Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Hayat alSahabah Battle of the Camel.mp4
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Narrated,
from Saydna Muawiya radiAllahu ta'ala anhu
about a discussion that he had with Saydna
Abdullah bin Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
And because it was so long, we didn't
get a chance to go over certain things.
I thought there are certain things that that
should be explained
so we could explain them.
Regarding
the. The
is the the what's referred to in English
as the the incident or the battle of
the camel,
is an incident that happens during the reign
of Sayna Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And what happens is that Sayna Uthman radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu
during the end of his reign,
there are certain mischief makers,
in the Muslim empire. They cause certain problems
to happen because of which,
people will come from the different provinces from
Egypt and from Iraq and from,
different places, and they'll, come to Madinah in
great numbers and they'll essentially riot,
and they'll cause law and order to break
down in Madinah Manawara.
And so what they do is that they,
they,
siege the house of Sayna Ma'am Sayna,
Uthman
and they,
taunt him until one day, a couple of
youth, they, jumped the the walls,
into his house and they enter and they
assassinate him, 'Audullah.
And, so what happens is that the the
the state of the Ummah at that time
is very,
it's it's it's very just disjointed and there's
a lot of problem going on. And so
it's in that
that environment that Sadna Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
becomes Khalifa Adati. Elder Sahaba, they come together
and they give him bay'a adi, pledge allegiance
with him. And so what happens is that
that environment obviously is not, like, suitable. It's
not stable for running government. So sayna Ali
is in a very difficult position.
So 2 sahabar mentioned in the after yesterday.
RadiAllahu when he mentioned something about them that
he doesn't agree with,
you know, their their their political stance they
took. And the political stance is specifically that
when they took Be'aw, when they took the
oath of allegiance
with Sayna Ali, they said we take oath
of allegiance with you on the condition you
promised that you'll
bring the the murderers of Uthman to justice.
And so what happens is after a year
goes by in some time,
he's not able
to fulfill on that promise because the state
is still too unstable. Right? But there's a
difference of opinion at this point amongst the
Sahaba. Some of them say no. You can
find them and you can still,
execute them in retaliation for having killed Sayedna
Uthman. And Sayedna Ali says, well, first of
all, I don't know who exactly the the
conspirators are,
in order to,
bring them to justice. And, b, if we,
go down that route, it will just cause
another chaotic event like that to happen again.
And so what happens is that this is
the difference of opinion of that. Is it
possible to do this or not? And so
a number of Sahaba radiAllahu anhu senior Sahaba
radiAllahu anhu, they say that that because Saidna
Ali is not bringing them to justice at
this time, we feel,
the right to have some sort of political
protest, if you will. And so what they
do is they'll get up and they'll leave
Madinah, and the most,
honorable, noble of them
is, Sayda Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala * mumineen.
So she leaves her house, and she also
joins this kind of protest party. And so
they leave and they go somewhere, east in
the Arabian Peninsula,
and,
a a large group of people gather with
them until it becomes basically like an army
enough to destabilize the state again. So Saeed
Ali alayahu anhu, he doesn't have any of
this. He says that this is wrong. What
you guys did is wrong. It's gonna cause
instability in the in the in the Muslim
state, and you can't do it. And so
he'll show up with an army also with
them.
What happens is that when they send their
messengers to exchange,
discussions with one another,
they come to the point that that we
can talk this out. We don't need to
fight it out. So they agree to that.
And what ends up happening is that there
are people of bad intentions on both sides.
Not the Sahaba
but other kind of smaller figures
that either are people who get really upset
really quickly
and they just think that they're right and
everyone else in the world is wrong, or
people who have a vested interest in some
sort of fight going on. So both sides
have these types of people in them. And
so what ends up happening is that that
both camps are facing each other, and people
from from both camps like that, they begin
the fighting without begin fighting with each other
without having received a command, and then the
people from the other side will return fire,
and they basically start fighting with each other
to the point where the battle starts without
having received a command from either side. And
other to the point where the battle starts
without having received a command from either side.
And so what happens is that one of
the archers from,
from the, campus, Sayna Ali,
He, shoots, an arrow and hits Sayna Talhatunu
Ubaidullah, one of the one of the 2.
Because Sayna Abdul Abin Abbas refers to both
of them as shahids. Both of them are
on the side of
with Sayidna Aisha
And so what happens is he he's shot
basically before the battle even starts. And so
the person who shot him, he vaunts like
as if, like, look, I did a big
thing, like I'm a big shot. And what
ends up happening is, Sayna Ali says to
him, he says, you shot you know who
you shot? You shot no Ubaidullah, and he
mentions all the fafal and all the virtues
of of this person, what he did for
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And he
said that I heard the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam say that no one
will kill the one who kills him will
be a munafiq, you know. And so he
completely disapproves of of what what happened. And
it's at that time from the other side
when the fighting starts, Zubair ibn Awam, who's
also one of the leaders of the the
the sayida Aisha's side, he,
he leaves the battlefield because he doesn't wanna
partake participate in the fighting.
And, his son says, why are you leaving
the battlefield? The Arabs are all gonna say
you're a coward.
And, he says, no.
The messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
told me that I would, at the end
of my my life, I something like this
would happen, and it's all coming true. I
didn't know that this was the time and
place it would happen, and I'm not going
to participate in the fighting. So he walked
off the battlefield.
Someone from Sena Ali's side saw him and
and said gave him gave him Aman, gave
him security, and said that, like, I won't
fight you. And then he treacherously killed him
also because he thought he was doing something
goodbye,
killing someone who's a nobleman from the other
side. And so what happens is the battle,
it starts, and so they're both sides are,
you know, have to fight in order to
defend themselves. The reason it's called the battle
of the Jammel is that there is a
a a extraordinarily large camel
that,
that is purchased for Saydai Aisha to
ride in. And that camel is called Askar.
It's called like like an Askar is like
an army. And so that it's given the
name Askar and and and there's a hodaj,
like a, a, a booth in it that's
shielded from view from all sides.
And so she's in it, and the battle
essentially ends when,
that that camel is brought down. It's assigned
to the entire
army on the side of, say, Sayed Aisha
radiAllahu anhaqqah, that that militarily they've been completely
defeated, so they'll disband and they'll they'll they'll,
accept defeat. And so what happens is they
say that Sayna Adi radiAllahu ta'ala anhu himself
comes and himself will,
receive Sayna Aisha radiAllahu anha from her camel,
and then he'll arrange for someone to be
an escort for her to go back to
Madinah Munawwala. There's obviously no punishment. Why? Because
she's a
one of the umaha to mumineen. And so
this is something it's it's a story worth
telling even though a person might think, well,
how is it that the Sahaba could fight
with one another? Look at the love that
they had for one another, that that the
commanders they left aside of that they you
know, many of them left the field of
battle. When someone, a commander from the other
side is is killed, said Nari radiallahuhanhu expresses
regret and anger at at his killing. And
when the fight is over,
instead of taking retaliation from one another, they
they, they treat each other with respect. And
actually, this is one of the interesting things,
and we'll end with this point, one of
the, you know, one of the strange things
about the age we live in is that
people say, oh, look, you know, Islam empowers
women because sinda Aisha led you know, directed
the field of battle from the back of
her camel,
on that day.
And the fact of the matter is that,
yes, Islam does give
honor and dignity to women, not because of
the wakatul jammal. It's because of what's in
the Quran and sunnah. Because it's cut you
know, it's a revelation from Allah that comes
down from the 7 heavens and from the
and from above the and it came down
on the heart of our prophet.
Actually, people completely missed the point. And the
point is that said that Aisha
she said that I made a mistake in
going out on that day.
I should have stayed home. I shouldn't have
caused fractiousness and and disruption in the ranks
of the Muslims, and she actually took an
oath that I'll never leave my house again.
She never left again. She's just stayed home
except for, dire necessities and whatnot. She never
left after that again,
except for, you know, necessities.
She never went out and did anything like
that ever again after that. And this is
something I think is lost on a lot
of people. You know, instead of engaging in
the identity politics politics with one another, we
should try to learn what the what the,
what the moral of the story is. The
moral of the story is that she felt
that that was a mistake, and they forgave
each other, the sahabah radiAllahu ta'ala, whom forgave
each other for what happened that day. And
you can see that Abdullah bin Abbas is
the first cousin of Sayna Ali. He was
definitely on his side. And when Sayna Muawiyah
asked him, describe these 2 people, you know,
you notice he described them in the best
of ways. You know, if you do it
for those who aren't here, you can look
it up in the salvecloud.com
/rockfordmuslim.
You can listen to the hadith from yesterday.
It's very long. But when he described
Talha and Zubair,
he described them in the best of ways,
and he made dua for them, and he,
you know, described them with respect. And I
think that's that's kind of a more important
point than a lot of the other things
people pull out of it.