Kamil Ahmad – Lessons from the Seerah – 87 – The Farewell Hajj
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين
والصلاة والسلام على أتمان الأكملان على خير خلق
الله أجمعين وعلى آله وصحبه ومن اهتدى بهديه
مستنى بسنته إلى يوم الدين اللهم علمنا ما
ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا وزدنا علما وأرنا الحق
حقا وارزقنا اتباعه وأرنا الباطل باطلا وارزقنا اجتنابه
واجعلنا ممن يستمعون القول فيتبعون احسنه وبعد السلام
عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Last week we went
over some of the important events during the
9th and 10th years of the Hijrah We
spoke about the delegation that came from Najran,
the Christians that came from Najran Along with
some of the delegations that the Prophet ﷺ
himself sent out So we spoke about how
the 9th year was the year that delegations
were coming into Medina And these people were
accepting Islam and giving allegiance to the Prophet
ﷺ Some of them remained upon their own
religion like these Christians from Najran But they
agreed to pay Jizya But then the Prophet
ﷺ also sent some delegations of his own
We spoke about that last week Specifically to
Yemen We spoke about Abu Musa al-Ash
'ari along with Mu'adh ibn Jabal being
sent to Yemen And also Khalid ibn al
-Waleed and Ali ibn Abi Talib And then
we also spoke about the death of the
head of the Munafiqun Abdullah ibn Uday ibn
Salul He died during this period of time
And the effect that that had on the
decline of hypocrisy And whatever influence the Munafiqun
had And finally we spoke about the Hajj
of that year, the 9th year How it
was led by Abu Bakr And so today
we move on to speak about the 10th
year specifically And the Hajj of this year,
the 10th year Which is known as the
Hajj al-Wada' The farewell Hajj And we'll
mainly talk about that and anything else that
took place during this time And so we
start, we start actually with a very important
event that took place Right before the Hajj
of this year, the 10th year And that
was the death of the son of Rasool
Allah ﷺ His son Ibrahim His son Ibrahim
The Prophet ﷺ had a total of how
many children?
He had a total of 7 He had
a total of 7 3 boys and 4
girls His boys were?
Ibrahim, Abdullah and?
What was his kunya?
Qasim, Abul Qasim And his 4 daughters were?
Zainab, Fatima, Umm Kulthum and Ruqayya So
these were the children of the Prophet ﷺ
And by the way all of them were
from one wife Who?
Khadijah All of them were born in Makkah
With the exception of Ibrahim With the exception
of Ibrahim He was born to Marya al
-Qibtiya Now, it was a plan of Allah
for only his daughters to survive While all
3 of his sons would pass away while
they were young And the scholars they mentioned
that the wisdom behind that Is that, I
mean one of the, some of the scholars
they say that the wisdom Is that, if
any of them lived Then he would have
become a prophet or a messenger As was
the case with Ibrahim alayhi salam He had
Ismail, he had Ishaq Who then had Yaqub,
who then had Yusuf Also he had Dawood,
had Sulaiman Right?
But another opinion is stronger And that is
those scholars who said that Allah did this
because it was feared that The people would
fall into a fitna Because of a son
If the Prophet ﷺ had a son who
survived after him Why?
Due to, you know, excessively revering and honoring
this son And if we think about it
That has actually happened in our history And
yet the Prophet ﷺ did not have any
son So imagine if he did have a
son Who did they do that with?
With his grandson Right?
Because this is the grandson of the Prophet
ﷺ They went to extremes in honoring him
and revering him Right?
We're talking about Al-Husayn, Al-Hasan and
Al-Husayn So if that is the grandson
of the Prophet ﷺ Then imagine if he
had a son What they would have done
Now Ibrahim was born to Maria And we
mentioned her story She was a slave who
was gifted by the ruler of Egypt And
so she comes from Egypt From the Copts
of Egypt And the Prophet ﷺ had with
her Ibrahim And this was in the 8th
year In the 8th year of the Hijrah
Towards the end of the 8th year And
everything was going well But when he was
2 years old He fell ill And so
this was towards the end of the 10th
year Ramadan or Shawwal And some say it
was Rabi al-Awwal of the 10th year
He fell ill And the Prophet ﷺ got
news that It was unlikely that he would
survive So when he heard this He went
to visit him In the home where he
was being taken care of And that was
one of the sahabiyat Who was taking care
of him Umm Saif So in Suhaih al
-Bukhari Anas narrates He says, we entered the
house of Abu Saif The husband of Umm
Saif Along with Rasulullah ﷺ The Prophet ﷺ
took a hold of Ibrahim He kissed him
and he smelled him Then we entered after
that As Ibrahim was breathing his last It
made the eyes of the Prophet ﷺ to
shed tears So Abdur-Rahman ibn Awf who
was with them He asked, even you O
Messenger of Allah Meaning, you know Even you
are crying like this Like any of us
So the Prophet ﷺ said O Ibn Awf
This is the mercy that Allah has put
within us Then the Prophet ﷺ He cried
some more and then he said His famous
statement The
Prophet ﷺ said Indeed the eyes shed tears
And the heart is grieved But we will
not say anything except that which is pleasing
To our Lord, we are saddened by your
departure O Ibrahim Now it so happened That
on that same day In fact right after
the death of Ibrahim That a solar eclipse
occurred A solar eclipse And so rumors started
to spread in Medina That this was due
to the death of Ibrahim In the sense
that Allah ﷻ is showing his condolences to
the Prophet ﷺ By eclipsing the sun This
was obviously a superstitious belief Right And so
when the Prophet ﷺ heard this He gathered
the people And he immediately came out He
gathered the people for Salah Right, which Salah?
Salatul Kusuf The eclipse Salah And so after
they were done And the eclipse was over
He spoke And he said The sun and
the moon are two of the ayat of
Allah They are the two signs of Allah
And they do not eclipse Because of the
death or the life of anyone And then
he said whenever you see any of these
two signs of Allah The solar or the
lunar eclipse Then pray Salah And so here
the Prophet ﷺ basically Shattered this superstitious belief
that the people had That these signs in
Allah's creation Are linked to something that happens
on earth Now in Ramadan of the same
year Jibreel came to the Prophet ﷺ As
he would every Ramadan To do what?
To revise the Qur'an with him Every
Ramadan Jibreel would come and revise the entire
Qur'an Whatever was revealed until that time
He would revise it with the Prophet ﷺ
And he would do this with him once
So whatever he had memorized Or whatever had
been revealed until then He would revise it
once with him But on this year Jibreel
revised it twice He revised it twice And
so this was an indication to the Prophet
ﷺ That you know There's something to come
That basically this could be the end This
could be the end And it was indeed
the last Ramadan of the Prophet ﷺ And
so that brings us now To talk about
the farewell Hajj Last week we mentioned We
mentioned how Abu Bakr ﷺ Led the Muslims
for the Hajj of that year Of the
ninth year And we mentioned the reason for
that The reason why the Prophet ﷺ did
not go Instead he sent Abu Bakr And
we also mentioned how Allah revealed The beginning
ayat of Surah At-Tawbah Which declared an
end To any treaties that the Prophet ﷺ
had With the Mushrikun And that they had
four more months And then that's it Any
treaties that he had That had an expiry
date The Prophet ﷺ would honor that treaty
Until its expiry date But he would not
renew it He was told that he could
not renew these treaties And he also declared
And it was Ali who went to Mecca
He followed Abu Bakr and he went And
he made this announcement To all the people
who had come for Hajj One of the
things he mentioned was We mentioned this last
week That no Mushrik would be able to
make Hajj After this year That's it No
Mushrik would be able to make Hajj After
this year So now Hajj season of the
following year was approaching The 10th year of
the Hijrah And this time Rasool Allah ﷺ
Would lead the Muslims On this Hajj himself
And this is the first and only Hajj
that the Prophet ﷺ would make From Medina
But it was not his only Hajj That
he has ever made in his life He
would make Hajj While he was living in
Mecca Regularly And this was before Prophethood And
after Prophethood So he would make Hajj before
Islam came And he would make Hajj after
becoming a Prophet Whatever he would do He
would try his best to do based on
The teachings of Ibrahim ﷺ While avoiding any
elements of Shirk Again, he would do this
before Prophethood And also after Prophethood But this
is the first time that he would be
going for Hajj From Medina And this time
he would be going And basically eradicating All
the practices of Jahiliyyah That would take place
in Hajj And so this would be the
Hajj of Islam And this would be basically
the Hajj in which Allah would teach the
Prophet ﷺ How to properly make Hajj And
that's why when it comes to Fiqh rulings
When it comes to Salah When it comes
to fasting and Zakah And all the other
rulings of Fiqh We find a lot of
differences of opinion Between the scholars But when
it comes to Hajj There are few differences
of opinion And the reason for that is
because The Prophet ﷺ only made Hajj once
Right, he only made Hajj once And so
this Hajj is referred to as Hajjatul Wida'
The Farewell Hajj Because the Prophet ﷺ Basically,
you know, delivered his final words To the
masses of the people And this was a
time when all the Muslims around Hijaz And
from Medina and in Mecca and all over
Arabia They would be present So there was
no better time than this To meet everyone
for one last time And to give his
most important message and instructions His basically final
messages and instructions That he wanted to give
The Prophet ﷺ announced to everyone in Medina
And on the outskirts of Medina That he
was going for Hajj And he wanted everyone
to come And he took all of his
wives with him And also his daughter Fatima
And he set out on the 25th of
Dhul Qa'dah He set out from Mecca For
Medina in a very simple way Riding on
his simple camel And he said This is
a Hajj bila riya' wa la sum'a
This is a Hajj that I'm performing There's
no showing off There's no trying to impress
people This is a Hajj for the sake
of Allah He reached Mecca on the 4th
of Dhul Hijjah And that was approximately The
amount of time it would take in those
days To travel from Medina to Mecca About
10 days And he was also accompanied by
more people Who joined him along the way
And so he entered Mecca Before entering he
took a shower, he took a bath And
then he entered, and then he made tawaf
And he made umrah And then after that
he stayed in Mecca Some of the companions
They made the Hajj Which is known as
tamattu Where after you've made your umrah You
get out of the state of ihram Until
the days of Hajj and then you get
back into the state of ihram Right?
And this was for those who did not
bring their animals with them To sacrifice But
the Prophet ﷺ had his animals So he
remained in that state And later on he
would say That if I was to go
back I would not have brought my sacrificial
animal with me So that he could enjoy
And that's the meaning of Hajj tamattu You
enjoy the privilege of being out of the
state of ihram So anyways After performing the
umrah They stayed in Mecca And then a
few days later On the morning of the
8th of Dhul Hijjah This was a Thursday
On the morning of the 8th The Prophet
ﷺ left Mecca to Mina And so he
spent the night there In Mina So he
prayed all of his dhuhr, asr, maghrib and
isha there Along with fajr The following morning,
the 9th So now the following morning The
9th of Dhul Hijjah He set out for
Arafah He set out for Arafah And this
is now the 9th of Dhul Hijjah So
the 9th of Dhul Hijjah is the day
of The day of Arafah When the Prophet
ﷺ reached there It was here in Arafah
That Allah ﷻ revealed Which ayah?
اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم نعمتي ورضيت
لكم الإسلام دينا This famous ayah was revealed
on this day Allah ﷻ says Today, I
have perfected for you your deen, your religion
And completed My favor upon you And chosen
Islam as your way When this ayah was
revealed Some of the sahaba, they began to
cry Why?
Because they understood that That's it, it's over
If Allah is saying that I have completed
your deen for you Meaning all the ahkam,
all the do's and don'ts And Islam is
now complete It means there's not going to
be any more revelation It means that That's
it, the Prophet ﷺ has fulfilled his mission
And now, soon he's going to depart When
Umar ﷺ was asked, why are you crying?
He said, when something has gone up And
reached the point of completion There is nowhere
for it to go except downward And this
shows us the intelligence And the fiqh of
Umar ﷺ What he meant was, Islam has
reached the peak This is the peak, Islam
is now complete And we've enjoyed so much
good out of all of this Allah brought
us out of the darkness of Jahiliyyah And
slowly we were moving upward But now we've
reached the top What's going to happen after
this?
There's going to be nothing but downward Meaning,
from here onwards It means downwards So he
was referring to the fitan The trials or
tribulations that are going to come in the
future And it began in the time of
the sahabah After the death of the Prophet
ﷺ Not right away, but later on Later
on in the time of Ali And then
afterwards And then that's it, after the four
khulafa That was the end of the greatest
leaders That this ummah has ever seen After
that it was kingdoms And then different states
And then there was no more khulafa A
hundred years ago the khulafa fell And so
what we notice is, it's just going downwards
Until this very day So anyways, later on
when Umar was the khalifa A Jew came
to him and said There is an ayah
that you guys recite If it was revealed
to us the Jews We would have made
that day in which it was revealed A
day of Eid, a day of celebration Umar
ﷺ asked him Which ayah are you talking
about?
He said, اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم This ayah
So Umar ﷺ he said And if we
think about it, why?
Why did this Jew make this statement?
Because if we think about it This ayah
is indeed a great ayah After years of
receiving ayat and revelation from Allah And teaching
the people and preaching the message of Islam
Now it's finally complete And the deen is
now in its final form And it will
remain like that forever It's going to remain
like that forever So obviously this is something
to be happy about And this is something
to celebrate But obviously, we Muslims We only
follow those celebrations that the Prophet ﷺ left
us with So anyways, Umar ﷺ he said
to this Jew He said, by Allah I
know the day that it was revealed to
Rasool Allah ﷺ And I know the hour
in which it was revealed to the Prophet
ﷺ He says it was revealed towards the
evening of the day of Arafah on a
Friday Then Rasool Allah ﷺ At midday, he
came out of his tent to address the
people Who had come out for Hajj Now,
there's no exact number Concerning how many people
were there for that Hajj Jabir ﷺ, who
narrated the story of the Hajj He says
that when I looked, all I could see
is people As far as my sight could
reach All I could see is masses of
people But some scholars, they mention that it
was in the tens of thousands And some
say it was over a hundred thousand And
Allah knows best So, all these people were
gathered now Here, on the day of Arafah,
in the plains of Arafah And the Prophet
ﷺ came out And this was where he
delivered his famous khutbah al-wada' The farewell
khutbah There are various narrations and wordings recorded
of this khutbah Mentioned in the various books
of hadith And what we'll do is we'll
go through the one narrated by Jabir ibn
Abdillah Which is in Sahih Muslim And this
is part of a long hadith Narrated by
Jabir In which he mentioned the Hajj of
the Prophet ﷺ in detail Like how the
Prophet ﷺ performed Hajj From A to Z
From the time he left Medina all the
way until he completed his Hajj He mentioned
it in detail And so if you want
to go for Hajj, read this hadith And
you'll be able to follow the sunnah in
terms of how to perform Hajj So Jabir,
when he reached this part, the khutbah, he
said Then Rasool Allah ﷺ said to the
people Indeed your blood and your property, your
wealth are sacred And as sacred as the
sacredness of this day of yours In this
month of yours, in this town of yours
Behold, everything pertaining to the days of Jahiliyyah
is under my feet Completely abolished Also what
is abolished is the blood revenge, the diya
Of the days of Jahiliyyah And the first
claim of ours on blood revenge which I
abolish Is that of Rabi'a ibn al
-Harith Who was nursed among the tribe of
Sa'd and killed by Hudayl Basically the Prophet
ﷺ was saying That I am abolishing any
claims that so and so killed so and
so in the days of Jahiliyyah So we
want to take revenge So we want the
blood money The Prophet ﷺ was abolishing all
of that And he began with his own
family He said, the first one that I
abolish is that of The son of Rabi
'a ibn al-Harith ibn Abdul Muttalib So
it so happened that The son of the
cousin of the Prophet ﷺ So Rabi'a
ibn al-Harith is the cousin of the
Prophet ﷺ He had a son who was
with this other tribe And they killed him
This was in the days of Jahiliyyah So
the Prophet ﷺ was saying, I start with
my own family I am forgiving that We
are not going to ask for the Diyah
Then the Prophet ﷺ said, also The Riba
'a of the days of Jahiliyyah is abolished
And the first of our Riba'a that
I abolish Is that of al-Abbas ibn
Abdul Muttalib For it is all abolished Again,
any Riba'a contracts from the days of
Jahiliyyah The Prophet ﷺ said, it's over And
the first one that he sought to abolish
Was that of his own uncle Because al
-Abbas r.a He used to lend people
money in Mecca And he would charge them
interest So the Prophet ﷺ is saying, that's
it, it's over Meaning when you repay your
debts Do not pay it with Riba'a
And then the Prophet ﷺ said, fear Allah
concerning women Indeed you have taken them On
the security of Allah And intimacy has been
made lawful to you By the words of
Allah You too have a right over them
That they should not allow anyone To enter
your homes and sit on your bed Whom
you do not like But if they do
that Then you can discipline them, but not
severely Their rights upon you are That you
should provide for them Food and clothing in
a fitting manner And then the Prophet ﷺ
said I have left among you the Book
of Allah And if you hold fast to
it, you will never go astray And you
will be asked about me Meaning on the
Day of Judgment So tell me what will
you say They, the companions, they said We
will bear witness That you conveyed the message
And that you gave us sincere advice بَلَّغْتَ
الرِّسَالَ وَأَدَّيْتَ الْأَمَانَ وَنَصُحْتَ الْأُمَّةِ These were their
words They said to the Prophet ﷺ that
We will bear witness to Allah That you
conveyed the message And, you know, the trust
that you were entrusted with You fulfilled that
And you gave sincere advice to us Jabir
ﷺ he says Then the Prophet ﷺ raised
his finger to the sky And then pointed
to the people He raised his finger to
the sky Meaning, pointing to Allah And then
pointing to the people And then he said
His famous words Oh Allah, bear witness Allahumma
fashhad He said it three times Allahumma fashhad
Bear witness Then the Prophet ﷺ So this
was what was known as The Khutbat al
-Wada And as I said, there are other
wordings as well Different to this But this
was the gist of it Then the Prophet
ﷺ prayed Dhuhr and Asr There in Arafah
together Then after that He stayed in Arafah
And he busied himself with Dua And so
he remained standing making Dua All the way
until sunset All the way until sunset Then
after the sun had set He made his
way for Muzdalifah He made his way for
Muzdalifah And that is where he spent the
night Now, in Suheel Bukhari Aisha radiallahu anha
She says We got down at Muzdalifah And
Saudah Who is Saudah?
Who is Saudah bint Zam'a The wife
of the Prophet ﷺ The first wife that
he married after Khadija radiallahu anha So Aisha
radiallahu anha She says When we got down
at Muzdalifah Saudah She asked permission from the
Prophet ﷺ To leave early Before the rush
of the people Aisha radiallahu anha says This
was because she was a heavy and slow
woman And so the Prophet ﷺ gave her
permission Saudah radiallahu anha She had a very
big figure And she was also older in
age By this time By this time she
was well in her sixties So she was
afraid that After Muzdalifah Basically in the morning
That's when everyone rushes To go to Mina
And she was saying that She's slow And
she's going to slow down the Prophet ﷺ
And then there's going to be a lot
of rush So she wanted to leave early
Aisha radiallahu anha she says So she departed
before the rush of the people As for
us We stayed in Muzdalifah until Fajr And
then we set out with the Prophet ﷺ
Aisha radiallahu anha she says But I suffered
so much from that The rush of the
people and all She says I suffered so
much That I wish that I had taken
The same permission from the Prophet ﷺ As
Saudah had done And that would have been
more dear to me Than any other joy
From this hadith The scholars say that Although
spending the night in Muzdalifah is mandatory They
say it is okay for women For children,
for the elderly And anyone else who needs
to leave early That they could leave early
They spend a part of the night And
then they leave before Fajr Basically after midnight
So then Rasool Allah ﷺ Prayed Maghrib and
Isha together in Muzdalifah Then he slept right
after praying And he got up for Fajr
After Salatul Fajr He stood once again And
made a long dua Until before sunrise Then
he made his way to Mina Where he
stoned Jamratul Aqaba The main pillar of Aqaba
And then he delivered Another important khutbah So
this was for the day of Eid So
the next day This is now the 10th
of Dhul Hijjah And here again the Prophet
ﷺ delivered a khutbah And again there are
different narrations And different wordings of it We'll
go over the one narrated by Abu Bakr
Found in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim
The Prophet ﷺ said Time has taken its
original shape Which it had when Allah created
the heavens and the earth Meaning The time
goes through a year As Allah tells us
in the Qur'an There are how many
months in the year?
12 The Prophet ﷺ said after that The
year is of 12 months 4 of which
are sacred And out of these 3 are
in succession Meaning 3 come back to back
Dhul Qa'dah, Dhul Hijjah and Muharram And then
the Prophet ﷺ said And the 4th is
Rajab Which is named after the Mudhar tribe
Between Jumada and Sha'ba Then the Prophet
ﷺ asked He asked the companions Which month
are we in?
So he said Allah and His Messenger know
best So Abu Bakr says Then that's all
we said And then the Prophet ﷺ was
silent He was silent for so long That
we thought that he might give it another
name The month of Dhul Hijjah We said
Allah and His Messenger know best what this
month is And then the Prophet ﷺ was
silent We thought maybe he'll give it another
name Then the Prophet ﷺ asked Isn't it
the month of Dhul Hijjah?
He said yes Then the Prophet ﷺ said
Which town is this?
Which city is this?
We said the same thing Allah and His
Messenger know best And then again He says
we were The Prophet ﷺ was silent for
a long time Until we thought he might
give it another name Meaning Mecca Then the
Prophet ﷺ asked Isn't this the city of
Mecca?
And so we said yes Then the Prophet
ﷺ asked What day is it today?
Again the same thing They said Allah and
His Messenger know best The Prophet ﷺ was
silent for a long time They thought he
might change its name Then the Prophet ﷺ
said Isn't it the day of An-Nahar?
Isn't this Yawm An-Nahar?
The day of sacrifice The day of slaughtering
Which is basically the day of Eid For
the rest of the Ummah So we replied
yes Then the Prophet ﷺ said So your
blood And your wealth And your honor Are
sacred to one another Like the sanctity of
this day of yours In this city of
yours In this month of yours And surely
You are going to meet your Lord And
He will ask you about your deeds And
then he ﷺ said Beware Do not become
disbelievers after me Cutting the throats of one
another It is a must upon those who
are present To convey this message of mine
To those who are absent It may be
that some of those To whom it is
conveyed Will understand it better Than those who
have actually heard it And then the Prophet
ﷺ asked Have I conveyed the message to
you?
Ala halbalaght Have I conveyed the message to
you?
He said it twice And this is known
as The khutbah the Prophet ﷺ gave On
the day of the 10th of Dhul Hijjah
Then the Prophet ﷺ proceeded to slaughter The
animals that they had brought With them to
sacrifice The Prophet ﷺ slaughtered A total of
63 camels on that day With his own
hands You know, that's not easy Imagine 63
camels Some of us cannot even do one
And the Prophet ﷺ did 63 And then
he ordered Ali ﷺ To sacrifice the remaining
100 So even Ali ﷺ It was a
huge task for him He slaughtered 100 camels
on that day Then the Prophet ﷺ shaved
his head And then he headed off to
Mecca To perform tawaf al-ifadah And then
he returned to Mina the same day So
imagine What a busy day it was From
fajr Going, throwing the stones Then giving that
khutbah Then slaughtering all those animals Then going
and making tawaf Then coming back And that's
why this day Is the busiest day for
those who go for hajj And then the
Prophet ﷺ returned And he spent the night
in Mina Including the next three days So
the 11th, the 12th and the 13th All
these days and nights he stayed in Mina
Each day he would go and throw The
three pillars He would throw all three And
then after the third day On the 13th
he left Mina for Mecca Where he performed
tawaf al-widah The farewell tawaf And then
he made preparations To return to Medina Now
before returning The Prophet ﷺ Went to visit
his wife Aisha radiAllahu anha He came to
her And he found her crying He asked
her what happened She said All of my
companions My friends meaning my co-wives and
The other female companions They came and they
performed Hajj and Umrah Whereas I'm going back
Going back home only Performing hajj Why did
this happen?
What's the background?
Basically Aisha radiAllahu anha As they were coming
From Medina She ended up on her period
Which means She cannot perform tawaf Just like
women cannot perform salah While they're in that
state They cannot perform tawaf So she didn't
have the opportunity to To make Umrah like
the rest of the people So now she's
crying I'm going back only having performed hajj
While everyone else did hajj and Umrah So
the Prophet ﷺ Asked her if she wanted
to do Umrah She said yes And so
the Prophet ﷺ ordered her brother Abdur Rahman
ibn Abi Bakr To go to a place
called Tan'in Which is on the border
of the Haram The Mecca boundary To go
there For her to get into the state
of Ihram And then go and perform her
Umrah And so that is what one does
If he wants to perform Umrah or Hajj
He has to leave the Haram boundary And
then come back in Umrah, not Hajj If
you're in Mecca And you want to perform
Hajj You just put on your Ihram From
wherever you are in Mecca So Abdur Rahman,
her brother, went To Tan'in Now, here
at this place Tan'in Today we have
a Masjid, what is it called?
This Masjid is called Masjid Aisha It was
named after her Because of this incident So
today, whenever someone wants to Get into the
state of Ihram to perform Umrah And he's
in Mecca already He goes to Masjid Aisha
Which is where Tan'in is Where Aisha
went To put on her Ihram And so
she made her Umrah And then she came
back And the Prophet ﷺ Basically left with
everyone For Medina On the way back to
Medina The Prophet ﷺ Stopped with all the
Muslims At a valley Where there was a
spring And there was water A well And
this valley, this area Was known as Ghadeer
Khum It's an area known as Ghadeer Khum
Here the Prophet ﷺ stopped He camped out
And after praying Dhuhr with the Muslims He
reminded the people About the importance of honoring
And respecting his family And the members of
his household Al-Bayt The family of the
Prophet ﷺ And when we talk about the
family Of the Prophet ﷺ We're talking about
His daughters And that includes Fatima R.A
And obviously that includes Her husband Ali R
.A But it also includes the wives Of
the Prophet ﷺ It also includes his wives
All of them So The Prophet ﷺ reminded
the people Of the importance of honoring And
respecting his family Why did he do this?
What is the background?
When Ali ibn Abi Talib R.A was
in Yemen Remember last week we mentioned That
the Prophet ﷺ Sent him to Yemen To
give da'wah When he was there There
were rumors Surrounding his authority As an Amir
The story was that He had some camels
That were given in Sadaqah And You know
Some of the members of his army They
wanted to use those camels For transportation Ali
R.A refused He said this is Sadaqah
I'm not going to let anyone touch these
camels And then he left He had to
take care of some work And he appointed
someone To manage their affairs In his absence
But then when he came back He found
He noticed that the camels were used For
transportation And there were also some clothes Some
garments That were given as Sadaqah And they
wore them They were using them This is
after he gave clear instructions That no one
should touch This is Sadaqah No one should
touch any of this wealth So Ali R
.A Became extremely angry And he ordered everyone
to give back These clothes And he took
back the camels And now You know This
caused some animosity And between him And you
know Some of these people And now rumors
started spreading About Ali R.A Treating those
under him unjustly Right So now Someone went
back to Rasool Allah S.A.W And
informed him And one of these people went
And Complained to the Prophet S.A.W
That Ali R.A is treating us harshly
He's taking back our clothes That we had
And there was one of the companions Who
was sitting there at the time Every time
This person would say something Complaining about Ali
R.A This companion would say Yes that's
right Yes that's right Like approving So the
Prophet S.A.W Put his hand on
the knee of this companion And he asked
him He asked him Do you dislike Ali?
It so happened That this companion He did
dislike Ali Like there was some personal problem
Between him and Ali R.A So he
said yes The Prophet S.A.W said
You should love him So this companion says
After that day Ali R.A Became among
the most beloved people To me So now
While the Prophet S.A.W was here
In this place called Ghadeer Khum And he
heard These words concerning Ali R.A He
got up And he addressed the people And
This khutbah And what he said Here Is
mentioned in our Books of hadith Right It's
mentioned In our books of hadith And you
know In authentic narrations So in Sahih Muslim
This is in Sahih Muslim Zaid Ibn Arqam
R.A Narrates Rasool Allah S.A.W
stood up And addressed us One day At
a well called Khum Referring to this place
He said between Mecca and Medina He praised
Allah And then he reminded us Then he
said وَأَنَا تَارِكُنْ فِيكُمْ ثَقَلَيْنَ أَوَّلُهُمَا كِتَابُ اللَّهُ
He said I am leaving among you Two
important things Two heavy things The first of
which is The book of Allah The narrator
he says فَحَثَّ عَلَىٰ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَرَقَبَ فِيهِ
The Prophet S.A.W urged us To
adhere, to hold on To the book of
Allah Then he said وَأَهْلُ بَيْتِي وَأَهْلُ بَيْتِي
And My household The members of my family
So what are the two things That the
Prophet S.A.W You know stressed Here
The book of Allah and The family His
family But what does each mean What does
each mean Does it mean the same thing?
No Here the Prophet S.A.W Was
not saying Hold on to the book of
Allah And hold on to My family That
doesn't make sense right Hold on to the
book of Allah That makes sense Meaning hold
on to the teachings of the Quran Adhere
to it Etc But when it comes to
What did the Prophet S.A.W mean
He didn't mean hold on to them He
didn't mean follow their teachings Right Because his
teachings are not Restricted within The family of
the Prophet S.A.W Right Rather all
the companions narrated The teachings of Rasool Allah
S.A.W To us What he meant
here was Revere And honor my family Have
respect for them Right that's what he meant
Then the Prophet S.A.W Said I
remind you Of Allah with regards To the
people of my household Udhakkirukum Allah fi ahli
bayti Udhakkirukum Allah fi ahli bayti He said
it three times I remind you of Allah
with regards To the people of my household
Meaning fear Allah with regards To my family
Honor them Respect them Now in another narration
It mentions that the Prophet S.A.W
Said The Prophet S.A.W said Here
the Prophet S.A.W said If I
am someone's mawla Meaning someone's friend Then Ali
is his friend too Then Ali is his
Friend too Now this particular wording There is
a difference of opinion Among the scholars of
hadith Whether it's authentic or not This particular
wording The first one that's authentic We mentioned
the hadith from Sahih Muslim But this particular
wording That if I am someone's mawla Then
Ali is his mawla too There is a
difference of opinion Among the scholars of hadith
Concerning its authenticity But let's say for argument's
sake It is authentic Right Then what does
it mean?
It means once again That The Prophet S
.A.W is saying Ali is from my
family And he is my friend And he
is my close companion So If I am
someone's friend Then Ali is his friend as
well Right Meaning honor Ali Respect him Right
He is The husband of my daughter He
is one of the earliest Muslims Right And
we mentioned previously another hadith Of the Prophet
S.A.W Honoring Ali And that was
The hadith in which The Prophet S.A
.W said to Ali Do you not Are
you not pleased, are you not satisfied To
be To me like Haroon was to Musa
Right That close relationship between Haroon and Musa
The Prophet S.A.W said Except that
the only difference is That there is no
Prophet after me Meaning Haroon was a Prophet
just like Musa But all of this shows
us the virtues Of Ali R.A Right
But now the Shia They misuse This incident
Here at Ghadeer Khum They misuse it to
say that Ali R.A deserved The Khilafah
after Rasool Allah S.A.W And that
we need to follow The family of Rasool
Allah S.A.W We need to follow
them Our deen is Only through them And
whatever They were upon Forget about all the
other Companions Right, this is what they say
And they use this particular Khutbah of the
Prophet S.A.W on this day And
this was on the 18th Of Dhul Hijjah,
after the Prophet S.A.W Was on
his way back to Medina And that's why
they actually commemorate This day They have an
Eid, the Shia It's called Eid Eid Yawmul
Ghadeer Right, referring to this day Every year
on the 18th of Dhul Hijjah But what
do we understand from the Khutbah Of the
Prophet S.A.W We understand from the
context That here the Prophet S.A.W
Was defending the reputation Of Ali R.A
Who was a member of his family Against
the false allegations That were made Against him
Right, and to clarify his status So people
were complaining about him Right, about what he
did in Yemen And the Prophet S.A
.W Was, you know, clarifying That You know,
Ali R.A He has a noble status
And some of the people It could have
been their jealousy Or their envy Of Ali
R.A Right, it could be for various
reasons That They were having this animosity towards
him So the Prophet S.A.W was
clarifying That we should not have any animosity
Towards him He was not raising him above
this status He was not raising him above
this status And so that is why After
the death of Rasool Allah S.A.W
Ali R.A Was not appointed as a
Khalifa Instead it was the most deserving Companion
and that was Abu Bakr R.A Then
Umar, then Uthman And then The time came
for Ali R.A And so These were
The events that occurred Around the farewell hajj
Next week We will move on to Rasool
Allah S.A.W Returning to Medina And
basically What happens next Basically What happens next
is A few more months of the life
of Rasool Allah S.A.W And so
Next week we will Conclude our series Of
As-Seerah We conclude Tonight with some of
the lessons From what we Went over today
The first lesson that we learned is That
When Rasool Allah S.A.W Set out
from Medina For the hajj We noticed that
it was In a very very simple way
He was Riding on his camel On a
simple saddle Not on something Luxurious Anas R
.A narrates And this is in Sunan Ibn
Majah He says The Prophet S.A.W
performed hajj On an old saddle Wearing A
cloak That was worth only four dirhams Or
less Then he said, O Allah A hajj
in which there is no showing off Nor
reputation sought And so this shows us How
hajj is supposed to be We wear simple
Clothes Because we are going to worship Allah
And so hajj Is supposed to be a
chance To get out of our accustomed You
know Ease and comfort And luxury It's a
chance to experience some hardship After the death
of Rasool Allah S.A.W And when
the Muslims Had gotten extremely Wealthy From all
the conquests Some people started To come for
hajj In style and in show Right?
So Abdullah Ibn Umar R.A He was
there on one of the years And he
saw a group of hajjaj Coming From Yemen
And they were in a very Simple, modest
state You know, wearing simple Clothes And Riding
on Simple saddles So He said to those
who were with him Abdullah Ibn Umar He
said, whoever wants to see The most simple
The most similar Travelers this year This hajj
To Rasool Allah S.A.W And his
companions On the farewell hajj Then he should
look at these people He should look at
These people And so what he was saying
is now people are coming out For hajj
You know Extravagantly Right?
This was only A few years after the
death of the Prophet S.A.W So
imagine if Abdullah Ibn Umar R.A was
alive today You know When you go to
Mecca today for hajj Or for Umrah You
see extravagance You will see Fancy, VIP hajj
as well You know hajj which is Supposed
to be It is supposed to be The
same for everyone You know, everyone Why is
it that we get rid of our clothes
And we wear the Ihram To show how
simple it's supposed to be And to show
how All Muslims are equal And here there
is not supposed to be Any Distinguishing between
the rich and the poor But today If
you were to go for hajj You see
the difference between the rich and the poor
In their appearance In their accommodations In their
transportation Right?
Not only in the hotels That they stay
in in Mecca But even when you go
to Mina And Arafa Right?
You have the vast majority of the tents
Simple You know you take your sleeping bag
And you lie down But then you have
tents for the VIP That are air conditioned
That have beds in them That have buffets,
24 hour Buffet, right?
This is not how Hajj was in the
time of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam And
so the whole objective of hajj Is You
know you're going to Worship Allah And leave
behind the dunya Not To take the dunya
with you The second lesson that we learn
From the farewell hajj Is That the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Throughout the khutbah The farewell
khutbah He stressed On Bringing an end to
all aspects Of the days of Jahiliyyah What
do we notice?
What did the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam focus
on?
He could have spoken about Tawheed About Salah
About you know so many other things But
he decided to speak About You know those
aspects of the days of Jahiliyyah That he
wanted to basically bring an end to So
He spoke about You know the blood money
And how You know whatever killings took place
in the days of Jahiliyyah That's it You
know moving forward We're not going to bring
up those cases Why?
Because You know bringing up these Cases It
leads to wars You know why is it
That the Arabs They used to fight each
other so much You know obviously we're talking
about before Islam Tribes Used to be at
each other's throats Why?
The main reason was Because of killings One
One tribe would be responsible for Killing a
member of another tribe And then that tribe
would come to take revenge And an all
out war would break out So the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Wanted to bring an end
to this feudal Tribal system among the Arabs
And then he did the same with Riba
Riba that was rampant Among that society He
wanted to bring it to an end And
he said moving forward That's it I'm abolishing
any former contracts Of Riba And he started
with his own With his own uncle Al
-Abbas ibn Abdul Muttalib R.A And then
he also turned Their attention to Something else
that was rampant In that Society of the
days of Jahiliyyah And that was oppression And
injustice to women Women did not have any
rights So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Spoke
about the rights of women But notice how
Although he stressed On the importance of giving
them their rights He did not go Overboard
Like the feminists of today Who say that
Women should be equal to men The Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not say that Women
were degraded In that society so he brought
them up He brought them up To the
level where They should be Not at the
level Equal with men But unfortunately today It's
even worse Not only have they tried to
bring women Equal to men but they've also
Gone beyond that And so women Have more
rights than men today Right So it's even
worse than it was in the beginning And
so the point is That you know It's
not a one way street Like the feminists
want it to be But it's a two
way street Both men and women have rights
And they both have responsibilities And that is
what Islam teaches us Number three Not only
did Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Stress on abolishing
The practices of Jahiliyyah With his words But
he also did it with his actions He
also did it with his actions An example
of this Quraysh In the days of Jahiliyyah
when they would Go for Hajj They would
avoid standing in Arafah With the rest of
the Hujjaj They would stay in Mina Right
On the 9th of Dhul Hijjah When everyone
has gone to Arafah They would stay in
Mina Why?
They thought How can we leave, we are
the people of Mecca We are the custodians
Of the Kaaba We are the ones who
Take care of the Hujjaj How can we
leave the Haram Boundaries because Arafah Is outside
the Haram boundary So they said how could
we leave the Haram Boundaries when we are
residents of Mecca If we do that Then
the people will Belittle the value and the
respect Of the Haram So this was one
of the bid'ahs of the days of
Jahiliyyah The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam broke this
practice He was a member of Quraish And
so He went out with the Muslims And
stayed in Arafah As we saw And as
Allah commanded him As Allah commanded him In
the ayat in Surah Al-Baqarah And But
what's interesting to note here Is that the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam actually broke This practice
Way before Way before The farewell Hajj And
even before Islam Right Even before Islam Because
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Although No revelation
has come to him yet He was not
Ever involved in the practices Of the Mushrikun
Never once did he ever Worship an idol
And when he would make Hajj He would
try his best To do what everyone else
Was doing And he knew deep down inside
that this is wrong That when everyone Else
is going to Arafah Why are we staying
here And in doing so He was actually
following in the footsteps of Ibrahim Alayhis Salaam
Ibrahim And Ismail They are the ones who
started the Hajj As Allah tells us in
the Quran Commanding Ibrahim Proclaim the Hajj O
Ibrahim At that time there was no one
there But Allah made His voice to reach
everyone Right So Jubeir Ibn Mut'im He
says About a time Before Prophethood He says
That one day I lost a camel of
mine So I went in search of it
On the day of Arafah So I saw
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Standing in Arafah So
I said to myself I swear he is
from Quraish Who don't stand here So what
on earth Is he doing here Right so
this tells us That the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam Even before Prophethood He broke this practice
of Jahidiyah Nonetheless In the farewell Hajj the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam You know Every step
he was being guided by Allah And he
was basically With his own actions He was
abolishing the practices Of the days of Jahidiyah
Also as we mentioned last week They used
to perform Tawaf Naked around the Kaaba And
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Forbade that now
So not only was he Abolishing the practices
Of the days of Jahidiyah with his words
In his Khutbas But also with his actions
Finally One last lesson that we'll mention Even
though there are so many lessons That can
be learnt from The farewell Hajj Right there
are so many lessons That can be learnt
from it And even from the Khutba The
farewell Khutba There are so many lessons that
we can learn But we'll suffice with this
one last lesson And that is The teaching
style Of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam He
took five unique Approaches to teaching And getting
his message Across In the farewell Hajj Firstly
With his verbal instructions In his Khutbas Also
how to perform Hajj What did the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Tell the people Take from
me The rites of Hajj How to perform
Hajj Take it directly from me I'm gonna
teach you And he would teach them With
his words So verbal instructions Number two Practically
demonstrating So practically Every step he took He
was showing them how to perform Hajj With
his actions Right And the companions narrated to
us The Hajj of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam In every detail How he performed Hajj
Number three He taught them by repeating Certain
contents Of his Khutbas More than once So
The farewell Khutba It was not the only
Khutba he did As we mentioned There was
also the Khutba on the next day And
there was another Khutba On the day after
that And in many of these Khutbas You
would find overlap You would find Some of
the messages repeated And this is One of
the methods of teaching When you want to
get a message across You repeat the same
thing To emphasize it Also Another teaching method
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Used is He
said فليبلغ الشاهد الغائب Let those present Convey
the message To those absent Because in those
days There were no cameras There were no
Means of Recording A message So the only
way to do it is The Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam conveys the message And then those
who are present Who heard it, they are
now going to convey it to others So
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Mentioned this in
his Khutba Whatever I have said All of
you who are present Convey it to those
after you And then he said something very
important That it could be That The one
who is carrying The message He only carries
the words Right But he may carry the
words To someone Who is intelligent Someone who
Allah has gifted With intelligence And understanding Right
And then he now Takes those words And
he deduces evidences from them And this Is
what the scholars mention As A guidance From
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam proving that There
will be There will be Narrators of hadith
And then there will be scholars of hadith
A narrator of hadith Simply narrates what he
heard But then a faqih A scholar Of
the deen He will then interpret those words
Right And he will be a huge benefit
for the ummah Also The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam Taught by asking questions Right He asked
them You know, have I conveyed the message
And he asked them What city is this?
Remember What day of the year is it?
What month is this?
Why?
Because when You ask questions You make sure
that The people are paying attention And you
make sure That they have understood The message
So we see here From the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam An example of a teacher Not
only Is he a role model for us
As You know As an imam As a
leader As a husband As a father But
also as an educator And as a teacher
And so this is what we will Suffice
with Insha'Allah We will conclude next week
Subhanaka Allahumma bihamdik Ashhadu an la ilaha illa
anta astaghfiruka wa atubu ilaik Wasallillahumma wasallim Ala
nabiyina muhammad Wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma
'een Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh