Kamil Ahmad – The Lives of the Sahabiyyat #03 Aishah bint Abi Bakr RA P2

Kamil Ahmad
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The speaker discusses the importance of learning from the story of the ifq and finding one's joy in one's life. They also mention the Prophet's actions leading them to return to their deen and perform behavior. The importance of purifying oneself with the Prophet's words during a crisis, including the woman who experienced a closely watched man in a darkness and lost her knowledge, leading to a loss of work and wealth. The importance of treating women equally in Islam is emphasized, along with the importance of finding a point of reference for one's own life and being a reference point for one's work.
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,

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the Most Merciful.

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All praise is due to Allah, Lord of

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the worlds.

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And peace and blessings be upon the best

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of Allah's creation.

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And upon his family, his companions, and those

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who are guided by his guidance.

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We await his Sunnah until the Day of

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Judgment.

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O Allah, teach us what will benefit us,

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and benefit us with what You have taught

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us, and increase us in knowledge.

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And show us the truth as the truth,

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and grant us to follow it.

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And show us falsehood as falsehood, and grant

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us to avoid it.

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And make us of those who listen to

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the word, and follow the best of it.

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And admit us with Your mercy among Your

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righteous servants.

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And after that, peace and blessings be upon

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you.

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Last week we spoke about our mother, the

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mother of the believers, Aisha.

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And we started by talking about who she

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is, her name, her lineage, her birth in

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Mecca, her upbringing.

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And her marriage at a young age to

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the Prophet ﷺ, how she got married to

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him.

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Also talking about her marriage, refuting those who

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attack this marriage and criticize it.

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And we also looked at why this marriage

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was actually important for the Ummah at large.

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And we're going to be talking more about

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that, looking more into that today insha'Allah

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ta'ala.

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And then we spoke about one of the

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greatest trials, in fact the greatest trial, that

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Aisha radiallahu anha went through in her life.

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And that was what is known as the

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story of the ifq, or the outrageous slander

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that she herself narrated.

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We went through that story.

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And the reason why we went through that

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story last week is because it was a

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longer story.

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And there are a lot of lessons from

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it.

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And so today we want to go through

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other glimpses and incidents in the life of

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Aisha radiallahu anha.

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So what we're going to do today insha

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'Allah ta'ala, we're going to go through

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other glimpses from the life of Aisha radiallahu

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anha.

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Aisha radiallahu anha, basically showing us what kind

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of life she lived with the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi wasalam.

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And her personal life with the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi wasalam teaches us a lot about the

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Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.

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It's not just lessons for sisters to learn

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from her behavior, but also for men to

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learn how the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam treated

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his wives.

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And so we start when Aisha radiallahu anha

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was young.

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When she was young, her favorite pastime was

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playing with dolls.

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And so once the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam

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saw her playing with a winged horse.

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So he asked her, what is this?

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She said, it was a horse with wings.

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The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, do horses

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have wings?

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So she said that, Sulaiman alayhi wasalam, did

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he not have horses that had wings?

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And so this incident, it reveals and shows

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us how intelligent and brilliant Aisha radiallahu anha

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was from a young age.

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She must have heard something from the story

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of Sulaiman alayhi wasalam, and right away she

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brought that up.

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Now, on another occasion, it was the day

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of Eid, and Aisha radiallahu anha had two

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young girls who were with her singing some

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poetry that the Ansar, the people of Medina

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used to sing prior to Islam.

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And they were using the daf, which is

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like a drum, but this is the only

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instrument that is permissible in Islam.

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So when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam came

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in and they saw him, they were kind

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of shy of him.

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So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam turned away

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from them, and then he went to another

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side of the house, and he laid down

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with his back to them, and he covered

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himself with a blanket.

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So then Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu came to

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meet his daughter and the Prophet salallahu alayhi

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wasalam on the day of Eid.

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So when he came in and he saw

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the two girls with the daf in their

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hands, he got angry.

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And he said, you know, an instrument of

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shaytan in the house of Rasulallah salallahu alayhi

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wasalam?

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So then the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam heard

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him and he turned to him and he

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said, Leave them.

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Today is the day of Eid.

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Let us enjoy so that the Jews know

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that there is fun in our religion.

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Here the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was teaching

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the ummah an important lesson, and that is

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that our deen is not just about ibadah

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and worshipping and learning and serious stuff, which

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is good, but there's also times we can

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enjoy ourselves.

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And so this was the day of Eid,

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and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was saying,

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Let us enjoy this day.

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On another day of Eid, the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi wasalam was at home, and he heard

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some voices in the masjid.

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And the homes of the Prophet salallahu alayhi

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wasalam, they were basically, you know, small rooms

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that were attached to the masjid.

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So there's just a wall between his homes,

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in which his wives used to live in,

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and the masjid.

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So he heard some voices in the masjid,

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so he looked over the wall, and there

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were some men, Abyssinian men, from Habesha, who

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were playing with their spears.

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There was a particular game that these people

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used to play, so they were playing with

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their spears, and the people had gathered around

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to watch them.

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So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam turned to

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Aisha radiallahu anha, and he asked her, Do

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you want to watch?

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She said yes.

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So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam picked her

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up, and put her on his back, and

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she was watching.

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After some time he asked her, Is that

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enough?

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Have you had enough?

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So she says no.

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So after some time again, the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi wasalam asks, Are you satisfied?

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Do you want to come down?

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She said no.

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So he kept on asking until finally she

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said yes.

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She says, He kept on asking until I

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finally said yes, while I had already had

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enough from some time ago.

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But I wanted to know my status with

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him.

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I wanted to know how special I was

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to him.

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And for my co-wives to hear about

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that, so that they know how special I

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am to him.

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So that they know how special I am

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to him salallahu alayhi wasalam.

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And we spoke about how beloved Aisha radiallahu

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anha was to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.

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And we're going to talk more about that

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today.

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He had a love for her that he

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didn't have for anyone else.

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And here she wanted to boast about that.

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So that's why she did this.

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In another incident, and this is in Bukhari

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and Muslim, Aisha radiallahu anha narrates, She says,

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We set out with the Messenger of Allah

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salallahu alayhi wasalam on one of his journeys.

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Until we reached a place called Al-Bayda.

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And I had a necklace that was broken.

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And I lost it.

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This necklace actually belonged to her sister Asmaa

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radiallahu anha.

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Asmaa was older than her.

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So anyways, she says, As a result the

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Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam decided to stay there

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to search for this necklace.

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And everyone had to stay back now.

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But there was no water in this place.

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So the people went to Abu Bakr radiallahu

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anha and said, Don't you see what Aisha

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has done?

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She made the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and

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the people to stay here where there's no

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water.

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And we have no water with us.

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We've ran out of water.

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So Abu Bakr went to see the Prophet

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salallahu alayhi wasalam.

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When he arrived, he found the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi wasalam asleep with his head on the

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thigh of Aisha radiallahu anha.

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So he saw me.

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She says, Aisha says, He saw me and

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he said, This is the father of Aisha,

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Abu Bakr radiallahu anha.

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He said to me, he was angry.

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He said, You have held back the Prophet

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salallahu alayhi wasalam and the people in a

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place where there's no water and we have

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no water with us.

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And he kept on admonishing me.

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He said whatever Allah willed for him to

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say.

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And he started poking me on my side.

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She says, I didn't move only because the

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Prophet's head was in my lap.

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She says, and then the Prophet salallahu alayhi

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wasalam got up and now it was Fajr.

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So what are they going to do now?

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They have no water.

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How are they going to make wudu?

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How are they going to pray?

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She says, there was no water and it

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was Fajr time.

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So Allah revealed the ayat of tayammum.

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Allah revealed those ayat in the Qur'an

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that tell us that when there is no

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water, we should do tayammum.

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And so everyone ended up doing tayammum.

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One of the companions, Usaid ibn Hudair, he

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says, He said to them, O family of

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Abu Bakr, this is not the first blessing

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of yours.

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Meaning that as a result of Aisha radiallahu

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anha, as a result of this incident, Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala, he gave us a

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concession.

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He revealed a new ruling that is going

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to stay in our deen until the day

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of judgment.

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That when you don't have water, you do

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tayammum.

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This was as a result of the blessing

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of Aisha radiallahu anha.

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So anyways, what ended up happening is they

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went to the camel.

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They're getting ready to leave.

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They couldn't find the necklace.

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The camel gets up and the necklace was

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right under the camel.

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On another occasion, this was towards the end

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of the life of the Prophet ﷺ, when

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he went for the farewell hajj.

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The farewell hajj.

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And Aisha radiallahu anha, she went with them.

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On the way, now everyone was going to

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do an umrah along with a hajj.

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Everyone was going to do umrah and hajj.

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So first they get to Mecca, they do

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their umrah, and then they come out of

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their ihram, and then they wait until the

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days of hajj, and then they perform hajj

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with a new ihram.

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So Aisha radiallahu anha, what ended up happening

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is that on the way, her period came.

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So now she could no longer do umrah

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because she can't make tawaf around the Ka

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'bah.

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So while you're in that state, you cannot

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make tawaf.

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You could do everything else from the rituals

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of hajj, but not tawaf.

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So now she couldn't do the umrah.

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So after hajj, it's now time to leave

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back to Medina, and the Prophet radiallahu anha

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came to her and he found her crying.

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He asked her, what's wrong?

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She said, all of my friends are going

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back having done hajj and umrah, while I

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am going back only having done hajj.

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So the Prophet radiallahu anha asked her, do

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you want to perform umrah?

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She said yes.

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By now, obviously, she's out of her period.

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So the Prophet radiallahu anha ordered her brother

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Abdurrahman to go with her to Tanaim.

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Tanaim is basically the boundary of the haram.

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And that is where you go, you have

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to leave the haram boundary to get back

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into the state of ihram.

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So she went there, she went into the

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state of ihram, and then she went with

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her brother to make umrah, and then after

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that she came back and they all left

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back to Medina.

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Today, there is a masjid at that same

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location.

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And it is called Masjid Aisha.

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It is called Masjid Aisha, and whoever wants

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to perform umrah, that's where they go.

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Like if you're already in Mecca, and you

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want to perform umrah, and you're not in

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the state of ihram, everyone basically goes there,

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and they put on their ihram from there,

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and then they go and make their umrah.

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And then we have the relationship between Aisha

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and the Prophet ﷺ in terms of how

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close they were.

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The Prophet ﷺ once said to Aisha, I

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know when you are happy with me and

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when you are upset with me.

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I know when you are happy with me

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and when you are upset with me.

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So she asked, you know, how?

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He said to her, when you are happy

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with me, you say, By the Lord of

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Muhammad.

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You know, if you were to swear by

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Allah, you would say, By the Lord of

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Muhammad.

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And when you are upset with me, you

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say, By the Lord of Ibrahim.

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By the Lord of Ibrahim.

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Obviously, Allah is one.

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The Lord of Ibrahim or Muhammad ﷺ or

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anyone.

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It's the same thing.

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So she said yes.

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She said that's true.

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She said, by Allah, it is only my

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tongue that boycotts you.

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I would never do anything beyond that.

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If I'm angry with you, I won't stay

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away from you.

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I won't, you know, do anything else.

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That's the furthest I would go.

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And this shows us, you know, this shows

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us how she would be very careful about

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how she would deal with her emotions in

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front of the Prophet ﷺ.

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And then we have examples from the, what

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is known as the ghayrah.

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The ghayrah of Aisha ﷺ.

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This natural feeling in women to be jealous.

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To be jealous over their husbands.

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And obviously, she was one of his many

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wives.

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Even though she was the most special, the

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most beloved to him, still, she would have

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that feeling, which is a natural feeling.

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And we mentioned previously when we spoke about

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the story of Khadija ﷺ, how Aisha ﷺ

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says that there was no wife of the

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Prophet ﷺ that she was more jealous over

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than Khadija, even though she never saw her.

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Khadija ﷺ passed away long before Aisha ﷺ

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came on the scene.

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But because the Prophet ﷺ always used to

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mention Khadija ﷺ, and without a doubt, she

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was the most beloved of his wives to

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him, and then second comes Aisha ﷺ.

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So, one day, the Prophet ﷺ came home

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at night, and he went to sleep.

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When it was late into the night, Aisha

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ﷺ got up, and it was dark.

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Obviously, there were no lights, it was dark,

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and she got up, and she couldn't find

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the Prophet ﷺ next to her.

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She went to sleep, he was next to

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her, and now she's looking for him, and

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he's not there.

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So, she's looking around with her hands, and

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her hand ends up touching his hair.

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So, the Prophet ﷺ just happened to turn

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over while he was sleeping.

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That's all that happened.

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He was there, but he wasn't right next

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to her.

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So, she touched his head, and he ends

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up waking up.

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He feels her hand on his head, and

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he says to her, your Shaytan has come

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to you.

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Your Shaytan has come to you.

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So, Aisha says, I asked, don't you have

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a Shaytan?

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So, the Prophet ﷺ said, yes, but Allah

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helped me with him.

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Allah made me overcome him, so my Shaytan

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has submitted to me.

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Not the opposite where, you know, Shaytan has

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overpowered me.

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No, I have overpowered my own Shaytan.

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So, basically, here Aisha ﷺ, what was the

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Prophet ﷺ saying, that your Shaytan has come

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to you?

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Basically, she was thinking that the Prophet ﷺ

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left to go and be with another wife.

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Right, so that's what she was worried about.

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And we're going to see this again.

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We're going to see it again.

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So, the same thing happened on another night.

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She looked around for him, but she couldn't

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find him.

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She says, then I noticed that the Prophet

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ﷺ was not there.

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And I thought that he had gone to

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one of his other wives.

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So, I looked around for him.

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I reached out with my hands.

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And my hand touched his feet.

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And he was either in the state of

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sujood or ruku' And he was saying, subhanaka

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wa bihamdik la ilaha illa ant.

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So, the Prophet ﷺ was praying Qiyamul Layl.

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So, Aisha ﷺ says, I said, may my

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father and mother be sacrificed for you.

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You were doing one thing, and I was

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thinking something else.

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You were doing one thing, while I was

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thinking something else.

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Meaning, that here the Prophet ﷺ is busy

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in salah, doing something good, while Aisha ﷺ

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she was thinking that he was cheating her,

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and he left to go be with another

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wife.

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Again, the same thing happens on a third

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night.

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The Prophet ﷺ came at night and went

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to sleep.

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Aisha ﷺ says, she narrates this incident, she

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says, when it was my night, when he

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was with me, he came back from Aisha

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ﷺ, he put his sandals by his feet,

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and he spread the edge of his izar,

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which is the lower garment, on his bed.

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She says, he stayed until he thought that

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I had gone to sleep.

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Then he put on his sandals slowly, he

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picked up his cloak slowly, then he opened

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the door slowly, and went out slowly.

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So she says, as soon as he left,

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I covered my head, I put on my

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clothes, I put on my jilbab, then I

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followed him.

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Until he arrived at Al-Baqi'ah.

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Al-Baqi'ah is the graveyard, and you

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know, in those days, it was considered on

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the outskirts of Medina.

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Today, it's, because of the expansion of the

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masjid, it's right outside the masjid.

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The graveyard, where all the companions are buried,

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and it's known as Al-Baqi'ah.

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She says, he raised his hands three times,

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and stood there for a long time, making

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dua'.

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Then, then he started making his way back.

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She says, I started moving quickly, and he

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also started moving quickly.

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And then, he ran, and I also ran.

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She says, I came into the house, I

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put myself back in bed, and he comes

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in, and he sees my heart basically beating

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very fast, and he says, O Aisha, tell

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me, otherwise Al-'Aleem Al-Khabeer will tell me.

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Either you tell me, or Allah will tell

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me.

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So Aisha, she says, Ya Rasool Allah, I'm

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sleeping.

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So the Prophet ﷺ says, either you tell

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me, or Allah will tell me.

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So then, Aisha, she told him the whole

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story.

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She said, I saw you leaving slowly, and

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I was awake, and I followed you.

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So the Prophet ﷺ asked her, so you

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were that black shape that I saw in

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front of me?

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I said, yes.

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Then he gave me a nudge on my

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chest, and he said, did you think that

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Allah and His Messenger would deal unjustly with

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you?

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Meaning, did you think that I would deal

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with you unjustly and go to someone else

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on your night?

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So then Aisha says, I said, whatever the

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people conceal, Allah knows it.

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So then, after that, the Prophet ﷺ said,

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Jibreel came to me, so he was telling

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her what actually happened, why he left.

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He said, Jibreel came to me when I

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saw you.

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But he did not enter because you were

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not fully dressed.

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So even Jibreel would not come to the

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Prophet ﷺ if one of his wives were

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uncovered.

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So he says, he called me, but he

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concealed that from you.

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Meaning, you could not hear him, and I

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answered him, but I concealed that from you

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too.

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Meaning, Jibreel came, and he called the Prophet

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ﷺ, the Prophet ﷺ responded, but he made

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sure that Aisha radiAllahu anha did not know

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what's happening.

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He says, the Prophet ﷺ says, I thought

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that you had gone to sleep, and I

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didn't want to wake you up, and I

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was afraid that you would become frightened.

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So he told me to go to Al

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-Baqi' and pray for the people who are

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buried there.

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Ask Allah to forgive them.

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So I asked, O Messenger of Allah, what

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should we say?

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Meaning, when we visit the graveyards, what should

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we say?

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So he said, say, and he mentioned the

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du'a of what we say when we

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visit the graveyards.

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As-salamu alaykum ahl al-diyari mina al

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-muslimina wal-mu'minin until the end of the

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du'a.

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And so this shows us again, that jealousy

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that Aisha radiAllahu anha had, and again we

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see up close some of the interactions that

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the Prophet ﷺ had with her.

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These are some glimpses from the life of

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Aisha radiAllahu anha, some interesting stories.

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Now let us look at something that we

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mentioned last week, the intelligence of Aisha and

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her knowledge and her inquisitive nature.

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We mentioned last week that Aisha radiAllahu anha,

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she had the mind of a scholar.

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She was very bright, very intelligent, and she

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was very inquisitive in nature.

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She describes herself, she says that the companions

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of the Prophet ﷺ used to hear the

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hadith of RasulAllahu ﷺ and they would immediately

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follow it.

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So they would learn the hadith and they

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would immediately implement it.

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They wouldn't question, they wouldn't ask questions.

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She says, while I would ask the Prophet

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ﷺ questions about it.

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And this is because she was his wife

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and she was the most beloved to him.

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So she had this informal relationship with him

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and so she would question him while the

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others, they were very respectful and they would

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not dare question the Prophet ﷺ.

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And so we mentioned last week that someone

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who had this intimate relationship with the Prophet

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ﷺ was needed.

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So that she could ask him these questions

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about certain statements that he would make.

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And sometimes she would even argue, in a

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respectful way obviously, but no one else could

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afford to do that.

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But what was the result of that?

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The result of that is that we learned

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so much about Islam from that.

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We learned so much from that.

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And this is what makes Aisha radiallahu anha

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one of the top scholars of Islam of

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all time.

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Aisha radiallahu anha narrated to us 2,210

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ahadith.

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2,210 ahadith.

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And she is the fifth top narrator of

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hadith from among the companions.

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So the number one is Abu Huraira radiallahu

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anha.

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Then Abdullah ibn Umar.

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Then Anas ibn Malik.

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Then Abdullah ibn Abbas.

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And then number five is Aisha radiallahu anha.

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So let's look at the kinds of questions

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that she would ask.

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Once the Prophet ﷺ said that whoever, on

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the Day of Judgment, whoever is given the

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hisaab, meaning the reckoning, the account on the

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Day of Judgment, he will be punished.

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So the hisaab is the questioning or the

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account on the Day of Judgment.

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The Prophet ﷺ says, whoever goes through that

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hisaab, man husiba yawmal qiyamah, uzzib.

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He will be punished.

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So look at what Aisha radiallahu anha does.

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Now the other companions, they would not object.

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They would say, okay, you know, fine.

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But now Aisha, something else is going on

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in her mind.

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She's thinking of an ayah in the Qur

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'an where Allah ﷻ says, fasawfa yuhasabu hisaaban

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yaseera.

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Whoever is given their book of deeds in

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their right hand, Allah says, they will be

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given an easy reckoning, an easy hisaab.

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So for her, this was a contradiction.

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Right?

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You know, how can it be that someone

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who goes through a hisaab on the Day

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of Judgment, how is he going to be

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punished when Allah here is saying that, you

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know, those who are given their record in

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their right hands, they're going to have an

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easy hisaab.

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So she asked the Prophet ﷺ, how is

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that possible when Allah says this?

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So then the Prophet ﷺ said to her,

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O Aisha, that is not the hisaab that

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I'm talking about.

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That, what Allah mentions in the Qur'an,

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is Allah presenting, Allah presenting to His servant,

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His believing servant, His deeds.

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Right?

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He said, innama thaak alAAarb.

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So on the Day of Judgment, there will

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be two kinds of questioning by Allah.

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One is Allah will take the believers and

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say, this is what you did in the

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world.

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You did X, Y, and Z.

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Right?

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And you're standing there and you're acknowledging it,

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saying yes.

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And the Prophet ﷺ tells us in another

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hadith that until the end, you know, when

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the servant thinks that's it, you know, he's

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done, you know, look at all my sins,

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I'm finished.

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Then Allah says to him, you know, I

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hid your sins in the dunya and today

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I will forgive you.

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So this is the believer, where Allah presents

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to him, you know, his deeds.

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And then he said, as for the one

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who is interrogated, then he is the one

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who will be punished.

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So the Prophet ﷺ clarified for her that

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no, there's no contradiction here.

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But what he meant was something different than

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what Allah was talking about.

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And that is for the kafir, that Allah

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will, you know, not just present to them

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their good deeds, but he will interrogate them.

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And, you know, they are the ones who

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will be punished.

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On another occasion, Aisha radiallahu anha says, I

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asked the Prophet ﷺ about the ayah, يوم

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تبدل الأرض غير الأرض والسماوات in Surah Ibrahim.

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Allah says, on the day when the earth

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will be changed to a different earth, and

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the heavens will be changed, we won't be

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on the same earth.

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So again, look at her mind and where

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it goes.

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She says, O Messenger of Allah, then where

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will the people be on that day?

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You know, if we're not gonna be on

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this earth, where are we gonna be?

00:37:03 --> 00:37:07

The Prophet ﷺ said, على الصراط, on the

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Sirat, on the bridge.

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And this is in Sahih Muslim.

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On another occasion, and this is also in

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Sahih Muslim, the Prophet ﷺ said that the

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people will be resurrected on the Day of

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Judgment barefooted, naked, and uncircumcised.

00:37:29 --> 00:37:32

So Aisha radiallahu anha says, again, look at

00:37:32 --> 00:37:33

where her mind goes.

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She says, O Messenger of Allah, will the

00:37:38 --> 00:37:40

men and the women be together on that

00:37:40 --> 00:37:40

day?

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You know, if we're naked, won't they be

00:37:44 --> 00:37:45

looking at us?

00:37:46 --> 00:37:52

So the Prophet ﷺ said, O Aisha, the

00:37:52 --> 00:37:55

matter will be too serious for anyone to

00:37:55 --> 00:37:57

be looking at one another.

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Meaning, everyone will be in a state of

00:38:01 --> 00:38:04

terror, in a state of horror that, you

00:38:04 --> 00:38:06

know, they're only concerned about themselves, they're not

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

concerned about anyone else or looking at anyone

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

else.

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And then there's this incident, this is in

00:38:13 --> 00:38:18

Bukhariya Muslim, a woman once came to the

00:38:18 --> 00:38:25

Prophet ﷺ asking about ghusl, so the bath

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

that you take after the period.

00:38:30 --> 00:38:33

So the Prophet ﷺ told her what to

00:38:33 --> 00:38:36

do, how to make ghusl, and then he

00:38:36 --> 00:38:39

said, you know, at the end when you're

00:38:39 --> 00:38:45

done, purify, clean yourself, purify yourself with a

00:38:45 --> 00:38:50

piece of cloth scented with perfume, with musk.

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

So that's all the Prophet ﷺ said, right?

00:38:56 --> 00:38:59

So the woman, she asked, how should I

00:38:59 --> 00:39:00

purify myself with it?

00:39:00 --> 00:39:01

What am I supposed to do with it?

00:39:02 --> 00:39:06

So the Prophet ﷺ said, just purify yourself

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

with it.

00:39:08 --> 00:39:09

She said, how?

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

Now the Prophet ﷺ didn't want to go

00:39:13 --> 00:39:15

into the details of what to do.

00:39:16 --> 00:39:20

Because one of his characteristics was that he

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

was very shy.

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

He was very shy, and this is something

00:39:24 --> 00:39:27

embarrassing, you don't talk about these details with

00:39:27 --> 00:39:28

women.

00:39:28 --> 00:39:31

So he said, subhanAllah, just purify yourself with

00:39:31 --> 00:39:31

it.

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

So Aisha radiallahu anha, she was there, she

00:39:35 --> 00:39:38

says, I pulled the woman to me, and

00:39:38 --> 00:39:40

then I explained to her what to do.

00:39:40 --> 00:39:42

I said, wipe away, I told her, wipe

00:39:42 --> 00:39:44

away the traces of the blood with it.

00:39:48 --> 00:39:56

So again, look at how she reacted to

00:39:56 --> 00:39:59

this situation with such wisdom and intelligence.

00:40:02 --> 00:40:06

Also we have the famous hadith of what

00:40:06 --> 00:40:09

do we say on Laylatul Qadr?

00:40:12 --> 00:40:16

We have learned what to say based on

00:40:16 --> 00:40:19

a question that Aisha radiallahu anha asked.

00:40:21 --> 00:40:23

So she asked the Prophet ﷺ, O Messenger

00:40:23 --> 00:40:28

of Allah, if I was to witness Laylatul

00:40:28 --> 00:40:29

Qadr, what should I say?

00:40:30 --> 00:40:32

In my salah, in my dua, what should

00:40:32 --> 00:40:33

I say on Laylatul Qadr?

00:40:34 --> 00:40:38

The Prophet ﷺ said to her, Say, Allahumma

00:40:38 --> 00:40:45

innakaAAafuun tuhibbulAAafuwa faAAafuAAanni O Allah, you are the

00:40:45 --> 00:40:47

one who pardons, and you love pardoning, so

00:40:47 --> 00:40:52

pardon me, so forgive me.

00:40:53 --> 00:40:56

Again, if she was not to ask that

00:40:56 --> 00:40:58

question, and the Prophet ﷺ was not to

00:40:58 --> 00:41:01

respond, how would we learn what to say

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

on that very special night?

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

Also, from the previous story that we mentioned,

00:41:13 --> 00:41:16

when Aisha followed the Prophet ﷺ to the

00:41:16 --> 00:41:20

graveyard, al-Baqi' and he explained to her

00:41:20 --> 00:41:23

at the end why he went and...

00:41:23 --> 00:41:28

At the end of the whole incident, even

00:41:28 --> 00:41:33

though she was in an embarrassing situation, still

00:41:33 --> 00:41:34

she asked a question.

00:41:36 --> 00:41:37

She asked a question.

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

She was someone who wanted to seek knowledge.

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

So what did she say at the very

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

end of that story?

00:41:44 --> 00:41:48

She said, So you went there, you made

00:41:48 --> 00:41:50

dua, what should we say when we go

00:41:50 --> 00:41:51

and visit the graveyard?

00:41:52 --> 00:41:54

What should we say when we go and

00:41:54 --> 00:41:55

visit the graveyard?

00:41:57 --> 00:41:59

And this is where we learn the dua

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

of what we say when we visit the

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

graveyard.

00:42:02 --> 00:42:09

السلام عليكم أهل الديار من المؤمنين والمسلمين يرحم

00:42:09 --> 00:42:13

الله المستقدمين منا والمستخيرين وإنا إن شاء الله

00:42:13 --> 00:42:19

بكم للاحقون In a hadith in Abu Dawood,

00:42:20 --> 00:42:24

Aisha رضي الله عنها says, I never saw

00:42:24 --> 00:42:31

the Messenger of Allah ﷺ laugh fully to

00:42:31 --> 00:42:33

such an extent that I could see his

00:42:33 --> 00:42:37

tonsils, like he wouldn't open up his mouth

00:42:37 --> 00:42:39

and laugh like that.

00:42:39 --> 00:42:43

She says he would only smile and when

00:42:43 --> 00:42:47

he saw clouds or wind, his face would

00:42:47 --> 00:42:48

show signs of fear.

00:42:50 --> 00:42:53

So I asked him, I asked him, O

00:42:53 --> 00:42:56

Messenger of Allah ﷺ, when the people see

00:42:56 --> 00:43:01

the clouds, they rejoice, hoping that this cloud

00:43:01 --> 00:43:02

is bringing rain.

00:43:05 --> 00:43:07

And I noticed that when you see a

00:43:07 --> 00:43:11

cloud, there is fear or dislike in your

00:43:11 --> 00:43:12

face.

00:43:13 --> 00:43:16

So he said, O Aisha, what gives me

00:43:16 --> 00:43:19

safety from the fact that it might contain

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

a punishment?

00:43:20 --> 00:43:22

There were people who were punished by the

00:43:22 --> 00:43:22

wind.

00:43:24 --> 00:43:26

When those people saw the punishment, they said,

00:43:26 --> 00:43:29

this is a cloud which is coming to

00:43:29 --> 00:43:30

give us rain.

00:43:31 --> 00:43:34

As Allah ﷻ tells us about the people

00:43:34 --> 00:43:39

of Ad in Surah Al-Ahqaf, how when

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

they saw this cloud coming, they said, Oh,

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

this cloud is bringing us rain.

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

But Allah tells us that that was the

00:43:46 --> 00:43:47

punishment that destroyed them.

00:43:52 --> 00:43:55

Now Aisha رضي الله عنها was also a

00:43:55 --> 00:43:59

major reference after the death of the Prophet

00:43:59 --> 00:44:00

ﷺ.

00:44:02 --> 00:44:08

And we have to understand that she was

00:44:08 --> 00:44:13

only 18 years old when the Prophet ﷺ

00:44:13 --> 00:44:13

passed away.

00:44:16 --> 00:44:17

She was young.

00:44:17 --> 00:44:19

She was only 18 when the Prophet ﷺ

00:44:19 --> 00:44:19

passed away.

00:44:21 --> 00:44:27

So now, after spending that much time with

00:44:27 --> 00:44:30

the Prophet ﷺ and having gained the knowledge

00:44:30 --> 00:44:34

that she did from him, she became the

00:44:34 --> 00:44:35

reference point.

00:44:37 --> 00:44:40

You know, whenever the companions wanted to verify

00:44:40 --> 00:44:44

something, a hadith, a certain ruling, they would

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

come to her.

00:44:46 --> 00:44:48

Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari رضي الله عنه

00:44:48 --> 00:44:52

who was one of the leading scholars among

00:44:52 --> 00:44:53

the companions.

00:44:54 --> 00:44:56

Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari.

00:44:56 --> 00:44:59

He says, whenever there was a hadith that

00:44:59 --> 00:45:02

we disputed over or we did not understand,

00:45:03 --> 00:45:05

we would go to Aisha and she would

00:45:05 --> 00:45:06

resolve it for us.

00:45:06 --> 00:45:07

She would explain it to us.

00:45:12 --> 00:45:16

And look at this story where Abdullah ibn

00:45:16 --> 00:45:21

Umar رضي الله عنه and Abdullah ibn Umar

00:45:21 --> 00:45:24

was the kind of companion who was very,

00:45:25 --> 00:45:31

very keen over doing good deeds and taking

00:45:31 --> 00:45:32

every opportunity.

00:45:32 --> 00:45:34

Whenever he would hear a hadith, he would

00:45:34 --> 00:45:36

immediately implement it.

00:45:37 --> 00:45:41

So Abu Hurairah رضي الله عنه he narrates

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

that the Prophet ﷺ said, whoever prays the

00:45:46 --> 00:45:51

janaza, whoever prays a janaza over a dead

00:45:51 --> 00:45:55

Muslim, he will get the reward equal to

00:45:55 --> 00:45:57

one qirat.

00:45:59 --> 00:46:04

And the Prophet ﷺ explained, he said one

00:46:04 --> 00:46:07

qirat is similar to now Uhud.

00:46:08 --> 00:46:11

And the mountain of Uhud in Medina is

00:46:11 --> 00:46:12

a huge massive mountain.

00:46:13 --> 00:46:15

So reward equal to that.

00:46:16 --> 00:46:18

And then the Prophet ﷺ said, whoever then

00:46:18 --> 00:46:21

after that follows the janaza until the person

00:46:21 --> 00:46:24

is buried, then he will get two qirats.

00:46:25 --> 00:46:27

He will get two qirats.

00:46:29 --> 00:46:32

So when Abdullah ibn Umar when he heard

00:46:32 --> 00:46:33

this, he couldn't believe it.

00:46:34 --> 00:46:37

Because it was his first time hearing this

00:46:37 --> 00:46:38

hadith and this reward.

00:46:39 --> 00:46:42

So he asked Abu Hurairah, are you sure

00:46:42 --> 00:46:43

you heard this from the Prophet ﷺ?

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

He said yes.

00:46:45 --> 00:46:48

So then he sent a message to Aisha

00:46:48 --> 00:46:50

asking her about this hadith.

00:46:51 --> 00:46:52

So look at how she was a reference

00:46:52 --> 00:46:53

point.

00:46:55 --> 00:46:57

He sent asking her about this hadith.

00:46:57 --> 00:46:59

And he was so nervous.

00:47:00 --> 00:47:04

He feels that he's missed out on so

00:47:04 --> 00:47:04

many rewards.

00:47:06 --> 00:47:08

And he had pebbles in his hand.

00:47:12 --> 00:47:15

And then the messenger came back and said,

00:47:15 --> 00:47:20

Aisha radiallahu anha has confirmed that yes, the

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

Prophet ﷺ did indeed say this.

00:47:23 --> 00:47:25

So then he threw the pebbles and he

00:47:25 --> 00:47:28

said in that case we have missed many

00:47:28 --> 00:47:29

qirats.

00:47:30 --> 00:47:31

We have missed many qirats.

00:47:32 --> 00:47:35

Meaning that he was regretful that he missed

00:47:35 --> 00:47:38

so many opportunities to gain a lot of

00:47:38 --> 00:47:40

hasanat and reward.

00:47:42 --> 00:47:46

But the lesson here is that Ibn Umar

00:47:46 --> 00:47:50

radiallahu anha trusted the report of Aisha radiallahu

00:47:50 --> 00:47:51

anha.

00:47:51 --> 00:47:55

He didn't say well, let's investigate further.

00:47:55 --> 00:47:57

Let's go and ask so and so.

00:47:58 --> 00:48:00

Let's go and ask Abu Bakr or Umar

00:48:00 --> 00:48:02

or some of the other companions.

00:48:02 --> 00:48:05

He said that as long as Aisha radiallahu

00:48:05 --> 00:48:07

anha has confirmed it, then for me it's

00:48:07 --> 00:48:07

resolved.

00:48:09 --> 00:48:13

So this shows us how she was a

00:48:13 --> 00:48:19

leading scholar from among the companions and she

00:48:19 --> 00:48:20

was a reference point.

00:48:22 --> 00:48:26

And people would also travel long distances to

00:48:26 --> 00:48:29

Medina just to narrate from her.

00:48:31 --> 00:48:33

And so after the death of the Prophet

00:48:33 --> 00:48:36

ﷺ for most of her life, the rest

00:48:36 --> 00:48:37

of her life, she remained in Medina.

00:48:38 --> 00:48:40

And so she would sit at her home

00:48:40 --> 00:48:43

and she would have a curtain drawn in

00:48:43 --> 00:48:44

front of her.

00:48:45 --> 00:48:47

And then she would narrate a hadith.

00:48:48 --> 00:48:50

Whoever would come, she would narrate a hadith

00:48:51 --> 00:48:53

and she would answer questions.

00:48:54 --> 00:48:57

And this is how her knowledge was preserved.

00:48:57 --> 00:49:02

So the tabi'oon, the next generation, they

00:49:02 --> 00:49:06

took all of these hadith from the companions

00:49:08 --> 00:49:10

and then they narrated it to the next

00:49:10 --> 00:49:11

generation.

00:49:13 --> 00:49:16

And Aisha radiallahu anha was one of the

00:49:16 --> 00:49:18

leading narrators of hadith.

00:49:23 --> 00:49:29

As for her ibadah, Aisha radiallahu anha, it

00:49:29 --> 00:49:32

was not just that she was a person

00:49:32 --> 00:49:35

of knowledge, but she was also a person

00:49:35 --> 00:49:37

who would put that knowledge to practice.

00:49:38 --> 00:49:42

So she used to fast, voluntary fasting.

00:49:42 --> 00:49:48

She would fast throughout the year and she

00:49:48 --> 00:49:48

would pray.

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

Qiyam al-layl.

00:49:51 --> 00:49:56

She was not just a scholar, but a

00:49:56 --> 00:49:59

scholar who puts their knowledge to action.

00:50:00 --> 00:50:06

And she would also give in sadaqah, being

00:50:06 --> 00:50:08

brought up in the home of Abu Bakr

00:50:08 --> 00:50:10

radiallahu anha.

00:50:10 --> 00:50:12

And we know the generosity of Abu Bakr

00:50:12 --> 00:50:15

and how he would give all of his

00:50:15 --> 00:50:16

wealth in sadaqah.

00:50:17 --> 00:50:20

And then after that, spending time with the

00:50:20 --> 00:50:21

Prophet ﷺ.

00:50:22 --> 00:50:24

So once, and this is in the time

00:50:24 --> 00:50:27

of the Prophet ﷺ, a goat was slaughtered

00:50:29 --> 00:50:32

and Aisha radiallahu anha gave it all away

00:50:32 --> 00:50:33

in sadaqah.

00:50:33 --> 00:50:36

She distributed it, except for the shoulder.

00:50:36 --> 00:50:38

She kept the shoulder, why?

00:50:39 --> 00:50:41

Because the Prophet ﷺ, that was the part

00:50:41 --> 00:50:42

of the animal that he used to love

00:50:42 --> 00:50:42

the most.

00:50:43 --> 00:50:45

He used to like eating the shoulder.

00:50:46 --> 00:50:48

So he asked her, what happened with the

00:50:48 --> 00:50:48

goat?

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

She said, I gave it all away except

00:50:52 --> 00:50:55

for the shoulder.

00:50:56 --> 00:51:00

So the Prophet ﷺ said to her, So

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

she said, the only thing that remains is

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

the shoulder.

00:51:04 --> 00:51:05

The only thing that remains is the shoulder.

00:51:06 --> 00:51:08

So the Prophet ﷺ said to her, No.

00:51:11 --> 00:51:13

All of it has remained except for the

00:51:13 --> 00:51:14

shoulder.

00:51:15 --> 00:51:18

All of it has remained except for the

00:51:18 --> 00:51:18

shoulder.

00:51:18 --> 00:51:22

Meaning, that what you gave in sadaqah, that

00:51:22 --> 00:51:23

is what remains.

00:51:23 --> 00:51:25

Meaning, that is what we have.

00:51:25 --> 00:51:27

That is what you have kept for yourself.

00:51:28 --> 00:51:32

Meaning, that whatever we give in sadaqah, you

00:51:32 --> 00:51:33

know, it's the reward that we are gaining.

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

Right?

00:51:35 --> 00:51:38

So, he's saying, you should have given even

00:51:38 --> 00:51:38

the shoulder.

00:51:42 --> 00:51:45

And once, after the death of the Prophet

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

ﷺ, her nephew, who is her nephew?

00:51:52 --> 00:51:54

Abdullah ibn Zubayr.

00:51:55 --> 00:52:00

So, Zubayr ibn al-Awam, the famous companion,

00:52:00 --> 00:52:03

he married Asma'a.

00:52:03 --> 00:52:04

We mentioned Asma'a earlier.

00:52:05 --> 00:52:07

She's the elder sister of Aisha.

00:52:08 --> 00:52:12

So, she had a son, Abdullah ibn Zubayr,

00:52:12 --> 00:52:14

the famous companion, Abdullah ibn Zubayr.

00:52:15 --> 00:52:17

So this is the nephew of Aisha.

00:52:19 --> 00:52:23

He once came and gave Aisha radiallahu anha

00:52:23 --> 00:52:26

a hundred thousand dirhams.

00:52:27 --> 00:52:28

A hundred thousand dirhams.

00:52:30 --> 00:52:31

What did she do with it?

00:52:33 --> 00:52:36

She went and she distributed all of it.

00:52:37 --> 00:52:39

By the evening, all of it was gone.

00:52:41 --> 00:52:43

And it so happened that she was fasting

00:52:43 --> 00:52:44

that day.

00:52:45 --> 00:52:50

So, her servant came to her, and she

00:52:50 --> 00:52:53

said, you should have kept something, you know,

00:52:53 --> 00:52:56

at least a dirham, a few dirhams, so

00:52:56 --> 00:52:59

that we could have bought you something to

00:52:59 --> 00:53:00

break your fast with.

00:53:01 --> 00:53:04

So Aisha radiallahu anha says to her, if

00:53:04 --> 00:53:06

only you had reminded me.

00:53:06 --> 00:53:07

Meaning, she forgot.

00:53:08 --> 00:53:09

And she says, if only you had reminded

00:53:09 --> 00:53:10

me, I would have done so.

00:53:11 --> 00:53:17

But now, Abdullah ibn Zubayr radiallahu anha, he

00:53:17 --> 00:53:18

heard about what she did.

00:53:19 --> 00:53:22

That she gave away everything that he had

00:53:22 --> 00:53:23

come and gifted to her.

00:53:23 --> 00:53:26

And he became angry, he became upset.

00:53:27 --> 00:53:29

That, you know, this is a huge amount

00:53:29 --> 00:53:32

of money, I wanted you to benefit from

00:53:32 --> 00:53:32

it.

00:53:32 --> 00:53:34

I wanted you to use it.

00:53:34 --> 00:53:37

So, when she found out that he got

00:53:37 --> 00:53:41

angry, she took an oath that she will

00:53:41 --> 00:53:43

never talk to him ever again.

00:53:44 --> 00:53:47

Because, you know, how can you criticize me

00:53:47 --> 00:53:50

for doing a good deed, you know, giving

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

sadaqah.

00:53:51 --> 00:53:55

So, Abdullah ibn Zubayr, he was in a

00:53:55 --> 00:53:56

problem now, this is his aunt.

00:53:57 --> 00:54:01

And, you know, he can't speak to her

00:54:01 --> 00:54:01

ever again.

00:54:02 --> 00:54:05

So he tried, he tried sending people, you

00:54:05 --> 00:54:08

know, to try to convince her to, you

00:54:08 --> 00:54:11

know, to change her mind.

00:54:12 --> 00:54:12

Nothing worked.

00:54:13 --> 00:54:18

Finally, he got two of the tabi'een,

00:54:18 --> 00:54:24

the students, of Aisha radiallahu anha, Masrooq and

00:54:24 --> 00:54:24

Miswar.

00:54:27 --> 00:54:31

These two tabi'een, they would often come

00:54:31 --> 00:54:33

and visit Aisha and ask her to narrate

00:54:33 --> 00:54:34

a hadith and what not.

00:54:35 --> 00:54:37

So, he went with them.

00:54:37 --> 00:54:39

He said, let's go, I want the two

00:54:39 --> 00:54:43

of you to go, and, you know, ask

00:54:43 --> 00:54:44

her permission to enter.

00:54:46 --> 00:54:49

So they went, and when they got there,

00:54:49 --> 00:54:52

when they got there, they asked her permission

00:54:52 --> 00:54:53

to enter.

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

She said, yes, enter.

00:54:55 --> 00:54:57

They asked all of us.

00:54:58 --> 00:54:59

She said, yes, all of you.

00:55:00 --> 00:55:04

Abdullah ibn Zubayr was hiding, you know, under

00:55:04 --> 00:55:06

the garments of one of them.

00:55:07 --> 00:55:10

So, she said, yes, all of you.

00:55:10 --> 00:55:11

She had no idea that there was a

00:55:11 --> 00:55:12

third person there.

00:55:13 --> 00:55:19

So, they entered, and, so they entered the

00:55:19 --> 00:55:22

home, but then there's a curtain between her

00:55:22 --> 00:55:22

and them.

00:55:23 --> 00:55:27

Now that he's inside of her house, because

00:55:27 --> 00:55:29

if he went alone, she would say, no,

00:55:29 --> 00:55:30

I'm not speaking to you, right?

00:55:31 --> 00:55:33

So now that he got into the house,

00:55:34 --> 00:55:37

he went behind the curtain, because obviously, you

00:55:37 --> 00:55:39

know, he is her mahram.

00:55:40 --> 00:55:42

He went behind the curtain, and he hugged

00:55:42 --> 00:55:45

her, and he apologized, and he asked her

00:55:45 --> 00:55:46

to forgive him.

00:55:47 --> 00:55:49

And, she did.

00:55:50 --> 00:55:50

She did.

00:55:51 --> 00:55:54

And, but because she took an oath, she

00:55:54 --> 00:55:57

had to, you know, give a kaffarah, expiation.

00:55:57 --> 00:55:58

So, what did she do?

00:55:58 --> 00:56:00

She freed 40 slaves.

00:56:01 --> 00:56:03

She freed 40 slaves.

00:56:08 --> 00:56:13

And so, Aisha radiallahu anha, after the death

00:56:13 --> 00:56:16

of the Prophet ﷺ, she went on to

00:56:16 --> 00:56:22

live another 47 to 48 years, mostly in

00:56:22 --> 00:56:22

Medina.

00:56:23 --> 00:56:27

And she passed away at her home, in

00:56:27 --> 00:56:29

Medina, after an illness.

00:56:29 --> 00:56:32

And that was on the 17th of Ramadan,

00:56:34 --> 00:56:37

of the year 58 after the hijrah.

00:56:38 --> 00:56:42

And, she was 66 or 67 years old

00:56:42 --> 00:56:43

at the time.

00:56:44 --> 00:56:47

And, it was Abu Huraira radiallahu anhu, who

00:56:47 --> 00:56:49

prayed, who led the janazah.

00:56:50 --> 00:56:53

And, she was buried in Baqi'ah.

00:56:53 --> 00:56:56

She was buried in Baqi'ah.

00:56:59 --> 00:57:01

As for the Prophet ﷺ, he was buried

00:57:01 --> 00:57:04

in her apartment.

00:57:05 --> 00:57:05

Right?

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

And when Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu passed away,

00:57:09 --> 00:57:11

he was buried next to the Prophet ﷺ.

00:57:14 --> 00:57:15

He is her father.

00:57:16 --> 00:57:21

But then when Umar radiallahu anhu was passed

00:57:21 --> 00:57:23

away, he was brought, and he was buried

00:57:23 --> 00:57:25

next to Abu Bakr.

00:57:26 --> 00:57:29

From that day onwards, Aisha radiallahu anha would

00:57:29 --> 00:57:32

cover herself, in her own home.

00:57:33 --> 00:57:35

Because Umar radiallahu anhu was there, and he

00:57:35 --> 00:57:36

is not a mahrum for her.

00:57:37 --> 00:57:39

Obviously, she didn't have to do that.

00:57:39 --> 00:57:40

He's dead.

00:57:40 --> 00:57:40

Right?

00:57:41 --> 00:57:44

But, you know, she did it nonetheless.

00:57:46 --> 00:57:50

Alright, we conclude with, we conclude with the

00:57:50 --> 00:57:55

virtues, of Aisha radiallahu anha.

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

Her fadha'il, you know, what makes her

00:57:57 --> 00:57:57

special.

00:57:58 --> 00:58:02

We have already seen a lot of, things

00:58:02 --> 00:58:04

that make, Aisha radiallahu anha special.

00:58:06 --> 00:58:10

But, we also have certain explicit, statements of

00:58:10 --> 00:58:11

the Prophet ﷺ.

00:58:14 --> 00:58:18

The Prophet ﷺ was once asked, who is

00:58:18 --> 00:58:20

the most beloved of all people to you?

00:58:22 --> 00:58:24

Who is the most beloved person to you?

00:58:25 --> 00:58:27

Without any hesitation, he said Aisha.

00:58:29 --> 00:58:30

He didn't say Abu Bakr, Umar.

00:58:31 --> 00:58:33

Without any hesitation, he said Aisha.

00:58:34 --> 00:58:36

Then he was asked, and from among the

00:58:36 --> 00:58:38

men, he said her father.

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

Meaning Abu Bakr.

00:58:40 --> 00:58:45

And in Sahih Bukhari, Anas radiallahu anha narrates,

00:58:45 --> 00:58:50

that the Prophet ﷺ said, the superiority of

00:58:50 --> 00:58:53

Aisha over all other women, is like the

00:58:53 --> 00:58:55

superiority of Thareed.

00:58:56 --> 00:59:00

Which is a kind of dish, which is

00:59:00 --> 00:59:03

mixed with bread and meat, and broth.

00:59:03 --> 00:59:06

So, he said, it is like the superiority

00:59:06 --> 00:59:09

of this dish, over all other kinds of

00:59:09 --> 00:59:10

dishes and food.

00:59:11 --> 00:59:15

So, it is, you know, the best dish.

00:59:16 --> 00:59:18

Likewise, Aisha compared to all other women.

00:59:20 --> 00:59:24

Besides these two ahadith, we already mentioned how,

00:59:24 --> 00:59:26

the Prophet ﷺ married Aisha radiallahu anha.

00:59:27 --> 00:59:30

This counts among her virtues, that makes her

00:59:30 --> 00:59:33

stand out among the other wives.

00:59:33 --> 00:59:39

The fact, that, you know, she came to

00:59:39 --> 00:59:40

him in a dream.

00:59:40 --> 00:59:42

And we mentioned this last week.

00:59:44 --> 00:59:46

Jibreel said to the Prophet ﷺ, that this

00:59:46 --> 00:59:48

is your wife, in the dunya and akhira.

00:59:49 --> 00:59:52

This didn't happen with any other of his

00:59:52 --> 00:59:52

wives.

00:59:54 --> 00:59:56

Also, the fact that she was the only

00:59:56 --> 00:59:59

wife, that the Prophet ﷺ married, who had

00:59:59 --> 01:00:01

not been previously married.

01:00:02 --> 01:00:05

Also, among her virtues, is that the Prophet

01:00:05 --> 01:00:09

ﷺ, would not receive wahil, he would not

01:00:09 --> 01:00:12

receive revelation, in the bed of any of

01:00:12 --> 01:00:14

his wives, apart from Aisha.

01:00:15 --> 01:00:18

The Prophet ﷺ said to Umm Salama, his

01:00:18 --> 01:00:21

other wife, he said to her, O Umm

01:00:21 --> 01:00:24

Salama, do not bug me, do not bother

01:00:24 --> 01:00:26

me concerning Aisha.

01:00:27 --> 01:00:30

For, by Allah, the revelation has never come

01:00:30 --> 01:00:32

to me, under the blanket of any of

01:00:32 --> 01:00:35

you, of you women, besides her.

01:00:35 --> 01:00:36

Besides her.

01:00:36 --> 01:00:38

There was a story behind this, basically.

01:00:39 --> 01:00:45

You know, the companions would come and give

01:00:45 --> 01:00:48

gifts, to the Prophet ﷺ, on the day

01:00:48 --> 01:00:51

that it was, that he was with Aisha.

01:00:51 --> 01:00:54

Because, you know, she was the most beloved

01:00:54 --> 01:00:55

wife to him.

01:00:55 --> 01:00:56

They knew that.

01:00:56 --> 01:00:58

So they would come and give gifts on

01:00:58 --> 01:00:58

her day.

01:00:59 --> 01:01:01

So some of the other wives, they got

01:01:01 --> 01:01:06

jealous, and you know, they, they had Umm

01:01:06 --> 01:01:08

Salama go and, you know, bring the case

01:01:08 --> 01:01:09

to the Prophet ﷺ.

01:01:10 --> 01:01:12

And say, you know, why don't you tell

01:01:12 --> 01:01:14

the people, to give gifts on our days.

01:01:15 --> 01:01:17

So that's when the Prophet ﷺ said this.

01:01:18 --> 01:01:22

That, you know, she's special, the revelation from

01:01:22 --> 01:01:25

Allah, it comes to me, while I'm in

01:01:25 --> 01:01:28

that bed, and not in the bed of

01:01:28 --> 01:01:29

any of you.

01:01:31 --> 01:01:34

Also, she was the only wife, who had

01:01:34 --> 01:01:37

more knights, than any other of his wives.

01:01:38 --> 01:01:42

As we know, in Islam, if there is,

01:01:45 --> 01:01:49

polygamy, the man has to, treat the wives

01:01:49 --> 01:01:49

equally.

01:01:50 --> 01:01:56

So, although, you know, if his heart, inclines

01:01:56 --> 01:01:59

more towards one wife, that's not, something he

01:01:59 --> 01:01:59

can control.

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

As we can see in the case of

01:02:01 --> 01:02:04

the Prophet ﷺ, he can't control, you know,

01:02:04 --> 01:02:05

who he loves more.

01:02:06 --> 01:02:10

But, he has to, act justly, in terms

01:02:10 --> 01:02:15

of, spending on them, spending time, with them.

01:02:15 --> 01:02:19

Each, of his wives, had one knight.

01:02:19 --> 01:02:20

Except for Aisha.

01:02:20 --> 01:02:21

But, why did that happen?

01:02:22 --> 01:02:24

It wasn't the Prophet ﷺ, who gave her

01:02:24 --> 01:02:25

an extra knight.

01:02:26 --> 01:02:31

It was, Saudah, his other wife, Saudah, رضي

01:02:31 --> 01:02:31

الله عنها.

01:02:31 --> 01:02:34

And, we're gonna talk about her life as

01:02:34 --> 01:02:34

well.

01:02:34 --> 01:02:36

Saudah رضي الله عنها.

01:02:36 --> 01:02:39

She saw how much, the Prophet ﷺ loved

01:02:39 --> 01:02:39

Aisha.

01:02:40 --> 01:02:43

So she gave up her knight, to Aisha.

01:02:43 --> 01:02:44

And she was an elder woman.

01:02:46 --> 01:02:48

She gave up her knight for Aisha رضي

01:02:48 --> 01:02:48

الله عنها.

01:02:50 --> 01:02:53

Also, among the virtues of Aisha رضي الله

01:02:53 --> 01:02:55

عنها is, that the Prophet ﷺ passed away,

01:02:56 --> 01:02:59

in her house, on her day, in her

01:02:59 --> 01:03:04

arms, and he was buried in, her, home.

01:03:05 --> 01:03:11

And, also, two very special things happened.

01:03:13 --> 01:03:16

Number one, we're talking about, at the time

01:03:16 --> 01:03:17

of the death of the Prophet ﷺ.

01:03:18 --> 01:03:23

Number one, her brother Abdurrahman came to visit,

01:03:23 --> 01:03:26

and the Prophet ﷺ saw him, with a

01:03:26 --> 01:03:27

miswak.

01:03:29 --> 01:03:31

So the Prophet ﷺ started to look at

01:03:31 --> 01:03:31

the miswak.

01:03:32 --> 01:03:33

He was ill, he was on his deathbed.

01:03:34 --> 01:03:36

So Aisha asked the Prophet ﷺ, do you

01:03:36 --> 01:03:37

want it?

01:03:38 --> 01:03:38

He said yes.

01:03:39 --> 01:03:41

So she took it, and then she put

01:03:41 --> 01:03:42

it in her mouth.

01:03:43 --> 01:03:45

She was fixing it up, for the Prophet

01:03:45 --> 01:03:45

ﷺ.

01:03:45 --> 01:03:48

And then she gave it to him, for

01:03:48 --> 01:03:49

the Prophet ﷺ to use.

01:03:50 --> 01:03:53

So, what is special about this?

01:03:54 --> 01:03:57

It was her saliva, that last mixed with

01:03:57 --> 01:03:58

the saliva, of the Prophet ﷺ.

01:03:59 --> 01:04:01

And so this is among her virtues.

01:04:02 --> 01:04:08

The second, incident, is, that, the very last

01:04:08 --> 01:04:10

moment, of the life of the Prophet ﷺ,

01:04:11 --> 01:04:13

was, while his head was in the lap

01:04:13 --> 01:04:14

of Aisha.

01:04:14 --> 01:04:18

He breathed his last, while, he was in

01:04:18 --> 01:04:19

her lap.

01:04:20 --> 01:04:22

Imam al-Dahabi, the famous scholar, he says,

01:04:24 --> 01:04:31

that, he mentions the hadith, where, the soul

01:04:31 --> 01:04:36

of a Prophet, leaves, its body in the

01:04:36 --> 01:04:38

place that, that Prophet loves the most.

01:04:40 --> 01:04:42

He says, so it is proven that, the

01:04:42 --> 01:04:45

Prophet ﷺ died, in his most favorite place.

01:04:45 --> 01:04:48

Meaning, the house of Aisha radiallahu anha.

01:04:48 --> 01:04:50

And then that is also where, he was

01:04:50 --> 01:04:50

buried.

01:04:54 --> 01:04:58

Also what makes Aisha radiallahu anha, special, as

01:04:58 --> 01:05:01

we mentioned, her intelligence, and the knowledge, that

01:05:01 --> 01:05:02

she gained.

01:05:03 --> 01:05:05

And so there is no comparison, between her,

01:05:05 --> 01:05:08

and other, female companions.

01:05:09 --> 01:05:12

You know, the only other, female companion, close

01:05:12 --> 01:05:16

to her, or next, after her, in terms

01:05:16 --> 01:05:19

of narrating ahadith, is Umm Salama, who only

01:05:19 --> 01:05:23

narrated, some 380 ahadith.

01:05:23 --> 01:05:25

Three hundred, and eighty ahadith.

01:05:25 --> 01:05:29

Compared to Aisha, who narrated, as we mentioned,

01:05:29 --> 01:05:31

two thousand, two hundred and ten.

01:05:32 --> 01:05:35

In fact, all of his wives combined, the

01:05:35 --> 01:05:37

Ummahatul Mu'mineen, the mothers of the believers.

01:05:38 --> 01:05:42

All of their, narrations combined, only come to,

01:05:42 --> 01:05:44

about four hundred ahadith.

01:05:44 --> 01:05:45

Excluding Aisha.

01:05:46 --> 01:05:51

And, Hisham ibn Urwah, Hisham ibn Urwah, he

01:05:51 --> 01:05:53

was a prominent narrator, of hadith.

01:05:54 --> 01:05:58

He says, I have never seen, anyone, who

01:05:58 --> 01:06:01

could have knowledge, of an ayah, or an

01:06:01 --> 01:06:05

obligatory act, or a sunnah, or poetry, or

01:06:05 --> 01:06:09

history, or lineage, or medicine, better than Aisha.

01:06:10 --> 01:06:12

So I once asked her, what about medicine?

01:06:12 --> 01:06:13

How did you learn medicine?

01:06:14 --> 01:06:16

You know, imagine, she even had knowledge, of

01:06:16 --> 01:06:16

medicine.

01:06:18 --> 01:06:21

So, she was asked, you know, how did

01:06:21 --> 01:06:21

you learn it?

01:06:21 --> 01:06:24

She said, when I was sick, the Prophet

01:06:24 --> 01:06:27

ﷺ, prescribed treatment for me, as he did,

01:06:27 --> 01:06:28

when people would become ill.

01:06:29 --> 01:06:33

And, I would also hear, people prescribing treatment,

01:06:33 --> 01:06:37

to one another, so I memorized, those prescriptions.

01:06:38 --> 01:06:40

And so, these are, some of the virtues,

01:06:40 --> 01:06:42

of Aisha radiallahu anha, that make her special.

01:06:43 --> 01:06:50

Finally, we spoke about, Khadijah radiallahu anha, and

01:06:50 --> 01:06:51

we mentioned her virtues.

01:06:52 --> 01:06:56

And we mentioned, how she was, you know,

01:06:57 --> 01:06:59

the most beloved, to the Prophet ﷺ.

01:07:00 --> 01:07:04

And, the Prophet ﷺ also mentioned, her being,

01:07:05 --> 01:07:09

one of the four best women, of, of

01:07:09 --> 01:07:10

all time.

01:07:11 --> 01:07:11

Right?

01:07:11 --> 01:07:12

We mentioned that hadith.

01:07:13 --> 01:07:15

So now the question is, after we've learnt

01:07:15 --> 01:07:19

about, the virtues of Aisha radiallahu anha, which

01:07:19 --> 01:07:20

one is better?

01:07:21 --> 01:07:22

Who is better?

01:07:22 --> 01:07:23

Khadijah or Aisha?

01:07:25 --> 01:07:26

Khadijah.

01:07:26 --> 01:07:27

Anyone else?

01:07:28 --> 01:07:31

So, the scholars have actually, debated this question.

01:07:32 --> 01:07:34

Some said it is Khadijah, some said it

01:07:34 --> 01:07:35

is Aisha.

01:07:37 --> 01:07:41

Ibn Taymiyyah, he, you know, he comes to

01:07:41 --> 01:07:42

a nice conclusion.

01:07:43 --> 01:07:47

He says, Khadijah radiallahu anha, was better than

01:07:47 --> 01:07:51

Aisha, with respect to the Prophet ﷺ.

01:07:53 --> 01:07:58

Meaning, she was, better for the Prophet ﷺ

01:07:58 --> 01:07:59

personally.

01:08:00 --> 01:08:04

But Aisha, was better than Khadijah, with respect

01:08:04 --> 01:08:05

to the ummah in general.

01:08:06 --> 01:08:07

How?

01:08:08 --> 01:08:11

Khadijah radiallahu anha, was more beneficial to the

01:08:11 --> 01:08:16

Prophet ﷺ, when he needed support, when he

01:08:16 --> 01:08:17

was in Makkah.

01:08:17 --> 01:08:18

Right?

01:08:18 --> 01:08:21

When he was all alone, and his people

01:08:21 --> 01:08:21

were rejecting him.

01:08:22 --> 01:08:24

And so she stood, and she was his

01:08:24 --> 01:08:24

main support.

01:08:26 --> 01:08:29

But then Aisha, she lived on, after the

01:08:29 --> 01:08:31

death of the Prophet ﷺ, and benefited the

01:08:31 --> 01:08:34

ummah, with her many narrations, and her knowledge.

01:08:35 --> 01:08:38

Something that, Khadijah radiallahu anha, did not do.

01:08:39 --> 01:08:39

Right?

01:08:40 --> 01:08:42

So, in this way, we're able to reconcile,

01:08:43 --> 01:08:43

the two.

01:08:44 --> 01:08:47

And, in this way, each one is, you

01:08:47 --> 01:08:50

know, better in her own, in her own

01:08:50 --> 01:08:50

way.

01:08:51 --> 01:08:52

And Allah knows best.

01:08:53 --> 01:08:55

We'll stop here, and inshallah, next week we'll

01:08:55 --> 01:08:59

move on to, another one of the, mothers

01:08:59 --> 01:09:00

of the believers.

01:09:01 --> 01:09:03

Wasallillahumma wasallim ala nabiyyina muhammad wa ala alihi

01:09:03 --> 01:09:08

wa sahbihi ajma'een Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

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