Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions 27
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The speaker recaps a previous hadith from the last chapter on a book and shares a meaning of a dream that brings everyone together. They also discuss the importance of seeing a dream and not knowing the outcome of it. The speaker explains that the hadith is not about seeing someone, but rather a belief in a vision of a pious man. They also mention a book that provides a reminder for people to follow the hadiths of people who saw him and hopes that it gives them a sense of love for him.
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Today's lecture for the IDA course of Fiqh
-e-Shafi'i is happening in the extension,
so the students who are with him are
encouraged to go before the khatira actually to
attend the lecture.
The sheikh will start immediately.
And as for this space here, right after
your sunnah, please exit because the sisters have
a halaqah that run right after isha, so
if you don't mind to pray your sunnah
and allow them to run their session inshallah
as well.
Today I'm going to recite the final hadith
from this book.
And even though there's maybe two or three
chapters left, I struggle with reading these last
chapters.
These last chapters talk about his illness and
talk about him passing away.
And I find it hard to read these
hadiths.
So I'm going to omit them and we'll
maybe talk about them in a different time.
So I'm just going to jump to the
last chapter of the book and recite a
hadith from it.
And then starting next week, Tuesday, I'll be
starting a different series of hadith inshallah ta
'ala.
And the hadith that I'm going to recite
tonight is in the chapter of باب ما
جاء في رؤية النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
في المنام In the chapter of seeing the
Prophet in your sleep.
And there's a nice hadith that I want
to share with you.
And a meaning that I want to share
with you inshallah as well.
قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَانِ قَالَ
حَدَّثَنَا مُعَلَّ بْنُ أَسَدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ
بْنُ الْمُخْتَارِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتٌ عَنْ أَنَسٍ رَضِيَ
اللَّهُ عَنْهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ
وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ
رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَا يَتَخَيَّلُ بِي أَوْ قَالَ
لَا يَتَمَثَّلُ بِي وَرُؤْيَ الْمُؤْمِنِ جُزْءٌ مِنْ سِتَّةٍ
وَأَرْبَعِينَ جُزْءً مِنَ النُّبُوَّةِ So what he said,
alayhi salatu wasalam, in this hadith that puts
together a couple of pieces, he said, whoever
sees me in his dream has actually seen
me.
Because the shaytan does not take my form
in your dream.
It doesn't necessarily mean that when you see
him in your dream, that you see him
exactly the way he lived, alayhi salatu wasalam,
in the exact same form.
But it's not abghathu ahlam, meaning that dream
is not considered amongst the worthless or valueless
dreams that people will see, which happens quite
often in life where you see a dream,
where you're sitting, you're in a ship eating
wood and the ship is...
It's some crazy, some meaningless...
Not every dream has an interpretation.
Some of them are abghathu ahlam.
But if you see Muhammad, salallahu ala muhammad,
salallahu alayhi wa alayhi wasalam, then you have
seen him, is actually him, and that dream
is meaningful for you.
Meaning there's something for you to learn from
it or something.
Even though the form through which you see
him may not be the way he looked
exactly during his life, alayhi salatu wasalam, but
it is not the act of the shaytan.
And he said, wa ru'ya al mu'min,
and the vision of a believer, when he
is sleeping, is a part, is juz'un,
min sitatin wa arba'ina juz'a, is
one part out of 46 parts of prophecy.
And it's all that is left in another
hadith, wa ma baqiyan min an-nubuwati illa
ru'ya ar-rajuli as-salih.
All that is left from prophecy is the
vision of a pious man.
And the reason that it's 46 is that
the Prophet, alayhi salatu wasalam, was a prophet
for 23 years.
Six months, he would have visions, alayhi salatu
wasalam.
The ru'ya, the ru'ya happened for
six months.
So 23 years and six months is half
a year.
So that's one part out of 46.
I'm not a math whiz, but I hope
that you can follow the math of that.
But alayhi salatu wasalam said there are 46
pieces of being a prophet.
We don't know necessarily what those 46 pieces
are.
There are scholars who have explained them in
books and talked about them, and it's actually
interesting.
The theories are very interesting and the topics
are really interesting, but they're not solid information.
But we know that there are different things
that go into making prophecy real.
And he said, alayhi salatu wasalam, a part
of that, one part of 46 is having
a vision, seeing something that either occurs as
if you saw it, or for it to
be interpretable, something that has actual meaning to
it.
And that's all that's left of prophecy is
having that vision, as he explains, salallahu alayhi
wasallam, ajmain.
And the reason I narrate this hadith to
you, and I end that book, al-shamaa'
al-muhammadiyya, with this hadith, and it's the
last or almost the last hadith of the
book, is that even though you may not
have the access to seeing him and spending
time with him, salallahu alayhi wasallam, in reality,
but the closest thing that you have to
him is these books that tell you through
narrations, through the testimonies of people, how he
was, and what he did, and what his
life was like, salallahu alayhi wasallam, ajmain.
And that is very meaningful.
And if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grants
you the barakah, or the blessing of a
visit from him, alayhi salatu wasalam, during your
sleep, where you know within the dream that
at some point he was there, alayhi salatu
wasalam, then that is a blessed reminder for
you, to continue to learn about him, alayhi
salatu wasalam, and follow in his footsteps, and
draw yourself as close as possible to him,
alayhi salatu wasalam, because that is really the
point of learning about his character, is so
that we can emulate him, alayhi salatu wasalam,
in every possible way, as he is the
gold standard for everything that is good in
this world, and he is the way that
we will find our path to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala on the Day of Judgment.
And I hope this series of recitations from
Ish Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya was beneficial to
you, and I pray that it granted you
a feel of closeness to him, alayhi salatu
wasalam, and a feel of love for him,
alayhi salatu wasalam, that maybe we were all
hoping for, and if not, may Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala forgive us for doing that.
We'll end with that, subhanAllah wa bihamdik shalom,
la ilaha illa anta astaghfiru wa atubu ilayk,
wa salallahu wa sallam wa barak ala nabiyyina
Allah