Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions 3
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And I'm a read the hadith,
I believe it's number
5.
I forgot which one I'd which one I
chose for tonight.
Give me a second here to
No, I'm fine. You're in Tajuz, I'm fine.
No.
So,
the hadith tonight is
is a hadith that one of my teachers,
the Sheikh Mohammed Quresha
Rabib
used to love to narrate and he made
us memorize when I was really really young.
Like I know this hadith, it's a very
long hadith and I know it
from very young age. The hadith itself,
there's a lot of there's question about the
Senat, but the actual
narration. But the wording of the hadith, the
metin, the actual content is fully agreed upon.
There's nothing in the hadith that does not
exist in another
authentic narration. And this is where it's important
to know the difference between
and
the difference and the weakness on both sides.
So this hadith may have some question in
terms of the authenticity of the chain but
the actual content of the hadith has has
no disagreement upon amongst scholars so it's very
safe to narrate and it has a story
to it so I like to tell it.
So I'll recite the beginning of it and
I'll tell you
what it is.
So the hadith, this hadith is collect is
is narrate to us, to us by Sayyidina
Ali
by one of his
grandchildren.
So the Ba'af in the Sanad here, like
the weakness of the chain, this is just
for your own kind of information. The weakness
of the chain here is just that the
person who is narrating
the hadith Ibrahim ibn Muhammad is the grandchild
or the great grandchild of Sayidna Ali. We
don't have full evidence that he actually met
his grandfather. But he's narrating this because he
learned from either one of his parents or
his grandfather that his great grandfather said this
but he didn't point out who told him.
This is how
delicate and precise
the science of hadith is. So Ibrahim ibn
Muhammad the great grandson of Sayyidina Ali is
a great imam. We have no reason to
believe that he lies here. But he just
failed to tell us who is it that
told you that your grandfather said this? He
didn't pick it out. He didn't he didn't
point it out. He forgot to say that,
oh, my dad told me this or my
great my granddad told me this. He just
said my great grandfather said this because this
is something that his family has been handing
down generation after generation.
So and the scholars still point out the
hadith being having a problem with his authenticity.
This is from the Amana. This is the
this is the scientific
Amana or the scientific
integrity that we have in our deen that
even something like this No. No. Just because
you're his great grandfather great grandson is not
gonna give you
a free ticket to say whatever. No. You
have to tell us exactly who said this
but the actual wording of the hadith. There's
nothing in it that is added that you
don't find in authentic narration. So, we narrate
this hadith with a lot of openness
and it's in Taafat al Ahwadi as well.
And this is what Sayyidina Alis radiAllahu anhu
said,
When he when he when he,
described the prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam, he
will say the following. I'm going to, actually
skip the first part because the first part
I'm gonna narrate to you tomorrow in another
hadith. I wanna take the piece that I
want you to hear. He would say,
They're just probably the probably
the most beautiful description that exists of all
descriptions of the Prophet 'alayhi salatu wa salam.
And who else to make it aside from
Sayyidina Ali radiAllahu anhu again
positions and no one who was closer to
him than Sayyid N Ali. So when he
says these things, you can take it for
sure that this is how he was fa.
He would describe him by saying
He was somewhat he was the most generous
person.
Is is the chess. He was just the
most generous person. Generosity here is not necessarily
with wealth.
Generosity is with time, it's with compassion, it's
with love, it's with attention. This is where
generosity actually matters. You can be very generous
financially, but be very very, stingy when it
comes to your attention and your love and
your time and your and your energy and
your devotion and your dedication. The prophet alaihis
salatu wasalam
was He was generous with everything that his
chest contained alaihis salatu wasalam. Whatever he had,
he was the most generous person with
and that's what you find
this everywhere. No one ever came to him
he was too busy to speak to them.
No one ever came to him he was
too in too much trouble to actually sit
down listen to them. He always found time
for them alaihis salatu wa sallam. I have
no idea how he does that. I have
absolutely no clue how he was able to
do that in his life alaihis salatu wa
sallam. And the more you read about it,
the more you find this as a consistent
aspect or characteristic
and trait of who he was and
I have absolutely no idea how he kept
it up because it's extremely difficult to do
so but he was this is what everyone
says. He was just very generous
And he was someone who where he spoke,
he only said the truth.
The words that came out of his mouth
were always truthful. You could never you could
never heard something from him something you could
point out as being untruthful or deceitful or
a liar or exaggeration.
He just everything he said
was truthful and was honest. And that honesty
by the way, when you spend a lot
of time with honesty
it allows you to become sensitive to
lies.
Like you become very sensitive to when you're
listening to BS because you've heard all you've
been with honesty for so long. So when
someone starts to say things that aren't true
and you you become sensitive. And the Sahaba
because they spent so much time with him
and they were so used to honesty and
truthfulness,
there were people who picked up someone who
was lying really quickly. You couldn't you couldn't
fool the Sahaba because of how used to
honesty they were from him
from living with him. And that is something
that we for sure are
lacking these days.
They
is nature.
It's
a food. It's when you take and you
kind of put things together, you put ingredients
together and then you have some. It's nature.
His nature was just very soft
He
was easy He was not someone difficult. If
you traveled with him, you spoke to him,
if you worked with him. He wasn't someone
who put up obstacles or or barriers or
made life difficult or was always
there with the stick or with the pinger
and always had something, always objecting to something
and there's always something not working with that
person. You you all worked with someone like
that. And if you haven't,
you're that person.
If right now you're saying, No. I've never
looked anything like that. That's because you're that
person probably in that group. So be careful.
Alayhi Salatu wa Salam, Alayhi Salatu wa Salam,
Alayhi Salatu wa Salam, Alayhi Salatu wa Salam,
Alayhi Salatu wa Salam, Alayhi Salatu wa Salam,
Alayhi Salatu wa Salam, Alayhi Salatu wa Salam,
Alayhi Salatu wa Salam, Alayhi
Salatu
because it's just his nature.
He was someone that if you lived with
you meaning if you lived with him, he
treated you well. The more you lived with
him, the better he treated you. The longer
the time you spent with him into your
life
the higher he held you, the the higher
he he raised you, the more he he
treated you well, the more he loved you,
the more he gave you alayhi salatu wa
sallam. Not the opposite. Not the more I
spend time with you, the less you like
me, and the less time you wanna spend
with me, and the more bad things you
have to say about me. No. More time
he spent with you alaihis salatu wa sallam
the more good things he said about you.
The more he he gave you and the
more he treated you well alaihis salatu wa
sallam and the more he dignified your status
because that is the Afaril kalam. That's that's
that's the that's the traits of people of
of of dignity and of high.
And then my absolute favorite description.
If you ran into him for the first
time alaihis salatu wa sallam,
you just revered him. It was reverence. It
wasn't fear. It It was reverence. It was
haybah. He just had this haybah about him
alaihis salatu wa sallam. You find the first
time you felt small, you felt a bit
intimidated, a bit scared, a bit taken by
the by the aura of this man who
walked in.
And once you get to know him a
little bit
you fall in love with him
And I can't imagine it but
the person who describes him will say the
following
I've never seen anyone before him nor anyone
after him that is even remotely similar to
him. And
that kind of sums up his description as
a person.
I hope you found that beneficial.