Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions 12
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As-salāmu alaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh.
Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'īn.
Amma ba'd.
Fahadhi laylatul jum'ah laylatun a'zheematin mubaraka
yusannu fihal ikthāru min al-ṣalāti ala sayyidi
wa mawlāya rasūli Allah wa ala alihi wa
sahbihi wa anwālahu min kulli a'malīn al-ṣāliḥ.
This is the night of Jum'ah.
It's a blessed night, the night of barakah,
the night of sunnah, to increase your ṣalāh
upon the Prophet ﷺ in every good deed.
We continue inshaAllah tonight reciting a hadith from
the book of Al-Shamā'il Muhammadiyyah by
Imam al-Tirmidhi, rahimahullah, and tonight I'm going
to read for you from the chapter of
Baab, ma ja'a fi sifati idami rasoolillahi
salallahu alayhi wasalam.
It talks about what he ate, alayhi salatu
wasalam, his food.
Last time it talked specifically about the bread
that he had, this time it talks about
his food in general, alayhi salatu wasalam.
I have three short hadith I want to
share with you, and inshallah you'll find them,
you'll find it beneficial.
So if you listen to this hadith, this
hadith is in the collection of Imam Bukhari
al-Muslim, and you can see that Imam
al-Tirmidhi, narrated by a man by the
name of Qutayba ibn Sa'id, a great
scholar of his time, who was one of
the narrators of hadiths who learned from Imam
Dar al-Hijrah, Malik ibn Anas, the leader
of the Maliki Madhab.
Imam Malik heard this hadith from Ishaq ibn
Abdullah ibn Talha, one of the tabi'een,
who heard it from Anas ibn Malik.
So Imam Malik has some hadiths that are
thuna'iya, meaning between him and the Prophet
alayhi salatu wasalam, two people.
Imam Malik, in his muwatta, which is why
muwatta is one of the most important books
of hadith, is that between him and Rasulallah
alayhi salatu wasalam, only two people, a tabi
'een and Anas ibn Malik, which makes the,
and these are asaneed aliyah, these are high
levels of asaneed, of chains of narration, because
the number of people within the chain is
very very few, and mind you that there
is value to that for sure.
To have a hadith that has a very
high level of, that's a high narration, meaning
only two or three people in the chain,
but one of them is, there is some
concern, versus a chain of seven people, all
of them golden, the one that has three
people is better, because it's closer, because the
margin of error is decreased the less people
there are in the chain.
It's just human, it's just common sense and
it's human nature.
The less people that are narrating, the more
likely this is authentic because it's close.
So Imam al-Tirmidhi, some hadith he has,
between him and Malik, Imam Malik is just
one person, so he has these asaneed aliyah
in Jamia al-Tirmidhi, where between him and
the Prophet ﷺ is five, is four or
five people, and of course this is important
for those who study mustalah al-hadith and
find it interesting, it has value to it.
Faqal, Anas ibn Malik, the sahabi, radiallahu anhu
qala, inna khayyatan da'a rasoolallahi salallahu alayhi
wa alayhi wa sallam li ta'amin sana
'ah.
There is a tailor who called the Prophet
ﷺ over for food that he had made
at his home, he wanted the Prophet ﷺ
over for food.
Faqala Anas, fathahabtu ma'a rasoolillahi salallahu alayhi
wa sallam ila dhalika atta'am.
Anas said, and I went with the Prophet
ﷺ to eat the food.
Faqarraba ila rasoolillahi salallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa
sallam khubzan min sha'eerin wa maraqan feehi
dubba'un wa qadeed.
So the man, he put forward khubz sha
'eer, barley bread, and maraq.
The Arab, if you come from a village
somewhere in the Middle East or anywhere in
that area, you would sit on the ground
and there would be a bowl that has
something that has a lot of liquid in
it.
And then they just add all these things
to it.
You leave a Middle Eastern man to cook,
he'll just take all of the vegetables and
stuff in the house and throw them into
it and then leave it to boil for
a while and then throw it in front
of you and put some salt in and
tell you to eat it and they think
it's actually good.
And this is what they would eat.
And the Prophet ﷺ, this is what he,
by the way, there's an example, you read
the books of Sira, where Amr ibn al-'As,
after conquering Egypt, which was one of the
most difficult things that the Muslims ever did.
It was very hard, it took a lot
of effort.
Amr ibn al-'As literally had to spend all
of his intellect and everything he had to
get this done.
When he got it done, he was made
the governor.
And of course, becoming the governor of Egypt
has always, is a very good way to
become rich.
And he was not corrupt but he, as
the governor, was well off.
He did well for himself and he'd always
done well for himself.
He was called by Amr al-Khattab to
come, because Amr al-Khattab would call all
of his governors for meetings.
So he came and with him he brought
a vice, like an advisor, a consultant that
he had with him.
So this consultant had never met, he'd never
met the Prophet ﷺ, he'd never met Amr
either.
So he came to Amr and he found
Amr sitting as the Prophet ﷺ was, and
he's eating a certain type of food.
Some narrations call it thareed, some say khabees.
And he's eating and the man, and he
sees Amr al-'As and he says, come and
eat.
So Amr comes and he starts eating.
And he tells the guy with him to
eat.
So the guy hesitates and eats.
So he eats.
And they finish the meeting and leave.
So the man, after he finished, he almost
wants to vomit.
He told him, why did you make me
eat?
He said, had I not eaten he would
have taken away my governorship.
He would have removed me.
He would have fired me from my job
if I didn't eat.
Because if I didn't eat he would have
said, so now you don't eat this food
anymore?
You've become too pampered in your new position.
So he said, I ate, even though I
am like you, I was ready to vomit.
This was not food that I would ever
eat.
And a lot of the food that the
Arabs ate sometimes was not amazingly, was not
something that you would see and decide that,
it's not an appetite opener, to say the
least.
So this man put in front of the
Prophet ﷺ some barley and a bowl.
Within it was jerky, beef jerky or lamb,
and pieces of dubba.
Dubba, we don't know, there's a family of
vegetables where cucumbers and zucchinis and squash and
pumpkins all belong to.
If you look it up in botany, it
has a name, I think it's similar to
the word cucumber, I can't remember what it's
called.
But it's like a family of vegetables.
So we don't know exactly which one it
was that he had, and we think it's
a type of squash that existed in that
area, because some people still have it.
We don't think it's cucumber, we think it's
a type of pumpkin or squash that exists
in that area.
Because you can't really cook cucumber without ruining
it, but you can cook pumpkin and squash
without ruining it.
So we think it's a type of that.
Dubba is called.
يقول أنس فرأيت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
يتتبع الدباء حواء علي صحفتي فلم أزل أحب
الدباء من يومئذ.
He said, I saw the Prophet صلى الله
عليه وسلم when he's eating with a piece
of bread, he's following the دباء in the
bowl because he wants to have it in
his piece of bread.
He likes الدباء.
So أنس said, and since I saw him
do that صلى الله عليه وسلم, I've always
loved الدباء صلى الله عليه وسلم أجمعين.
And this is not a requirement.
Loving الدباء is not a sunnah, just so
you understand.
You don't have to love الدباء to be
a good Muslim.
But it tells you something again about the
mentality of the people who were with him
عليه الصلاة والسلام.
What I'm interested in is not that you
understand that he loved الدباء because I don't
even know exactly what الدباء is to begin
with.
We're not even sure.
The scholars aren't even sure.
It's not like I'm not sure, the scholars
are not sure.
The idea is the mentality of the people
who were with him عليه الصلاة والسلام.
They loved him at a level where they
were willing to fall in love with the
food that they didn't like if they saw
him liking it صلى الله عليه وسلم أجمعين.
Do you understand what degree of love that
requires?
For you to change your required food taste.
To change your taste in food.
To like something that you didn't like before
just because he liked it صلى الله عليه
وسلم أجمعين.
And that's how they felt.
That's how Anas grew up with him.
And Ibn Umar has a similar hadith obviously
that is a bit more famous than this
one.
The second one that I'm going to share
with you قَالَ حَدَّثْنَا أَبْنُ لَهِيْعَةَ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانِ
بْنِ سِيَادٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ قَالَ
أَكَلْنَا أَكَلْنَا معَ رَسُولِ اللهِ صلى الله عليه
وآله وسلم شِوَاءً فِي الْمَسْجِدِ حَدِيثٌ رَوَاهُ الْإِمَامِ
فِي الْتِرْمِذِي بِسَيَدٍ صَحِيحٍ So, we ate with
the Prophet ﷺ barbecue in the Masjid شِوَاء
is anything that is being barbecued This is
what, I didn't make this up This is
Abdullah ibn al-Harith in the hadith صحيح
في الْإِمَامِ التِرْمِذِي that we ate in the
Masjid with the Prophet ﷺ شِوَاء something that
was barbecued outside was brought into the Masjid
and ate and eaten and this is how,
and this is why I think Masajid have
to be brought back in terms of the
purpose that they serve and the way that
they're run because the Masjid to them, to
the Prophet ﷺ, the people with them they
served more than just a place for spirituality
It was a place where they lived, where
they lived, where they shared, where they existed
and they learned to get along and they
learned to cooperate and respect one another and
understand the diverse community that they belong to
and that's a piece that we're for sure
missing So, I know Muhammad doesn't care, but
I need to spite someone with this hadith
So, I chose you And this is the
final one that I'll share with you قَالَ
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ بَشَّارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُسْلِمٌ إِبْرَهِيمٌ قَالَ
حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ ابْنِ يَزِيدٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ شَهْرِ
ابْنِ حَوْشَبٍ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ
أبو عبيد, أبو عبيد is a different one
قَالَ طَبَخْتُ لِلنَّبِيِّ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ
قِدْرَا وَقَدْ كَانَ يُعْجِبُهُ الذِّرَاعَ فَنَوَلْتُهُ الذِّرَاعَ القدر,
he said I cooked for the Prophet ﷺ
a pot and within it were pieces of
meat and he liked ﷺ the arm, the
arm of the sheep يُعْجِبُهُ الذِّرَاعَ فَنَوَلْتُهُ الذِّرَاعَ
so I did this for him and I
wanted to give him a piece of meat
that I knew that he liked he had
his taste in meat ﷺ he liked the
arm of the sheep فَنَوَلْتُهُ الذِّرَاعَ ثُمَّ قَالَ
صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَمَ نَاوِلْنِي الذِّرَاعَ give me
the arm قَالَ فَنَاوَلْتُهُ الذِّرَاعَ so I gave
him the arm قَالَ نَاوِلْنِي الذِّرَاعَ give me
an arm فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَكَمْ لِلشَّاتِ
مِن ذِرَاعَ how many arms can one sheep
have فَقَالَ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَمَ وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي
بِيَدِهِ لَوْ سَكَتْتَ لَنَاوَلْتَنِي الذِّرَاعَ مَا دَعُوتُ he
said if you didn't say anything every time
you put your hand in you would have
given me an arm until I finished calling
you صلى الله عليه وسلم but you spoke
you spoke out of turn and you objected
where it wasn't your space to object and
you didn't do it but you were told
صلى الله عليه وسلم فَإِشْمَعِي he liked the
arm of the sheep and that was his
adab of food he ate whatever was available
whatever was available he ate مَا عَابَ طَعَامًا
قَطَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم he never in
his life said something negative about food in
his life in his life he never said
anything negative about food ever he liked it
he ate it if he didn't like it
he didn't eat it he never said anything
negative about food in his life صلى الله
عليه وسلم he ate what was ever available
and if he didn't find food available he
would fast صلى الله عليه وسلم and whenever
he had food he would share it with
the people around him and he refused to
eat alone صلى الله عليه وسلم all his
life I hope that was a benefit to
you سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك شنو لا إله إلا
تستغفرك وصلى الله وسلم وبرك على نبينا محمد
وعلى آله وصحبه جزاكم الله خير بارك الله
فيكم