Kamil Ahmad – The Lives of the Sahabiyyat – 04 – Hafsah bint Umar – ra
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the best
of Allah's creation.
And upon his family, his companions, and those
who are guided by his guidance.
And wait for his sunnah until the Day
of Judgment.
O Allah, teach us what will benefit us.
And benefit us with what You have taught
us.
And increase us in knowledge.
And show us the truth as it is.
And grant us to follow it.
And show us the falsehood as it is.
And grant us to avoid it.
And make us of those who listen to
the word, and follow the best of it.
And peace and blessings be upon you.
We continue on with our series on the
lives of the sahabiyat.
The female companions of the Prophet ﷺ.
And we continue on with the lives of
the ummahatul mu'mineen.
The mothers of the believers.
The wives of Rasulullah ﷺ.
And so last week we covered the story
of Saudah bint Zam'ah.
And today we move on to the life
of another great companion and wife of the
Prophet ﷺ.
And that is Hafsa bint Umar.
Hafsa, the daughter of Umar ibn al-Khattab
ibn Nufayl.
And so Hafsa bint Umar ibn al-Khattab
ibn Nufayl.
She was from this noble family.
And Umar ibn al-Khattab is from Quraysh.
He is from the Banu Adi family of
Quraysh.
And her father Umar ibn al-Khattab was
who he was.
Not much of an introduction is required regarding
her father.
The close companion of the Prophet ﷺ.
The second of the Khulafa ur-Rashidun.
The second khalifa, successor, after Abu Bakr ﷺ.
And also the Prophet ﷺ mentioned many virtues
of Umar ibn al-Khattab.
Among his virtues is that he has been
promised with Jannah.
Among the ten that the Prophet ﷺ promised.
And Umar ibn al-Khattab he accepted Islam
later on in Mecca.
So he was not from the early Muslims.
But when he became a Muslim, his Islam
became a source of strength for the Muslims.
Who at the time in Mecca they were
weak, they were oppressed, they were persecuted.
And so he brought strength.
He was the man that he was.
A very strong personality.
And so that is her father Umar ibn
al-Khattab.
As for her mother.
Her mother was Zaynab bint Mad'un.
Zaynab bint Mad'un.
Who was the sister of Uthman ibn Mad
'un.
We mentioned Uthman ibn Mad'un last week.
Whoever was present can they remember who Uthman
ibn Mad'un was?
He was a noble companion.
Not to be confused with Uthman ibn Affan.
He was the husband of Khawla bint Hakim.
The one who came and proposed to the
Prophet ﷺ Aisha and Saudah.
So the wife of Umar ibn al-Khattab
was the sister of Uthman ibn Mad'un.
And Hafsa radiallahu anha, she was their eldest
daughter.
She was their eldest daughter.
And she was born in Mecca.
When Quraysh were rebuilding the Kaaba.
And this was an event that took place
about five years before the Prophethood.
Five years before the Prophet ﷺ received the
first revelation.
And so she was brought up in this
noble family of Quraysh.
Hafsa radiallahu anha, she first married a noble
companion.
By the name of Khunais ibn Hudhafa as
-Sahmi.
Khunais ibn Hudhafa.
Who had embraced Islam in the early days
through the efforts of Abu Bakr radiallahu anha.
Abu Bakr radiallahu anha, many of the early
Muslims, their Islam was through him.
Through Abu Bakr.
Including this first husband of Hafsa.
And he was young.
And he left on the first hijrah to
Abyssinia with some of his relatives.
And when he returned to Mecca, Umar radiallahu
anha had already accepted Islam.
So Hafsa who was a Muslim, she married
Khunais ibn Hudhafa.
So when he returned from Abyssinia, that is
when they got married.
When Umar radiallahu anha had already accepted Islam.
And so at the time she would have
been approximately 14 years old.
At the time of this first marriage.
Then both of them migrated with all of
the Muslims from Mecca in the hijrah to
Medina.
In the hijrah to Medina.
So in Medina in the second year of
the hijrah, we had the battle of Badr.
The battle of Badr.
And Khunais radiallahu anha participated in this great
battle.
And he was badly injured.
But he managed to make it back to
Medina.
And Hafsa radiallahu anha, she took good care
of him.
Nursing his wounds and his injuries.
However, in the end, he succumbed to those
injuries.
And he passed away.
He passed away.
And Rasulallah radiallahu anha led his janazah.
And he buried him in the graveyard of
Baqir.
Although they were married for a few years,
they did not have any children.
They did not have any children.
So now, the father of Hafsa radiallahu anha,
Umar ibn al-Khattab.
He became worried for his daughter.
She was young.
And at this young age, she had become
widowed.
You know, we're talking about at the age
of 20.
So, he cared for her and he loved
her a lot.
And he did not want his daughter to
remain single.
So, as soon as she completed her waiting
period, her iddah, for one whose husband passes
away, which is 4 months and 10 days.
Umar radiallahu anha, immediately he went out in
search for someone to marry his daughter.
And we learned a huge lesson in how
Umar ibn al-Khattab went about looking for
someone for his daughter.
His only concern was to find someone righteous
for his daughter.
That was his main concern.
And this is why Imam al-Bukhari, in
his Sahih al-Bukhari, he titled the chapter
in which he narrates this story, he titled
it as, Chapter Presenting One's Daughter or Sister
in Marriage to Righteous People.
To Righteous People.
And so this shows us the importance of
looking for, you know, the deen and righteousness,
and someone who is religious as the main
quality in someone who we want our daughters
or sisters to marry.
And unfortunately, today that's not the case.
Most fathers, they will look for every quality
in a person, for their daughters to marry
except the deen.
Except the deen and how religious and how
righteous this person is, how fearing he is
of Allah, etc.
You know, the first thing they look at
is, you know, what does he do, what
is his job, what degrees does he have,
and then, you know, the deen is usually
the last thing they look for.
And I mention this because, you know, Umar
radiallahu anhu, look at what he did.
Umar radiallahu anhu, he narrates a story himself,
and this is in Sahih al-Bukhari.
He said, when Hafsa became a widow, after
the death of Khunais ibn Hudhafa as-Sahmi,
I went to Uthman ibn Affan, and I
offered Hafsa to him.
So the first person he went to was
Uthman radiallahu anhu.
Uthman ibn Affan, who was known for, you
know, being a very, very pious and, you
know, righteous Muslim.
And it so happened that Uthman's wife had
also just passed away.
Uthman radiallahu anhu, he was married to the
daughter of the Prophet ﷺ, Ruqayya.
He was married to Ruqayya.
And shortly after the battle of Badr, she
had passed away.
So Umar radiallahu anhu, he jumped on the
opportunity.
He's like, Uthman is single, let me go
to him first.
Uthman said, let me think over it.
Umar radiallahu anhu says, I waited for a
few days, then I met him in the
masjid, and I asked him, you know, what
do you think?
Did you think over it?
So Uthman radiallahu anhu, he says, you know,
I think it's not possible for me to
marry right now.
So Uthman radiallahu anhu turned down the offer.
He said, right now, you know, I'm not
interested in getting married.
So then Umar says, I met Abu Bakr
as-Siddiq.
And I said to him, if you wish,
I will marry my daughter Hafsa to you.
Again, look at his choice.
You know, he's going for the best of
the companions.
He goes to Abu Bakr.
And Abu Bakr was already married, right?
But yet that did not make Umar radiallahu
anhu, that was not a reason for not
offering Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu to marry his
daughter.
So Umar radiallahu anhu says, Abu Bakr remained
silent, and did not say anything to me
in reply.
He didn't say anything.
So Umar says, I became even more angry
with him than Uthman.
Because Abu Bakr did not give any answer,
while Uthman, at least, he said, I'll think
over it.
And then later on, he turned down the
offer.
But Abu Bakr just stayed silent.
He didn't say anything.
In another narration, it says that Umar then
went to the Prophet radiallahu anhu to complain
about this.
To complain about these two companions.
That I first went to Uthman, he turned
down my offer, then I went to Abu
Bakr, and he didn't say anything.
So the Prophet radiallahu anhu said to Umar,
Hafsa will marry someone better than Uthman.
And Uthman will marry someone better than Hafsa.
The Prophet radiallahu anhu said, Hafsa will marry
someone better than Uthman.
And Uthman will marry someone better than Hafsa.
So, obviously we know that Hafsa ends up
marrying someone better than Uthman.
And that is the Prophet radiallahu anhu.
As for Uthman, marrying someone better than Hafsa,
this refers to the other daughter of the
Prophet radiallahu anhu.
And that is Um Kulthum.
So Uthman ended up marrying two daughters of
the Prophet radiallahu anhu.
And that is why he is known as
Thu An-Nurayn.
The one who possessed two lights.
Referring to the two daughters of the Prophet
radiallahu anhu.
Anyways, Umar continues.
He says, I then waited for a few
days.
And these must have been very very long
days for Umar.
You know, look at how concerned he is
about his daughter.
He says, I waited for a few days
and then the Prophet radiallahu anhu came to
me asking for her hand.
And so I gave her in marriage to
him.
And so the Prophet radiallahu anhu approached Umar
radiallahu anhu and said, I will marry Hafsa.
Umar continues, he says, afterwards I met Abu
Bakr who said to me, perhaps you became
angry with me when you offered Hafsa to
me and I didn't say anything.
And so I said yes.
Abu Bakr said, nothing stopped me from responding
to your offer except that I knew that
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam had mentioned her and
I did not want to reveal the secret
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
If the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam had refused
her, I would have accepted her.
So Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu, he had this
inside information that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
was interested in her.
So he said, that's why I didn't say
anything to you.
Hafsa radiallahu anha was 21 when the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam married her.
And so as we can see, she was
young.
And as a result, she had a very
strong relationship and friendship with Aisha radiallahu anha
who was also young.
And this is now the fourth wife of
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
And the third who is alive.
So you had Saudah and Aisha and now
Hafsa.
And so Hafsa and Aisha radiallahu anhuma, they
had a very strong friendship all the way
until the very end.
As we're gonna see.
And so let us now go through some
important incidents that took place concerning Hafsa radiallahu
anha.
One day, the wives of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam got together and asked the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam to increase their allowance and
their expenditure.
They were asking for material things.
They wanted more things in their house.
In Sahih Muslim, Jabir radiallahu anhu narrates, he
says one day when Abu Bakr and Umar
visited the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, they saw
that his wives were sitting around him and
he was quiet.
So he said to Umar radiallahu anhu, they
are sitting around me as you see, they
are asking for money for household expenditure.
So the two of them, Abu Bakr and
Umar, they got extremely upset.
They took both of their daughters to the
side, so Aisha and Hafsa, and they started
to give it to them.
They said, each of them, Abu Bakr and
Umar said to their daughters, why is it
that you're embarrassing the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
and you're demanding from him that which he
doesn't have?
And that is when Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala revealed some of the verses from Suratul
Ahzab.
And in particular, verse 28 onwards
of Suratul Ahzab, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says, Allah
says, O Prophet, say to your wives, if
you desire the life of this dunya and
its luxury, then come, I will give you
a suitable compensation, meaning divorce, and I will
let you go graciously.
وَإِن كُنْتُنَّ تُرِدَنَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَالدَّارَ الْآخِرَةَ فَإِنَّ
اللَّهَ أَعَدَّ لِلْمُحْسِنَاتِ مِنْ كُنَّ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا But
if you desire Allah and His Messenger and
the everlasting home of the Akhira, then surely
Allah has prepared a great reward for those
of you who do good.
So the Prophet ﷺ started with Aisha, giving
her the choice of either returning to her
parents or staying with him.
She said that she would never choose anyone
over him.
She said, I am going to stay with
you.
Allah has told you to give us the
choice of either staying with you or leaving
you, and I choose to stay with you.
But then she said, I have a request.
She asked the Prophet ﷺ, have you asked
any of your other wives yet the same
question?
So the Prophet ﷺ said no.
She said, then I ask you to not
tell them of my decision.
So what she wanted was that the other
wives don't hear that she decided to stay.
And as a result, they don't copy her
and they also say that we want to
stay with you.
Basically, she was hoping that she would remain
alone with the Prophet ﷺ while the others
decide to leave the Prophet ﷺ.
However, the Prophet ﷺ did tell them that
this was the decision Aisha took.
In the end, all of them ended up
choosing to stay with the Prophet ﷺ, and
so they chose the Akhirah over the Dunya.
And this counts as one of the virtues
of these women that even though the Prophet
ﷺ did not have much of the Dunya
and he left behind very little, they preferred
that and the home of the Akhirah over
the luxuries of the Dunya.
Then we have another story where verses were
revealed concerning both Aisha and Hafsa.
And there are multiple stories narrated concerning these
verses.
Which verses are these?
They are the first verses of Surah At
-Tahrim.
And so there's more than one story as
to why these verses were revealed.
And each story mentions that it was regarding
Aisha and Hafsa.
But the story is different regarding why these
verses were revealed.
We'll go through the stories that have been
mentioned.
The most authentic one is found in Bukhari
and Muslim.
And the story is that basically whenever the
Prophet ﷺ would spend time with each of
his wives, so obviously at night time he
had set a schedule, so one night with
each of his wives.
But during the day time he would visit
all of his wives.
During the day time, especially after Asr, he
would go and visit all of his wives.
So when he would go in and visit
his wives, they would offer him something.
Whatever they had, whatever food or drink they
had, they would offer it to him.
They would try to offer him whatever special
thing that they had.
So on one particular day, the Prophet ﷺ
spent a very long time with Zaynab bint
Jahsh, his wife, Zaynab.
So Hafsa and Aisha were waiting and wondering
what's taking him so long, why is he
spending so much time with her?
So they found out that Zaynab had presented
the Prophet ﷺ with a very special honey
that she was gifted with.
So honey is something that you take your
time to drink it, it's not like water
or milk, but you take your time to
drink it.
So Hafsa and Aisha, they got jealous.
And they said, well we don't have any
honey to offer the Prophet ﷺ, so what
should we do?
So they basically agreed on something.
They said, whoever the Prophet ﷺ comes to
first, between me and you, so between Hafsa
and Aisha, whoever comes to us first, we
will say to him, I notice a very
strong odor of a particular kind of gum
on you.
So this gum is something that is sweet,
and it resembles honey, but it has a
very very bad smell.
It has a very very bad smell.
So they said, we're going to say to
the Prophet ﷺ, I notice a very strong
odor of this gum on you.
And the Prophet ﷺ, he never used to
like to eat anything that had a bad
smell to it.
Like onions and garlic.
And he would say the reason was because
he would frequently meet Jibreel, and it was
very offensive.
And the Prophet ﷺ tells us that the
angels are offended by what we human beings
are offended by.
So anyways, the Prophet ﷺ, he ended up
first going to see Aisha.
So, what did she say?
She said, O Messenger of Allah, I notice
a very strong odor of this gum on
you.
The Prophet ﷺ, he said, no I didn't
have any gum, I only had some honey
with Zaynab.
She said, no, it's gum, it's not honey.
So the Prophet ﷺ said, I'm sure I
just had some honey.
But anyways, I swear I will never do
it again.
Meaning, I will never have that again.
So then Allah ﷻ revealed these verses.
Starting with the first verse, Allah ﷻ says,
the first verse of Surah At-Tahreem.
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُ لِمَا تُحَرِّمُ مَا أَحَلَّ اللَّهُ
لَكَ تَبْتَغِ مَرْضَاتَ أَزْوَاجِكَ وَاللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ O
Prophet, why do you prohibit yourself?
Why do you make something haram for yourself
that Allah has made halal for you?
Seeking to please your wives.
And Allah is the all-forgiving and the
most merciful.
So this is one story.
And this is the most authentic.
Then we have another story.
It's a weaker narration.
It says that Hafsa r.a went to
spend time with her friend Aisha when it
was her day with the Prophet ﷺ.
So while the Prophet ﷺ was alone in
the place of Aisha, in her home, Hafsa
is not here.
She went to go spend time with Aisha.
So the Prophet ﷺ was lonely and he
had Marya al-Qibtiya.
Marya was gifted to the Prophet ﷺ.
She was a Coptic Christian.
She was gifted by the ruler of Egypt
to the Prophet ﷺ as a slave woman.
So the Prophet ﷺ had her come into
the house of Hafsa to give him some
company.
So when Hafsa came and saw Marya, she
got very upset and she said, In my
home, on my bed, on my day?
So the Prophet ﷺ said, Calm down.
Just for you, I will make her forbidden
for me forever.
Meaning, for your sake, I will basically never
have intimacy with her.
But I don't want you to tell anyone.
I don't want you to tell anyone.
But Hafsa r.a, she wasn't able to
keep a secret from her best friend Aisha.
And so she went and told her.
So then Allah ﷻ informed the Prophet ﷺ
that Hafsa went and told Aisha.
And so Allah ﷻ revealed these ayats.
The same verse, O Prophet, why do you
prohibit yourself from what Allah has made halal
for you, seeking to please your wives?
And then Allah says, قَدْ فَرَضَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ
تَحِلَّةَ أَيْمَانِكُمْ وَاللَّهُ مَوْلَاكُمْ وَهُوَ الْعَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ
Allah has already ordained for you the way
to absolve yourselves from your oaths.
Meaning that if you make an oath, and
you want to break that oath.
So here the Prophet ﷺ made an oath
either that he will never eat that honey
again, or that he will never have intimate
relations with Maria, depending on which story is
authentic.
So here Allah is saying to the Prophet
ﷺ that he should break the oath.
And Allah is saying here that I have
already taught you how to break your oath,
and that is mentioned in another verse in
the Qur'an.
And that is by freeing a slave.
By freeing a slave, and so the Prophet
ﷺ freed a slave.
And then Allah says, وَإِذْ أَسَرَّ النَّبِيُّ إِلَى
بَعْضِ أَزْوَاجِهِ حَدِيثًا When the Prophet once secretly
told something to one of his wives, meaning
Hafsa.
فَلَمَّا نَبَّأَتْ بِهِ وَأَظْهَرَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ عَرَّفَ بَعْضَهُ
وَأَعْرَضَ عَن بَعْضٍ Then when she disclosed the
secret to another wife, meaning Aisha, and Allah
made it known to him, to the Prophet
ﷺ, the Prophet ﷺ presented it to her,
meaning he called Hafsa, and told her a
part of what she disclosed, and ignored another
part.
So basically, Allah told the Prophet ﷺ everything
that Hafsa went and told Aisha.
The Prophet ﷺ called Hafsa and told her,
this is what you went and told Aisha.
Allah says, فَلَمَّا نَبَّأَهَا بِهِ قَالَتْ مَنْ أَنْبَأَكَ
هَذَا When he informed her of it, she
asked, who told you this?
قَالَ نَبَّأَنِيَ الْعَلِيمُ الْخَبِيرُ He replied, I was
informed by Al-'Alim, Al-Khabir, the All-Knowing,
the All-Aware.
So the entire conversation we can see has
been revealed in ayat, that would be recited
until the Day of Judgment.
And then Allah says, إِنْ تَتُوبَٓا إِلَى اللَّهِ
فَقَدْ صَغَتْ قُلُوبُكُمَا It will be better if
you two, meaning Hafsa and Aisha, Allah says,
it will be better if both of you
turn to Allah in repentance, for indeed your
hearts have certainly faltered.
وَإِن تَظَاهَرَ عَلَيْهِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ مَوْلَاهُ وَجِبْرِيلُ
وَصَالِحُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ ظَهِيرٌ But if
you continue to collaborate against him, then know
that Allah Himself is his guardian, and Jibreel,
and the righteous believers, and the angels are
all his supporters as well.
So all of these ayat were revealed concerning
Hafsa and Aisha.
Now as a result of this incident, it
is mentioned that the Prophet ﷺ was very
upset at his wives, and then he decided
to stay away from them for a whole
month.
Umar رضي الله عنه narrates a story, actually
it's narrated by Ibn Abbas Abdullah Ibn Abbas,
who narrated it from Umar.
Abdullah Ibn Abbas says that, I was very
eager to ask Umar about the two women
from among the wives of the Prophet ﷺ,
about whom Allah revealed these ayat.
So one day I performed Hajj along with
Umar, so we're talking about many years later,
when it was the Khilafah of Umar رضي
الله عنه.
So Ibn Abbas he says, I made Hajj
that year, and on the way back, I
saw Umar, he went to the side, and
I went with him, carrying some water.
So he relieved himself, when he finished and
he came, I had a jug of water,
and I started to pour the water on
his hands, and he made wudu.
So I said to him, O Amirul Mu'mineen,
who were the two women from the wives
of the Prophet ﷺ, regarding whom Allah revealed
these verses from Surah Al-Tahrim.
So Umar رضي الله عنه said, I'm surprised
that you're asking me, O Ibn Abbas.
Why did Umar say this?
Because Abdullah Ibn Abbas was very knowledgeable of
tafsir, of the meanings of the verses of
the Qur'an.
So he was surprised that Abdullah Ibn Abbas
was clueless, regarding who these verses were revealed
concerning.
Then Umar رضي الله عنه, he related the
whole story.
Umar said, We, the men of Quraysh, used
to have authority over our women.
But when we came to live with the
Ansar of Medina, we noticed that the Ansari
women had the upper hand over their men.
So our women from Mecca, they started to
acquire the habits of these women of Medina.
He says, at that time I was living
outside of Medina, and one day I got
angry with my wife, and she spoke back
to me.
And I really did not like her answering
me back.
So she said, why do you not like
me talking back to you?
By Allah, the wives of the Prophet ﷺ
talk back to him.
And some of them may not speak with
him for the whole day until night.
Then I went to Hafsa, and I asked
her, Do you talk back to the Messenger
of Allah?
She said yes.
I asked, does any of you keep Allah's
Messenger angry all day until night?
She replied yes.
I said, whoever among you does that, then
she is ruined.
Doesn't she fear Allah?
That Allah may become angry for the anger
of His Messenger, and thus she will be
ruined?
Don't ask Allah's Messenger for too many things.
If you need anything, come to me.
And then he said, don't be tempted to
imitate your neighbor, your friend.
Who is he talking about here?
He's talking about Aisha.
He's telling Hafsa, don't be tempted to imitate
your neighbor, for she is more beautiful than
you, and more beloved to Allah's Messenger than
you.
He goes on, Umar radiallahu anhu says, Me
and an Ansari neighbor of mine used to
visit the Prophet ﷺ in turns.
He used to go one day, and I
would go another.
When I went, I would bring him the
news of what happened that day, regarding any
new revelation.
And when he went, he used to do
the same for me.
Basically, Umar radiallahu anhu, as we said, he
was living outside of Medina at the time.
So he says, I had a neighbor, and
we would take turns going to Medina, and
basically bringing the news of the latest revelation.
So he says, in those days, there was
a rumor that the Ghassan tribe were preparing
to launch an attack against the Muslims in
Medina.
So my companion went, and he came back
that night knocking on my door.
I came out, and he said that something
serious has happened.
I asked him, what is it?
Have the Ghassan tribe, have they come?
He replied that it was worse and more
serious than that.
He said that Rasulallah ﷺ has divorced all
of his wives.
So I said, Hafsa is a ruined loser.
I expected that that would happen someday.
He says, I then dressed myself, I quickly
prayed Fajr, and I went to Hafsa, and
I found her crying.
I asked her, has Allah's Messenger divorced all
of you?
She said, I don't know.
He is there alone in that room.
So the Prophet ﷺ, he isolated himself.
He isolated himself in this room.
So I went to the room, and I
asked, there was a slave of the Prophet
ﷺ who was guarding that room.
I went and I asked him for permission
to enter.
So the boy, he went in, and then
he came out and he said, I told
the Prophet ﷺ about you, but he didn't
say anything.
The Prophet ﷺ did not say anything.
So then I went out, and I went
to the masjid, and I found that there
was a group of people who had gathered,
and some of them were crying.
I sat with them for some time, but
I couldn't stand the situation.
So I went back to the slave, and
I asked him, will you give me permission
to enter?
So he went and he asked the Prophet
ﷺ, and again he came out saying the
same thing.
He said, I mentioned you to him, but
he did not reply.
So then I went back, Umar says, I
went back to the masjid, and I sat
with the people who were sitting, but I
couldn't bear the situation.
I went again, and I asked him, will
you get permission for Umar?
And so he went in, and he came
out with the same reply.
He says, when I was leaving, the boy,
he called me, he said, Rasulullah ﷺ has
granted you permission.
So I entered, and I greeted the Prophet
ﷺ, and I saw him lying down on
a mat without any bedding on it.
So it was like a straw mat.
And the mat had left its marks on
the body of the Prophet ﷺ.
And this is the famous incident where Umar
ﷺ said to the Prophet ﷺ, the kings
of the world, the emperor of Rome and
Persia, they are living in their luxuries that
they're living in, and yet you are who
you are, the most beloved to Allah, and
yet look at how you're living.
So the Prophet ﷺ said to him, are
you not happy that for them will be
the dunya, but for us will be the
akhirah?
So then, Umar ﷺ says, I asked the
Prophet ﷺ, have you divorced your wives?
He raised his eyes to me, and he
replied, no.
So I said, Allahu Akbar.
So he made takbir so loud that everyone
outside had heard, and so they were happy
because they knew that it must be some
good news.
So then Umar ﷺ said to the Prophet
ﷺ, we the people of Quraysh, we used
to have the upper hand over our women,
but when we came to Medina, we found
a people whose women had the upper hand
over them.
Our women started to learn from this behavior,
and one day I got angry with my
wife, and she talked back to me, and
I didn't like that behavior from her, and
then she told me, why do you not
like it when the wives of the Prophet
ﷺ talk back to him, and one of
them would ignore him for the whole day
until the night.
So I said to her, whoever does this
from among them, she is ruined.
Does she feel safe from Allah getting angry
with her on account of his Messenger becoming
angry?
So then the Prophet ﷺ, he smiled.
Then I said, O Messenger of Allah, I
went to Hafsa, and I said to her,
do not become tempted to imitate your friend,
meaning Aisha, for she is more beautiful than
you and more beloved to the Prophet ﷺ.
Again, the Prophet ﷺ smiled.
When I saw him smiling, I said, is
the Messenger of Allah now calm?
The Prophet ﷺ said yes.
So here we can see, Umar ﷺ was
doing all of this to console the Prophet
ﷺ, to comfort him, to bring him out
of his state of anger.
So the Prophet ﷺ was angry, and so
this was the story.
Then Umar ﷺ told Ibn Abbas at the
end of the narration, he said the Prophet
ﷺ swore that he would not go to
his wives for a whole month because of
his severe anger towards them, until Allah censured
him for that.
And so these are the stories related to
these ayat from Surah Al-Tahrim.
In another incident, Umar ﷺ narrates that the
Messenger of Allah ﷺ wanted to divorce Hafsa.
So Jibreel came to him and said, do
not divorce her, for indeed she is As
-Sawwama Al-Qawwama.
She is one who fasts a lot, and
she stands praying a lot.
So she fasts a lot, and she prays
a lot.
And she is your wife in Jannah.
And she is your wife in Jannah.
In another narration it mentions that the Prophet
ﷺ actually did divorce her, and then Jibreel
came and told him to take her back,
because she is one who fasts a lot,
and stands praying a lot, and she is
your wife in Jannah, so the Prophet ﷺ
took her back.
In a third narration, it mentions that the
Prophet ﷺ divorced Hafsa, and then when Umar
heard of this, he threw dust on his
head in grief, and he said, what does
Allah care about Umar and his daughter after
this?
The next day, Jibreel came to the Prophet
ﷺ and said, Allah commands you to take
Hafsa back, out of mercy for Umar, for
the sake of Umar.
So this shows us some of the virtues
of Hafsa.
And so she was like the other wives
that we mentioned, known for her ibadah, known
for her ibadah and her worship of Allah
ﷻ.
In one narration narrated by Aisha, she says
that the two of them had started the
day fasting.
So she says, Rasool Allah ﷺ entered to
find the two of us, and Hafsa spoke
before me, saying, O Messenger of Allah, Aisha
and myself woke up with the intention of
fasting, but then some food was given to
us as a gift, and we ended up
breaking our fast.
So the Prophet ﷺ told us not to
worry about it, as the fast can be
made up another day.
So this shows us how she used to
fast a lot, and she used to pray
Qiyam al-Layl a lot, and it is
mentioned that even in her last days, when
she became very old, Hafsa would still be
fasting.
She was also known to have a good
relationship with the Book of Allah, the Qur
'an.
And so it is mentioned that she memorized
the entire Qur'an, she was a hafidhah,
which was not something common in those days.
Yes, memorizing the Qur'an is something important,
it is something that gives us a lot
of rewards, but the majority of the companions
did not memorize the Qur'an.
Only a select few were known to have
memorized the entire Qur'an.
And one of them was Hafsa.
In the time of Abu Bakr, when he
was the Khalifa, Umar came to him and
said that we should gather the entire Qur
'an in one Mus'haf.
So when the Prophet ﷺ passed away, the
Qur'an was not preserved in one book,
because Allah preserved it in the hearts.
That is how Allah preserved the Qur'an,
not by preserving it in book form.
So what happened is many of those who
had memorized the Qur'an were killed in
some of the battles after the death of
the Prophet ﷺ, in the time of Abu
Bakr.
So Umar was worried that all these people
who memorized the Qur'an, they have gone.
So he advised Abu Bakr to gather it
in one Mus'haf.
So Abu Bakr did that.
He assigned one of the companions, Zayd ibn
Thabit, with this task.
So the Qur'an was gathered into one
Mus'haf.
And it was kept with Abu Bakr.
Then when Abu Bakr passed away, this Mus
'haf was handed over to Umar, since he
is the next Khalifa.
Then when Umar was stabbed, that's how he
ended up passing away, he was assassinated.
He was stabbed, but he didn't die right
away.
It took a few hours before he passed
away.
He asked that the Mus'haf stay with
his daughter Hafsa.
So Umar did not appoint the next Khalifa.
So he said, let this Mus'haf to
stay with Hafsa.
Then the next Khalifa was Uthman.
In the time of Uthman, this is when
he basically commissioned a group of the companions
to make one standard Mus'haf.
To standardize the Mus'haf, because there were
different Mus'hafs and there were different modes
of recitation.
Different ways of reciting the Qur'an.
Because Allah revealed the Qur'an in seven
different modes of recitation.
So anyways, Uthman wanted there to be one
standardized Mus'haf.
So that there's no dispute and there's no
differences in the Ummah.
So he commissioned that, and that's why the
current Mus'haf that we have is known
as the Mus'haf of Uthman.
It's known as the Mus'haf of Uthman.
So he requested to borrow the original Mus
'haf from Hafsa.
To produce several copies of it and to
send it to the major regions of the
vast Islamic empire.
So she did that, she allowed him to
borrow it, and then he returned it to
her.
So this is how Hafsa not only preserved
the Qur'an in her heart, but also
the hard copy of the original Mus'haf.
Now what ended up happening with this Mus
'haf?
In the time of Mu'awiyah, the governor
of Medina, Mirwan ibn al-Hakam, he asked
Hafsa for the Mus'haf, because he wanted
to destroy it.
And the reason for that was because now
we have one standardized Mus'haf, and there
should no longer be any other Mus'haf.
In fact, Uthman radiallahu anhu ordered all other
Mus'hafs to be burnt.
In the time of Uthman, once he made
one standardized Mus'haf, and he made copies
of it, he ordered all other ones to
be burnt, except that one original Mus'haf,
because he borrowed it from Hafsa, he didn't
say that he wanted to destroy it, he
borrowed it, so he had to return it
to her.
So now, the governor of Medina, Mirwan ibn
al-Hakam, he asked Hafsa for it, but
she refused.
She refused to hand it over.
Then when she passed away, the governor, he
asked Abdullah ibn Umar, the brother of Hafsa,
for the Mus'haf, and he did hand
it over to him, and he ended up
destroying it.
And the reason for that is, as we
mentioned, so that there is no fitna, and
we have only one Mus'haf that we
rely upon.
Hafsa radiallahu anha was known for her intelligence
and her literary skills.
It is said that she used to speak
very eloquently, and so she adopted her father's
sharpness and insight and intelligence.
However, unlike Aisha radiallahu anha, she did not
narrate that many ahadith.
So we mentioned, when we spoke about Aisha
radiallahu anha, that she narrated many many ahadith.
Aisha radiallahu anha was among the top narrators
of hadith.
As for Hafsa, she only narrated some 60
ahadith.
Hafsa radiallahu anha, she ended up passing away
at the age of 59.
She was 59 years old when she passed
away.
In the Khilafah of Muawiyah radiallahu anha, and
that was in the year 45 of the
Hijrah.
And she was buried in Al-Baqi'ah,
the graveyard of Baqi'ah in Medina.
And so this is the life of Hafsa,
the daughter of Umar radiallahu anha.
And this marriage of the Prophet ﷺ to
Hafsa, and also to Aisha, it shows us
something very very important.
And that is the status of these two
companions, meaning Umar and Abu Bakr respectively.
These two companions were the closest companions to
the Prophet ﷺ.
And what made their bond with him even
stronger, was that they married their daughters to
him.
This shows us how strong of a relationship
they had with the Prophet ﷺ.
And this refutes the claims of the Shia
and the Rafida who like to criticize these
two companions, and some of them who even
curse these two companions.
And they even curse Hafsa and Aisha radiallahu
anhuma.
But as we can see, the fact that
they married their two daughters to the Prophet
ﷺ, shows us how close they were to
the Prophet ﷺ.
And that's why we Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama
'ah, we consider that the best of this
Ummah, after Muhammad ﷺ, was Abu Bakr, then
Umar.
And then the scholars of Ahlus Sunnah differed.
Who was the best?
Was it Uthman and then Ali, or was
it Ali and then Uthman?
There is a difference of opinion, but that
was in the beginning.
Meaning, among the early generations of the Ummah,
they differed.
But later on they agreed that, it became
known that Uthman was the next best, and
then Ali.
So in the order of the Khilafah, in
the order of the Khilafah.
But they did not disagree on Abu Bakr
and Umar as being the two best of
this Ummah, after the Prophet ﷺ.
So this is where we will stop insha
'Allah for today.
Subhanaka Allahumma wa bihamdika ashahadu an la ilaha
illa anta astawfiruka wa atubu ilayka wa sallillahumma
wa sallimu ala nabiyina Muhammad wa ala alihi
wa sahbihi ajma'in wa salamu alaykum wa
rahmatullahi wa barakatuh