Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions #11

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.