last
moment, you were still asking questions, and somebody said, and
he says that may be the the one word that will benefit me has not
reached me yet that will have a profound impact on me. Call the
herbal herbal father said that Southern he has mentioned
when YBNL Mubarak came of age, so this was probably around 23 or so.
His father now was a good businessman and was very wealthy.
It seemed you know, after this incident that we spoke about
earlier, seemed that he had done well for himself. So his father
sent him 50,000 dirhams to start a business. Right 50,000 There him
start a business.
What he used that money for is to travel and to seek knowledge from
go place to place you need money for that you need money to
survive. You need money for eating for lodging for traveling. And he
finished it off his father, when he when he met his father,
eventually after all of this excursion, he says What have you
brought back like, what's your business? Right? And he said, I
got all of his books. He had brought books back with the money.
He says, This is my trade, my trade for the Ark era for the for
the hereafter. His father went into the house and he gave him
another 30,000 here said he said he said Yeah, go ahead and do some
more business like proper business. Now. Again, he spent it
all in the path of Allah subhanaw taala. Again, in fact, on one
occasion, I think his father it relates in it relates in one of
the one of the transmissions that his father got a bit upset with
him and he said, I'm going to burn all of your books. He says no, you
can't burn my books anymore because I've memorized all of
them. You come all in my heart now you can't you can't burn them
anymore.
Abdullah Hassan Mubarak, he went and he studied on the numerous
scholars including Imam Abu Hanifa and that's why he says well fekola
The in the middleby Honey for the fic that I have. The understanding
of jurisprudence is from Abu Hanifa Rahim Allah and he says
Lola and Allah to Allah earn honey bee a bee honey feta was Sophia
and La Quinta Casa alienness. If Allah had not supported me and
helped me by teaching me through Abu Hanifa and Sophia and
authority, Rahim, Allah Allahu taala, then I would have just been
like any ordinary person. He mentioned a number of things. But
one thing is that he may have he then did start doing some
business. So while he would travel, it seems like it doesn't
mention what business he would do. Imam Abu Hanifa would do business
in cloth. He was a cloth merchant, very wealthy one at that. And he
didn't have to take part in the business directly and have to sit
in a shop, he had people to work for him. And Masha Allah used to
make huge amounts of money and give to others as well. And it
looks like Abdullah who and Barack also has learned this from him.
And that's what he starts to do. He does get into business. You
know, once you're a businessman, your family's into business, you
will see business wherever you go around, right, it's up to you to
choose what you want to where you don't want. That's generally how
it works. So he did do business in Abdullah, Nevada, one of his
statements, beautiful statements about seeking knowledge is that
the beginning of knowledge is intention. Why am I seeking it?
I want to seek it. This is my objective in seeking it. Once you
have that intention, then you need to listen. So the first is
intention. Second is listening carefully. So that you get from
the source. Number three, then is action. You're not just studying
for exams, remember that. Unfortunately, our modern system
is all about ratings. It's all about degrees. And sometimes what
people are studying is redundant. Sometimes. Sometimes people get
stuck in very specific areas of study that they do not feel
inclined to afterwards. And then after that they're in a dilemma,
they start changing careers, and it gets crazy and unfortunate.
It's a cutthroat industry right now, where degrees don't have much
value unless you're in you're in Imperial, maybe, right? Hopefully,
sha Allah or UCL or, you know, some someplace like that, but it's
just a cutthroat. It's just really sad. And you're pitted against
each other in order to, you know, in order to get somewhere with
this. But anyway, he says, So then it's first intention, then
listening, then understanding, then action, practice action, and
then preservation, how you're going to record this for other
people to benefit from and then it's spreading it. Now remember
this, what I mentioned to you of, of YBNL, Josie who spoke about the
three scholars that he assessed to have attained accomplishment in
both work
ship and practice as well as knowledge, right. So this is you
need that kind of motivation to do this. Now, Amy Abdul Hamid, one of
the great scholars of the time, he says that YBNL Mubarak used to,
though he traveled so much, otherwise he would sit in his
house. He wasn't a very public, social person as such. In that
sense, it was very, very disciplined. You will always be in
his room, it always be in his house. So somebody said to him,
Allah, so why don't you get bored? You know, people say today I get
bored. I what am I doing? I don't know what to do. They get on their
WhatsApp and their chats and online and they watch things. I
was so bored. I watched three hours of YouTube videos. Um,
that's not much to be honest for some people, right? But he says,
somebody said to him a lot of storage. Don't get bored. Don't
you get alone? Don't you get frightened with your own company?
He said, gave her a stonefish How can I get bored? How can I get?
How can I feel alone? What anima an OBE was Herbie when I'm always
with the Prophet and his and his companions and Allah audios? Why
is he with the Providence companions, he is studying Hadith
in a very practical way so that he can transport himself back and
really feel like he's part of it.
He used to, he used to say that the trace of ink on the garment of
scholars, right?
A trace of ink a trademark of you know, because when you write so
much, you're gonna have ink over your hands in those days,
especially when you have to use a read pen and, and B would you call
it dipping into a an input as such, he says that the trademark
of a hadith scholar is ink on his garments. And he says that this is
better and more superior than the perfume on the bride's garments.
You know, perfume on a bride's garment you just got married,
right or your husband's garment for the women, right? So just you
know, just what that creates in a person is saying that this, it
gives you more enjoyment than that. I mean, these people without
their sacrifice wouldn't have been where we were today. So hon Allah,
we owe them a lot of normobaric says that I took knowledge from
how many teachers?
Anybody want to give a guess? How many teachers? Do you think he's
studied? Under? Like, what's a?
What's a rational amount? A huge amount? How many teachers have you
guys studied with has any of us studied with? Right? Just think
about it.
I think the last time I counted, I could count at least 50.
Right? At least 50? And that's just in my adulthood. Not not not,
you know, when I was young, and I didn't even I didn't even count my
school teachers. I just counted my religious teachers. So how many do
you think he studied by
number?
100.
Anybody else?
Okay, that was a random number, right? That was a random number.
Any more random numbers?
Okay, 4000. He took from 4000 individuals, when he went to all
of these cities, they were full of scholars in all of these cities.
Remember, that was one that was a very, very productive period, that
second century, you know, the middle of the second century, he
took from 4000 scholars, but he related He transmitted from only a
quarter of the 1000. So he sifted there were some scholars he would
go to, he heard something strange coming from them, he would just
burn all of his books, he will, he would just delete everything,
right. But he only transmitted from 1000 of them, approximately
1000 of them. And Abbas was one of the scholars of time, he says that
I tried to figure out who these 1000 are by looking at his works
and who he's transmitted from, and I could work out at least
800 of them. So it is not just the claim. He it's, it's documented,
because you know, when they relate in those days, they say, had birth
and so and so and so and so related to our sounds are related
as up to the professor lorrison Um, so you can tell who they've
taken it from. So it's not just the claim we're speaking about.
Abdullah have known Mubarak
numerous times he went into Baghdad, which was then
established
to teach to, to, to speak. I'd mentioned earlier that it wasn't
established, but it was probably a brand new city at the time. Right.
And he had gone there as well from Morrow. It mentions that once
Haroon Rashid, the great Abbas in Khalifa one of the greatest that
they've known actually Harun Al Rashid, he came to morrow.
And now actually he came to raka Raka is actually in Syria. It's in
a sad situation today. Right but it's in Syria, north north eastern
part of Syria today Iraq, right. He said he visited rock on a very
famous city at the time. And Abdullah have known Mubarak also
visited and people just gathered around him to such a degree that
you know, it says that straps of the sandals were broken in the
rush to be around them because you know, people have sandals and when
you
stepping on each other's sandals just in the rush to get around
him. And he says so much. It mentioned that so much dust,
because in those days it wasn't as perfectly done up the roads and so
on. And a wife of one of the women of the house of of the palace, she
looked out and she just saw what was going on what was going on
here. You know, is this one of the Royals have come in or whatever
the case is, and they say, this is the one of the islands of horror
son, one of the acronyms of Hora son, and he's, he's arrived and
people are going to visit him. And she said wala Hee
ha Allah He Al Mulk. This is true sovereignty. This is true kingdom.
This is true rule.
He says La Mancha, Harun not the kingdom of Harun not the rule of
Haroon under the law Xiao Nast Allah be sure to what one who can
only gather people like this using police and his security detail.
This is true king this is true Kingdom Abdullah Hypno Cena
answers that once
Abdullah Hussein Mubarak visited Mocha, mocha Rama and I was there
as well at the time. And as he was departing Mocha, mocha Rama,
Sophia and ignore Marina one of the great behind the scenes name
comes quite often, he went to see him off both him and for the lib
notary out. For the lunar era. There's another one of those great
scholars of the time, both of them went to see him off, you know,
they walk with him to the edge edge of the city. One of them just
commented, how the fuck he who URL mushrik. This is the jurist of the
people of the East. So the other one said, No, the people of the
West as well. And he is the scholar of the east and of the
West.
Basically, from a young age from the age of 23, at least he's been
just traveling and just acquiring knowledge from all of these
different scholars like Abdul Rahman Nomada Yeah, he had no
Marine.
He burned him no Musa Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah are commanded not to
be shaped by me, these are just names for us, right for many of
us, but I'm just mentioning them, you know, some, maybe on the Day
of Judgment, they might help for help us say, hey, we did hear
about these guys. Hey, I met you and, you know, I've ever heard
about you on a day of judgment. You know, I know, I know other
people as well. But, you know, we know, we know, like,
a lot of people. We know all of the stars today. We all have our
footballers, and all that kind of stuff. So I'm just mentioning some
names. Maybe we'll stick one day and, you know, hopefully help us.
One of the great Maliki scholars, if not Abdullah Burr, he says that
I don't know any of the jurists, right, specifically jurist, who
has been so protected from anybody criticizing him, meaning nobody's
criticize them, except Abdullah, he normobaric you and you're a
jurist. When you're a jurist based on certain decisions, you take
certain judgments you make, there's going to be some criticism
of the other. But Abdullah Al Baraka was just so loved that he
did it just so well. Right, that he is they say, an agreed upon
personality.
It's
let's just look a bit. I mean, we don't have enough time today to
look at his life in complete detail, but we're going to take
snatches of different aspects of his life, his piety and his
scrupulousness. Nobody can be so accepted among people
and go beyond his life. Because look, you've got people who become
very famous today, they'll have this many Twitter followers, and
they'll have this many Facebook followers. However, they do one
thing wrong and it's all gone. When they die out. Somebody else
takes their place. The trend changes every day, somebody else
comes up on Snapchat or whatever it is. So it's always constantly
changing with these people. They have taken a place in history
until today that we are speaking about him in Imperial College.
Right? That's quite an amazing thing. Right? For him to be
chosen. Subhan Allah.
And I still can't get over the fact that that verse was just the
right verse that was recited. Subhanallah anyway, it's related.
From Hassan Dibner Arafa. He says that Abdullah hymnal Mubarak said
to me, now look at this.
Abdullah Hassan Mubarak said to me that once while I was in Sham in
Syria, I borrowed the pen from someone to write because he says
he used to always take notes, though he had a great memory. He
used to always take notes and he says, if it wasn't for notes, I
would never have been able to maintain accuracy of my
information as much as I did. Very important. Take notes, right? He
says, I borrowed a pen from somebody
in Morrow, sorry, in Sham. Where is he from? He's from Morocco.
That is quite a few. You know, that is quite a distance away.
I borrowed the pen that I thought that I had given it back, but
apparently I'd put it where I used to use I used to put my pen. So I
didn't realize and I came back home tomorrow. And I realized that
I've still got the pen with me. It's literally like
Like, I've gone to America, or I went to Egypt, or to Saudi, I
bought somebody's pen and I came back to the UK.
Hey, I've still got somebody's pen here, like, you know,
he went all the way back to give it back. Now, today, we could
probably post it back. But in those days, you have to go back,
he went all the way to give it back. This is where you talk, what
you call piety and scrupulousness, being very particular, because it
matters. Now I could, you could just say you could justify that
he's going to understand. And from another area, he's going to
understand, he'll probably forgive me. If I go back there one day,
I'll tell him now you we will justify like this. But at the end
of the day, when you do that to your heart, then you just make it
that much more dishonest. And then you become more dishonest day by
day.
You become more dishonest day by day, and you start doing that in
everything. So he goes all the way back just for the sake of his
scrupulousness. And the thought about Allah subhana wa Tada.
One of his wonderful
statements of wisdom. He says that when the good traits of a person
dominate his bad traits, then people will never mention his bad
traits. People generally have an overview. There are obviously some
skeptics and critics that are always looking for the bad like
pigs always looking for the muck, right? You get people like that.
But in general, when your goodness dominates, then you're the II the
problems, everybody has the defects, they generally get
dominated. But if you have more bad traits within you, then your
good traits will become dominated and nobody will mention them.
That's a very, very wise opinion. He says another thing very, very
interesting. And I thought about this. It's very true. He says that
Minister Hoffa build the habit of hirato if you humiliate
if you humiliate, and look down upon scholars of the deen, then
you're our hero is disappeared, your akhira has been destroyed.
If you he tried to humiliate
the rulers of this world, then your dunya is spoiled. Your world
is gone, they will make it * for you. Right? When it comes to
scholars, they won't do anything. Allah will just make the Agora
* for you essentially, right? And if you mess around like this,
and humiliate and don't show any respect to your friends, your
companions, then you lose all of your common decency. You're not
seen as a decent person.
You're not seen as a decent person showing you a clock and character.
Amanda Have you mentioned in a CRO alum in novella that
YBNL Mubarak once came to visit. He's in another city Hama Dibner.
Zaid, another great scholar, Hadith scholar. Amma didn't know
they'd looked at him. Now he knows that he's from another city. He's
a stranger. He doesn't know who he is. But what he saw really amazing
you know, sometimes you see somebody's like, Who is this guy?
So he said to him, Where are you from? Medina and where are you
from? He said, I'm from hora, Sama hora, sonny, right, um,
specifically from Maru in Hora sun. So, Hamid IGNOU. Zaid says to
him, do you know a man called Abdullah hymnal Mubarak? He just
heard about him? He never seen him. So he's saying to him, do you
know Abdullah hymnal Mubarak? He says, Yeah, I do. Not fall what
does he do?
Who Allah do you have a book? He's the one who's speaking to you.
He's the he's the one who's holding conversation to you. So
then he made Salam and really like, welcomed him. That's the
kind of thing we're speaking about. Ma Hypno Hadith I mean, I
know these names sound I mean, these are just names for most of
it. But these are great Hadith scholars. You know, for those
people who are in the in this vocation, they will understand
more of them. No Hardy says that once I asked his smart, he'll
ignore IOSH about Abdullah him or Mubarak. and Ismail said to me, he
said Ma wedge Hill or the mythlink normobaric. On the surface of this
earth. There is nobody like Abdullah Al Barak right now. And
then he made this statement. He says, Well, I don't know of any
praiseworthy trait, any good praiseworthy character trait that
Allah subhanaw taala has created except that he has put all of them
in Abdullah and Barak. He was such a wonderful person. He was just a
wonderful human being a very, very loving human being. And he says
that, my friends, my friends, so this is
the Friends of smart living. IOSH. Right. He's saying my friends once
when we went with him, traveled with him from Egypt, to Makkah,
and all the way he would treat them. He would give them to eat of
this. Oh,
abuse, which is basically this date halwa, right this date,
sweets made out of dates, and he would be fasting throughout, he
would be feeding them and he would be fasting throughout
him and the hubby calls him the pride of the majority because they
said that one year he used to go for Hutch. And the other year, he
used to go in jihad, he used to be at the frontiers of the Islamic
lands, because there was always a constant tussle in those days.
See, today, we have demarcations this country, that country, right,
it's a bit more, we have problems, but you know, in certain parts of
the world, at least, but you know, there's generally aligned a clear
cut buffer zone. And in those days, there was a constant back
and forth. So you had to guard your frontiers. And that was what
you call rebuilt, rebuilt. So every second year, he would be in
the path of Allah at the robots. And many times he would actually
take part in the war and he was very, he had great valor in his
fighting, numerous, numerous stories related, related about
that as well. So he was not just the person who sat down but he was
very active as well when he had to be. He used to perform Hajj one
year, and the next year he would be stationed in the battles of the
on the rebuilt in Tarsus and Al Messiah, which is near the land of
the Romans as well as other places. His generosity. Hakeem Al
Baghdadi, really remember he had a lot of money. Now generally people
with a lot of money, what do they do with their money? If they can
spend then they can accomplish a lot? Right? So how Theobald
Baghdadi mentions that
ignore Mubarak say, said,
Actually, he he raised from this man called Ali, Abdul Fidel, and
evil Fidel says that my father was a companion of Abdullah Al
Mubarak. And my father asked him, you command us to be ascetic,
like, not indulge in the dunya, and not have too many possessions
and so on. But we see that you have so much you have good food,
and you know, you you, you really have a lot of the dunya why is
that? So he turned around to me says oh, about it, I only do that
to protect my face, from humiliation, having to ask others,
because when you have money, generally people respect you, at
least for that. And in those days, you know, if you didn't have,
you'd have to go to the governor, you'd have to go to the ruler, the
Khalifa, and so on, so forth. And then it'd be this really endless
problem that you may, you won't be respected and scholars had to be
respected, especially scholars so that they could really
contribute. So he says, I do this to protect my face to honor myself
so that I can be independent from others. I don't have to rely on
anybody else. And I also use it to aid me in my obedience to Allah
subhanho wa taala. Once evil Mubarak, he goes from Baghdad, he
departs from Baghdad, and he wants to go to a place called Mercy
visa. Now this is a place from Baghdad. Merci, sir, is actually a
city, an ancient city, I don't think I don't think it survives
anymore. It's in Turkey. It's in modern day Turkey. So he's going
all the way from Baghdad, to a city in Turkey. And a number of
the Sufis of his time, they want to go with him. Now, this is, this
is, you know, for this, this is actually in the path of Allah this
is for some kind of Frontier protection or some kind of battle
or something like that. So he gets everybody around him and he says,
I know you people are embarrassed when people spend on you, you
don't like to accept from others, you don't like to accept help. So
let's do one thing. He told one of his one on one of his servants to
come along and bring a bowl, covered it up with a cloth and he
said, Take this round to everybody, and everybody should
contribute whatever they have. So we'll make a pool of money. So if
you've got 10, Durham's 20 their homes, whatever it is, just
whatever money you've got for your for your trip, then just put it
inside here. Some people put in that 10 Dirham some people put 20
dirhams, they didn't have too much money. So he puts it all together.
And then he said, I'm I will not take care of all expenses right
from here, I will take care of all expenses. There wasn't really much
money on the entire trip. He paid. They went into they went into
until mercy. So until the entire trip, he is he spent on them, he
spent on them. And then after Mercer, there was a frontier place
and then after that everybody had to disband and was sent to
different places. So then he says, Okay, now, whatever's left, we
will distribute it. Right, whatever's left will distribute.
They don't think they expected anything to be left.
So
he started giving everybody 20 dinars each. Now, just to give you
an idea, a dyrham is a silver coin, and a dinar is a gold coin,
and there's a massive difference between the two. It's one to 20
Right? So they had contributed 10 or 20.
anted dyrham silver coins and he's giving everybody back 1020 dinars
each. So they are saying that I only gave you 20 Durham's, you're
giving me 20 dinars, he said, Yeah, you get a lot of Baraka in
the path of Allah. Right? You get a lot of blessing in the path of
Allah. So your money's increased. That's how he used to spend on
other people. There's another
it was hatch time.
Now he is, he is in Morocco, and they all going for Hajj. Remember,
he goes every second year. So during this time, his all of his
companions, his friends, they gather around, and they're saying
to him that we want to come with you ever had you this year? Right?
We want to come with you for hedge. So it says okay, no
problem. He says, give me your money. Right? Whatever money
you've got for the trip, give me your money. It took it all. And he
put it in a box and he locked that box. He says, I'll look after your
money. And I'll spend on you on the way. He says that from there.
He paid for their, their travel costs, he paid for their hotels in
those days called hands, right, these lodging he paid for them, he
spent on them with the best of foods that money could bind those
days. Right? Treating them all the way. I mean, he's probably say,
staying at five star hotels, all the way kind of thing in those
days. He says Then he went to Baghdad, and they He fed them with
good desserts, creams and what else you got these days? Cookies
and cream and you order these, you know, dessert places nowadays,
right? So He fed them all of that until they went to Madina
Munawwara so they get to Madina, Munawwara first and then he asked
everybody, can you tell me what your shopping list is that your
family has given you that you need to buy from Madina, Munawwara
because Medina and Morocco are places where things from the
entire world used to come. So even nowadays, people they go to buy
hijabs and, you know, juba's and all of these things, give me your
list. He purchased everything for them. Then they go to Makkah, and
after they finish their worship, he says, What have you been
demanded to buy from maca. And again, the same kind of thing he
bought from all of them, he came back. Finally they came back. And
the other thing he did was he went and he kind of decorated the front
of their homes and everything just while they've been away. They
there was always maintenance that you had to do by adding lime and
things like the limestone or something like this in those days.
And then on the third day, He gave them a banquet, a big dollar,
right, a big food invitation a big party, after they had eaten
everything, he brought out that box, he opened it, and he gave
back everybody's bag of money that they had. So he basically gave
them a free hedge. Now those kinds of tour groups don't seem to exist
anymore nowadays. Right? You go with the best shake in the in the
world, right? And it's all free five star package, Allahu Akbar.
One story about his piety. He was he used to always hide his state,
he was never showing off about anything. One of his friends
Muhammad had not even a companion of his, he says that once I was
with him in a particular x on a particular expedition, and it was
nighttime, and we both had to go to sleep, right for the next day.
And he says, what happened is,
I lay down as well, pretending to sleep, I wanted to see what he was
doing. The lights all went off. And when he thought that I was
asleep, he got up there is we'll do or whatever. And he started
praying all the way until further time. And then he came to wake me
up. And I that's when I told him I'd been awake all this time. And
he got so upset with me. He got so upset with me that after that he
hardly spoke to me during the entire trip, that now I've been
found out. Now that I've been found out so used to always hide
all of these things. He didn't want people exposing his deeds.
That's why I say that when people look back at his life, they find
this really complete person. You know, you can have somebody does a
lot of worship, but then he shows off. But no, he did a lot of
worship. He was very generous. He had money. He had a lot of
knowledge. But he was also very subdued and very controlled and
very connected to Allah. It's very difficult to get somebody with all
of these qualities. A Jewish neighbor of us, he lived next to a
Jewish individually model, right? This shows you that Muslims can
live next to Jews as we do in Stamford Hill, right? And it works
hamdulillah there's less fitna in that area, by the way, you don't
see weird things that you see in other areas of Muslims and Jews in
Stamford Hill, you know, it's generally very modest, modestly
dressed people. You see, it's quite a Baraka. That sense.
Anyway. So a Jewish neighbor of liberal Mubarak decided to sell
his house, the price 2000. And people said, Tim is not even worth
1000 How you asking for 2000 is a 1000 for the house and 1000 to be
a neighbor of Abdullah human Mobarak. Even he valued that
later, Abdullah robotic found out about this. And he said to him,
Look, don't sell your house, take the money here. He gave him the
money. He said don't sell your house.
When somebody tells somebody, you know when Scott is gonna say can
you give us some advice, please? So he said, somebody said to him,
is there any way
Neither can advise us. So he turned around he says that is
there anybody to accept the advice? Lots of advice is given,
is there anybody to accept that advice? As I mentioned here, he
was born in 118 Hijiri. And people like this get a great death as
well, when they they have to depart from this world as people
have to depart from this world. Now they've got this whole
cryogenic freezing, that people are paying, you know, one day
they're going to wake up, And subhanAllah I mean, you know, you
can make a lot of money these days by doing these, you know, let me
and there's only two facilities, one in America, one in Russia, and
people are paying for that you want a business, that one in
England, right? Subhan Allah, you know, so he's back on his way from
Soos. And it's the month of Ramadan, and he is in the Anbar
Province, which is to the east of Baghdad. Unfortunately, there's a
lot of problems there. That's kind of the Sunni passage that extends
into Jordan today, right in Iraq. And he was there in Ramadan. He
was the 10th of Ramadan. And he is on the bank of the Euphrates
River. And this is where he eventually passed away. When he
was near to his death when he was near to his death. Nasir, who was
there, he told him put my head on the earth. And Nasir began to
weep, saying that, and he asked him, Why are you weeping for he
says that I remember that, what the blessings of this world you
had while you were alive, and now you're going, you know, just back
into the dust like a stranger and a pauper. So Abdullah, he
normobaric said to him, he said to him, that Be quiet. I asked Allah
throughout my life to keep me wealthy, but to make me poor
before I die, so I can go to Allah empty handed, I can go to Allah
empty handed, we have to remember is that the poor people will enter
Jannah and Paradise before the rich ones. However, when you get
into paradise, then if you've done a lot with your money, you'll get
a higher place than a poor person. So though poor person might get
into paradise faster, because they've got less forms to fill,
less liability, right? Less tax returns, right? But because you
don't have enough money to spend, you won't get the higher levels of
gender, though you may get in for further. So there's a
being a wealthy person, but also being able to go in gender first
will be a great thing.
Ignorant robotic, it says that there was a person who was sitting
next to him
towards his time when he was about to pass away. And the person said
to him, c'est la ilaha illAllah. And he kept saying, c'est la ilaha
illAllah. You know, when as we say to people when they're about to
pass away, so I've done my even at this time, he says, you know, this
is not good, what you're doing. This is not good, what you're
doing.
You are basically inconveniencing a believer at the time of his
death. What you're supposed to do is to say softly La ilaha
illAllah. And when the person was about to die has said La ilaha
illa once and you stop, because that's his last word. Then if he
says something else, then you say La Ilaha illa Allah again, to
remind them, but you don't say keep saying like La la la. This is
not that time when you keep trying to let him think and this is
what's very important. When Haroon Rashid was told that Abdullah him
and Mubarak has passed on, he said, Myrtle Yom Cejudo Allama.
Today, the leader of the automa has passed away. When Sophia
Lebanon arena found out and was told that he had passed away he
said, may Allah have mercy on him. He was a man of fiqh, knowledge,
worship, asceticism, and generosity. He was a courageous
person. And he was also a poet. He has numerous poets, poems to his
name, I'll just finish off by mentioning some of his statements
that are very thought provoking. One of his statements is, how
often listen carefully, how often does a small deed become very big,
just a small deed, become very big in the sight of Allah due to one's
intention?
And how does a very big deed often become very small and
insignificant, again, because of intention of showing off and so
on. intention really matters in our faith. He then said to people,
he said, if you wish to backbite anybody speak behind their backs?
Because some of you know I said that he used to just like staying
in his house. So people used to say to me, you pray with us? And
then after that you go back into your house? He said, Yes, because
I spent time with the messenger SallAllahu Sallam and his
companions. And the other thing is that you guys backed by too much.
So I don't want to be part of that conversation. He said here if you
people want to back bite,
then back bite your parents.
Do libre of your parents or why would you ever do that? But if you
are, if you really feel like doing you got the urge and itching to
backbite and do it of your parents, so that your reward does
not go out to stranger stays within the family.
It stays within the family that
He says, that inhabit enough. Think about this one, the
inhabitants of this world, many of the inhabitants of this world have
left this world and departed without tasting the best thing
within it. And what is the best thing in the world he was asked.
And he said, knowing Allah, knowing your Lord, knowing your
Creator and then departing this world, that is the most important
thing. When a person realizes this, that's when he's really
realized what he is. I leave us with this, that, Oh, Allah, grant
us, an understanding of these people grant us inspiration
through these people, grant us the ability to follow in their
footsteps, to be inspired by their piety, their righteousness, their
scrupulousness, their fairness, their justice, their generosity,
and the connection and devotion to Allah and Allah allow us to also
leave a memory behind that somebody.
Remember us? Can you imagine if YBNL Mubarak had done as his
father had told him, which is just to a business, he would have
enjoyed his life, maybe even more, he would have been fixed in that
place and a big family business. But do you think we would have
been speaking about a businessman from Malawi today? We're speaking
about Abdullah Hindle. Mubarak because of what he did, think what
you can contribute to this world. Before you leave however small
that contribution may be, don't just contribute to yourself, which
is essentially consumerism, but contribute what can you leave
behind for humanity in general? That is a very big message that I
see from him. He did. He also became a businessman later on. But
that businessman was under his spread of the knowledge. It wasn't
primarily businessman. He was primarily a scholar, but business
to provide the engine to run his Dao program. So may Allah subhanaw
taala give us a tool for you can work with that one and then
hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen