Ibrahim Nuhu – Hadith 795 Riyad Us Saliheen
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I see people rushing to get that, which
he says, and apply it.
So I asked the one who was with
me, or anyone who was next to him,
Who is this?
He said, Rasulullah.
So he asked people next to him, they
told him this is Rasulullah SAW.
So I said, Peace be upon you.
He said, I went to the Prophet SAW
and I said, Peace be upon you.
So Rasulullah SAW said, Peace be upon you.
He said, I told him, Peace be upon
you.
So Rasulullah SAW said to him, Peace be
upon you.
Don't say Peace be upon you.
Because Peace be upon you is a method
of greeting the dead ones.
When you visit the grave, I mean, when
they used to visit a dead person, they
say, Peace be upon you.
They don't say, Peace be upon you.
That was in the Jahiliyyah time.
But in Islam, the Prophet SAW abrogated this.
Cancel it and replace it with that which
is better for us.
Peace be upon you.
So the Prophet SAW fixed and he told
them this is the way they used to
greet the dead ones.
So I asked him, Are you Rasulullah?
He said, I'm the messenger of Allah.
The one that whenever you are afflicted by
a calamity or anything that harms your life,
you usually approach him and he will give
you relief, remove it from you.
The one that when you are in a
state of hardship and difficulty, you approach him
for a solution.
He said, That one was the one who
sent me.
And we talk about this, this is a
manner of the Prophet SAW in giving da
'wah.
Every single person, the Prophet SAW has an
approach for him.
Depending on the place where he is coming
from.
Those people from the Badia, the Prophet SAW
has an approach.
Those people from the city, the Prophet SAW
has an approach.
There is Barat, the Badia.
You will never find a method which is
greater than his, Rasulullah SAW.
The one that whenever you are in a
state of drought, famine, you are looking for
rain so that you can grow your farm.
You remember the one that you always ask?
Yeah, because those people, even the non-Muslims
among them, they recognize that Allah is the
most high.
And he is the one who they have
towards him is much more than they have
towards others.
That's why that one, when he was asked,
كم إله تعبد؟
قال ست.
How many Ilah you have?
He says six.
He says خمسة في الأرض و واحد في
السماء.
Subhanallah.
He said I have one above the heavens
and five here with me.
They asked him, who do you have hope
the most?
Whenever you need support and help, he says,
الذي في السماء.
Iqriba ibn Abi Jahl, when he was running
away from Rasulullah SAW, what drew his attention
to understand that yes, he is making a
wrong decision is that when there was a
strong wave on the sea, the Mallah, the
captain on that boat, he told them, you
should know that your Aliha will never benefit
you here.
أخلص الدعاء إليه.
Subhanallah.
They are Kufar, all of them.
But he was telling them that they should
know that these Aliha, they will never benefit
you today.
Let's go back to him.
Subhanallah.
Aqlan, if you have this thinking, you should
understand that why can't you just stick to
that one that you believe he is the
one who can benefit you all the time.
Because you believe he is saying that these
guys, they cannot benefit now.
You have to go back to the one
who can, who is the only one who
can benefit you in these moments.
Why don't you just stick to him rather
than bringing all of these other objects.
So the Prophet SAW was addressing the man
through what he already knows.
Because these are facts.
Even if they have little knowledge in Islam,
but they do understand what the Prophet SAW
is talking about.
He said, he is the one that whenever
you are in a desert, المهلكة and those
مهالك, and you call Allah SWT after losing
you, your camel.
You have a camel and you lost it
in that place.
He is the one that when you ask
him to bring it back, he will bring
it back to you.
Because they have circumstances when this happened to
them.
That's why the Prophet SAW was referring him
to those facts that he knows.
الله أكبر So after this, he told him,
he said, يا رسول الله أوصله Advise me
what is something that I will be doing
to succeed in this life.
Who would advise me to do, يا رسول
الله The Prophet SAW, I gave him these
وصايا القيمة الطيبة المباركة وصايا النبي صلى الله
عليه وسلم كلها قيمة كلها قيمة It's just
up to us to take it and succeed
or to reject it and fail in life.
And nobody will help you.
Allah did not force you, but he told
you that the only way for you to
succeed in this dunya is his path.
Stay away from it and get lost and
get into trouble.
It is up to you to make a
choice, but there is a heavy accountability in
this dunya and the akhirah.
So he says, يا رسول الله, I need
advice.
What should I be focusing on?
قال لا تسبن أحد Don't you ever curse
anyone.
Say لا تسبن أحد Don't you ever insult
anyone.
Don't curse anyone.
Don't abuse anyone.
Don't harm anyone.
The Prophet SAW said لا تسبن أحد And
this is good, especially for the parents to
take this behavior and attitude.
Your kids shouldn't hear from you any bad
words.
This is a big adab that we have
to learn.
They shouldn't hear from you bad words.
So you're going to have some issues sometimes
between you and your spouse.
Sometimes if there is no good tarbiyah, the
voice will be raised up.
The father and the mother should try to
conceal this from the kids.
And if they happen to know that there
is something going on, they should maintain adab
no matter how much angry they are.
They can go to the room and fight
each other and do whatever they want in
front of the kids.
This is not appropriate.
Because kids, they will take stand.
They will take stand and who do you
think they will side with?
No, that's wrong.
Who do you think they will side with?
The weak one among them.
Whether he has a right or doesn't have
a right with him, but whoever seems to
be the weak one among them, the kids
will side with that one.
That's akhletutf.
And it's not appropriate for them actually to
know all of these.
This creates this great trauma in their brain
and it affects them psychologically when they grow.
Many kids that have these type of mental
issues, sometimes when you go back to the
history in the family, you see, subhanallah, someone
will tell you that I never saw my
parents happy.
I never saw them living in a peaceful
way.
They always fight.
So you can understand why this is affecting
the well-being of the kids also at
the same time.
The Prophet s.a.w. told him, Don't
you ever insult anyone.
So people are going to insult you, right?
No reply.
The best reply for somebody who doesn't have
manners and he insults you is to keep
quiet.
Although it's too hurting for you to be
told to be patient.
That's why the Prophet s.a.w. said,
والصبر ضياء What is dhiya?
ضوء الشمس والصلاة نور والنور والضياء كلاهما نور
Both of them are light.
نور وضياء, both of them are light.
But the scholar said, Sabr, the light that
comes from it, it describes as dhiya because
it comes with harara, hot temperature.
Yeah, because a person will not come to
you and give you huge amount of money
and tell you sabr.
Give you a job and tell you sabr.
Give you a wife and tell you sabr.
When do we tell people sabr?
When something happens to calamity or somebody hurts
them, please observe patiently.
So it's too bitter.
That's why some said it is called from,
it is taken from the word sabr.
This shajarah, which is too bitter.
Never ate something in my life that is
more bitter than this shajarah.
It's a medicine, but it's too bitter.
They said sabr is taken from this shajarah,
sabr.
Allahu ala.
But the best remedy to address those people
who insult you is sabr and patience.
Not to reply with the same thing.
Allah SWT says, Allah
says in three places in the Quran, اِدْفَعَ
بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ وَلَا تَسْتَوُّ الحَسَنَةُ وَلَا تَسَيِّعَهُ
اِدْفَعَ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ وَإِذَا الَّذِي بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ
عَدَاوَتِكَ كَأَنَّهُ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمٌ It's okay for you
if you want to take revenge, but it
is not good for you.
It is not good for you to take
revenge.
Rasulallah SAW, he never took revenge in his
life.
If you see him fighting somebody, that means
the laws of Allah SWT have been violated.
قَالَ لَا تَسُبَّنَّ أَحَدٍ قَالَ فَمَا سَبَبْتُ
بَعْدَهُ حُرًّا وَلَا عَبْدَهُ وَلَا بَعِيرًا وَلَا شَتَهُ
He says don't curse anyone, don't insult anyone.
This Bedouin says, he says, I have never
insulted anyone after the Prophet SAW.
Whether this person was a slave or this
person was a free person.
Even camels, he says, I don't insult even
camels.
Even animals, he doesn't insult them.
That's the peak of understanding the advice of
the Prophet SAW and taking it and applying
it correctly.
I guess this is very, very clear.
قَالَ وَلَا بَعِيرًا وَلَا شَتَهُ So he says
I've never, you know, cursed anyone.
I applied this properly.
And then the Prophet SAW told him, this
is the second wasiya.
He says, لَا تَحْتِرَنَّ مِنَ الْمَعْرُوفِ شَيْئًا He
says, لَا تَحْتِرَنَّ مِنَ الْمَعْرُوفِ شَيْئًا Don't you
ever belittle Al-Ma'ruf, righteousness, righteousness, kindness.
No matter how small it is.
This is very good for us to understand
this, especially in this time of ours, where
people belittle the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW.
We have Qushur, we have Lubb.
That's what some people will describe the Sunnah
of the Prophet SAW as Qushur or Lubb.
We don't have Qushur or Lubb, we have
Lubb, Kullub.
And Lubb is the essence.
The main thing, you know, when you have
the fruit, you're taking the skin and removing
it and throwing it away and then eat.
And the inside, the thing you're eating is
the Lubb.
Do you think it's appropriate for somebody to
come and describe the Sunnah of the Prophet
SAW as this?
Qushur, Lubb, A'udhu Billah.
Whatever the Prophet SAW advises us to do,
Kullu Lubb.
Al-Deen, Kullu Lubb.
There's no Qushur, there's nothing.
Kullu Lubb.
And Wallahi, you don't know which part of
your righteous deed will take you to Paradise.
You don't know.
Yeah, that's why you shouldn't belittle anyone.
Just do.
What you're told that Allah loves it, just
do.
According to your ability.
What you're told that Rasulullah SAW loves it,
just do it.
According to your ability.
You will succeed.
We mentioned many times from the Sunnah of
the Prophet SAW that a prostitute woman fed
a dog.
Qala, and Nabi SAW, Fashakkarallahu Laha Wa Ghafara
Laha.
Allah SWT appreciates what she did.
And Allah SWT forgave her sins.
She got Paradise because of this.
Yeah, you might say this one, she made
some efforts to go under the well and
then inside the well and bring the water
and then give it to him.
You know, to that dog.
I have another example.
Rasulullah SAW said, there was a man who
was walking and then he found something that
is harmful on the road.
He just moved it aside.
Allah SWT appreciates what he did and forgave
his sins.
This is Rabbul Alameen.
You don't know which part of your righteous
deed Allah SWT will take and help you.
The Sahibul Raqeef that we mentioned, taken from
the hadith, with the author of Abu Musa
al-Ashari.
One piece of bread saved him from hellfire.
Nobody will ever think of this, you know.
You Allah, nobody will ever think of this.
Ibadat seventy years.
He worshipped Allah for seventy years.
He messed up everything for seven nights.
If I am to ask one of us,
we will say, oh, this person succeeded.
He will say on the Meezan, for sure,
the righteous deed of seventy years is going
to be greater and heavier than the evil
deed of only seven nights.
Only seven nights.
But in the hereafter, in the hereafter, you
know, it is not based on our own
qiyas.
Allah is the one who made you.
You don't know the mass and the weight
of something.
You Allah.
That's why when they put the seventy years,
seven nights, the seventy years became very light.
And the seven nights are way heavier than
the seventy years.
According to the ayah that says, According
to this Meezan, the righteous deed are way
lower and the evil deed are heavier.
Where is he going?
Where is he going?
*.
According to this concept.
Amongst his righteous deed, the last thing he
did, one of the last thing he did
after Tawbah Ila Allah Azza wa Jal, because
he repented.
Amongst the righteous deed he did, it was
a piece of bread he gave in charity.
When they brought the piece of bread and
put it on the scale, the side of
the righteous deed, that's what helped him to
defeat the evil ones.
And he goes to paradise.
You remember Sahibul Bitaqah, you know, the person
who went back to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala with ninety-nine scrolls of evil deed.
Sayyiat.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, Every
Sijil is as far as you can see.
He has ninety-nine of them.
They are full of sins and ma'asim.
And Rabbuka Karim, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
asked him, asked the angels to present him
with the card.
Nothing written on that card except La ilaha
illallah.
He also was belittling that.
He was saying, Ya Allah, what does this
card do against these books?
They put, you know, that card and subhanallah.
The Sijilat, all of them went very light.
Became so light in comparison to that piece
of paper.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgives his sins.
He goes to paradise.
Rabbuka Karim, don't lose hope.
At the same time also, ma'asim.
Don't forget, a person went to * because
of what?
The cat should not feed until death.
She went to * because of this.
Don't forget, there was a time when a
person was sitting next to the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam and a strange arrow came
and that man died during one of the
battles.
They said, And they were congratulating him that
he got Jannah free of charge.
Because the arrow just came to him, he
was just with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and he died because of that.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, He says,
He says, No.
He says, Wallahi, that piece of cloth that
he took before the distribution of Ghanima, now
Allah turned it into a fire for him
in his grave.
And lastly, remember that person who told his
friend, We read this hadith long ago.
He was talking to his friends.
He was a da'i, a good person,
a righteous person.
But then he made a mistake.
He made a mistake.
What was his mistake?
Getting involved in the affairs of Allah s
.w.t. without permission.
Which many of us are doing nowadays because
everyone is a mufti.
Talking on behalf of Allah without permission.
What is the permission?
To study, to be qualified, to know what
you're doing and to believe that yes, this
is what Allah s.w.t. wants.
Then say it.
If not, just keep quiet.
Somebody is going to do it.
So this man has been, you know, talking
to his friend, his brother.
Fear Allah s.w.t. Don't do this.
Be righteous.
This is wrong.
He got tired one day.
He looked at his brother or friend who
was committing sin.
He told him, He says, He says, He
said, He can just say, I'm afraid that
you go and get into trouble.
Ibrahim a.s. told his father, He never
said, Allah will never forgive you.
Allah will punish you definitely.
He said, I have a fear.
If you don't change, you might be punished
by Allah s.w.t. This is why
you should be telling somebody who is committing
sin.
Be careful.
You might go to Allah s.w.t.
and get into trouble.
So you better stop.
But don't say, Allah will never do.
How do you know?
How do you know?
This man told him, He said, He says,
Subhanallah.
Immediately Allah s.w.t. sent an angel
to the prophet of that person to ask
him this question.
Who is that person who has the courage
to open his mouth and swear by my
name?
Who is swearing by my name?
That I will never forgive so and so.
The Prophet s.a.w. said, Allah told
him, Subhanallah.
Allah says, inform him that I forgive that
person.
And I destroyed the righteous deed of the
one who said I will not forgive.
That's why in some narration, the text that
we got from the Prophet s.a.w.
Allah s.w.t. asked him, said to
him, Let him start from the scratch.
What does that mean?
All of his righteous deeds have been destroyed
by Allah s.w.t. because of that
single word.
Abu Huraira, whenever he read this hadith, he
used to say, He said, it was one
word that he says which destroyed his dunya
and the akhirah.
That's why when dealing with Rabbul Alameen, Wallahi,
we have to be very careful.
Allah s.w.t. says, You're qualified, do.
You're not qualified, don't do.
It's better for you.
Actually, it's not fancy for you to give
fatwa.
Wallahi, it's not.
It's not.
We love to be called Shaykh, Ustaz, Taliban,
and all of these things.
No, it's not fancy.
People do it, let them do it.
You shouldn't pay attention to it.
And don't let this deceive you in the
way you go and talk on behalf of
Allah s.w.t. without knowledge.
As one of the scholars said, Whoever refuses,
to say, You know, maqtam?
Are the places where if somebody hits you
on that place, you might lose your life.
Those of you who are learning self-defense,
I'm pretty sure they told you this.
There are places and areas in the body
of human beings, if you were to hit
that place, a person might lose his life.
He said, maqatim.
He said, if you are not willing to
say, la'adli, I don't know.
Wallahi, we live with our great scholars, very,
very great scholars.
You might say, you never see somebody like
them.
You know, but subhanAllah, how many times they
will be asked, la'adli, la'adli, la
'adli, la'adli.
Shaykh Abdul Mohsin al-Abadi, you will count
this a lot in his halaqa.
La'adli, la'adli.
Does that reduce his, you know, respect that
we have in our heart towards him?
Never.
Actually, it gives people more assurance that whatever
they get from him, inshaAllah, is what the
Shaykh believes is correct.
And wherever they go, bi'idhnillahi ta'ala,
when they are looking for a right answer,
they will get the same one.
That's why they said, man qala la'adli,
qala aftiha.
I love the statement of one of the
scholars who said, you must understand that if
somebody asks you about a matter and you
told him the answer, you know, and you
know that you are not qualified to do
that, you are not sure about it, he
said you should know that you are actually
taking him out of his museeba by putting
yourself inside that museeba.
This is how it is, you know.
He asks you and then you tell him
what you are not sure, just give fatwa
in the deen, you know, from your own
self, without having any reference.
So what are you doing?
You are giving him relief because for him,
if he goes back to Allah subhana wa
ta'ala, inshaAllah, his side is okay if
he believes that you are qualified to give
the fatwa.
Because as a layman, it is my responsibility
to make sure that the one I am
asking qualifies to be asked.
That's number one and also he has taqwa,
he fears Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
Two things I must do.
Must make sure that this person fears Allah,
especially in our time.
Yeah, because there are some people who, in
terms of knowledge, they are very knowledgeable people.
But unfortunately, dunya blinded their eyes, they don't
fear Allah subhana wa ta'ala in their
fatwa.
That's why the scholar said, al-aami, you
know, a layman in society, he also has
to do ijtihad in selecting the best among
the scholars in the community and somebody that
based on the recommendation of the community, this
person fears Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
Go and take.
If that person gave him fatwa, he uses
what he told him.
If what he told him is correct, both
of them will be rewarded.
If he is wrong in his fatwa, the
man who is asking is okay, his side
is fine, he will not get into trouble
when he meets Allah subhana wa ta'ala
because he did what Allah asked him to
do.
The issue remain with the one who is
giving the fatwa, whether he qualifies or not.
If he qualifies and he made a mistake
accidentally, he is also not going to get
into trouble.
But if he is intentionally messing up the
fatwa, giving him the wrong fatwa to cheat
in the deen, he will be in trouble
with Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
Or in the situation where he knows he
is not qualified but he still gives the
fatwa, he will be in trouble when he
meets Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
May Allah grant us good and tawfiq and
ability to stick to the sunnah of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and all of
our affairs.
Innahu bi kulli jameelin kafir Subhanaka Allahumma wa
bi hamdik Basharun la ilaha illa abd Astaghfirullah
atubu ilayk Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Allahumma
rabba thee da'wud wa ta'amatu wa
sallatu wa sallam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh In
the
name
of Allah In the name of Allah
The Most Merciful The Most Compassionate The Most
Merciful So today Alhamdulillah we have only one
question which is about clarification on what we
were just discussing.
The questioner says if a person says to
the one who asked I don't have knowledge
right now but inshallah I will come back
to you.
Would that be correct?
Yes, definitely this is what is wajib upon
him.
Because sometimes it's good to receive questions about
these matters that you don't know.
As an honest student of knowledge scholar whoever
you are this is actually a blessing from
Allah SWT for you to go and study
do maraja.
You know this knowledge there is no deficiency
concerning you don't know something.
The deficiency is all about you don't study,
you are not studying.
You should always be ready to go and
expand your knowledge because trust me there is
nobody on earth who knows everything in the
sharia except the Rasul.
The only one who knows everything in Islam
is Rasulullah SAW.
No companion that ever claimed that he knows
everything.
No scholar among all the scholars none of
them ever claimed that he knows everything.
It is only in our time we hear
some people who I don't know what happened
to their thinking you know.
They will tell you my sheikh has gone
through everything you are talking about.
I don't know how did he manage to
think that his sheikh is better than the
companions of the Prophet SAW.
Yeah but that's that's fine.
You can understand that because some of these
type of people believe that our scholars the
contemporary scholars are more knowledgeable than the companions
and and their predecessors Tabi'un Tabi'un
and some of them believe that we have
more knowledge than them and the and more
accurate than them you know.
How can somebody think about this?
Even to think about it how can somebody
think about this that his knowledge is better
than the knowledge of Abu Bakr and Umar?
Malik Ibn Shafi'i he will lie this
is similar to Sakran.
You know that's why Al Hanafi said in
one of his writings he says this statement
is very bad and is wrong very wrong
he said Wallahi Tariqatuhum A'alam Wa Aslam
because this person was saying that Tariqatuna A
'alam Wa Ahkam Wa Tariqatuhum Aslam he says
no this is wrong their way has more
knowledge more accurate and more safer he says
Mamtaz Al Awaluna A'alam Mamtaz Al Mutakhiruna
A'alam Mutakaddimin Illa Bikufrat Al Kalam he
said we never supersede them in anything except
that we talk too much he said Baynama
Al Qawmu Mushtaghiluna Bee Al Qawaid Wa Al
Dwabid they always focus on principles those simple
sentences but they have bigger meaning and we
always focus on details, how to expand things,
you know.
So it's good for a person to know
his position and to understand this method correctly.
That is a ni'mah, somebody asking you a
question that you don't know.
You should be brave and tell him, I
don't know.
Only in our time, you know, this is
taking place, you know, you think that it
is deficiency to tell my students I don't
know.
Why is it deficiency?
It is deficiency for you to talk without
knowledge.
Saying I don't know is not deficiency at
all.
Imam Malik, when that person told him, I
have 40-something questions to you, he answered
only a few.
The rest, he told them, go back to
the Ahlul Maghrib and tell them, I don't
know.
He said, I came all the way from
Morocco to Medina to ask you this question
and people have been waiting for this moment
and now you want me to go and
tell them you don't know?
He said, yes.
Go and tell them you asked Malik and
Malik said he doesn't know.
It's as simple as this, you know.
Did that reduce the qadr of Imam Malik?
Never.
All of them are like that.
So we also have to take the same
manner if we want to succeed in our
life.
Wallahi, as I said, it is not funny
talking on behalf of Allah.
Wallahi, it's not funny.
If you don't know, keep quiet.
Let somebody do the job.
Don't put yourself into trouble with Allah SWT
in trying to show some people that you
are so and so and so person.
You will regret.
May Allah SWT grant us good and tawfiq
and be with us wherever we are.