Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Hayat alSahabah The Deepest of Them in Knowledge.mp4

Abu Nairam also narrates from

Abdul Abin Omar. May Allah be pleased with

both of them that,

that he said whoever wishes to take a

sunnah or an example,

let them take the example of those who

have

passed away from before.

And there's another,

there's another saying very similar to this attributed

to Sayna Abdul

although slightly different.

So let them take the example of those

who have

passed away.

Those are the companions of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam.

They were the best of this ummah,

and they are the most pious of them

in their hearts.

They were the deepest in their knowledge,

and they are the ones who had the

least takkalufat,

the least affectation.

They're the most direct with one another.

What does this mean?

That their hearts were the most concerned with

fulfilling the rights of others.

And, what does it mean? A'amakkuhaalman,

that they're the deepest in their knowledge. One

of the things a person sees, you see,

like, the libraries are filled with all these

books,

in all sorts of different

all sorts of different,

fields and all sorts of different,

disciplines, even of what we consider daily knowledge.

So one might think like, okay, you know,

like, this, you know, some of the of

the prophet

maybe they were barely literate. Maybe they never

read any of these books. You know? There

are of this. I think, like, if you

if you take, like, the total number of

pages he wrote,

and divide it over the days of his

life from the day he was born till

the day he dies. It comes up to

something like 30 pages a day. So they

probably didn't even the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu probably

didn't even read as much as some of

the ulema of this ummah wrote. Right? Even

in recent times, Mawlana Ashaafali Tanu

he wrote, over a 1000 books. And, some

of those books were very long, multi volume

works. Most of us probably won't even read

a 1000 books.

So one might ask, how is it, you

know, how is it that those people have

the most ill?

And this is what we mean by

that they're the deepest of this ummah and

knowledge

because

the understanding the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

gave them,

it looked like a small channel, but it

ran very deep.

All of the 1,000 books of Tanwi and

all of the 30 pages a day of

Tabari and all of the, you know, the

1,000 plus books of Suyuti and all of

the, you know, Mujalladat of of Hafiz ibn

Hajar and of all these different ulama.

All they were were what? I shout after

the sahabah

and whom that they made shahab that they

explained.

Right? Because the prophet

had this quality in the sahaba afterward. They

inherited it from it from him. That they

could say one thing in which there's so

much meaning tied up in it. And that's

why we say it's deep. Right? So you

may see the pool of water. It's very

small,

but the depth is very, very deep. And

you may see a huge pool of water,

but it's very shallow. And the the ilm

of the people after them when compared to

their ilm is very shallow. And that's something

also that we we lack. We lack depth.

We lack depth of people with you know,

as people. We're people who

are more more interested in looking like you

have a lot and less interested in actually

having a lot. Whereas the Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala

on whom they're very simple people, say, they

didn't know who's like the servant and who's

the Amir Mumineen.

But they had depth. They had they had

a lot of depth.

That they weren't people of affectation.

Right? They weren't people who insisted on a

lot of, pomp and circumstance and ceremony. If

you look at the

the the the rituals of Islam, they're so

simple. You know, they're so simple. People have

never been to the masjid before. They walk

into the masjid and it's like a,

like anti climactic experience because it's just a

big empty room. If you look at it,

it's just a big empty room. Churches have

paintings all over the place. Even this, you

know, but, you know, all the painting and

these things.

You know, the the the carpet is so

elaborate. You know, some of

if you ask them. That's why is never

popular. Nobody likes a person who knows. Right?

Because they're gonna tell you too much happened.

They're gonna be like, yo, I need to

stop hanging out with this guy now. You

know? But like, yeah, it's it's too much.

It's over the top. It's it's too much,

compared to the so maybe they have like

the sketches and designs of how his masjid

used to look and that was the best

masjid. The bet better than better than, you

know, marble and gold and all these things

people multibillion dollar projects people make nowadays.

They're just

They got to the point. They didn't mess

around, beat around the bush about stuff. And

that's a good that's a good thing. That's

not a bad thing. That's a good thing.

If you see someone who's straightforward with you,

that's a good sign.

Oftentimes, we confuse good, you know, beating around

the bush with with

and they're really they're they're they're they're not

synonymous.

He says that they were such a qaum,

a group of people, Allah chose them for

the companionship of his the companionship of his

Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam

and to transmit his deen. So make yourselves

like them as much as you can in

your akhlaq and in the ways that you

do things.

Make yourself like them as much as you

can in your in your in your manners,

in your akhlaq, your values, and the way

that you do things. Because they are the

companions of Muhammad

and they were on the straight path of

guidance.

I swear by Allah, the Lord of the

Kaaba. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us

people who follow their way and follow their

path. May Allah make us deep people instead

of shallow people. May he make us simple

straightforward people instead of people of affectation.