Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions #11
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The speaker recites a hadith about the Prophet MAC and describes a person who never ate bread from a barley bread and never ate from a cow's feet, as well as a person who had sh heads and shiny eyes and did not use them. They chose to live in a small circle, eat on small spreads on the ground, and only ate small quantities of food. They also discussed a person who chose to live a life of accident and chose to eat on small spreads on the ground, while avoiding small quantities of food.
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Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barak ala nabiyyina
wa habibiyina wa qurrati aynina Muhammad wa ala
alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in wa ba'd.
And we continue tonight insha'Allah reciting aspects
or a hadith from the book Bashamaa al
-Muhammadiyya written by, authored by Imam al-Tirmidhi
rahimahullah.
And today the chapter is Baab, ma ja
'a fee sifati khubzi Rasool Allah alayhi salatu
wasalam.
It talks about the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam's
khubz, the bread that he ate.
And funny enough this is one of the
longest chapters in the book.
It has a lot of hadith depending on
the version that you're using.
But I think there's one or two hadith
that I really think are worth sharing with
you.
I'm not going to go through every single
chapter in this book.
And I'm going to choose any certain chapter
to go through and certain hadith.
And there's definitely within this chapter something worth
sharing with you.
So I'll recite it.
hadathani muhammad ibn al-muthanna wa muhammad ibn
basharin qala hadathana muhammad ibn ja'farin qala
hadathana shu'abatu an abiyi ishaqa qala sami
'atu abdal rahman ibn yazid yuhaddithu an al
-aswadi ibn yazid an aisha ta radhi allahu
anha annaha qalat ma shabi'a anu muhammad
salallahu alayhi wa alayhi wasalam min khubzi al
-sha'iri yawmayni mutatabi'ayni hatta qubid rasool
Allah salallahu alayhi wa alayhi wasallam Hadith is
in the collection of Imam Muslim as well.
And Aisha tells us that the Prophet's family,
alu muhammad meaning the family of the Prophet
alayhi salatu wasalam never filled their bellies with
the bread made from barley.
Barley bread.
Have you ever eaten bread made from barley?
Yeah.
It sucks.
It really does.
Only people who have certain indigestions can eat
it.
I had a friend who had celiac disease
back in Syria.
And he always used to call me over
to his house and I always would say
I'm busy.
I was never busy.
I was actually very hungry.
I was living alone.
And he would call me for food but
he only ate barley bread and I offered
their life of me.
I couldn't eat it.
I found it very difficult.
Because it's different than bread that is made
from wheat.
It's not the same.
The Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam, not only did
he never eat bread made from wheat, he
never ate bread made from barley that had
the shells removed.
He never ate bread that was made from
barley that had shells removed from it.
So it was very difficult.
Most of us here would not be able
to eat that bread.
But that's what he ate alayhi salatu wasalam.
And he and his family, is what she
says, they never filled their bellies two days
consecutively in their lives.
Until the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam died.
Until he passed away alayhi salatu wasalam.
All his life, never did they eat two
days in a row and fill their bellies
with this bread.
Which is something that you can barely even
eat.
But he still didn't do it alayhi salatu
wasalam.
There was not enough.
There's another one that I want to read
for you.
Which one was it?
Hadathana Muhammad ibn Bashar.
Hadathana Mu'adh ibn Hisham.
Hadathani ya abi yan yunusa an qatadata.
Anas ibn Malik alayhi salatu wasalam.
Ma akala nabiyullahi salallahu alayhi wa sallam ala
khiwanin wala fee sukurrujatin wala khubiza lahu murqaqun.
Qala qultu li qatada fa ala makanu ya
'kulun.
Qala ala hadihi as-sufar.
So he tells us, and the hadith is
also narrated in Imam Bukhari's collection, that the
Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam never ate ala khiwan.
Khiwan is basically a table.
A table where food is higher than the
level of the ground that you walk on.
That's a khiwan.
So he never had food put on anything
that was high.
He always, he never used that.
Wala fee sukurruja.
And he didn't have a specific, and this
is a word that's Farsi.
And it's where food came in large containers
to put in front of him.
It was always on either small containers or
in something that was flat.
It was never, it never had, there was
never enough of it for it to be,
to put in something that was like a
tanjara today, as we would call it.
Wala khubiza lahu murqaq.
And he never had bread that was baked
for him from wheat.
From wheat that the shells were removed from.
He never had that in his life alayhi
salatu wasalam.
So qultu li qatada.
So Yunus is saying that I asked qatada,
one of the narrators.
Fa ala makanu ya'kulun.
What did he eat on alayhi salatu wasalam?
Qala ala hadhihi sufar.
So he would put, he would just put
a fabric on the ground, and he would
put food on the ground, and he would
eat on the ground alayhi salatu wasalam.
All his life, he never once ate on,
and this is not, and this hadith by
the way, and when I share these hadiths,
and I don't share them very often outside
of Rabi al-awwal, and outside the timing
of talking about him alayhi salatu wasalam.
That's because this is not necessarily something that
you have to adhere to.
The point of this hadith is not to
tell you okay, sell your kitchen set, and
go sit on the ground, and break your
back, and break your knees, and people have
a, no, but this is, I'm just explaining
to you how he was alayhi salatu wasalam.
What his lifestyle looked like.
That he lived very minimalistically.
And he lived in a very humble manner.
And he could have easily alayhi salatu wasalam,
got a khiwan, because they had these in
homes.
The sahaba used them.
He just didn't use them himself alayhi salatu
wasalam.
The sahaba had shukur rujaat.
He just didn't have one himself.
The sahaba eat khubus muraqaq.
He just didn't do it himself alayhi salatu
wasalam.
He just lived a life of zuhd, asceticism,
that is very difficult to live up to
the standard of, almost impossible in my opinion
to live up to.
And he chose to live that way alayhi
salatu wasalam, so that whenever you came after
him in time, and you read about him
alayhi salatu wasalam, you didn't feel that there
was a distance between you and him.
You didn't feel that he was living at
a standard that you can't live at, and
that way you feel that he's distanced from
you.
No, if anything you find that the standard
of living that you have, is better than
the standard of living that he had alayhi
salatu wasalam, which makes you feel more responsible,
and more likely to actually try and be
like him alayhi salatu wasalam.
So this was a conscious choice of asceticism
that he made alayhi salatu wasalam, to be
closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
make it easier for you and I to
follow him, and try to live up to
his standard alayhi salatu wasalam, and for us
to see what it truly means not to
care about dunya.
And even if you're offered dunya, you still
don't want it.
I mean this is towards the end of
his life, where he became the ultimate ruler
of Arabia.
He ruled the peninsula for the first time.
It had never been ruled by one person
ever before.
And he was the first person alayhi salatu
wasalam to rule it.
So he had access to money.
He had access to a lot of money.
And if you don't know that piece, you
have to study his seerah in depth, to
understand how much access he had to wealth.
In the last three years he had access
to a lot of wealth.
I mean a lot.
He could have become an actual king.
And he could have built great castles for
himself alayhi salatu wasalam, with the wealth that
was available.
And none of the sahaba would have found
it weird.
And they would have loved to do it
for him alayhi salatu wasalam.
And we would have celebrated it.
But he chose to live differently.
He chose to eat alayhi salatu wasalam, on
the small spreads on the ground, in small
containers of food.
You don't require large...
That's how he chose to live alayhi salatu
wasalam.
And it's just something that if anything makes
you love him more.
Alayhi
salatu
wasalam.