Hussain Kamani – Stories of the Companions- Abi Said al-Khudri

Hussain Kamani
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The speaker discusses the importance of learning and studying hadiths in older generations, particularly those who have a history of missing information and uncertainty. They also discuss the success of their own storytelling career and the importance of finding their own path and not being too dependent on others.
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillahi wa

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kafa wa salamu ala ibadihi alladhina astaghfar, khususan

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ala Sayyidi al-Rasuli wa Khatami al-Anbiya

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wa ala alihi al-Asqiya wa as'habihi

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al-Taqiyya amma ba'ad.

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In today's dars, we will spend our time

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reflecting on the beautiful life of the Sahabi

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of Rasulullah ﷺ, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri

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radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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For someone that has studied hadith, this name

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radiyaAllahu anhu appears

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again and again.

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As you're reading through the various chapters of

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hadith, the narration will start off, an-Abi

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Sa'id al-Khudri radiyaAllahu anhu, from the

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great companion of the Prophet ﷺ.

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His name was Sa'ad ibn Malik bin

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Sinan, Sa'ad ibn Malik bin Sinan.

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Some of the biographers have listed his life

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under his name, Sa'ad ibn Malik, while

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most of them have referred back to his

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title, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radiyaAllahu ta

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'ala anhu.

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, he was one

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of the great scholars of Madinah Munawwara, considered

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to be from among the Fuqaha.

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During the life of Rasulullah ﷺ, he was

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young in age, even then he had notoriety

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and respect.

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During the time of the Khulafa, in particular

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Uthman radiyaAllahu anhu, Ali radiyaAllahu anhu, he is

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given a senior role in solving disputes among

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people.

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He becomes a faqih, a qadi of sorts.

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He engages in very bold yet intellectual ijtihad,

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taking issues and getting to the bottom of

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them.

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There is a narration that Abu Huraira radiyaAllahu

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anhu would generally lead the companions in Salah.

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On one occasion he was unable to lead,

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so Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radiyaAllahu anhu

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led the Salah, and he led it a

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little different from how Abu Huraira radiyaAllahu anhu

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would generally lead.

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And after Salah was over he clarified by

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saying that regardless of what people have to

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say or think, this is how I learn

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Salah from the Prophet ﷺ.

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And therefore this is how I will pray

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it, and this is how I will teach

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it.

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And it shows us the companions of the

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Prophet ﷺ had different opinions, yet those different

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opinions didn't turn them against one another, they

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celebrated it.

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This person learned the deen from the Prophet

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ﷺ like this, so he practices it in

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this way.

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And this person learned the deen like this,

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so they practice it in that way.

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There was never a formal attempt to gather

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all people on just one opinion while negating

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everything that everyone else heard from the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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This would be oppressive and difficult for those

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who heard something and saw something with Rasulullah

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ﷺ.

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And Imam Malik rahmatullahi alayhi's famous statement that

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let every scholar give verdicts based off of

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what he learned and what he hears from

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the Prophet of Allah ﷺ.

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He was from one of the great collectors

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of hadith.

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During the life of Rasulullah ﷺ there were

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many sahaba who dedicated themselves to studying hadith.

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But there were these younger companions who were

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able to collect many more narrations in comparison

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to their peers.

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This was a result of them being young,

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having energy and not being loaded with life

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responsibilities.

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You have a person in their 30s, a

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person in their 40s, a person in their

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late 20s, they have marriage, family, a job,

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looking after people, going places, doing things, it

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occupies you, it keeps time tied up.

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These younger companions, they were in their teens,

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so they had dedicated everything to Rasulullah ﷺ,

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learning and studying with the Prophet ﷺ.

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In addition to that, after the Prophet ﷺ

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departed this world, they continued studying the hadith

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of the Prophet ﷺ by going to other

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companions and collecting from them.

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Tell us what you heard from the Prophet

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of Allah?

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What did you hear from the Prophet ﷺ?

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The Prophet ﷺ, they were so interested in

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knowledge, whatever they could gather together.

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My teacher and mentor, Shaykh Yusuf ﷺ, after

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his teacher passed away, Shaykh Zakariyya Khan Dahlavi

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ﷺ, he wrote a letter to all of

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the senior students of Shaykh Zakariyya Khan Dahlavi,

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all of those that had spent extensive periods

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with the Shaykh and had gained direct tazkiyah

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and tarbiyah from the Shaykh, who are considered

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to be his disciples, his khulafa.

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He wrote a letter to all of them,

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he had a list of them, and he

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wrote a letter to all of them saying

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that I would like for each of you

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to share your story with our Shaykh.

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Share your individual stories, how you met, what

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you learned, your years, your time, share the

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letters that you guys exchanged back and forward.

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And then he published that in, I believe,

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two volumes, the Khulafa of Hazrat Shaykh Abdullah

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Ali.

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Such a beautiful book because it's one teacher

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at the center of it, and you have

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a chance to see how these legends were

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spread throughout the world.

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These legends who are now muhaddithun, fuqaha, mufassirun,

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someone's in Africa, someone's in the subcontinent, someone's

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in the Middle East, someone's in North America,

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and they're all writing their stories of how

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they engaged with their teacher and what they

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learned from their Shaykh and how meaningful that

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journey was for them.

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So the young sahaba after the Prophet ﷺ

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passed away, they weren't going to let that

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memory just disappear.

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They went to everyone they could who had

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anything connected to the Prophet of Allah and

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they collected those riwayat.

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And these sahaba who narrate so many narrations,

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in particular those who narrate over 1,000

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are referred to as the mukaffirun.

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Among these companions who narrate abundantly from the

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Prophet ﷺ, there are three of them who

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migrated to Madinah Munawwara.

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Sayyidina Abdullah ibn Abbas, Sayyidina Abdullah ibn Umar,

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and Sayyidina Abu Huraira, likewise to this list

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you can also add the name of a

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muhajira, but we give her her own name

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because her own title, her own category because

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she was also the wife of the Prophet

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ﷺ, Ummul Mu'mineen Aisha.

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Then among the Ansar, there were also three

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companions, Anas bin Malik, Jabir ibn Abdullah, and

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the third is Abu Sa'id al-Khudri.

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His father was a dear and beloved companion

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to the Prophet ﷺ.

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He accepted Islam prior to the Prophet's migration.

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His mother also accepted Islam prior to the

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Prophet's migration.

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So he is raised in this home of

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Islam.

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The Prophet ﷺ arrives in Madinah Munawwara and

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he is by the side of his father

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and his father is by the side of

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the Prophet ﷺ.

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So through the barakah of his father, he

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gets to chill with Rasulullah ﷺ.

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He gets to spend time with Rasulullah ﷺ.

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This week for me was quite interesting.

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I had the chance to travel a little

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and visit a few different communities and at

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the same time because it is the week

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before classes start, a lot of faculty members

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from the seminary who were previously students themselves

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and some of the staff members who were

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also previously students are on campus.

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I feel like in the last week, I've

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had the honor of holding almost 10 newborns

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from the Qalam family, children from students and

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teachers.

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By Allah, I felt very overwhelmed, very overwhelmed.

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And every one of those children that I

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held, I held them to my heart and

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kissed them on their forehead and made du

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'a to Allah from my heart that they're

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able to study hadith with the same teachers

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that their parents studied hadith with.

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That Allah gives them ikhlas, gives us ikhlas

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and allows this journey to continue, that you're

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able to see the next generation of young

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people continuing on the journey that their parents

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started.

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And we are nothing more than a footnote

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in the journey of muhadithun and actual ulama

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who were worthy of this ilm.

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I'm grateful to Allah that He is kind

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and generous to allow people that are unworthy

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to be in such gatherings.

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One of the great scholars of the subcontinent,

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if I remember correctly, it was Mufti Shabir

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Ahmad Usmani Sahib.

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He once was speaking in an interview and

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he said to the interviewer while introducing himself

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that one of the greatest blessings of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in my life, one

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of the greatest blessings of Allah on me

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in my life is that I grew up

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in the small town village of Deoband.

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And I had the honor of playing in

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the streets where ulama and awliya of Allah

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would walk through.

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Righteous servants of Allah existed in that very

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same area.

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So when they would see us, they would

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smile at us.

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When they would see us, they would hold

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our hand sometimes.

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When they would see us, they would make

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dua for us.

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And that was the journey of my life.

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That we grew up playing around, goofing around

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while being nourished with the sight of righteous

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people and receiving their duas.

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And I believe that was the foundation of

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where I am today.

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He's speaking of himself.

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That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave us

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what He gave us as a result of

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those childhood duas from those righteous servants of

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Allah.

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudir radiAllahu ta'ala

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is with his father and his father is

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with Rasul Allah ﷺ.

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Every time his father is called to duty,

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he takes his son with him in the

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battle of Uhud when the soldiers were being

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enlisted.

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His father stood in line, Malik radiAllahu ta

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'ala, and he said to Rasul Allah ﷺ

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that I'm going to be fighting.

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I want my little guy fighting by my

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side.

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The Prophet ﷺ inquired, how old is he?

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So he ﷺ said, look at his body

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parts.

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Look how strong he is.

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Look how, you know, he's strong, big muscles,

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big hands.

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These kids had a strong diet.

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They were healthy, strong people.

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Look how strong this one is.

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Anas radiAllahu ta'ala, while narrating the hadith

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himself, urudhtu yawma uhudin ala al-nabiyyi ﷺ

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wa ana ibnu thalatha asharata.

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At that time, I was actually only 13

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years old.

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Fa ja'ala abi ya'khudu biyadi wa

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yaqool ya rasulallah innahu ablu al-'idham.

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Oh my son of Allah, this is a

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strong man right here.

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He was only 13 years old.

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Wa ja'ala nabiyyullahi yusa'idu fiyan nazar.

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The Prophet ﷺ looked at me up and

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down very carefully.

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Wa yusawwibu, and left and right.

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Let's look at this boy.

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Thumma qala ruddahu.

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The Prophet ﷺ said, send him home.

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He's too young.

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On one side, we see the compassion of

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the Prophet ﷺ that it wasn't just take

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everyone to the battlefield.

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But such character and principle in the life

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of the Prophet ﷺ.

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In today's greedy world, there are no principles

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like this.

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And the principles that exist are for the

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sake of policy and so you don't get

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caught in some scandal.

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False policy, made up policy, it's all artificial.

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For Rasulullah ﷺ, he's in the desert.

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The Prophet ﷺ is doing what he's doing

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because this is the lesson that he was

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teaching not only to the father, not only

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to the son, but to all of humanity.

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That 1400 years later, we'd be talking about

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the moment a 13-year-old child was

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presented to Rasulullah ﷺ.

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On the other hand, we also see in

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this riwayah how the father had such hirs,

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such a deep desire for his son to

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join him in the honor that he was

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about to partake in.

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Abu Sa'id al-Qudri radiAllahu ta'ala

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heads home and this is his last meeting

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with his father.

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His father heads back into the battlefield.

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He fights side by side with Rasulullah ﷺ.

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In one narration, some scholars have commented on

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this particular riwayah.

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When the Prophet ﷺ was bleeding profusely, the

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blood of the Prophet of Allah was gathered

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in a container and he felt it was

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disrespectful to pour that blood out, so he

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drank the blood himself.

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Now, this is not something that is recommended

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in the deen and also not something the

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fuqaha would say is okay to do that

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a person drinks blood or anything of this

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sort.

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But for that sahabi, what he did in

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that moment, again based off of this riwayah

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that itself is mutakallam fee.

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He drank it thinking that I don't want

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the blood of the Prophet of Allah to

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spill on the earth and in the narration

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it states that the Prophet ﷺ said to

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him that you are protected from the fire

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of *.

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Like a part of me will not enter

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into the fire of *.

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And it's also possible that the Prophet ﷺ

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was being descriptive because after that moment he

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went into the battlefield and he became shaheed.

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That you are not going to go to

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the fire of *.

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So Abu Sa'eed al-Khudri r.a,

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one's father that enters into the battlefield, he

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fights very courageously until he departs this world.

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Now when it comes to the battle of

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khandaq, he is accepted by the Prophet ﷺ

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because the battle of khandaq happens two years

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later and at this point he is 15

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years old.

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And this was an age that Rasulullah ﷺ

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would accept companions to fight in the battle.

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Now if you look at many of the

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biographical works, they'll mention that he participated in

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khandaq and bay'at al-ridwan.

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Many of the works will say he participated

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in khandaq and in bay'at al-ridwan.

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Bay'at al-ridwan happens in the following

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year, in the sixth year after migration.

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However, Imam Zahabi r.a, famous scholar and

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historian, he argues that these were not the

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only two battles he participated in.

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There's actual clear substantial proof that he was

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with Rasulullah ﷺ in many battles, in many

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of these great journeys and he also engaged

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in certain battalions that were sent out to

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the different corners of the jazeera without the

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participation of Rasulullah ﷺ, what we would refer

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to as saraya.

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He was in the saraya fighting with other

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companions.

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So Imam Zahabi r.a actually says that

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri r.a participated

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in 12 battles.

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He was not mentioned by name in the

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others because his role was more of a

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minimal role.

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He didn't have a very bold, strong role

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that he played front-facing.

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He was front-facing but there was nothing

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unique that happened that the story was remembered

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by that this was something that Abu Sa

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'id al-Khudri r.a did, that he

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confronted so and so person or he was

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injured in such and such way.

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He has so many beautiful moments with the

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Prophet ﷺ, over a thousand narrations.

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So we have a thousand moments to look

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at.

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But if we want to just pick a

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few of them, a few of his narrations

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and reflect on them, you appreciate his interactions

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and his challenges with Rasulullah ﷺ.

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He says that one day the Prophet ﷺ

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came to us and we were sitting together,

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a few of us, the people that were

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in that group were mostly weak people, poor

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people.

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It's possible the Prophet ﷺ didn't even know

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them individually and the reason why he says

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is, وَإِنَّ بَعْضَهُمْ لَيَتَوَارَ مِنْ بَعْضٍ مِنَ الْعُلْيِ

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Because in gatherings these people would generally hide

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and not put themselves in the front of

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the gathering because they weren't covered properly.

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So they would remain hidden in gatherings and

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sit in corners, they didn't have proper garment

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and attire.

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فَقَالَ رَسُولُ الله ﷺ بِيَدِهِ فَأَدَارَهَا شِبْهَا فَاسْتَدَارَتْ

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لَهُ الْحَلْقَةِ The Prophet ﷺ made a gesture

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around him like this with his hand telling

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everyone, gather around in a circle around me,

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gather around, come in a circle.

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فَاسْتَدَارَتْ لَهُ الْحَلْقَةِ People made a circle around

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him.

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فَقَالَ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تُرَاجِعُونَ What were you guys

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talking about?

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Before I came you guys were sitting together,

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what was the conversation?

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فَقَالُوا هَذَا رَجُلٌ يَقْرَأُ لَنَا الْقُرْآنَ وَيَدْعُوا لَنَا

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This person here was reading Qur'an and

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making du'a, so we were just enjoying

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the du'a and the qira' of the

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Qur'an.

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فَقَالَ عُودُوا لِمَا كُنْتُمْ فِيهِ The Prophet ﷺ

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said, let's start that up again.

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Why don't you come forward and start reading

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the Qur'an and let's make du'a

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together.

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And then the Prophet ﷺ said, الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ

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الَّذِي جَعَلَ فِي أُمَّتِي مَنْ أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أَصْبِرَ

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نَفْسِي مَعَهُمْ وَاصْبِرَ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُمْ

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بِالْغَضَاتِ وَالْعَشِيهِ يُرِيدُنَ وَجْهَهُ وَلَا تَعْدُ عَيْنَكَ عَنهُمْ

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Referring to that ayah, the Prophet ﷺ says,

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All praises to Allah who commanded me to

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be with people, who commanded me to be

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firm, committed to such people, people who generally

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society would forget, people who generally others would

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walk away from because they didn't have any

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status in society, because they were poor, because

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they didn't have much to their name, because

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they didn't have much to wear.

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These are people that others would walk away

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from.

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And Rasulullah ﷺ saying that Allah ﷻ commanded

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me to be with everyone.

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That anyone who is committed to Allah, we

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are committed to them.

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And then the Prophet ﷺ said, These are

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poor people, right?

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So, Nabi ﷺ had this amazing attribute that

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when he would sit with any person, and

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if he knew that person felt insecure about

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that thing, and it was genuinely something out

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of their control, Rasulullah ﷺ would motivate them,

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encourage them, give them hope, make them feel

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good about themselves.

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But if they were in some sort of

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a problem and it was self-inflicted, then

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Nabi ﷺ would do Tarbiyah as well.

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That, hey Habibi, this is not how you

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do it.

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You have to be more intelligent.

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Or you're a young person, go seek knowledge.

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These people were poor.

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This was their circumstance.

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So Rasulullah ﷺ then lifted them.

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He raised them.

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لِيُبَشِّرَ فُقَرَاءُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بِالْفَوْزِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ قَبْلَ

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الْأَغْنِيَاءِ بِمِقْدَارِ خَمْسِ مِئَةِ عَامٍ هَآؤُلَاءِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ

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يَتَنَعَمُونَ وَهَآؤُلَاءِ يُحَاسَبُونَ Let the poor from the

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believers take glad tidings that you will be

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in Paradise 500 years before your wealthy believing

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counterparts.

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Why?

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You will be in Paradise enjoying yourself while

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they will still be answering Allah ﷻ.

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For every penny there will be accountability.

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They will be busy over there, you will

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be enjoying yourself.

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So yes, 70 years in this dunya, you

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might need to be a little patient.

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60 years, 70, 80 years.

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You might possibly leave this dunya without much

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to your name.

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Maybe a 2005 Honda Civic.

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Maybe a two-bedroom, one-bedroom apartment.

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Maybe five pairs of clothes.

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Maybe you've never seen Vienna.

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Maybe you've never seen, you know, what else

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is there?

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Prague?

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I don't know who goes there.

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Maybe that's where you want to go.

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Maybe you haven't gone, like proper miskeen.

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Maybe you haven't even gone to Cancun.

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Or like Mexico City.

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Or San Jose, Costa Rica.

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You haven't gone anywhere.

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Your limits are Arlington, Texas.

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That's your whole life.

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Viewless Texas.

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Take glad tidings that your victory, بِالفَوْزِ يَوْمَ

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الْقِيَامَةِ that this small 70 years of dunya

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that you will sacrifice will result in hundreds

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of years of success in the hereafter.

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It will pay off.

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But this is for patience with your state

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and not being ungrateful for the state that

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Allah has put you in.

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Wealth or not, you have to be grateful

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to Allah ﷻ.

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudi radiAllahu anhu says,

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that one time we were traveling and I

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was with a group of companions and we

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passed by a tribe.

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We sought from the tribe to be hosted.

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فَأَبَوْ أَيُّهَا يِفُهُمْ They said, no, we're not

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going to host you in any way at

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all.

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You guys are on your own.

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Hosting travelers was a very big deal in

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Arabian culture.

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Traveling through the desert required this social contract.

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Everyone signs on to it.

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One person leaves their home and they travel.

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If they stop somewhere, you offer them something.

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You offer them a little bit.

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Take care of them for three days.

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They thought, you know, give us our right.

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It's a cultural right, also a sign of

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nobility.

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They said, no, we're not going to.

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The leader of the people of that tribe

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was poisoned.

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He became very sick.

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The tribe asked this group of companions that

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is there anyone among you who knows how

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to do ruqya?

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Who can read something and cure this leader

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of ours?

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri r.a, he

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said, I'll take care of it for you.

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The sahaba were wondering, what is this guy

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doing?

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What is he going to read?

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How is this going to happen?

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فَرَقَاهُ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ فَبَرَأَ He recited surah Fatiha,

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and that man was cured.

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In return, he took payment.

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And the payment was in the form of

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a flock of animals.

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When he presented these animals to his people,

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the companions with him said, I don't know

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if this is okay.

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Can we get paid for ruqya?

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Can you demand compensation for something like this?

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How about we hold off on touching these

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animals?

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We'll take them with us.

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We'll arrive in Madinah Munawwara and have the

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matter cleared by Rasulullah ﷺ.

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They came to Madinah Munawwara.

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They spoke to the Prophet ﷺ.

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Rasulullah ﷺ asked him, what did you read?

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He said, O Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I

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recited surah Fatiha.

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فَضَحِقَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ Nabi ﷺ smiled and

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laughed and said, مَا يُدْرِيكَ أَنَّهَا رُقِيَةً How

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did you know that it is a ruqya?

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That there is cure in it?

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In one narration, the Prophet ﷺ said, This

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is surah Ash-Shifa.

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This is the chapter of cure.

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The Qur'an has cure.

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Never underestimate the power of the Qur'an.

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The cure lies in a person invoking the

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words of Allah and turning to Allah for

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shifa.

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That's where the cure is.

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It doesn't lie in the paper that someone

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writes something on.

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It doesn't lie in the ink that you

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use to write it in.

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It doesn't lie in the fact that there

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is some string that's tying it to your

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arm or it's hanging off of your neck

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with some chain.

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That's not where the shifa is.

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The shifa lies with Allah ﷻ.

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وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَاءٌ Without doubt,

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the Qur'an serves as spiritual cure.

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But there is also, without doubt, a cure

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from worldly, humanly, biological ailments within the recitation

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of the Qur'an.

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There are many narrations like this from Rasulullah

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ﷺ's own practice, from the practice of the

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companions and then the righteous who followed them

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that they would recite the Qur'an for

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cure when people were afflicted with an ailment

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or calamity.

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Many years ago, I met this man who

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wasn't Muslim and he talked about some unseen

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being that he felt was following him and

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would keep him awake at night.

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So, I said to him that you should

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listen to this and I shared with him

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Ayatul Kursi.

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He started listening to Ayatul Kursi and subhanAllah,

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he came back to me a couple of

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weeks later and said, as soon as the

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same night I started listening to that, I

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experienced peace and tranquility that I haven't felt

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in years.

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What was bothering me disappeared.

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There was another man that I met from

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Jujitsu at the gym.

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He told me a lot, he told me

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about extreme anxiety that he experienced and he

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felt very overwhelmed at times.

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So, I encouraged to listen to the Manzil.

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It's a compilation of verses of the Qur

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'an regarding shifa and chapters of virtue, the

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Manzil.

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He said, where do I listen to it?

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He's not Muslim, this guy.

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He said, where do I find this?

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I said, on YouTube.

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So, he went on YouTube and typed in

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Manzil.

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He started listening to it.

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COVID happened.

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Towards the end of COVID, almost three years

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later, he called me up one day and

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said, I want to meet up with you

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and have lunch.

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So, I met with him at the Dmasis

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near DFW.

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And we sat together and he said, I

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just want to show you something.

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He opened up his phone.

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He said, my entire YouTube playlist is Qur

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'an.

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He's not Muslim till today.

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But he exclusively on his phone listens to

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the Qur'an.

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That it gives me sakinah.

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It gives me comfort.

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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guide him

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to Islam and open his heart to Iman.

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Abu Sayyid al-Khudi radiallahu anhu wasn't too

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well off himself.

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Financially, he had his challenges.

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When his father passed away, he didn't leave

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behind too much wealth.

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Now, he had a family to take care

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of, people to look after.

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One day, he was at home and didn't

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have anything.

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He said, we were struggling.

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Like there was nothing at home.

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In one narration, he said that, I would

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tie a stone around my stomach to keep

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myself straight.

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Right?

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To remove some of the discomfort I would

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experience from hunger.

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Apply pressure to the stomach.

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Some scholars have also noted here that what

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they would tie to their stomach was a

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sort of, it was an element, a stone,

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something from the earth that would pull the

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heat from the stomach.

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So, if you've gone to the subcontinent, you'll

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notice this, that if you go to like

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Ayurvedic clinics, they put like mud slabs on

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the stomach and they leave it there for

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an extended period.

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I'm not saying it's the same thing, but

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I'm explaining the concept.

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And the idea is that that mud slab

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that sits on the stomach, because they say

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most illness starts from the gut.

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That's established.

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Right?

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Most ailments and illnesses start from the gut.

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So they place these mud slabs on the

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stomach for like an hour or something to

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extract what they refer to as excessive heat

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in the body and to bring a balance

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back in the human.

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So anyway, some have said this is the

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reason why they would do this.

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Others say more it was to relieve them

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of the pains of hunger.

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So he would tie something around his stomach

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as well.

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One day he was at home, they didn't

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have anything.

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My family said to me, لو آتيت النبي

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ﷺ فسألته He said, Oh, then why don't

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you go and ask the Prophet ﷺ to

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give you something?

00:31:09 --> 00:31:10

We need help.

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Now in another narration, he says that his

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family said to him that we hear that

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the Prophet ﷺ is giving to people.

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There are people who need assistance.

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They're coming to the Prophet ﷺ.

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They're asking Rasulullah ﷺ for assistance.

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فَقَدْ أَتَاهُ فُلَانَ فَعَطَاهُ He should go as

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well.

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri ﷺ said, It

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was difficult on me, but I knew that

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I needed help and I knew Rasulullah ﷺ

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was a generous person.

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He would assist me.

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I arrived in the gathering of the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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فَكَانَ أَوَّلُ شَيْءٍ وَاجَهَنِي بِهِ When I entered

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into the room, the Prophet was speaking to

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

a group of people and the first thing

00:32:05 --> 00:32:06

that he said directed towards me.

00:32:07 --> 00:32:09

Everyone was there, but the message was also

00:32:09 --> 00:32:12

directed وَاجَهَنِي بِهِ He directed it towards me.

00:32:14 --> 00:32:22

Rasulullah ﷺ said, مَنْ اِسْتَعَفَّ أَعَفَّهُ اللَّهُ وَمَنْ

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اِسْتَغْنَا أَغْنَاهُ اللَّهُ وَمَنْ سَأَلَنَا فَوَجَدْنَا لَهُ أَعْطَيْنَاهُ

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That whoever protects himself from asking others, Allah

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will take care of him.

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And whoever seeks contentment with Allah and does

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not look towards others, does not make himself

00:32:46 --> 00:32:49

dependent on others, أَغْنَاهُ اللَّهُ Allah will give

00:32:49 --> 00:32:49

him that independence.

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However, if you do come and ask, وَمَنْ

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سَأَلَنَا فَوَجَدْنَا لَهُ If you do come and

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ask us, Prophet ﷺ referring to himself, we

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will give him.

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We're not going to hold back.

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Abu Sa'id ﷺ says, that I heard

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Rasulullah ﷺ say this, فَوَاللهِ مَا رَجَعَتُ إِلَىٰ

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نَبِيِّ اللَّهِ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ شَيْئًا مِنَ الْفَاقَةِ حَتَّى

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مَالَتْ عَلَيْنَا الدُّنْيَةِ I never went back to

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Rasulullah ﷺ to ask him for anything.

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I left that gathering without asking, even though

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his family sent him for that reason.

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And I never went back to Rasulullah ﷺ

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again, asking him anything.

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What happened in return?

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That statement of the Prophet ﷺ came true,

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and I Abu Sa'id witnessed it myself.

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Today, فَرَجَعَتُ وَمَا سَأَلْتُهُ فَارَزَقَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى حَتَّى

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مَا أَعْلَمُ أَهْلَ بَيْتٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَكْثَرَ أَمْوَالًا

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مِنَّا That day I was poor.

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That day I didn't have anything.

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By Allah, today I'm not aware of a

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household in Medina that has more wealth than

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we have though.

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Today Allah gave us.

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That was a day that I needed it.

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I didn't ask anyone.

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And today Allah ﷻ gave us.

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I was sitting yesterday, yesterday with one family.

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There was some issue they needed to talk

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about, so we were sitting together at their

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home, and the couple, they said, that Shaykh,

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you know, there was a day in our

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life that we did not even have a

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mattress.

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We had the bed frame, but did not

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have a mattress.

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Someone gifted us our first mattress to sleep

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on.

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The guy, he said, he was looking at

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his wife, and he said, I'm so thankful

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for her companionship because there was one time

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in my life where I had to sell

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our house furniture.

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It was very tough.

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By the way, I'm sitting with them now

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at this point, in a million-dollar home.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Those were hard days in our life.

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They were very hard days.

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We had our mindset, we were working, but

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Allah still tested us.

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You know, you work hard in life, Allah

00:35:07 --> 00:35:08

sometimes tests you to see where your iman

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is, to see where your faith is.

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And, well, we kept pushing together.

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We kept together, we were there for one

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another.

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We turned to Allah, didn't ask anyone.

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No one knows about this.

00:35:19 --> 00:35:20

We never announced this.

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And today, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A

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'la gave us more than we can imagine.

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The sister, she said to me, I just

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ordered this specific car directly from Germany, from

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the factory.

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Everything was spec'd just the way I desire

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it.

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I didn't buy it off a lot.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Allah gives to who He wills.

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Allah hu yafidhu wa yafsud.

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He holds back from who He wills, for

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how long He wills.

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This is in the hands of Allah Subh

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'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.

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He narrates from the Prophet ﷺ another very

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beautiful hadith.

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The Prophet ﷺ...

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Actually, before I continue this, I just realized

00:36:10 --> 00:36:11

I didn't finish off one narration.

00:36:12 --> 00:36:14

Earlier, we were speaking about how he read

00:36:14 --> 00:36:15

surah Fatiha for shifa.

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And they asked the Prophet ﷺ whether it

00:36:18 --> 00:36:19

was okay to consume that meat or not.

00:36:20 --> 00:36:22

Rasulullah ﷺ said, not only is it okay

00:36:22 --> 00:36:25

to have this, but give me a portion

00:36:25 --> 00:36:25

as well.

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Like, write my name in here as well.

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Like, when you guys have it, we'll have

00:36:30 --> 00:36:31

it together.

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That's what Rasulullah ﷺ said.

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So he narrates another hadith from the Prophet

00:36:36 --> 00:36:55

ﷺ where Rasulullah ﷺ said, The

00:36:55 --> 00:36:57

riwayah was actually from a student.

00:36:57 --> 00:36:58

Right?

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

So there is jahala on the person who

00:37:07 --> 00:37:08

was narrating this.

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Because when he narrates the riwayah, the rawi,

00:37:11 --> 00:37:14

he says that the person narrating the narration,

00:37:14 --> 00:37:15

his name is Said bin Amr bin Sulaym.

00:37:16 --> 00:37:18

He said that there was a person who

00:37:18 --> 00:37:19

was saying in a gathering.

00:37:20 --> 00:37:20

A person.

00:37:21 --> 00:37:23

He doesn't say who the person was.

00:37:23 --> 00:37:26

He said in a gathering, and when narrating

00:37:26 --> 00:37:28

the statement, he attributed it to Abu Sa

00:37:28 --> 00:37:30

'id al-Khudri r.a. That Abu Sa

00:37:30 --> 00:37:32

'id al-Khudri r.a. said that Rasulullah

00:37:32 --> 00:37:51

ﷺ said, So

00:37:51 --> 00:37:53

Ibn Umar r.a. was in the gathering,

00:37:54 --> 00:37:55

the great sahabi of the Prophet of Allah,

00:37:56 --> 00:37:58

he asked this person, this rajul, this one

00:37:58 --> 00:37:59

that is not mentioned in the narration.

00:38:00 --> 00:38:03

He asked him, Who did you hear this

00:38:03 --> 00:38:04

hadith from?

00:38:06 --> 00:38:08

He said, I heard it from Abu Sa

00:38:08 --> 00:38:11

'id al-Khudri r.a. Ibn Umar r

00:38:11 --> 00:38:14

.a. went over.

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This was the beauty of the sahaba.

00:38:17 --> 00:38:18

They weren't afraid of verifying.

00:38:19 --> 00:38:21

In particular, when the people narrating were younger

00:38:21 --> 00:38:25

people or weren't sahaba themselves, setting a standard,

00:38:25 --> 00:38:28

creating a system, that if you say something

00:38:28 --> 00:38:30

attributed to the Prophet of Allah, we will

00:38:30 --> 00:38:31

go and check up.

00:38:31 --> 00:38:34

Hence the whole journey of Muhaddithun and Jarah

00:38:34 --> 00:38:37

wa Ta'dil, how they dedicated their lives to

00:38:37 --> 00:38:43

verifying narrations and cross-referencing and corroborating.

00:38:43 --> 00:38:46

This whole thing, the foundation was set by

00:38:46 --> 00:38:47

the sahaba.

00:38:47 --> 00:38:50

There's actually another interesting narration, I just remembered,

00:38:50 --> 00:38:53

I'll share with you, on corroboration of hadith.

00:38:53 --> 00:38:55

And Abu Sa'id was involved there as

00:38:55 --> 00:38:55

well.

00:38:56 --> 00:38:58

But that point, it wasn't Abu Sa'id

00:38:58 --> 00:39:00

al-Khudri r.a, it was, I'm sorry,

00:39:00 --> 00:39:02

it wasn't Ibn Umar r.a who came

00:39:02 --> 00:39:04

to check up, it was his father Umar

00:39:04 --> 00:39:06

r.a. I'll share that one in a

00:39:06 --> 00:39:06

moment.

00:39:06 --> 00:39:07

That's a Sahih Muslim narration.

00:39:08 --> 00:39:11

So here, Ibn Umar r.a walks over

00:39:11 --> 00:39:11

to Abu Sa'id.

00:39:12 --> 00:39:13

He said, O Abu Sa'id, from whom

00:39:13 --> 00:39:14

did you hear this?

00:39:15 --> 00:39:17

So and so person said, you narrate this

00:39:17 --> 00:39:18

hadith.

00:39:18 --> 00:39:19

Who did you hear this statement from?

00:39:20 --> 00:39:21

He said, from the Prophet of Allah.

00:39:21 --> 00:39:23

I heard it from the Prophet of Allah.

00:39:28 --> 00:39:32

One time, a companion came to meet Umar

00:39:32 --> 00:39:35

ibn al-Khattab r.a. Umar r.a

00:39:35 --> 00:39:36

was khalifa.

00:39:37 --> 00:39:38

He would have meetings and would stay very

00:39:38 --> 00:39:39

busy.

00:39:40 --> 00:39:41

So people who wanted to meet him would

00:39:41 --> 00:39:43

have to wait until their turn.

00:39:44 --> 00:39:45

Umar r.a called him.

00:39:45 --> 00:39:46

He said, come, I need to talk to

00:39:46 --> 00:39:46

you.

00:39:47 --> 00:39:49

That person came to Umar r.a. Umar

00:39:49 --> 00:39:50

r.a was in the meeting.

00:39:51 --> 00:39:52

So he sought permission from Umar r.a.

00:39:52 --> 00:39:54

He wasn't granted permission.

00:39:54 --> 00:39:55

He sought permission again.

00:39:55 --> 00:39:56

He wasn't granted permission.

00:39:57 --> 00:39:58

He sought permission a third time.

00:39:58 --> 00:40:00

He wasn't granted permission.

00:40:01 --> 00:40:02

So then he left.

00:40:05 --> 00:40:07

When Umar r.a was done with his

00:40:07 --> 00:40:08

meetings, he said, where is that person gone?

00:40:08 --> 00:40:09

He was supposed to be waiting for me.

00:40:10 --> 00:40:14

They said, well, he sought permission and he

00:40:14 --> 00:40:18

wasn't granted permission multiple times.

00:40:18 --> 00:40:19

So then he left.

00:40:20 --> 00:40:20

So he called him.

00:40:21 --> 00:40:22

He said, why did you leave?

00:40:23 --> 00:40:25

So the Sahabi said, I heard Rasulullah s

00:40:25 --> 00:40:30

.a.w. say that when one seeks permission

00:40:30 --> 00:40:31

and if they are not granted permission, they

00:40:31 --> 00:40:32

should head back.

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So acting upon that, I went.

00:40:35 --> 00:40:40

Umar r.a said, show me proof that

00:40:40 --> 00:40:41

you heard this from the Prophet of Allah

00:40:41 --> 00:40:43

and in one narration, otherwise I will hold

00:40:43 --> 00:40:43

you accountable.

00:40:47 --> 00:40:48

So the Sahabi, he was so overwhelmed.

00:40:49 --> 00:40:50

Man, now I got to answer to Amirul

00:40:50 --> 00:40:52

Mumineen and he wants proof for what I

00:40:52 --> 00:40:53

said.

00:40:53 --> 00:40:54

So he came to Majd al-Nabwi.

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Some Ansar were sitting there, they saw his

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face and they said, what happened, buddy?

00:40:58 --> 00:41:00

He said, Umar r.a happened.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:02

He wants an answer from me.

00:41:03 --> 00:41:04

So they started smiling and they said, don't

00:41:04 --> 00:41:05

worry.

00:41:05 --> 00:41:07

This hadith, we all heard it from the

00:41:07 --> 00:41:10

Prophet of Allah s.a.w. And to

00:41:10 --> 00:41:13

establish and prove this narration, we will send,

00:41:13 --> 00:41:15

not just anyone, we will send the youngest

00:41:15 --> 00:41:17

person, send Abu Sa'id al-Qudri.

00:41:18 --> 00:41:19

So Abu Sa'id al-Qudri r.a

00:41:19 --> 00:41:21

was the one who went and testified that

00:41:21 --> 00:41:22

I also heard this hadith.

00:41:22 --> 00:41:26

In one narration, Umar r.a said, I

00:41:26 --> 00:41:27

also heard this hadith too.

00:41:29 --> 00:41:31

But I did this whole thing so people

00:41:31 --> 00:41:34

are mindful when narrating from the Prophet of

00:41:34 --> 00:41:34

Allah.

00:41:35 --> 00:41:38

That we will even question the seniors from

00:41:38 --> 00:41:38

the Sahaba.

00:41:39 --> 00:41:41

We will even ask, even if it's Abu

00:41:41 --> 00:41:43

Musa al-Ash'ari r.a, we will

00:41:43 --> 00:41:44

ask you for that in too.

00:41:45 --> 00:41:46

We are careful.

00:41:46 --> 00:41:47

The words of the Prophet s.a.w.

00:41:49 --> 00:41:53

have a tremendous impact on society, on legislation,

00:41:53 --> 00:41:55

on the way the deen is understood, the

00:41:55 --> 00:41:57

way Muslim society will be shaped.

00:41:58 --> 00:41:59

We have to be careful.

00:42:02 --> 00:42:10

When the fitna arose among the companions after

00:42:10 --> 00:42:16

the martyrdom of Uthman r.a, Abu Sa

00:42:16 --> 00:42:21

'id al-Qudri r.a avoided being involved.

00:42:22 --> 00:42:24

He was one of those companions that decided

00:42:24 --> 00:42:27

to try to stay at distant.

00:42:28 --> 00:42:30

However, when Ameer al-Mu'mineen Ali bin Abi

00:42:30 --> 00:42:34

Talib r.a went against some of the

00:42:34 --> 00:42:39

Khawarij who were wreaking havoc and spreading extremism

00:42:39 --> 00:42:41

during his Khilafah, he joined them.

00:42:42 --> 00:42:45

He fought with Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib

00:42:45 --> 00:42:47

r.a. He fought courageously.

00:42:49 --> 00:42:53

It was in the 63rd year after Hijrah

00:42:55 --> 00:43:00

that there was a very sad, devastating turn

00:43:00 --> 00:43:02

in Islamic history.

00:43:03 --> 00:43:06

A group of people from Medina Munawwara refused

00:43:06 --> 00:43:08

to give bay'ah to Muawiyah r.a.

00:43:09 --> 00:43:11

Sorry, to Yazid bin Muawiyah.

00:43:11 --> 00:43:13

They refused, that we will not give any

00:43:13 --> 00:43:15

allegiance to Yazid bin Muawiyah.

00:43:15 --> 00:43:18

Muawiyah was a Sahabi r.a. Yazid was

00:43:18 --> 00:43:19

not a Sahabi.

00:43:19 --> 00:43:21

They refused to give allegiance to him.

00:43:23 --> 00:43:28

And instead, they gave bay'ah to Abdullah

00:43:28 --> 00:43:30

bin Hanbala Ghaseel al-Malaika.

00:43:32 --> 00:43:33

Ghaseel al-Malaika.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:37

Hanbala r.a. was a beloved, dear companion

00:43:37 --> 00:43:38

of the Prophet ﷺ who was martyred.

00:43:39 --> 00:43:41

He was referred to as one who was

00:43:41 --> 00:43:43

washed by, his body was washed by the

00:43:43 --> 00:43:43

angels.

00:43:44 --> 00:43:46

There's a whole story in that too.

00:43:47 --> 00:43:49

His son Hanbala was in Medina so they

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gave bay'ah to him.

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They gave their allegiance to him.

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Yazid became very upset.

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He sent an army to attack Medina.

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It was one of the darkest days in

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the history of Medina Munawwara.

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One of the darkest days in the history

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of Medina was that day.

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Because Medina became a bloodbath.

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Sahaba were martyred as animals are slaughtered in

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a butcher shop.

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It was a very sad day.

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But before they came and before they started

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all of their thuggery, Abu Sayyid al-Khudi

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r.a. He decided to not be involved

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with this.

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Whichever way this went, he didn't want to

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be involved with it.

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So he left, found a cave and started

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living there.

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I don't want anything to do with any

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of this.

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Dakhala Abu Sayyid yawmal harrata gharan.

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While he was sitting inside the cave, one

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of the soldiers that came from this Damascus

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army, from this Shami army, he was looking

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for people to kill.

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Someone said to him, Hey, you want someone

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to kill?

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There's a guy sitting in that cave.

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Why don't you go kill him?

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We know there's someone there.

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One of these people who refuses to give

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bay'ah to our leader, he's sitting in

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that cave.

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Adulluka ala rajulin taqtulun.

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Falamma inta hashshami ila baabil ghari wafi'unuqi

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abi sa'eedin as-saif.

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Now that man showed up to the mouth

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of the cave.

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Abu Sayyid r.a was in the cave

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and he had a sword around his neck.

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He said to Abu Sayyid al-Khudi r

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.a, the soldier, Akhruj, out of the cave.

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Qala la akhruj, wa intadhkhul aqtulk.

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I won't come out of the cave.

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But if you enter into the cave and

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try to hurt me in any way, I

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will kill you.

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Fadhakhalashshami alaihi.

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This soldier entered into the cave.

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Abu Sayyid al-Khudi r.a didn't follow

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through on what he said.

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Rather, he took his sword off and put

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it on the ground.

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And then he said, Bu' bi-ithmi wa

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-ithmik wa-kun min ashabin naar.

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Return back with my sin and your sin.

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You will be from the people of the

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fire.

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Referring to the statement of Habil and Qabil

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that one brother said to the other, so

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appropriate, right?

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One brother said to the other, I'm not

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going to kill you.

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You know, if you want to kill me,

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that's in your hands.

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You will be in the fire of *,

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but I'm not going to be involved in

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this.

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This man, when he saw Abu Sayyid al

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-Khudi r.a, finally he can see him,

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he's in the cave and he witnessed him

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referencing the Quran so aptly in this moment.

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He asked him, Anta Abu Sayyid?

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Are you Abu Sayyid al-Khudi?

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Qala naam.

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He said, yes, that is me.

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Fa qala istaghfir li ghafrallahu ilat.

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Ask Allah to forgive me.

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May Allah forgive you.

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I made a mistake.

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I shouldn't have messed with such a senior

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companion of Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam.

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Similarly, one day Marwan was leading Eid Salah

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in Medina.

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Eid Salah is different from Jum'ah in

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many ways, but one of the main differences

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between the two, in Jum'ah we do

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the khutbah first, Salah second.

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In Eid, what happens first?

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Salah is first and then we do the

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khutbah second.

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Miskeen Marwan, no one used to listen to

00:47:49 --> 00:47:49

his khutbah.

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And he felt people would leave when he

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would deliver the sermon because the Eid prayer

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was done.

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So when it came time for Eid, he

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instructed his people, erect the pulpit, so I

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can give the khutbah first and then I

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will lead the Salah later.

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So when he entered into the masjid, he

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was getting ready to go for the khutbah.

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In one narration, there was another person who

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stood up.

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In another narration, it was Abu Sa'id

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himself.

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Abu Sa'id radiallahu anhu got up, he

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held him by the hand and said that

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you need to be on the masalah, not

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giving a lecture.

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And he starts tugging him away from the

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pulpit and taking him towards the masalah.

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This is what we were commanded by Rasulullah

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ﷺ.

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This is the sunnah of Nabi ﷺ.

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Marwan was a fool, so he responded back

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by saying that that time is gone and

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those actions are now abandoned.

00:48:44 --> 00:48:45

We do what we want to do.

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Tariqat.

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These things are done.

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We don't need to act on them anymore.

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So Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radiallahu anhu

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then recited the very famous hadith of the

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Prophet ﷺ.

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That I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, Whoever

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sees a wrong act, an evil, should prevent

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it with his own hands.

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Hence, he was pulling this governor away.

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If he is not capable to do so,

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then with his tongue.

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If he is incapable, then with his heart.

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And this is a very weak state.

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Abu Sa'id radiallahu anhu, after narrating this

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hadith, he would lament and cry.

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After narrating this hadith, he would lament and

00:49:43 --> 00:49:43

cry.

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He would say, so much evil happened during

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our lives and we remain silent.

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And if you know the incidents that occurred

00:49:57 --> 00:50:00

in that window from the martyrdom of Hussain

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radiallahu anhu, to some of the other, Yawm

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al-Kharra, refer to the unfortunate attack on

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Madina Munawwara.

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He used to carry it in his heart

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that I could have done so much more.

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I wish we had spoken.

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I wish we would have done something.

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This is a sahabi of Rasulullah ﷺ who

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by the way did more than you can

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possibly even appreciate.

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And I mean that.

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Even when it came to the shahada of

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Hussain radiallahu anhu, he didn't remain silent.

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He engaged with Hussain radiallahu anhu.

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He engaged with others on this affair.

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But it was still very heavy on his

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heart.

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And from here we also learn from Abu

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Sayyid al-Khudi radiallahu anhu.

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Not only did he narrate abundantly, but he

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acted upon what he learned.

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You can notice that from so many of

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the incidents that we narrated today that it

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was practical.

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What he learned from the Prophet ﷺ was

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very meaningful.

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And also, they would hold themselves to a

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high standard.

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That I wish I had done more.

00:51:01 --> 00:51:03

I wish I had not remained silent.

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This great sahabi and legend of the Prophet

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ﷺ passed away at the age of 86

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in the year 74 after hijrah.

00:51:19 --> 00:51:22

Abu Sayyid al-Khudi radiallahu anhu is another

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great legend for us to learn from.

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Not just one lesson, but so many.

00:51:30 --> 00:51:34

His desire for seeking knowledge.

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His energy in acting upon the knowledge.

00:51:39 --> 00:51:45

His willingness to sacrifice for, to sacrifice in

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face of the challenges that accompanied his practice

00:51:49 --> 00:51:50

and his knowledge.

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Abu Sayyid al-Khudi radiallahu anhu was a

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lantern for the ummah.

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And today, when we read in the hadith

00:52:01 --> 00:52:04

collections that name, Abu Sayyid al-Khudi radiallahu

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anhu it brings a smile to the face

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knowing that he was a legend during the

00:52:10 --> 00:52:13

time of the Prophet ﷺ He served such

00:52:13 --> 00:52:14

a prominent role during the lives of the

00:52:14 --> 00:52:18

khulafa and his legacy continues till today.

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Alhamdulillah, we are being nourished by the, by

00:52:23 --> 00:52:25

the morsels that he fed with his own

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hands to the ummah in the form of

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the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ.

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May Allah ﷻ elevate his maqam and allow

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us to follow in their footsteps.

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تِلْكَ أُمَّةٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ لَهَا مَا كَسَبَتْ وَلَكُمْ

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مَا كَسَبْتْ وَصَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَى صِدْرِ مُحَمَّدٍ السلام

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