Lessons from the Seerah #67 The Battle of Khaybar Part 2
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The history of Islam is discussed, including the Battle of Khaybar, which was supposed to be a victory for Islam's Empire. The Prophet's actions caused deaths and the use of poison to kill people, leading to the loss of faith and loneliness among Muslims. The importance of knowing the Prophet's deeds and avoiding feeling satisfied and content is emphasized. The use of anything and anyone to bring victory to the deen is also emphasized.Transcript ©
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Last week, we went through
the battle of Haifa,
the circumstances
that led to this battle,
and how it unfolded
with
the fortresses
of the yahood of Khaybah being conquered by
the Muslims.
And then how the vast wealth
and treasures, and
property, and land
that was owned by
the Jews of Haifa, how it came into
the
possession of the Muslims,
and how how
this
was a turning point
in their
financial situation. How
after the battle of Kaybak, the Muslims
had now become rich.
We also looked at
the marriage
of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to
Sofiyyah,
who was the daughter
of one of the leaders of Khaybar,
Shuyayi ibn Akhtab.
And so today, we will look at some
seas
from the battle battle,
along with other
important events events
surrounding
the battle of Khayr that
we did not get a chance to discuss
last week.
And with that, insha'Allah,
we will conclude our discussion
regarding
Khayba.
And so let's look at
some from the battle. The first one,
there was
a man, a fighter
in the ranks of the Muslims
who is doing a very good job of
fighting the enemy.
Rasulullah
Sallallahu alaihi wasallam pointed at him.
And this was while he was still alive.
The prophet pointed at him and said said
that he is one of the people of
the hellfire.
So
this came as a shock
to the Sahaba
Because of the fight that this man had
put on
on during the battle
And his bravery, his courage,
he was killing anyone who came
who came in his way.
So one of the companions, he says,
I'm gonna follow this man to see wow
house.
So he followed him.
Whenever he would speed up, he would speed
up behind him. Whenever he would slow down,
he would slow down,
keeping behind him,
following him wherever he went.
And then he saw
that the man
got hit.
He got hit so bad that he fell
to the ground,
and
he got injured.
And the injury was so painful
that he couldn't tolerate it.
He couldn't bear
with patience.
So what did he do?
He took an arrow out of his quiver,
and
he killed himself.
So the companion who was following him,
he rushed to Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and he said,
I be a witness that you are the
messenger of Allah.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked him
what he saw, and so he told him.
And then the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
oh, so and so,
get up and announce
that only a believer will enter jannah,
and that Allah can give victory
to this deen.
Allah can support this deen.
Walawdirajulalfajir
even if it be true
an evil or a wicked man.
And so this shows us
that what may appear to us
as being something
is not really the case in the sight
of Allah
In one narration,
it mentioned
that the prophet then said,
a person who performs deeds
like the deeds
of Uhrul Jannah,
how it appears to the people,
but he will be one of the people
of the hellfire.
And another person
may
perform
the actions of the people of the hellfire,
in what appears to the people,
but he will be one of the people
of Janjag.
So
some people may
be righteous outwardly,
but there's an aspect of them that we're
not aware of.
However,
this does not mean
that we now start doubting
every Muslim who we see.
They're doing something good.
We don't judge people's intentions.
We have to go based on
the apparent.
Whether good or bad, we judge people based
on
their outward actions.
But we cannot
confirm.
We cannot
say that any particular individual,
he is from the people of judge.
Right?
Right? No matter who they are, no matter
how righteous they are,
while they're alive,
and even after they have died,
we can only hope
that Allah
will make them from the people of judgement
Except those who the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam affirm himself.
And so there are certain individuals who the
prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam bore witness that
these people are from the people of Jannah,
and he mentioned their names.
But besides them, we cannot say.
And in this case, the same thing thing
thing thing, the prophet bore witness that this
man is in the hellfire. So we say
yes. Yes. Yes. He is.
But if the prophet did not say it,
we cannot say that. And so even today,
if someone
does something that makes it seem as if
he's going to the hellfire, we cannot say
that.
We cannot say that.
The second
scene that we have from
the battle of Khayba,
there was a servant of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
who was struck by an arrow
and he
died.
So the Sahaba,
they said
he
is engendered.
They said, he is a shahid.
They were congratulating him
for attaining
the status of a shayid.
So Rasulullah
heard them them,
and this hadith is in Bukhari.
He says
no. No. No. No. By the one
who my soul is in his hands,
the cloak
that he took
on the day of Khayr from the Zaima,
from the booty
is burning flames on him.
And then there was a man who heard
this from the prophet, and
so he came forward with
a sandal strap,
something as small as as as like a
shoelace.
He came, and he said, this is something
I took you out of Surahwah.
The prophet
said, this is a sandal strap or 2
sandal straps of fire.
And so although this man,
he died
fighting as a mujahid,
and he should have earned
the high
level of being a shahid.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, instead,
he is being punished in hell 5.5.
Why?
Just because it took one piece
of the Hanima,
the spoils of war,
without permission
before it had been distributed.
And so this is how dangerous it is.
And this is what what what the scholars
refer to as ghul,
to steal from
the zanima before
it has been distributed. And this is one
of the major sins in Islam.
Allah
says says,
It is not appropriate for a prophet
to illegally
take take take spoils of war war.
And whoever does so,
he will be be it will be held
against them. What he stole
will be held against him
on the day
of judgment. And in another hadith, the prophet
warned the people, he said,
return whatever you have taken because
on the day of judgment,
I don't wanna see one of you being
punished by that thing that you stopped.
The third scene from the battle of Faydul
was a bad way
who had just become a mustas.
And then he went out with Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in the battle of Haifa. The Muslims were
victorious.
And as we know, there was a lot
of
booty.
There was a lot of spoils of war,
as we mentioned.
And so Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
as he would usually do after any battle
battle,
is that he would divide divide
the spoils of war
among the Sahaba who participated.
And so he would divide it according to
what Allah mentioned in Surat Al Anfath.
And that is that each fighter deserves a
shirk.
So this bed when he left the same,
And so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he left a share for him. And
he told the Sahaba to go and give
it to this bed when
He
asked, what is this?
They said, this is your share of the
buoy.
And then he took it and brought it
to the prophet and
he asked them the same question, what
is this?
The prophet
said,
I set it aside for you. It is
your share of the kaneer.
So then
the
man
says,
oh
messenger
of Allah,
it was not for this that I followed
you.
This is not why I became Muslims,
But rather,
I followed you so that I may be
shot right here.
And then as a result, I would die
and I would enter.
And so so look at this simple
bed
wet,
and
look at his honesty.
You know, Uzzanima,
it's something hada for him.
It's something that he rightfully deserves,
but he voluntarily
said
that
he doesn't want.
Why? Because
here you had a man
who was not
looking for some some
temporary enjoyments of the good,
but rather he had reached the level where
the only thing that was on his mind
was meeting Allah
and having the reward
of being a shahid and entering Jannah.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
if you are truthful
to Allah,
then Allah will be truthful to you.
If you stick by this
and you don't give up give up give
up give up and you want to fulfill
that wish of yours, then Allah will fulfill
it for you.
Shortly after that battle,
when the Muslims went out on another battle
battle and they met their enemy,
This companion also fought,
and
he was killed.
So he was brought to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam saw
that he had an arrow
that was
hit in the exact same point that he
had,
in the exact same place that he had
pointed to to, in his neck.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked, is
it him?
He said yes.
And then his salallahu alaihi wa sallam said
he was true to Allah, so Allah was
true to
He was true to Allah,
so Allah was true to him.
And so this is the reward
of being truthful to Allah,
not paying lip service to our iman.
And then when things become difficult, we give
up.
But rather staying committed until the very end.
Then the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he took off his own garment,
the own
his very own cloak. He took it off
and he put it over him for him
to be buried
in the garment of Rasulullah
salallahu alayhi wa sallam. And so this is
how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
honored him. Then
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam made a very
long du'a for him.
And the narrator of the hadith he says,
the part that I heard
from the du'a was, oh Allah
this is Your servant.
He came forth as a mujahid in Your
path and he was killed as a shahid
Wa ana halaladaalika
shahid.
And
I am a witness for that.
You know, what better witness,
what a better witness than the witness of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so what
a great badge of honor that
this simple
Bedouin with little knowledge,
look at how huge of a badge of
honor he was given.
And
this was all because of
his
being truthful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and
so Allah rewarded him
in this way.
The next scene from the battle
of Khaybar
is the companion Abu Yusr radiAllahu 'an.
He says, I was with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam in khaibar.
When we saw a sheep
belonging to one of the Jews.
And they were entering into one of their
fortresses
while we were while we were laying siege
to that fortress.
So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam saw
this
while we, the Muslims, were hungry.
So this is before
the fortresses
ended up falling in the hands of the
Muslims.
Prior to that,
the Muslims had come to Khaybar.
Many days had gone by,
they didn't have much food.
So
they saw these sheep,
and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam asked the
companions,
who will feed us from these sheep?
So Abu Yusr said, Me, O Messenger of
Allah, I'll do it. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam said, Then go ahead.
Abu Yusr, he says,
So I set out running
like an ostrich.
The ostrich is a very fast
animal, right?
It can run at speeds of between 70
80 kilometers an hour.
And today there are no ostriches in
the Arabian Peninsula.
They became extinct,
but they did exist in those days.
And so
he said, Abu Yusar, he said,
when Rasulullah
radiusellam saw me running, he said,
O Allah, let us enjoy His company.
Because
the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam loved
Abu Yusar, and the way he
ran so quickly.
He says, So I reach the sheep
when the first of the flock had already
entered the gates of the fortress.
So I took the last
the last of them. I was able to
get 2 of them,
and then I carried 1
each under one of my arms.
He says, I then came back running as
if I wasn't carrying anything.
Meaning,
he was running
and he felt so light weighted.
He says, Until I came to the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and I dropped him at
I dropped them at his feet,
then
we slaughter them
and we ate them.
The narrator says,
and so Abu Yusr
was one of the last of the companions
to die.
Years after the death of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam,
after
the khilafa of the 4 khulafa or rashiloon,
after many of the companions had passed away,
many decades later,
he was one of the last to die.
Why? Because of the dua of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when he said,
oh Allah, let us enjoy His company.
When Abu Yusr would mention this story, he
would cry.
And he would say,
they enjoyed my company
until I became
one of the last of them to die.'
And so he was kind of sad
that he was left behind while his friends,
including the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
had passed away
before him.
The next scene,
and this was right after the Battle of
Khaybar,
After the defeat
of the Jews,
there was a Jewish woman
by the name of Zaynab Bint Al Harith.
She held a feast
and she invited
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and some of his companions.
She roasted
for them some sheep,
and she asked about the particular
parts
of the animal that the Prophet
used to love the most.
And we know
the Prophet used to love which part
of the animal?
The shoulder.
So
she filled
that part with poison.
The Prophet
came, he accepted the invitation,
and the companions came.
She presented the food
and they sat to eat.
They started eating.
One of the companions, Bishr al Bara'at
radhiyallahuhan,
was the first
to bite the meat and
swallow it.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam took some
of it and he put it in his
mouth,
and
then
he didn't swallow it,
but then all of a sudden he dropped
it.
And he said,
This bone is telling me that it is
poisoned.
And so this is one of the
miracles of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
that
this flesh is speaking to him.
Then he called the woman and he said,
you poisoned this for me.'
She said, 'Yes.'
He said, why did he do so?'
She said,
if you were a king,
then you would have been killed
and we would have rid ourselves
of you.
But if you were a Prophet,
Allah would tell you and you would know
about it.
Then the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
'Allah would never give you authority over me.'
Meaning,
Allah wouldn't allow anyone to kill me. Because
Allah says in the Qur'an,
'Wallahu Ya'asoonuka
minan Nas.'
There were many previous
assassination attempts,
Attempts at the life of the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam. And Allah saved him every
time.
And Allah promised the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam in this ayah that he would protect
him.
So then the companions, they
asked, should we kill her, O Messenger of
Allah?
The Prophet
said, No. And so he ended up forgiving
her. However,
that was
initially.
The companion Bishr,
ibn Bara'ah,
who ate and swallowed
the meat,
he ended up
passing away.
And so this shows you how powerful that
poison was.
In some narrations
it mentions that as a result, the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam ordered for her execution.
So now he executed her because there was
a life
of one of the companions
who was taken.
Now
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam ended up
surviving after that
for the next
3 years.
The battle of Khaybar
was in the 7th year.
The Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam ends up
passing away
3 years later.
In his final days,
when he was suffering
from a severe fever,
Ahaisha radiAllahu anneha says, and this is in
Sahih Bukhari.
She says the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
in his sickness in which he died, he
would say, O Aisha,
I still feel the pain caused by the
food that I had eaten at Khaybar.
And at this very moment,
I feel as if my
aorta
which is
the main
artery
that carries blood from the heart to the
rest of the body,
he was saying that he feels it being
cut from that poison.
And so because of this incident
and because of this hadith,
many scholars they say that the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam,
he died as a shahid
in addition to being a Prophet.
And so Allah combined for him
these two noble
statuses.
The status of prophethood and the status of
shahada which is one of the highest
that anyone can reach.
And so
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he went on
to
live after this assassination attempt,
and he continued his mission,
and he continued fighting jihad and spreading Islam.
Then when he completed
his mission, and it came time
for him to leave this world,
he felt the pain of that poison.
So in the end,
although
we said
that Allah protected him,
right? And he told that woman that, Allah
will never give you the ability to kill
me.
Although
she did not succeed in her mission
to assassinate the Prophet SAW,
the damage from the poison still affected him
and caused his death
3 years later. And that is why many
scholars say that
he died
as
a shaleed
and Allah was best.
Now
the news had spread
that the Prophet
was going to attack
the Jews of Khaybar.
And as we mentioned previously,
these particular Jews were considered
the most well trained
and skilled
fighters
among all of the Jews of Arabia,
along with their strong fortresses,
giving them military advantage over their enemies.
Huaybib
Abuib ibn Abdul Uzza
was one of the members
of the
envoys
of Quraysh
who
met with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
al Khudaybiyyah.
Remember when we spoke about
al Khudaybiyyah,
Quraysh would send
envoys to meet and discuss with the Prophet
SAW Salam.
And so one of the members
of Quraysh that met the Prophet SAW Salam
was
Huaytib ibn Abdul Riza.
When he met the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
at Hudaybiyah and then went back to Mecca,
he said, I know that Muhammad and his
followers
will be victorious.
There's no way that they will ever be
defeated.
This was the impression that he got
just by seeing the Muslims,
and the way they conducted themselves,
and how
they would never give up defending
the Prophet no
matter what happens.
So now
when news
had reached Mecca that the Muslims
were going to face off against
the Jews of Khaybar,
Huayy ibn and many other men of Quraysh,
they made a bet.
Who's gonna win?
Some of them like Safwan ibn Umayyah
were betting for the Jews to win because
as we mentioned, their reputation
and,
you know, militarily,
they had the advantage.
While Hawaitb,
he was of the opinion that Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam would win.
And so they made a bet, and the
bet was over a 100 camels.
And so
this shows us
the interest
that the people had in this particular battle,
the battle of Khaybar,
and how passionate the people were
about it, and about the outcome of this
battle,
like no other battle that was fought previously.
So this was before the battle. Now the
question is, how does the news
of the outcome of the battle reach Mecca?
He belonged to the tribe of
Benusulayim,
and he was a wealthy businessman.
He owned the rights of mining.
And when we say mining, in those days,
it was
salt mines.
So he owned the rights of these
in the lands of Suraym,
of his tribe.
And
he had
a wife from Mecca.
So he himself was not from Mecca,
but he had married a woman from Mecca.
And now he had become Muslim.
Al Hajjaj
had accepted Islam.
But he had a problem.
He had money
that people owed to him in Mecca,
And he was afraid
of going
to collect that money
if people had found out that he has
accepted Islam.
So he came to the Prophet
and said, O Messenger of Allah,
the people of Quraysh owe me money,
and I want to go and collect it.
Would you allow me to speak against you
if I need to?
The Prophet
said, Say whatever you want.
Meaning
that if I have
to curse you or say something bad about
Islam
just to show them
that I'm not a Muslim.
Is it okay if I do that? The
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave him the
permission.
So he goes to Mecca.
And this was
right at the time of the battle of
Khaybar, right after it.
And when he reached the outskirts of Mecca,
he already finds men of Quraysh
waiting.
They were waiting for travelers to come
to ask them
about what happened
at the Battle of Khaybar.
You know, in those days,
this is how they would receive news.
They would ask travelers.
And again, what does it show us?
It shows us how much interest they had
for this battle.
How passionate they were about,
you know, knowing what happens
and
what is the outcome of this battle.
And so they were so eager to hear
about the news
that,
you know, they came out
and they were waiting on the outskirts of
Mecca.
They were so interested about this conflict. Right?
Because on the one hand,
until now the Muslims had been victorious
and,
you know, they were on momentum.
They were winning battle after battle. But on
the other hand,
they're facing off against
the Jews of Khayr who had the reputation
that they had.
So when they saw Al Hajjaj,
they recognized him
because
he was
his wife was from Mecca.
So they said,
This is the man we're looking for.
He must have information
about what happened at Khaybar.
So they rushed towards him and they said,
Tell us about Khaybar. What happened?
And Hajjaj says,
These men came to me
and clung onto my camel and said,
Go ahead.
Tell us. He said, I have a good
news for you.
I have good news for you.
They said, tell us what happened.
He said,
Muhammad has been defeated
as he has never been defeated before.
His companions were killed
and he has been taken as a prisoner.
And the Jews have said,
we are not gonna kill him, but rather
we are gonna hand him over to his
own people of Quraysh so that they can
kill him in Makkah.
And so you could imagine
how happy these people were.
Al Hajjaj, he added,
The only reason why I have come
is because I have money here in Mecca.
I wanted to collect this money
so that I can go back to Khaybar
and buy
from the spoils of war
that the Jews have won from the Muslims
before all the other people come. All the
other businessmen,
they come and
you know, they they they buy all of
the
the treasures
and the spoils of war.
And so
this was because after any war,
you know, the the spoils,
they would be in a market
where all of this stuff would be sold.
And so
Al Hijaz, he was saying to them,
I want to be the first one there
in order to buy what I can before
the prices go up.
So they said,
Al Hajaj,
don't worry.
We are gonna do it for you. We're
gonna go into Mecca
and collect your money for you.
And so they rushed back to Mecca with
the news,
and
they collected
his money
from the people.
When Al Hajjad came into Mecca,
he went to meet his wife
and he told her the same thing that
he had told these men
because
until now she was also a kafira.
He had just embraced Islam
and she doesn't even know.
So now
the news
spread all over Mecca.
The kuffar
were in such a state of joy.
They were so happy
at hearing this news
while the Muslims of Mecca. Remember
there were still Muslims living in Makkah.
These were
the few
who could not make hijrah.
They were held back.
They were imprisoned.
And they were held back against their will.
And so
while the kuffar were celebrating,
you could imagine the state of these Muslims.
It came to them as a shock
and now they were in a state of
depression.
The news
reaches
the uncle of the Prophet
al
Abbas
ibn Abdul Muqbalib.
We mentioned previously
that al Abbas,
he was a Muslim.
However, he didn't
publicly tell people that he was a Muslim.
So he kept it a secret.
When the news reached him,
he was so devastated by the news
that he could barely stand on his 2
feet.
He sent one of his slaves to go
to Al Haggjaj
and ask
him, what is this evil news that you
have brought?
The promise of Allah
has to be true.
You know, the promise of Allah is Allah
is gonna give victory to
His Messenger.
And so the slave, he went to Al
Hajjaj
and he conveyed to him the message from
Al Abbas radiAllahu anhu.
Al Hijaj told the slave,
go back and tell your master
that I have some good news for him.
But he has to wait for me
in one of his houses all by himself,
and I will come there and meet him.
So the slave, he went back to Al
Abbas,
and he conveyed the message to him. He
said, he has good news for you.
Al Abbas radiAllahu anhu he was so happy
that he jumped up and he kissed
the slave on his forehead,
and he said,
'I have freed you.'
He freed him.
He was so happy that he freed him.
He said, You're a free man, go.
And then Al Abbas, he waited in his
house
for Al Hijaj
as he was instructed.
And so Al Hijaj came
and he told him,
O Abu Fadl. Abu Fadl is the Kunya
of Al Abbas.
He said to him, The news is not
as you have heard.
The reality is
that Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam and the
Muslims have defeated the Jews,
and they have conquered their land,
and they are now dividing the spoils of
war among them.
And Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has chosen
the daughter of their leader
to be his wife.
And the only reason I said otherwise
was because I wanted to get my money
because
I was worried that Quraysh would confiscate it
when they learn
when they learn of my Islam.
Now I want you to just keep this
a secret
between me and you for 3 days, and
then after that say whatever you want.
And so Al Hajjaj,
he left Mecca
after he collected all of his money,
and then Al Abbas,
he went to visit his wife,
the wife of Al Hajjad,
and he asked her, Where's your husband?
She said, He's already left.
Now, the people of Mecca knew that Al
Abbas was a Muslim.
Even though he
tried to keep it a secret,
and they knew that
he had sympathies for his nephew, the Prophet
Even though he would keep it a secret,
but
you know they knew that he was a
Muslim.
So what did she say to him?
When she met him,
she thought this is one of the Muslims
and,
you know,
she felt sorry for him hearing the news
of the defeat of the Prophet salAllahu alaihi
wa sallam.
And the Muslims were in a state of
depression as we mentioned.
So she tried to offer her condolences
to Al Abbas. She said, 'May Allah not
bring you any grief.
The news has been very difficult for us.
So Al Abbas said, Yes,
Allah will never make me sad.'
And alhamdulillah,
nothing happened except that which we like.
Allah has allowed Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam
to conquer Khaybar,
and the Muslims are dividing the spoils of
war among them.
And Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam has chosen
the daughter of their leader Safiyyah
to be his wife.
And if you care for your husband,
you better follow him.
Meaning,
your husband has accepted Islam,
and he has left Mecca for Madia,
you should follow him.
And so
this came to her as a shock.
But she said,
by by Allah,
I believe you are telling the truth.
She was convinced
and then
she set out to follow her husband.
Then Al Abbas,
he went
to put on some of his best clothes
and then he went by the gatherings of
Quraysh.
When they saw him,
they said,
again, they're feeling sorry for him.
They said, May only good befall you, O
Abu Fadl.
He said, 'Nothing but good has befallen me.
Alhamdulillah.'
And then he said, 'Al Hajjad has informed
me,
has told me
that Khaybar has been conquered by Muhammad salallahu
alayhi wa sallam,
and that the Muslims are dividing the spoils
of war among them, and that Muhammad salallahu
alayhi wa sallam has taken Sofiyyah
bint
hayayi ibn al-'uktab
as his wife.
And then he said,
and Al Hajjaj told me to keep this
a secret for 3 days
only because he came to Mecca
to take his money from you
and then he was gonna leave you.
And so
now all of a sudden
the tables had turned.
The feelings and the sentiments
of the people of Mecca had turned upside
down.
The depression
and the grief and the sadness
that the Muslims were going through
had suddenly been transferred over to the kuffar
and the joy
that was with the kuffar
had now transferred over
to the Muslims.
Later on,
the details of the devastating defeat of the
Jews
would reach Mecca,
and Quraysh would realize
how
they were tricked and deceived
by Al Hijjad
ibn Aylat
And so this is the story of how
the news ended up reaching
Mecca.
Now
what ended up happening
with
the Jews overall
in
the Arabian Peninsula.
Because we learned
that
the majority of the Jews were living in
Medina.
And slowly but surely, they were expelled and
evicted from Medina,
as we have studied in the Seerah.
Their last major stronghold
was now Haibar.
There were still other small pockets
of the Jews here and there.
However, they did not pose a huge threat
to the Prophet
or to the Muslims. For example,
when Khaybar fell,
the Jews
of a town known as Fadak, which is
just north of Khaybar,
they came
to the Prophet
on their own
because now they were afraid
that we may be next.
So they rushed
to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam and
they voluntarily
gave him half of the harvest
of fadaq.
And so
what do we consider this?
This is not considered ghanima
where the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has
to now divide it into 5 portions,
but rather this is known as al Fayd.
The difference is that hanima
is
what you win through fighting,
whereas Al Fayid
is what you win without
fighting.
And so the ruling of Al Fayd
is that it is purely for Allah and
His Messenger.
As Allah mentions in surah,
Al Hajar,
umaha atha Allahu
until the end of the ayah.
And so this was
taken by the Prophet It was his,
and that's why later on,
radiAllahu anhu because
she felt that she had a right
to the land of Fadek,
that she should inherit it
from her father.
So this is what happened
to the Jews of Fadek.
As for the Jews of Khaybar,
last week we mentioned
that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam settled
with them. The agreement was that they would
remain in Khayr. Otherwise, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam wanted to expel them.
But in the end, he agreed to allow
them to stay and work in the farms.
And for their work, they would take half
of the harvest.
But the Prophet Muhammad put a condition in
agreement
that the Muslims had the right
to expel them whenever they wanted.
So they remained there until the time
of Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu had,
until his khilafa.
And one day,
during his khilafa,
Al Miqdad,
Az Zubayr,
and Abdullah ibn Umar,
these companions,
they went to Khaybar
because they had land over there that they
had won through the Hanima.
And so they went to collect their
their
wealth.
So when they went there,
the Jews
attacked Abdullah ibn Hurmar
at night.
He was sleeping on top of a rooftop
and they pushed him
until he fell.
And this caused both of his shoulders, his
arms to dislocate.
So the news reached
Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu anhu,
and he gathered the people and he said,
O
people, the Messenger of Allah had an agreement
with the Jews of Khaybar that
we would evict them, we would expel them
whenever we wish.
They have attacked Abu'lal ibn Rumur
and dislocated
his arms as you have learned.
And they had previously attacked the Ansar before
him. So this
is not the first time.
He said, we have no doubt that it
was they who have done it because we
have no other enemies here besides them.
There were no internal enemies.
All the Arab tribes had accepted Islam.
Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu in his days, he
had
wiped out
any resistance.
The tribes that have had apostated.
Now the Muslim Empire stretched
beyond
Arabia
to the East and the West.
So he said, we have no other enemies
here besides them.
Look at what they have done.'
Then he said,
'Whoever has property in Khaybar,
he should go right now
and claim whatever he has there
because I'm going to evict, I'm gonna expel
the Jews.
And so he then gave orders
for
the last remaining Jews in the Arabian Peninsula
to be expelled and so they left
to settle in a sham.
Now one of the reasons that made Umar
ibn Khattab
to do this
was the hadith of the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
That he did not hear directly from the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, but he heard
it from other companions
where the Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam says
that no two religions
should coexist
in the Arabian Peninsula.
There cannot remain 2 religions
dominant
in the Arabian Peninsula.
And the other hadith in which the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
drive out
the Jews and the Christians from the Arabian
Peninsula.
Drive them out from the Arabian
Peninsula. And so Rama ibn Khattab radiAllahu Muhammad,
he acted
by these 2
hadith.
And so
this
is what ended up happening
with the last remaining
Jews in the Arabian Peninsula.
And with this, we come to the end
of our discussion
concerning the Battle
of Khaybar.
There are just
a few more incidents
that are related to,
after the battle of Khayr that we will
talk about next week such as delegations
of Muslims that came
and they wanted to meet the Prophet salAllahu
alaihi wa sallam.
They didn't meet him in Madira but they
met him in Khaybar. We'll talk about that
next week along with other events
that
occurred after the battle of Khaybar.
We conclude with some of the lessons that
we learned from what we
went through today.
The first lesson
is that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
uses anything
and anyone
to bring victory to this deen.
We see this in the statement of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam concerning that fighter
who fought bravely,
courageously,
but he ended up committing suicide.
And the Prophet
said that he would be in the hellfire.
And he said,
Allah can give victory to this deen
even if it be through
an evil or wicked man.
And so here
was a sinful
evil person
because committing suicide
is from the major sins in Islam.
And anyone who commits a major sin in
Islam without
repenting to Allah, he is considered
an evil sinner.
So here was
someone like that
who gave support to Islam
and the Islamic cause
as he was
a good fighter.
And so not everyone
who may support Islam or the Muslims
may necessarily be good or riches,
and this is something important for us to
understand.
There may be many people out there who
support
Muslim causes and they support Islam,
But
they are not upon
the correct methodology
left behind by the Prophet
They may even be from deviate sects
that oppose
the
correct 'aqida
and the way of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
And they may be supporting
Islam and the Muslims more than
those who claim to be on the sunnah.
And so we have to understand
that although that may be the case,
in the end of the day, Allah is
using these people to give it victory to
his deen.
It doesn't mean that these people are now
somehow
good and we should praise them.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not praise
this man,
even though he did something that he should
be praised for.
Right? However, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
called him out for what was worse.
The second lesson that we learned
is that what matters the most
is the ending.
We learned this from the same story of
this man who committed suicide.
And so although this man outwardly
displayed
valor and bravery
in fighting the enemies of Allah,
And
the people thought he was a mujahid
who will get the highest of rewards,
but instead he will end up being in
Hellfire due to his major sin that he
ended his life with.
And so we need to be fearful
and never think that
we are righteous, we are good,
we're going to be forever guided by Allah.
We should never feel satisfied that we will
be for the people of Jannah.
We don't know how our lives will end.
And this is why we need to constantly
ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
for tabaat.
We need to constantly ask Allah to keep
us firm
and steadfast
upon
the correct guidance.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says in the
famous hadith,
'One of you would perform the actions of
the people of Jannah.
Until there is nothing between you and Jannah
except an arms length.
And then
what was pre ordained, what Allah had already
written
would come to pass
and the person would end up in the
hellfire.
Right? Allah had decreed, it was written in
his qadr
that this person is from the people of
the hellfire.
Like this man,
he was doing good until the end.
You would think he's going to Jannah, an
arms length away from Jannah, and look what
ends up happening.
And the Prophet of Salasam said the opposite
as well.
That one of you would perform the actions
of the people of hellfire until there's nothing
but an arms length between you and and
the hellfire.
And then
what was written will come to pass and
he will end up in
Jannah.
And we have seen examples of that
from the lives of the companions. There was
one companion
who came on the day of Uhud.
He was a mushrik. He came, he embraced
Islam.
He then fought, he was killed,
and he did not perform
a single sajdah,
and he died as a shahid, and he
would be in jannah.
Jannah. And so we see examples of both.
The point here is that what matters is
the ending.
Deeds depend on how they end.
We should never feel satisfied and content
that Allah has guided us, therefore we're gonna
be guided forever.
We are gonna be in jannah. No. We
need to be fearful.
Yes, on the one hand we should hope
for Allah's reward,
but on the other hand we should never
feel satisfied.
We should always be fearful.
That's why we have the famous story of
Imam Ahmed
when he was on his deathbed
And his companions were by his side,
and he would come in and out of
consciousness.
And his companions,
they found him saying,
Not yet. Not yet.
When he came
back into consciousness,
they asked him, What were you saying?
He said, Shaitan came to me
and he told me, Now
you have won.
Now you have won.
That's it. You're going to Jannah.
But he was trying to deceive him.
And so Imam Ahmad,
he said, No, not yet.
I'm in arms way away.
However, only Allah knows.
And so look at how fearful he was
even at that moment. The point is that
we need to be fearful.
And we should never feel satisfied and content.
The next lesson that we learn
is the difficulty of living in a society
that is hostile to the Muslims.
We see this
from the reaction of Al Abbas ibn Abdul
Muqbarib
to the news that he had received about
the outcome
of the battle of Khaybar.
It shows us
the state of Uhurbah,
the strangeness
and loneliness
that these few Muslims
were living in Makkah, that they were going
through.
They were living within
the community
that was not just hostile to the Muslims
but were leading the war against Islam and
the Muslims.
It wasn't easy to live in such a
society.
There was this sense of loneliness,
this
pressure
from
the society of Kufr around them.
You could imagine how difficult it was.
And you could see
how
following the news about the victory or defeat
of the Muslims
had such a huge impact on them.
You know, when Al Abbas
initially heard the news of the defeat of
the Muslims,
the narration mentions that he could barely stand
up.
Then when he heard the good news,
he jumped
up
and kissed his slave and freed him.
You know,
it shows us
how,
you know this
news,
it's powerful
and how
it affects
the Muslims who are living as a minority
and living in such a society.
It also shows us the danger of false
rumors
and how effective they are.
And that is why we're supposed to verify
before we believe in anything.
Right? That's what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants
from us.
And this is exactly what Al Abbas did.
Right?
Yes. Initially,
you know, he
accepted the news that the Muslims were defeated
but then
he sent for Al Hajjaj,
the source of the news.
He sent his slave to go and ask
him. He wanted to verify.
And so we're supposed to verify news when
we hear it instead of believing
in rumors.
The last lesson that we'll mention
is
the Permissibility
of Lying in Certain Circumstances.
And so
one of those circumstances
and situations when we're allowed to lie
is when we lie either
about ourselves or about other Muslims
in order to obtain
our haqq,
to obtain our rights.
As long as
we do not bring harm upon any Muslim
as a result.
And so here at Hijaj,
he lied
about the Muslims,
about what happened to the Muslims
in order to get access to his wealth.
And his lie did not affect
the Muslims. Right? It didn't affect the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam or the companions.
Yes. It may have harmed
the Muslims in Mecca
by causing them grief and depression.
However,
that was something very small
compared to the good that came out of
it,
especially when their depression and their grief
would change into a state of joy.
Once
they heard
And so next week, we'll continue.
And so next week, we'll continue.