Adnan Rajeh – Seerah Halaqah #51
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The Quraysh army were outnumbered by Uhud, causing chaos and devastation for the rest of their lives. The aftermath of the chaos and chaos leading up to the battle of Uhud caused chaos and deaths, leading to fear among some people and a desire for peace. The Prophet's actions caused chaos and deaths, leading to the loss of loved ones and the need for compassion and empathy when dealing with people who fight in a war. The speaker provides a list of tasks to complete.
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Today we most likely will conclude the events
of the battle of Uhud.
Uhud does not finish with the events, unfortunately
Uhud stretches out in terms of its consequences
and the aftermath and also going through what
the Qur'an says about what actually occurred
on that day.
So it's a very dynamic battle, there's more
to it than just what actually happened during
it, unlike maybe other battles where it's just
the story itself and that suffices for you
to understand what occurred.
But no, Uhud branches out quite a bit,
not just in terms of subsequent consequences but
also in philosophical aftermath, meaning it will bring
up a lot of questions because obviously it's
going to be seen as a defeat.
So I'll conclude the story today.
So quickly to summarize, the Prophet's plan worked
perfectly, they were outside of Medina which was
not ideal to him, he wanted to be
inside Medina.
Maybe just move this to the end of
the page, just fill it all up to
the end of the page and just leave
it.
Alright, that's good, that's fine, perfect.
And the way that he did it, because
he was outnumbered 1 to 4, he made
sure that he was going to fight within
a very small space, forcing Quraysh's army to
be vertical, not horizontal, so they couldn't flank.
So he had Uhud on the right, and
Uhud is a huge mountain, there's no way
they're going to get over it or around
it, and then there was a smaller mountain
called, we call it today as the Mount
of Archers, it's called the Mount of Archers
because he put archers on it, I wasn't
called that before, and he put 50 archers
and their job was very clear, he gave
them a very clear command, very clear mission,
do not under any circumstances leave the mountain,
unless I personally come up and tell you
to leave, and if I pass away, then
you all die on that mountain, that was
going to be the agreement.
And Abdullah ibn Jubayr who was the leader
of this group, and just as planned, Sayyidina
Hamza ibn Abdul Muttalib was the on-ground
commander, and the battle itself ended almost very
quickly.
In the first hour, the Quraysh was all
over the place, people were running in every
direction, the Muslims had not only pushed them
back, but had killed the carrier of the
banner of the Quraysh army at least nine
times, it was complete chaos.
And this was a swift victory for the
Muslims, again, Badr happened and now this was
worse and Abu Zubayr was losing his mind.
Unfortunately, the archers on the mountain saw how
many of the Mushrikeen were lying there with
the loot and the bounty that they were
carrying and got greedy.
They got greedy, and they thought the battle
was over, and they made a mistake.
Now we don't demonize them for the mistake,
but it was a mistake regardless, and the
Qur'an points it out as a mistake,
as I will explain to you inshallah at
the end of the battle.
And they went down the mountain to pick
up the loot and the bounty, 40 of
them did, 10 of them didn't.
Abdullah bin Zubayr, the leader, stayed and tried
to keep them all back, but they didn't
listen.
They go down the mountain, Khalid bin Walid,
who was responsible for flanking, who couldn't flank
because of the 50 who were on the
mountain, saw them run down, so he signaled
to Abu Sufyan to gather whoever's left, there
were 4,000 people in that army, the
Muslims were 700.
So Abu Sufyan was able to put together
maybe 800, 900 people, and Khalid with the
300 cavalry that he had, flanked the mountain,
they rushed it.
The 10 archers could not take out the
300 horsemen, and they were eventually overpowered, and
all of them were martyred.
Khalid bin Walid now owned the mountain, and
had the ability to flank, so he flanked
the Muslims from behind.
The Muslims now, they're the ones who are
in chaos, because now they have to defend
their back, they never prepared for that, so
now half the army had to turn around.
In the midst of all of this, Ibn
Qami'ah, one of the mushrikeen, would make
his way to Mus'ab ibn Umayr carrying
the banner.
Now that wouldn't have been a problem had
he not yelled something out.
He yelled out that I killed Muhammad ﷺ,
because Mus'ab looked so much like him.
Now when he said those words, and the
Muslims are being flanked, the army is being
flanked, there's instability in the army, and they
hear that, and the banner is down, that
was the recipe for things to completely go
awa.
And the Muslims heard the Prophet ﷺ and
hit them like a lightning bolt, so some
of the Muslims in the army decided that
the best thing to do right now is
to retreat back to Medina to defend the
city.
If the Prophet ﷺ has been killed, obviously
they are devastated, but he wasn't ﷺ, and
half the army ended up retreating back to
Medina.
Now he was standing right in front of
Uhud, and he was very vulnerable, very exposed,
only maybe 20-30 people were left to
defend him ﷺ, to fight with him, and
the mushrikeen were making their way in.
They were very difficult moments, they were very
difficult moments.
For the rest of his life ﷺ, the
moment of Uhud, the hour and a half
or two hours where this occurred, would continuously
be referred to as probably the most difficult
two hours of his life ﷺ.
When he was asked about it later on,
and I pointed this out to you a
couple of months ago, when it was pointed
out to him by Aisha that, what was
the most difficult day of your life, Ya
Rasulullah, after Uhud, she said, after Uhud, meaning
we know Uhud was the most difficult moment.
So he corrected her and said it wasn't
Uhud.
When he was kicked out from Al-Ta
'if and he had no plan, in his
mind that was the most difficult moment of
his life.
Uhud ranks number two, doesn't rank number one
in his mind ﷺ.
Great Muslims that day showed a beautiful amount
of bravery.
Sayyidina Abu Dujanah and Sayyidina Sa'ad ibn
Abi Waqqas and Sayyidina Talha, if you had
to choose who this day was for, who
is the person who represents the bravery of
that day, then you would choose Talha ibn
Ubaidillah, and the Prophet ﷺ would stand there
and call upon the Muslim, إليّ عباد الله!
إليّ عباد الله!
O servants of Allah!
Come back to me!
I am alive!
I'm not gone!
But it was too chaotic to hear, and
he would say, والله ما أنصفنا أصحابنا!
Our companions have not treated us fairly today
by leaving us in this difficult situation.
Yazid ibn Sakan, one of the young sahaba
who had a group of guys and he
was amongst the 70 who would do teaching
to the Ahl as-Suffah.
So there was like a group of young
shabab, a group of shabab in their 20s
and 30s who became very close, a tight
knit group, and they became, what they started
to do is they started to take all
of the immigrants who went to Ahl as
-Suffah, who had nowhere to stay and had
to live inside the message of the Prophet
ﷺ, they were so poor, they would take
them and train them.
They would teach them a craft, give them
something they could do, and teach them the
Qur'an.
And of course these young gentlemen were highly
revered by the sahaba.
Some of them would fall today, and some
of them would fall after Ahl, and I'll
tell you the story in detail then.
But a group of them would fall today,
and Yazid ibn Sakan was one of the
leaders of this group, and he and ten
of his brothers would come and they would
defend the Prophet ﷺ and the sahaba that
day.
And one by one they would fall.
One by one they would be martyred.
And the last one to fall that day
would be Yazid himself, and the Prophet ﷺ
would mourn him, and he would pick his
face off the ground because Yazid would fall
face forward down into the dirt, and the
Prophet ﷺ would pull him back and pick
up his face and put it on his
thigh and clean it off from the dirt
and say, And the Prophet ﷺ would say,
I want you to be my witness that
I am satisfied with Yazid ibn Sakan and
all those who fought with him on this
day.
In the midst of all this chaos and
of this sorrow, and Mus'ab is gone,
and people knew Mus'ab was gone because
Mus'ab was carrying the banner, and the
banner was on the ground and someone else
had to pick it up so people knew
that Mus'ab had died, and that itself
was obviously very painful to them because Mus
'ab was a very central figure within their
lives, and the Prophet ﷺ chose him to
be his ambassador, and a lot of the
sahaba from Medina, from Yathrib, had accepted Islam
because of Mus'ab, so they identified Islam
through him, he was a very important piece,
they had just learned, got to know the
Prophet ﷺ the last two years, but Mus
'ab was the person who brought all of
that khair to them, so losing him was
very painful and they were trying to remove
his body and bring it back and they
couldn't.
And a man by the name of Ubayy
ibn Khalaf would appear amongst the mushrikeen.
Ubayy has a story, Ubayy is Umayyad ibn
Khalaf's brother, both of them are brothers, Umayyad
ibn Khalaf is the guy who Sayyidina Bilal
was tortured by and whom Sayyidina Bilal took
out on the day of Badr.
Ubayy, his brother, was similar to his brother
Umayyad, and he would commonly come by the
Prophet ﷺ when the Prophet ﷺ was doing
da'wah or whatever he was doing, and
he would bring his horse with him, he
would come by pulling his horse, and in
his hand there was hay, and he would
carry the hay and feed the horse, and
he would say, hey Muhammad, do you know
why I'm feeding my horse?
The Prophet ﷺ doesn't answer because you don't
answer those type of questions, it's obviously a
trap.
I'm feeding him and strengthening him so I
kill you one day on his back.
And the Prophet ﷺ would not respond to
him.
But he would do this all the time,
it was like his joke.
And just before hijrah, the day before hijrah,
he came and did this to the Prophet
ﷺ, the Prophet ﷺ looked at him and
said, no, I'll be the one taking you
out.
Ubayy got scared.
They believed him ﷺ, for better or for
worse, they knew that he didn't lie.
So on the day of Badr, he made
sure he was not available.
He made sure that he was somewhere else
traveling, caravan, so he wouldn't do it.
On the day of Uhud, he couldn't do
it.
On the day of Uhud, he tried to
get himself out of this, but he couldn't.
The people of Abu Sufyan and those with
him, you have to come.
So he came fully in metal.
He was covered, have you ever seen the
knights on their horses?
Some of them, if you look in medieval
times, can be fully covered in armor from
their head down to their feet.
And there was nothing, you could see nothing
of him, not even his eyes.
There's only a line, nothing can go through
it, it's too small.
And he's on his horse, and he looks,
he's huge.
So the Sahaba see this guy emerging from
the camp of the Mushrikeen that day, in
the middle of chaos.
And they're trying to protect the Prophet ﷺ.
Talha's already lost his hand, as he put
it up to protect the Prophet ﷺ from
an arrow.
Umm Ammara is bleeding from her shoulder.
Yazid ibn Sakin and Mus'ab ibn Umair
are on the ground.
They passed away.
They've been martyred.
And Sayyidina Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas and the
few archers with him are doing their best
to keep them back.
It's very chaotic.
And this man emerges from the back.
And of course the Mushrikeen are using the
propaganda to scare the Muslims.
He's going to kill, because they found out
in the midst of all this that the
Prophet ﷺ had not died.
Or they had suspicion now that he had
not actually died.
When ibn Qami'ah said that I killed
him, the Muslims believed it, unfortunately.
And the Mushrikeen kind of believed it, but
they're not sure.
And then when they came closer to the
mountain where these 20 people are holding their
ground, they were more certain that the Prophet
ﷺ was still alive.
So Ubayy ibn Khalaf was pushed to go
and fight.
And Ubayy, because he thought the Prophet had
most likely died, he had a little bit
more courage.
So he's on his horse, and his horse
is making those grunting noises.
And he takes his spear, and he charges.
And the Sahaba see it, and they want
to take cover.
The Prophet ﷺ sees him coming.
Is that Ubayy?
Leave me alone.
But the Sahaba, the narration says, We were
all sitting close to him, and he pushes
us all away.
Give me a spear.
So they gave him a spear.
He would move it a few times, getting
ready.
And then he threw it.
And of course, Ubayy is charging.
It hit his armor on the head.
It hit the armor.
It wasn't a full hit.
It just basically glazed the armor on the
side.
Throwing him off balance.
So he's thrown off balance.
He's not off his horse.
He's still on his horse.
He's not actually hurt.
He started to scream in fear.
There's nothing wrong with you.
You weren't hit.
You're not actually hit.
And he's screaming like a camel.
Muhammad has killed me.
No, no, he didn't kill you.
You're fine.
There's nothing wrong with you.
Your armor was just hit.
And he kept on screaming.
He killed me.
He killed me.
Until his horse got scared.
And the horse would go up.
When horses get scared, they go on their
back feet.
So he goes on his back feet.
Ubayy falls off.
He falls off, and he falls off a
cliff.
And he kept on falling down.
He's in armor, so obviously he's very clunky.
He falls down a steep hill, and he
dies.
As the Prophet, peace be upon him, told
him.
This chaos goes on for around an hour
to an hour and a half.
Up to two hours.
In the midst of all of this, something
would happen.
That would change the sequence of events.
They wouldn't be able to hold their ground,
most likely, had this not happened.
Which is why the Sahabi, we only have
this one story about him.
But this is the only story someone like
this would need.
A man by the name of Anas ibn
Nadr.
Anas ibn Nadr is Anas ibn Malik's uncle.
So Anas ibn Malik's name is Anas ibn
Malik ibn Nadr.
So Nadr has two boys.
He has Anas, the guy I'm talking about.
And he has Malik, who is Anas ibn
Malik's dad.
So Anas ibn Nadr is Anas ibn Malik's
uncle.
He wasn't there on the day of Badr.
And he always regretted not being able to
be there on the day of Badr.
He felt it killed him that he couldn't
be there on the day of Badr.
Because he was one of the most committed
Sahabi from Medina, from Khazraj.
So he was very upset and he would
say, If Ya Rabb, you grant me the
privilege of fighting with the Prophet, I will
show you my bravery.
I will show you my strength.
I will never let him be alone again.
Because he just wasn't there during the time.
A lot of the people of Mecca and
Medina and other parts of Arabia would go
on caravans, like business trips.
Business trips take months.
It would take months.
It wouldn't be, you're going downtown and coming
back in a day.
It's not months to go back and forth.
So he just happened not to be in
Medina at all during the time of Badr.
He came back, it was already over.
He got very upset.
So he always kept his trips after that
really short.
Because he never wanted to miss anything.
Interestingly enough, he was also on a trip
for this one.
But he was on his way back because
he made his trips short.
So he's coming back to Medina.
They're telling him that the Prophet and the
Sahaba are fighting in Uhud, Mushrikeen.
So he's on his horse and he's galloping
towards Uhud.
Who does he meet on the way back?
The Muslims.
Who had heard the word that the Prophet
died.
And decided to go back to Medina to
defend Medina.
They made that decision.
The Quran will point out that the decision
was wrong.
But that was the decision that they made.
They decided that's what they were going to
do.
They believed it.
They didn't verify the information.
And they got upset and they went back.
So Nunus is going towards Uhud.
And they are coming back towards Medina.
So he's galloping and he sees them coming
back.
There's maybe 300 people.
So he tells them, where are you going?
The Prophet has died.
We go back to Medina.
The Prophet has died.
What's worth life if he's gone?
Go back.
And die for that which he died for.
What do you mean you go back?
What's the point of living if he's not
around?
Go back and fight.
He brought back 300 people.
These 300 people make their way back.
And of course now the Prophet has some
people.
Now the army is a little bit more
stable.
With the return of these 300.
They're coming back from behind.
So these 300 from behind are supporting the
Prophet who is sitting right in front of
Uhud.
Right at the entrance of the mountain of
Uhud.
And they come back and of course when
they arrive now there's some cavalry.
Now he has some support.
They're able to organize their lines in the
midst of all that.
So this is the Mount of Archers.
When they came down to pick up all
the loot because Ikrimah's group had lost.
Khalid rushed the mountain, killed them and then
came from behind.
So what did the Prophet do?
He went over here.
Here's where he went.
He closed because he can't be flanked from
behind.
So the 20-30 people closed this area
and held their ground there with their shields.
They held their ground there.
Until the Muslims who had went back to
Medina because they thought he had passed came
back from here and then they all kind
of filled in this area and they held
their ground there.
Just so you understand what was happening.
Now in the middle of the battle there's
still things going on.
Like in the battlefield over here fighting is
still happening.
It's just way more chaotic.
So let's go through.
Alright.
As is going on at the same time
Sayyidina Hamza ibn al-Mutalib is still holding
back more than half of the Mushrikeen's army.
Because you're probably asking the question if the
Prophet is standing with 30 people and there's
4,000 on that group how is it
that they have not been demolished and destroyed
immediately?
The reason being is that Hamza is still
there.
He's not gone yet.
And he's holding the line.
Yes he's being flanked from behind but he
can't fight in both directions.
So the best thing he can do is
push back the 2,000 that are in
front of him.
Yes Khalid can flank and Abu Sufyan was
able to get into the middle of it
but he was still pushing back the majority
of the Mushrikeen's army.
And he had to make a decision.
Either he retreats back and then they have
to basically absorb in that small area that
I showed you the force of 3,000
people or he pushes back the 2,000
or 2,500 in front of him and
the Prophet with the people who are with
him they try and hold off whatever is
left of them.
So he had to make a commander's decision.
He decided to stay in the middle of
the battlefield and push back.
And his main objective was to take back
the Mount of Archers.
His main objective was to reclaim the mountain
again because he saw what happened.
He didn't know what happened.
As most of the Muslims that day didn't
know what happened.
They didn't understand how Khalid ended up coming
behind.
They would find out later what happened because
it's too chaotic.
The mountain is not just a couple of
meters.
There's a kilometer.
You can't see.
But Hamza figured it out in the middle
of the battlefield what happened.
That the mountain now was not for the
Muslims.
He needed to reclaim it.
So he's holding the lines and he's pushing
back the Mushrikeen and he's trying to get
up the mountain.
So he's trying to get up there and
he's fighting his way up to reclaim the
mountain and get some archers on it to
protect the Muslims.
As he's doing this Sayyidina Hamza Subhanallah he
didn't he wasn't around for a lot.
When you think about it the Prophet passed
away and then Muslims lived after.
Hamza didn't get a lot of that.
He was a late Muslim.
If you want to be honest about this.
Hamza accepted Islam in the sixth year of
the Prophecy.
So 13 years in Mecca he was Muslim
for 7 of them and now 2 in
Medina.
Or 3 because Uhud was in the third
year of Hijab.
Badr was in the second year and Uhud
in the third.
So 10 years of Muslim that's it.
That's all he got.
Yet he's one of those names that is
no longer a name.
It's a description.
His name became a description.
An adjective not a word anymore.
My son I called my name Hamza.
Because Hamza is not a name.
Hamza if I want to describe someone with
bravery if I want to describe them with
strength with commitment, with devotion you'll say Hamza.
Because that name became that.
Why?
Because of the person who carried it.
Even though he wasn't Muslim for very long.
You think Hamza and Umar.
Umar lived way longer.
Umar was he outlived the Prophet.
He became a Khalifa.
He became a ruler.
And still Hamza's name holds.
And it's interesting to me that a person's
bravery, a person's strength can live on that
long.
And Sayyidina Hamza was just one of those
people whose presence was so powerful and so
valuable that those around him felt safe when
he was there.
The Muslims felt safe.
I'm going to tell you the story of
this.
This was a very decisive moment in the
Prophet's life because of who Hamza was.
And Hamza if it wasn't for him the
day of Uhud would have not turned out
the way it turned out.
If it wasn't for what he did the
day of Uhud would have been different.
He holds him back and he starts working
his way up the mountain with a few
people.
He's fighting his way up the mountain trying
to reclaim it.
Now Hamza on the day of Badr he,
remember the duels?
There were duels.
So the duels were Hamza and Ali and
Abu Ubaidah Ibn Harith Ibn Abdul Muttalib.
Hamza and his two nephews fighting Uthbah Ibn
Rabi'ah and his two sons that day.
Now Hind lost on the day of Badr
her father, her uncle and her brother.
And she blamed Hamza because Hamza killed her
father within a few seconds went by Sayyidina
Ali and gave him a hand and then
killed the guy Abu Ubaidah was fighting.
So Hamza technically to her took out all
three of her relatives.
So she built a grudge.
She built a little bit of a grudge.
She'll accept this down later so don't worry.
She'll be okay.
But at that moment she built a grudge.
So she hired a mercenary.
She hired someone to take him out that
day.
And the person she would hire is the
name of Wahshi Ibn Harb.
Who I can still say because he accepted
Islam later on as well.
And he would make up for this sin
or for this moment.
He had no business in this war.
He was just promised that if you kill
Hamza Ibn Abdul Muttalib you are free.
He doesn't care about Mushrikeen or about Islam
or none of this matters to him.
He's a slave who wants his freedom.
He was offered this guarantee by this lady
What does he do?
He's a marksman.
Not as an archer but with spears.
It's much more difficult to throw a spear
by the way.
Way more difficult.
Archery is a bit easier because the bow
helps you keep your alignment.
Throwing spears is a whole different game.
First of all they're really heavy.
Remember I told you about the bow?
The bow is maybe a meter and a
bit.
I was 14.
I tell you I couldn't move it.
I couldn't pull it back two or three
centimeters.
It was very hard.
I watched a Bedouin man do it.
When he let the arrow go the sound
that it made was terrifying.
Then how far it went into a piece
of metal.
Until this day it makes me scared.
It was scary stuff.
If you get a direct hit from an
actual Arabian arrow from an Arabian bow with
the armor it will go right through it.
Unless you have two layers it will go
right through it.
If it doesn't it will hit so hard
that the armor itself will be bent and
it will break ribs or break bone.
The spear is bigger heavier and the head
is much more lethal.
It's actually quite heavy to carry.
Wahshi is the one who tells us this
story.
He tells the story with what he was
saying.
I would hide behind small hills or uppings
of dirt watching him.
Every time I try to prepare myself I'm
scared he's going to see me.
So when he moves I fear he's going
to see me so I go back down
again.
Then I try again but he's moving everywhere
and he's quick and he's looking at every
direction.
I couldn't seem to find a moment where
I could get him.
I couldn't until Sayyidina Hamza had to go
up the mountain.
So he had to go up the mountain
so now he was not looking in every
direction so he has his back.
Wahshi now sees only the back of Hamza
because Hamza is trying to push his way
up the mountain with the few people that
he had.
This was my chance.
This was my only chance to get him.
Because he's trying to push his way up
the mountain he's not going to look back
for a few moments.
I can prepare myself.
...
I took my spear and I moved I
prepared myself until I felt confident ...
...
...
And it entered right into his back and
it came out his belly.
It went from one side and came out
the other.
...
He didn't fall.
...
But he turned around.
...
...
Looking who is the coward who hit him
in his back.
Because the Arab never did this by the
way.
Even in the middle of the war they
wouldn't do that.
It's interesting.
Warfare for the Arab is very theatrical I
have to say.
Like when you study it there is a
certain theatrical aspect to it.
Like they had certain codes of conduct, certain
unspoken rules that they actually adhered by.
And if you didn't adhere by that rule
people.
You were destroyed.
You may win the war or kill the
person, but they will destroy you.
Your reputation will become garbage.
Poets will say poetry about you that will
completely trash your lineage to the day of
judgment.
So people actually had to follow these rules
because there was no point of winning the
battle and then losing your reputation.
So it was a big deal.
So it's very rare for someone to do
that.
So Hamza's looking around.
He's looking.
Until he saw me.
When he saw me, he said, he saw
me and it was me.
And he started walking towards me.
I got so scared I couldn't move.
I froze out of fear of this man.
I couldn't move.
And then the bleeding and the wound beat
him and he fell on that day.
And that's Sayyiduna Hamza.
The Sahaba would often describe the Prophet's grief.
His grief was an aspect of people would
observe the Prophet and mourn because he lost
a lot of loved ones in his life.
He lost Khadija and he lost his children.
You never saw him so sad as we
saw him the day he died.
He didn't know he had died until after
the war.
After the battle, when it was all over,
he's counting the heads, he's looking for him.
He's looking for him and he doesn't see
him.
And he's getting scared.
He's looking amongst the groups.
Maybe he'll pop up somewhere.
He's not popping up anywhere.
He's looking at the mountains to see if
maybe he took back the mountain.
He's not on the mountain.
And the Sahaba don't dare say a word.
The Sahaba sometimes point out that Hind got
to him while he had fallen and had
mutilated his body.
It's unclear whether this is authentic or not.
There's some degree of debate amongst scholars whether
it's authentic or not.
But the Sahaba knew that he had fallen
that day.
That he was no longer with them.
And they wouldn't dare say anything.
They all just held their tongue.
None of them had the courage to tell
the Prophet that he's gone because it was
just so painful to him.
When they did the salah upon the people
who had passed, he kept Hamza there.
Every time they did salah, Hamza would stay
there.
You'd cry for him.
You'd sit there and cry.
You would hear for him a naheeb.
A naheeb in Arabic means the sound that
you take when you're taking a deep breath
during grief.
Meaning that's the sound he would make as
he would mourn him.
Because he loved him.
And that's why we love him.
That's why Sayyidina Hamza became who he became.
Because it wasn't just the Prophet's love for
him.
It was how the Sahaba felt when he
was around.
And how they felt when they lost him.
This is the impact I feel you should
think about as a person.
Think about this as a target or a
mark for you in your life.
You're probably not going to be engaged in
a uhud or anything similar to it.
Most likely that's not going to be the
story of your life.
May Allah remove war from our lives.
You never ask for war obviously.
But what I'm interested in is the fact
that one person could be so impactful, could
mean so much to so many people in
a short period of time.
That they would feel so lost when he
was gone.
That they would continue to mourn him, speak
of him, grieve for his loss for years
after he passed away.
The Prophet would go and visit the martyrs
of uhud every month, every week.
Mainly to give salams to his uncle Hamza.
Because of the bravery of this man.
And how supported the Prophet felt because of
Hamza.
How stronger he felt because of Hamza.
And he would say, I felt the loss.
I felt the weakness.
I felt the isolation.
And you'll hear it in his dua on
the day of al-Khandaq later on.
When Sayyidina Ali goes and fights Amr ibn
Ud.
And the Prophet says you took Abu Ubaidah
on the day of Badr and Hamza on
the day of Uhud.
Don't leave me alone.
All I have left is Ali.
I don't want to leave Ali.
Jafar was in Habasha at the time.
During this battle Jafar was still in Habasha.
And Sayyidina Hamza would pass away.
Just so you don't feel too bad about
the whole thing.
Hind ibn Utbah would later accept Islam and
she would perform her bay'ah with the
Prophet.
And the Prophet would accept her bay'ah
for her.
And she would continue to be a good
Muslim until the day she died.
And Wahshi ibn Harb would also accept Islam.
And would perform the bay'ah with the
Prophet.
Imagine that the Prophet would tell him, I
have forgiven you and I have accepted your
bay'ah.
But just don't be in front of me
all the time.
Sit in my periphery.
I don't want to always have to see
you.
Because every time I see you, I see
the person who took away the person that
I love the most.
And it saddened him and it hurt him.
So Wahshi, this bothered him in his life.
Because he accepted Islam later and he realized
how wrong he was to be a mercenary
and to make this choice.
And he didn't like that the Prophet felt
that way about him.
Not that he hated him, just that he
felt that you killed my uncle.
You literally broke my heart.
Like at a time when I was in
need, you took away someone that meant the
world to me.
So Wahshi would always attend and listen, but
he would stay a little bit on the
side.
And in his mind, he was like, one
day I'm going to make up for this.
One day I'm going to make up for
this.
And interestingly enough, you remember I talked about
Umm Amara last week.
She stood there when there was no one
else standing.
When the Prophet was probably at his most
vulnerable moment.
When there was the least number of people.
When Yazid and the second and the ten
guys weren't there yet.
When the three hundred had not come back
yet.
When almost there was no one there, Umm
Amara was just responsible for the water and
for the medicine and for the food.
She fought back and she defended the Prophet
until she couldn't move her shoulder anymore.
And when her son came to defend her,
she told him no, leave me alone, go
stand by the Prophet and the Prophet would
promise her and her family to be with
him in Jannah.
Habib ibn Zayd would be killed later on
her son by Musaylimah al-Kadhab.
And a huge battle would occur way after
the Prophet passed away.
In a battle that would be known as
Ma'arakt al-Yamamah, years later.
And Musaylimah was one of the biggest instigators
within Arabia and he was trying to destroy
the whole Islamic project by claiming prophecy and
trying to rail and bring up on his
side Ibn Rabi'ah.
So the Prophet is from the tribe of
Mudur and the competing tribe amongst his larger
family is called Rabi'ah.
And Rabi'ah already weren't too excited about
becoming Muslim and then they had Musaylimah and
they were like alright we have our own
Prophet, we don't need yours.
And of course after this all ended, Abu
Bakr would ask them, what were you doing?
And Musaylimah would make up stuff like, something
stupid.
He would make things up, whatever the Qur
'an said, he would try to make something
up and it was complete nonsense.
And Abu Bakr would ask them, what were
you doing?
Do you actually believe that?
And the answer would be, no.
The liar from our tribe, we preferred him
over the honest person from yours.
So on that day, Wahshi made a vow
to himself that he was going to redeem
himself.
He was going to come to the Prophet
on the Day of Judgment, redeeming himself.
And he couldn't think of how he was
going to redeem himself, he said the only
way for me to redeem myself is to
kill this man, is to remove Musaylimah who
was causing the Yamama War, one of the
bloodiest wars that occurred between the Muslims and
the Kuffar of Rabi'ah.
It was very * and it was all
based on this one guy.
When this guy dies, it's over.
There's no need for a battle all together.
So Wahshi had taken upon himself that vow
that he was going to take him out.
And Nusaymah, she was going to kill the
guy who killed her son.
This was not going to happen, she was
going to kill him.
And one of the most epic stories that
you'll find in the books of Sira, Nusaymah
who was hiding in a castle, would find
a lady coming through the door and a
man coming through the window, one of those
big castle windows, and the man coming through
the window was Wahshi ibn Harb, and he
would throw his spear.
And the lady who was coming through the
door is Nusaymah ibn Ka'b and she
would throw her sword and both would hit
him at the same time and he would
die that day.
And they would disagree for years later, which
of them actually killed him?
Was it Wahshi or was it Nusaymah?
It doesn't really matter I guess for the
story, it's finding the way.
But Wahshi would redeem himself by doing that.
He would say, لعلي ألقى الله سبحانه وتعالى
وألقى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم I'll
meet the Prophet فأقول له يا رسول الله
أخذت منك حمزة وفعتك I took Hamza yesterday
but I made up for it.
And I find that to be a meaningful
story.
There was a man by the name of
Abu Aamir al-Rahib, who the Prophet called
Abu Aamir al-Fasaq.
He was one of the preachers amongst the
tribes in Medina and he would often preach
very profane and obscene things about the Prophet
ﷺ.
And he would make up things from the
Torah and the Bible and he would say
things that were not a part of scripture
and literature and holy text to tell people
to refuse the Prophet ﷺ and fight him.
So he was a munafiq within Medina but
he didn't beyond that.
He preached to the munafiqeen and he actually
was one of the reasons that the 300
people that Abu Abdullah ibn Ubaid bin Sulayman
took back went back because of him.
He didn't care for the war.
He just wanted to kill the Prophet ﷺ.
That was his only goal.
So he dug a hole.
He and a group of people, they knew
how the Prophet ﷺ, because he's on their
side.
He's from Medina.
He is amongst the people who signed the
constitution.
He should be in the army of the
Prophet ﷺ but he's just obviously behaving as
a traitor.
So when the Prophet ﷺ, he explained how
the battle was going to occur.
Abu Amr is listening.
He knows how it's going to occur.
So he knows where the Prophet is going
to retreat at some point during the battle.
So he digs a number of holes.
He digs a number of holes and he
covers them up with tree leaves or whatever,
hoping that when they retreat back, he falls
into one of them ﷺ.
And sure enough, when the Muslims, when the
300 came back and the Prophet ﷺ was
holding that ground, he started to retreat back
into the mountain because they're way outnumbered.
The army up front, after Hamza fell, had
to retreat back.
So now there's maybe 400 people here.
We're going to retreat back into the mountain
and hold our ground in the mountain.
They can't do much.
It's impossible.
The mountain is not designed for that.
So he's retreating back ﷺ with the Sahaba.
A few Sahaba actually fell in holes that
day as well.
We don't want to talk about that, but
a few of them did as well.
But he did too ﷺ.
He fell into a hole.
Of course, people wear helmets, armour and helmets.
So he fell and he hit his head.
He hit it so hard that the helmet,
which is made of steel or metal, bent
because the trauma was so severe that when
he hit, if he wasn't wearing the helmet,
he probably would have busted his head open
ﷺ.
So the helmet protected him, but the actual
impact was so severe that the helmet bent.
And the way the helmets were is that
they had these little pieces of metal that
were beside the ears and the face.
And that piece of metal, it bent in
and it went right into his face ﷺ,
right into the cheekbones on both sides.
So now it was stuck in his cheekbones.
And ﷺ for a minute down there, he's
not oriented.
He was concussed that day.
He had a concussion ﷺ.
It took him a few moments to figure
out where he was.
And he came out and obviously it's in
his face.
He can't leave it there.
Taking it out is going to be difficult
because it's so delicate and in a very
delicate part of his face.
So they're trying to pull it out as
the people are holding their ground and organising
themselves in that little entrance place that I
showed you in the mountain.
So over here, this is where he fell
in that area, just to understand kind of
where it happened.
So now there's 400 people that are holding
this part here and he's in here ﷺ.
So he has a few moments.
So they're pulling him out of the hole
ﷺ and obviously he's not focused.
There's a lot of pain.
He broke his tooth ﷺ, the fourth tooth
on here.
It was chipped.
His face, Uhud scarred him ﷺ, not just
emotionally by the loss of Hamza and Musab
and others, but also physically.
He didn't look the same after the battle.
There were two scars on his face and
there was a broken tooth.
So they tried to remove the metal from
his face ﷺ.
They can't remove it.
They can't remove it because it's stuck in.
So they're trying to be delicate.
Fatima's trying.
Ali, they're all there that day.
Ali is trying.
They can't seem to do it.
So Abu Ubaid bin Jarrah says, I'll do
it.
So he came down and he bites down
on the metal with his own teeth to
move it delicately with his teeth.
So he pulls it out on both sides
with his teeth, but as he's doing it,
both front teeth fall out.
Sayyidina Abu Ubaidah, because he's pulling so hard,
his two front teeth would fall out of
his face.
In Arabic, the person who doesn't have front
teeth is called ahtam.
It's just a description.
If you say ahtam, that's someone who has
no front teeth.
We never thought that someone who didn't have
his two front teeth could ever look good
because that's an ugly look.
Until we saw Sayyidina Abu Ubaidah's face.
He was the most beautiful person to ever
lose the two front teeth.
He did it for the Prophet ﷺ.
Obviously when that happens, the blood starts to
gush out.
So they try to close it down once
and twice and three times.
It's not happening.
He's losing a lot of blood.
So Sayyidina Fatima and Ali, they sit there
and they take a sword and they put
it on the fire until it gets nice
and red.
And then there's this type of fabric that
they used to use.
We don't have it anymore, but it's fabric
that once put on a wound, it'll close
the wound down.
So it's not plastic, but it's something that's
similar.
It's made of leaf.
So they would take that and Sayyidina Ali,
with Fatima, because they're the part of his
family, would apply that to his face, and
the sound, closing it down on both sides.
The sahabah are standing there watching.
Most of them know Hamza's gone.
He doesn't know yet, but most of them
already know, because the people up front have
come back and they've told them Hamza's gone.
Mus'ab is gone.
The Prophet ﷺ is sitting there in a
pool of his own blood, with his face
mekwi.
So a couple of the sahabah said, Ya
Rasulullah, o Prophet of Allah, make dua against
the people of Mecca.
There's a lot of examples of it in
other parts of it, so it's a reasonable
hadith to share with you.
So he puts his hands up ﷺ.
The sahabah immediately regretted their request.
Immediately regretted their request, because they didn't want
the people of Quraysh to all die.
It's their family members.
They don't want them to die.
They want this war to end, but they
don't want them all to die.
That's not what they want.
Their goal was never to annihilate this army
with everyone in it, because if they killed
them all, then Quraysh is gone.
And most of them are from Quraysh.
They want hidayah for people, not death.
So once he put his hands up ﷺ,
they put their heads down.
He's going to make dua against our people.
All of them are going to go.
So he put his hands up ﷺ and
he would say in the hadith of Imam
Ahmed, يقول اللهم غفر لقومي فإنهم لا يعلمون
O Allah, forgive my people, as they do
not know what they are doing.
They forgot who taught them to be merciful.
This is what I say.
For a moment there they forgot.
I find it impossible to believe that the
sahaba felt that way.
That piece of the story where the sahaba
are like, oh no, we shouldn't have told
them this.
How would they feel like that?
Why would they feel like that?
It takes a certain degree of mercy to
feel like that.
To actually care of what's going to happen
next to people who are fighting you in
war.
But they did.
But for a moment they forgot who taught
them to be merciful like that.
So they thought that he's going to make
dua against them.
No.
Imam Muslim narrates to us that Sayyidina Abdullah
bin Mas'ud tells us, this is how
you know that these things happen.
Abdullah bin Mas'ud says in the narration
of Imam Muslim, قَالَ كَأَنِّي أَنظُرُ إِلَىٰ رَسُولِ
اللَّهِ صَلَى اللَّهَ عَيْسَمَهُ I can almost see
the Prophet ﷺ.
يَحْكِي نَبِيًّا مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ وَسَلَامُهُ عَلَيْهِمْ
ضَرَبَهُ قَوْمُهُ وَأَدْمَوْهُ He said, I can almost
see the Prophet ﷺ telling us the story
of one of the Prophets.
He can't remember which one.
His people, this Prophet, had beaten him to
the point where he was bleeding.
يَقُولُ وَهُوَ يَمْسَحُ الدَّمَعَ عَنْ مَجْهِيدِ This is
Imam Muslim's collection.
And this Prophet is wiping the blood off
his face.
يَقُولُ اللَّهُم مَهْدِ قَوْمِي فَإِنَّهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ O
Allah, guide my people as they know not
what they are doing.
So when you see these, this is the
trend.
This is what it means to be a
Prophet.
So when we look at that standard, when
we look at that role model, we understand,
okay, this is what we're looking towards.
It's hard to be like that.
That's a level of selflessness, a level of
compassion, of empathy, of mercy, of forgiveness that
most hearts in this world don't have the
ability to show and to shine.
But that's why they're Prophets.
That's why Allah ﷺ chose them.
Because they were people who were able to
forgive so quickly.
People who were able to show compassion so
thoroughly.
Even in moments where it was obviously extremely
difficult to do so.
And show love when it was the least
likely for them to show love.
So he put his hands up and he
said that ﷺ.
And the Sahaba all, it was a hallmark
moment for them.
Now the 300 that came back, they came
and they held that area for the Prophet
ﷺ there.
So this part here is being held.
But there's one guy who went right up
here, right up to the mountain.
Didn't go there.
The guy who brought them back, Anas ibn
Nadr, would go up that mountain instead.
He didn't know why.
He didn't understand what happened in the battle
to know that we have to secure that
mountain.
As Hamza was trying to do.
He didn't know why.
He just started naturally going up that mountain.
So they're telling him, Where are you going?
This is where the sanctuary is.
We're going over here.
No, it's over here.
We were told by the Prophet ﷺ that
at the end we will take refuge, seek
refuge in the mountain.
So this is where we go.
Come this way.
So they're fighting with him.
You brought us back.
Come with us over here.
And he's going over here.
I smell Jannah on that mountain over there,
not this one.
I don't smell Jannah over here.
I smell it over there.
He fought the mushrikeen that were on the
mountain of the archers, holding them back until
he passed away when he was martyred.
They couldn't identify him.
He was hit so severely that he was
unidentifiable.
Until a sister of his looked at his
hand and she was like, I know my
brother's hand.
He doesn't have a digit.
This is his hand.
I know this is his hand.
But they couldn't identify his face.
And for this gentleman, Allah ﷻ would send
in Surah Al-Ahzab years later, Amongst the
believers there are true men.
There are true strong individuals who were honest
with that which they gave their word to
Allah about.
What was the word?
He told Allah, Ya Rabb, if you allow
me to stand with the Prophet ﷺ any
day, I will show you my bravery.
I will not turn back.
I will fight till the end.
Just give me the opportunity to show my
commitment.
So Allah gave him the opportunity.
He came back late but he was given
it.
So the ayah came and said, Some of
them fulfilled their commitment and fulfilled their promise
and fell.
And there's others who are still waiting for
their turn to fulfill their commitment.
They didn't go back on their words.
So we're coming towards the end.
We still have a few more stories actually
within this.
I thought I was going to finish today.
I'm not going to finish today.
So we'll end with that.
The battle is not over yet.
There's still a few more things that are
going to occur that I'm going to summarize
for you next week.