Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #27
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Okay, bismillah, walhamdulillah, wa salatu was salam ala
rasulillah, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi, wa man
wala.
Allahumma inna nas'aluka hubbak, wa hubba man
yuhibbuk, wa hubba amalin yukarribuna ila hubbik ya
urham ar-rahimin.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
make this a gathering by which we increase
our love for the Rasul salallahu alayhi wa
salam.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
make this a gathering by which we increase
our love and muhabba for the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa salam.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
inspire our hearts in this blessed month of
Rabiul Awwal, in this blessed gathering with these
blessed souls.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
forgive our sins by the blessing of this
gathering, inshallah ta'ala.
So we'll begin, inshallah ta'ala.
We're in this class of in his footsteps.
We're going through the life of the Rasul
salallahu alayhi wa salam with that intention of
increasing our love and muhabba for him salallahu
alayhi wa salam.
And last week, we talked about Khalid bin
Walid because you can't understand the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa salam kama haqqahu as you should
truly understand him without understanding the people that
Allah selected to be around him.
Those were extremely important people and they played
such a critical role in his life and
in every aspect we learned so much from
them.
Tonight, inshallah ta'ala, we're gonna be looking
at one major epic moment in the seerah
which happened in the eighth year of hijrah.
I mean, brothers and sisters, we're getting very
close to the end of the seerah and
so the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam is
getting older.
And it's the eighth year of the mission
in Medina.
So the eighth year of hijrah.
We already said that we had like a
truce and a peace with the people of
Quraysh.
But that didn't mean like outside of Quraysh
that that truce existed as well.
There were still other people that just had
a lot of animosity to the growing of
Islam.
And one of those was the Byzantine Empire
and we spoke about them three halaqas ago
because the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, he
started to write letters.
He started to write letters in order to
spread this mission internationally.
Like he wanted this message to get to
everyone so he wrote these letters to Abyssinia,
to the Byzantine Empire, to all over.
So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam sent
a man by the name of Harith bin
Umair.
Harith bin Umair.
He sent him as a messenger and this
letter was supposed to go up to the
leader of the Byzantine Empire but there was
a lower Arab king whose name was Shurahbil
who this letter got to him and when
the messenger got to him he said to
this man, he said, I think you're from
Muhammad, aren't you?
And Harith, he said, yes, of course I'm
from Muhammad.
I've been sent.
So right in the moment, Shurahbil, this leader,
this leader, this governor, you could say, he
has him tied up and he executes the
messenger.
The messenger of the messenger salallahu alayhi wa
salam.
When the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam found
out that this international crime, this was a
war crime, this was injustice, you didn't do
this.
The understanding and ethics of the world were
that messengers were never killed and so the
Prophet immediately he said, we can't allow injustice
to just go on.
As believers, we stand up to injustice.
That's what we do.
That's what it means to be a Muslim.
وَلَوْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِكُمْ As the Quran says, يَا
أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ عَامُنُوا كُونُوا قَوَامِينَ بِالْقِصْتِ Stand up
for justice.
And so when this messenger was killed, not
only did he kill a Muslim, but he
broke the international understanding of what was right.
And that's what we, that's what the messengers
were sent for, was to correct what was
wrong.
And so the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam,
he gathered as many as he could in
the moment.
And there were 3,000 sahaba that he
gathered in the moment.
It's a very beautiful, beautiful entire story.
So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, he
orders everyone to gather.
He gets about 300 men ready to fight.
And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, he
did something different at the beginning of this
battle.
At the beginning of the battle, he assigned
the leader.
He always did that.
There has to be a leader.
There has to be an emir on every
journey.
So he assigns Zayd ibn Haritha.
Now, we have to understand these people, who
they are, and what they meant to him
in order to truly appreciate the story.
Zayd ibn Haritha was known as Zayd ibn
Muhammad for the longest time.
He was called the, he was the, they
called him Hibbu Rasulillah, Hibbu Nabi.
His nickname was Beloved of the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa salam.
He was the boy who got captured as
a kid and his uncle and dad came
to bring him back.
And he said, Dad, uncle, I'm good.
I love this man right here.
And they said, you would rather be a
slave than free?
He's like, I'd rather be a slave to
this man than free anywhere else.
This is the one who was with him
in Ta'if.
Ta'if, the hardest day of the Prophet's
life.
Who was there shielding him?
Zayd ibn Haritha radiyallahu ta'ala an.
So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, I'm
gonna lower it so my voice lasts, inshallah.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, he says,
Zayd is in charge.
Zayd is in charge.
But then he did something different.
He said, Inqotila Zaydun faja'far.
He says, if Zayd is killed, then Ja
'far should take his place.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam had never
did that before.
He just chose the first leader and left
it at that.
So everyone was kind of like, wow, this
is different.
He says, fa inqotila Ja'far.
Now, before I go forward, who is Ja
'far?
Ja'far radiyallahu ta'ala an is the
older brother of Ali.
The older brother of Ali, 10 years older
than Ali radiyallahu ta'ala an.
Ja'far is like a brother to the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam.
One day the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam
said about him, or to him, ashbahta khuluqi
wa khalqi.
He's like, you resemble me most in how
you look and your akhlaq too.
You resemble me most in how you look
and your akhlaq as well.
Ja'far radiyallahu an, but sometimes the people
we love, Allah has set that that relationship
to really thrive is in akhira.
Because when Ja'far radiyallahu ta'ala an
accepted Islam, back in the Meccan days, he
migrated to Abyssinia.
He was the one that recited in front
of Najashi.
So for the longest, for how long, 10
years, 12 years the Prophet hasn't seen him.
In the seventh year, I'm talking one year
prior to where we're at right now in
the seerah, Ja'far came back.
Because when the Prophet wrote those letters, he
said, oh, send my people back too.
I need to see them, I haven't seen
them in so long.
And Ja'far returned.
But now it's only a few months later,
and the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wasallam has made
him the second in command of this army.
Then the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wasallam, he says,
fa-in qutila Ja'far.
If Ja'far is killed, for Abdullah bin
Rawaha.
Then Abdullah bin Rawaha.
Who is he?
Abdullah bin Rawaha was from Medina.
He was from the tribe of Khazraj.
He was one of the first people that
met the Prophet in the Meccan days and
said, we want you to come and join
us in Medina.
He was a poet.
He was brave, he was strong.
There's narrations that one Sahabi says it was
a battle and I just kept seeing this
red turban going from side to side.
And I was like, who is this dude
causing havoc for the Muslims?
They said, that's Abdullah bin Rawaha, that's who
he was.
But he was an eloquent poet and he
loved the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wasallam deeply, deeply,
deeply.
I love him because he was so deep.
He's like one of those people that you
would like just sit with just for like
deep conversation.
They say that sometimes he used to meet
a Muslim brother.
إِذَا لَقِيَ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ When he would
meet another Muslim brother, he would say, تَعَالْ
نُؤْمِنْ بِرَبِّنَا سَاعَةً This is ajeeb.
He would see his brother and he would
say, تَعَالْ, come here.
نُؤْمِنْ بِرَبِّنَا سَاعَةً Let's believe in Allah for
a little bit.
But hold on, hold on.
What does this mean?
What this means is, let's sit together and
just talk about Allah.
So he would say, نُؤْمِنْ بِرَبِّنَا سَاعَةً Yo,
come, come sit down.
Now he's a poet.
He's an amazing warrior.
But when you sat down with him, what
does he want to talk about?
Allah.
And the way he would say it is
like, نُؤْمِنْ بِرَبِّنَا Let's believe in Allah for
a little bit.
How many of us need people that would
just be like, yo, let's just sit down
and believe for a minute.
Just believe, just talk about Allah.
Just talk about the blessings of Allah.
I was talking to one of the shabab,
I think it was Haytham, I can't remember.
He was like, man, I'm just journaling right
now every night all the blessings I have.
Just journaling every night all the blessings that
I have.
So this is the type of person that
Abdullah bin Rawaha was.
So there was a Jewish rabbi, because we're
in Medina.
There was a Jewish rabbi that was standing
right there in the gathering.
And this Jewish rabbi, he looks at everyone
and he says, يَا أَبَا قَاسِم That was
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's name, Abu Qasim.
He said, يَا أَبَا قَاسِم إِن كُنتَ نَبِيًّا
If you are a true prophet فَسَمَّيْتَ مَنْ
سَمَّيْتَ قَلِيلًا أَوْ كَثِيرًا أُصِيبَ جَمِيعًا He says,
if you're a prophet, everyone whose name you
just said will die for sure.
He says, no prophet from Bani Israel ever
named the people.
Like if this guy goes, then this guy.
If this guy goes, then this guy.
He said, every prophet that did that before,
those people died.
The prophet just ignored him.
He didn't listen to him.
He's just some Jewish dude talking like from
his books.
Like, all right, whatever, bro.
What do you want me to say?
Like, okay, cool.
So then this Jewish rabbi, his name was
Nu'man.
This Jewish rabbi, he goes up to Zayd
bin Haritha and he goes, yo, you heard
what he just said?
You're going to die in this moment.
And he says to Zayd bin Haritha, he
goes, I promise you, if he is a
prophet of God, you're not coming back.
And what does Zayd say?
Zayd says, As for what you say, I
don't know.
But I know this man is a prophet
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That's all I know.
That's all I know.
So the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, he started
to send them off.
It was a Thursday night.
The prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, gathers everyone.
It's a Thursday night.
And the armies typically leave in the morning.
But the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, would send
the armies at night just to go outside
of the city so they could start off.
Yani, bis surah, you go out, and in
the morning they would start the whole journey.
So everyone's saying goodbye to everyone.
Everyone's going for battle.
You're hugging wifey, hug your kids.
Everyone's leaving.
So everyone's meeting each other.
And they see Abdullah bin Rawaha.
By the way, these are the only three
names I need you to focus on for
tonight.
Abdullah bin Rawaha, the poet, the one that
would say, ta'ala, let's sit down and
talk about Allah for a little bit.
He's sitting on the ground, and he's crying.
He's weeping.
He's crying.
And now it's a moment where a lot
of people may be crying because I'm leaving
my family.
I'm leaving my children.
I'm leaving the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
I'm leaving so much behind.
So he's sitting there crying.
And he says, everyone looks at him, and
they say, Oh, Abdullah, why are you crying?
Listen to what he says.
Listen to what he says.
This shows us what the companions of the
prophet taught us, that regardless of what's in
front of you, you should always be focused
on the akhira, y'all.
It doesn't matter the job that's coming, the
marriage you're trying to get.
All of those things in the front, don't
focus on that.
Focus on what you're really here for.
Focus on the akhira.
So what happens?
They say, why are you crying?
He goes, He goes, first of all, I'm
not crying because I love the dunya.
I'm not crying because I love the dunya.
But I heard the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
recite a verse of Quran.
You know why this hit me?
It's like, yo, y'all, if we're about
to go to battle, what's going through your
head?
Everything of the dunya.
My kids, how's Qasim going to be?
Yo, who's going to take care of?
Someone's going to look out for Maria, you
know what I mean?
Like, you know what I mean?
How's my wife going to be?
You know, like, subhanAllah.
But he's thinking, I heard the prophet, salallahu
alayhi wasalam, recite a verse.
What's the verse?
Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, wa
im minkum, surah Maryam, wa im minkum illa
warijuha, kana ara rabbika hataman maqadiyya.
This man is akhira focused.
He's like, there's a verse that the prophet
said, wa im minkum illa warijuha.
Every single human being must go over the
bridge over hellfire.
Kana ara rabbika hataman maqadiyya.
This is a binding promise on God.
Abdullah bin Rawaha is about to go to
battle, but his focus is akhira.
His focus is, man, how am I going
to pass that bridge?
Am I going to make it over?
And that's what he says.
He says, falastu adri kaifa li bisadri, ba'dal
warudi.
He goes, I don't know how I'm going
to make it over that bridge.
And I want to share a hadith that
you've heard me say before, but it's a
hadith that I try to live by.
The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said,
man ja'ala humumahu hamman wahidan, hamma akhiratihi,
kafahullahu humumahu kulla, or kama qal.
Rasulullah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said, whoever takes
all the worries of this world and makes
them one worry.
How?
Make it the worry of the akhira.
Make everything small compared to my worry of
my akhira, my hereafter.
How will I be on the day of
judgment?
Then the hadith says, Allah will take care
of every other worry.
Every other worry.
And this Sahabi is living this.
So that's what his focus is on right
now.
So the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he,
so they, you know, Abdullah bin Rawaha, he's
sitting there and he's a poet.
So this whole, he's always just saying like
lines of poetry because his heart is speaking
in this deep moment.
So the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
gathers the army and he gives them some
parting advice.
And he says, and listen to this.
This is so heavy, especially nowadays.
Listen to what the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, says to these Muslims who are going
out for war to stand up for justice.
Listen to what he says to them.
He says, usikum bi taqwa Allah.
He says, the first thing, always stay conscious
of God the whole time.
Don't let any anger overcome you.
Be conscious of God the whole time.
Number one.
And then he says, wabiman ma'akum min
al-muslimin khayra.
Be good to all your brothers and sisters.
All your brothers in this battlefield, be good
to them.
Number two.
And then he says, ughzoo bismillah.
Go out in the name of Allah and
fight hard.
Fight hard.
You will find some people worshiping in their
places of worship.
Do not bother them.
Do not bother them.
When people are praying in masjid al-aqsa,
do not bother them.
When people are just engaged in ibadah, the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he says, don't
touch them.
Then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says,
you'll see women as you go.
Don't touch them.
Let alone imprison them and do whatever.
Don't touch them.
Then Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he says,
wala taqtulu imra wala saghira.
They'll be children.
They'll be children.
Don't touch a child.
They'll be elderly.
Do not touch an elderly person.
And look at the Prophet.
He goes, wala taqta'anna shajaratan.
Don't cut a tree down.
Don't cut a tree down.
Meaning he's sending people for battle, but these
people are people that are God-conscious people.
And they know that they're gonna stand in
front of Allah one day.
That they don't have ultimate power.
There's a power they're gonna stand in front
of.
And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
and this one hit me.
He said, wala tahdimu baytan.
And don't tear down people's homes.
Don't tear down people's homes.
I was reading this and I'm like, did
y'all just choose to do exactly opposite
of him?
Like did y'all choose to like just
do exactly what Shaytan would want you to
do?
Because this is what our Nabi taught us.
And if this is what our Prophet Muhammad
taught us, and these are in our books,
this is what he taught us.
What are y'all doing?
What are y'all doing to our people?
May Allah free the people of Palestine.
May Allah free the people of Palestine.
So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, it's
a Thursday night.
He tells everyone to leave.
So they start to leave.
And as they start to leave, Abdullah bin
Rawaha, I told you he was really in
his feels in this moment.
He was really like feeling like, I don't
know, I feel like this is the end
for me.
So Abdullah bin Rawaha, what does he do?
He says to himself, I'm gonna stay back
and pray Jummah.
He says, I'm gonna stay back.
It's Friday night.
I'm gonna stay back and pray Jummah.
Because Abdullah bin Rawaha had a very fast
horse.
They say he had the fastest horse in
Medina.
And the whole army's 3,000 people.
They're gonna move really slow.
So in his mind, I can get two
for the price of one.
What I'll do is the army's gonna leave.
But I'm gonna stay back and I'm gonna
pray Jummah tomorrow.
And I get one more day with my
Habib.
I get to listen to one more beautiful
khutbah of the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Inna alhamdulillah.
Can you imagine that khutbah?
I get to listen to one more qira
'ah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
I get to hear one more, As-salamu
alaykum wa rahmatullah.
As-salamu alaykum.
One more chance.
I get to listen to the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam.
I'm not turning that up.
So Abdullah bin Rawaha, what does he do?
He stays back.
The next morning, the Jummah time comes.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam leads the
prayer.
Falama insarafa.
When he turned from the salah, he saw
Abdullah.
And he looked at him.
He said, ma manaka an taghdu ma ashabik.
He's like, why aren't you with the army?
And he said, aratu an usalli maaka al
-jumaa.
He said, ya Rasulullah, I really wanted to
pray with you.
I really wanted to pray with you.
You know, I was talking to a friend
about this.
He's not a shaykh, but he's a shaykh.
You know what I mean?
MashaAllah.
One thing that makes you love the Rasul
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is even when you
showed him so much love, he still kept
you in check.
You know, like, you would expect, what would
we expect the Prophet to say after that?
Oh, mashaAllah, I love you, too, bro.
Like, oh, for me, bro, you stayed back.
No, that's not what the Prophet did.
Uh-uh.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said,
laghadwatun awrahatun khayr min al-dunya wa ma
fiha.
He's like, one morning in the path of
Allah is better than this entire world.
He said, and he also said, he said,
they have gone so far ahead of you,
because he said, I could catch up.
He said, I got a fast horse, I
could catch up.
The Prophet said, no, you don't get it.
They went so far ahead of you, you
could spend the whole time of your dunya,
you'd never catch up to them.
Because of what they were doing, they were
in the path of God.
And this brings an important point.
See, there's personal spirituality, but then there's serving
the community.
And a lot of us get it twisted.
We go to extremes on this.
And the extremes is, on one extreme, we
have the sacrificing service for the community, for
your own worship.
The community needs you.
You gotta come out, you gotta help out,
you gotta do this.
And you're like, yeah, you know, I gotta
do my dhikr, I gotta do my Quran.
Yeah, I'm doing Atikaf right now, I'm sorry.
Right, the community needs you.
I got personal dhikr.
And that's what he was doing in this
moment.
Because there was a communal need.
This is the path of Allah.
This is helping the believers.
You're supposed to be defending the believers right
now, and you're trying to pray Jummah.
Nah, right now, you have a communal need.
And, think about the qualities that the Prophet
had before Nubu'a and after.
You bring people together.
You help in the hardship.
You lift up the burden of people.
All of these are the social aspects of
serving and helping.
And in this moment, Abdullah bin Rawaha is
giving preference to his personal spirituality over the
what?
Communal need at the moment.
And the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, is like,
no, that's not.
The other extreme is when we have only
service, only activism, but we ain't praying Fajr,
yo.
No Quran, no Fajr, but I'm doing all
the service.
Nah, what do we want?
We want that middle path, that Muhammadan path,
which is right in the middle, which is,
I'm gonna be there whenever the community needs
me to roll up my sleeves, but I'm
also gonna have my Ibadah, my worship, because
that's what keeps my battery charged.
That's what keeps me moving, that commitment to
public service.
So, and subhanAllah, this is beautiful because we
also see he's following what he feels like,
not what he's supposed to do.
RadiAllahu Anhu.
That's why the scholars, they say, don't worship
Lutuf, worship Al-Latif.
Like, Lutuf means, Latif is Allah, the gentle
one.
Don't worship Lutuf, gentle.
Don't worship, like, ease and comfort.
Worship the creator of that.
Like, do what he wants you to do,
not what you wanna do.
And that's a beautiful moment in this, and
the scholars also say, you know what this
highlights?
There's a haq, a right of every moment.
There's a haq, or a right of time.
If your mother, like, I'll give you an
example.
The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said, like,
may that one be, may that one be
lost, who has their two parents in old
age, but doesn't get Jannah through them.
Like, if you have your parents in old
age, there's that time has a necessity from
you.
There was a man, he wanted to go
for Jihad.
The Prophet said, is your mom alive?
He's like, yeah.
He's like, you gotta stay home, bro.
Like, I can't go for Jihad?
No, that is your Jihad.
That is your Jihad right now.
Your fight is to stay with your mother,
help her, serve her, take the burden off
her.
That's your fight right now.
So every moment has a haq.
The problem is, he was short-sighted.
His love for the Prophet made him miss
that.
So that's what happened.
He said, Ya Rasulullah, I wanted to pray
one more Jummah with you.
And who in this room can blame him?
If you're on the precipice of this being
your last Jummah with the Prophet, which of
us wouldn't be like, yo, I'm about to
pull up the valley ranch.
You know what I mean?
Like, I get that Qalam Jummah and yo,
they be hitting.
Right?
I gotta get that Medina Jummah and Subhanallah.
And that's what he did.
So, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, these
3,000 soldiers leave, they're on their way.
And it gets really, I got a tissue,
yo.
Yeah, hang on.
Jazakallah khair.
The Prophet salallahu, so they leave.
The Prophet bids them farewell.
Jazakallah khair.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam bids them
farewell.
And when the Prophet bids them farewell, they
start to travel.
They're going about 630 miles.
And they're gonna end up in a place
called Mu'tah.
The name of this battle is the Battle
of Mu'tah.
And, they get about halfway there, and news
reaches them that Shurahbil has 50,000 soldiers
and Hiraqal, you know, the guy that said
he believed in the Prophet, he sent 100
,000 soldiers too.
So, the Muslims find out that there's 3
,000 of us and there's 150,000.
According to the lowest estimates, 150,000 enemies
going to be against us.
So, they stop.
All the Muslims stop.
And they gather to do Mashwara.
Like, yo, what are we gonna do?
And, they all get together.
Some of them were like, hey, let's write
a letter to the Prophet and just tell
him what's going on.
Like, I don't think, we don't know if
he knew how big this army was, but
let's just tell him what's going on.
And everyone's like, yeah, maybe that's a good
idea.
And they said, maybe he'll send some reinforcements,
maybe he'll tell us something else to do.
Abdullah bin Rawaha.
Remember, I only told you a few names
we need to focus on.
Abdullah bin Rawaha is the whole time, he's
like, can I speak?
They're like, yeah, bismillah, go ahead.
And he says these words.
He goes, ya qawmi.
He said, oh, people.
Wallahi inna allati takrahoona lallati kharajshum tatlabhoona ash
-shahada.
He's like, brothers, the very thing that you
guys are disliking is what we left seeking.
Shahada.
He goes, wamanu qatilun naas bi adadin.
Listen, brothers and sisters, now more than ever.
He said, we don't fight based on numbers.
Walla quwa.
We don't fight based on strength.
Walla kathra.
We don't fight based on having more.
Manu qatilun illa bi hadhad deen.
We fight with this deen.
This religion of ours is what gives us
strength.
It doesn't matter how many of us it
is.
We never looked at numbers.
We never looked at numbers.
That never mattered for us.
We are David and Goliath, bro.
That's us.
So he's telling them.
He says, we fought by this deen that
Allah has blessed us with.
He goes, fantaliqoo.
Let's go, y'all.
He said, let's go.
He goes, there's only one of two things
that can happen.
There's only two possible good outcomes.
Only two.
I'm getting too hyped up.
Sorry.
He's like, there's only two possible outcomes of
this.
He said, illa ihdal husnayain.
Either we win or we get shahada.
Either we win or we're martyred.
But either way, that's what we wanted.
That's who we are.
Everyone right away was like, yo, facts.
Facts.
That's it.
Yes.
What were we thinking?
Let's go.
Let's go forward.
Abu Hurayrah, they arrived.
They arrived at Mutah.
And the army is in front.
150,000.
I mean, we can never imagine what that
looks like.
Abu Hurayrah had just joined the Muslims.
Abu Hurayrah is the one that proves it
doesn't matter how long you've been in it.
It matters how dedicated you are.
Abu Hurayrah narrates the most hadith.
The most hadith narrated are by Abu Hurayrah.
But Abu Hurayrah only became Muslim and came
to Medina in the seventh year.
This is the eighth year.
He's only been with us for a year.
So Abu Hurayrah is standing in the lines,
right?
And he sees this massive army.
And Abu Hurayrah, as he's looking at this
massive army, his bariq al basr, as it
says, his eyes are like jaw dropped.
He's not fathoming what he's looking at.
And the narration is beautiful.
He's looking at this massive army in front
of him.
And as he's looking at the army, there's
a man next to him by the name
of Thabit bin Akram.
He's a OG.
He's been Muslim for years.
He's next to Abu Hurayrah who's only been
Muslim for a year.
But Abu Hurayrah is the one that teaches
us it doesn't matter how long you've been
Muslim, it matters how dedicated you are.
He narrates the most hadith and he was
only with the Prophet for three years.
It doesn't matter how long.
It matters your focus.
It matters how much you put into it.
So he's standing next to Thabit.
Thabit's been Muslim since a long time.
So Thabit looks over at Abu Hurayrah and
he can see.
كأنك ترى جموعا كثيرا He goes, man, it
looks like you're looking at a big army,
bro.
That's what he says.
He looks at Abu Hurayrah.
He goes, it looks like you're looking at
a big army, man.
Abu Hurayrah goes, yes.
نعم.
قال, he says, شهدنا بدر He's like, man,
you weren't at Badr, bro.
You weren't at Badr.
You weren't at Badr.
He says, let me tell you something, little
brother.
He goes, إنا لم ننصر بالكثرة We never
won by numbers, bro.
We never won by numbers.
Pick your chin up, bro.
We got this.
You know what that tells me?
All of us need experienced people around.
You need that auntie.
You need that uncle.
You need that older brother who's been around
for a long time that can help you
when you see something you've never seen before.
That can give you that guidance.
Like, yo, chill.
We're good right here.
So he goes, you didn't see Badr.
We were at Badr.
We were at Uhud.
We were at this time.
We never won by numbers, y'all.
We always won by the help of Allah
سبحانه وتعالى.
Now here's where the story gets amazing.
Back in Medina, this is 600 miles away.
Back in Medina, the Prophet ﷺ tells Bilal,
call everyone to the masjid.
While this is happening, back in Medina, call
everyone to the masjid.
So Bilal runs around and he goes, الصلاة
الجامعة, الصلاة الجامعة.
That's how they would gather everyone to the
masjid.
All of Medina floods.
The Prophet's calling everyone.
There's a public announcement.
What's going on?
And in that moment, the Prophet ﷺ, he
says, Allah سبحانه وتعالى has lifted the veils
of space I'm watching right now what's happening
in the battle of Mutah.
And so he starts to dictate.
صدق رسول الله صدق رسول الله.
Rasulullah ﷺ begins to dictate play by play.
You know, back in the old days, they
used to turn the radio on and listen
to the baseball game.
You know, and you could picture it.
The Sahaba are just sitting in front and
the Prophet ﷺ is on the member and
he begins.
The Prophet ﷺ, he goes, the armies are
coming together.
They're meeting each other right now.
And he says, Zayd has the flag.
And everyone can see that he pauses and
tears start to well up in his eyes.
And he says, Zayd is fighting.
Zayd just got killed.
And the whole masjid is just, the grimace
like, because everyone knows him.
Everyone remembers it.
That's our guy.
That's Zayd.
And so the whole masjid is kind of
like, he's like, Zayd just got killed.
And the Prophet is dictating as it happens.
He says, they're fighting more.
They're fighting.
Jafar came, he picked up the sword.
He picked up the flag.
He's holding the flag right now.
They're fighting, they're fighting.
And Jafar jumped off his flag, jumped off
his horse.
And he jumped off the horse and he's
fighting, but he's holding the flag because you
can't let the flag fall.
The flag has to stay up.
And so as he's holding it with his
right hand, the Prophet is telling them, they
cut his right hand at the elbow.
And the flag is about to fall, but
this man is built different.
He grabs it with his left hand and
he holds it.
I'm not letting Islam down on my shift.
It's not happening.
And then they cut his left arm.
And then the narration says, but he grabs
it with his, like this.
And the Prophet is watching this, telling them
live as it's happening, 600 miles away.
You know, at the end of this battle,
they sent a messenger to go and inform
the Muslims of what happened.
When the messenger arrived in Medina, the Prophet
said to the messenger, either I can tell
you what happened or you could tell me
what happened.
What would you prefer?
The man said, Ya Rasulullah, you tell me
so I can increase in my faith.
He said, let me tell you exactly what
happened.
And he said, that's exactly what I was
here to tell you.
That's exactly what I was here to tell
you.
So Jafar is holding it.
I'm not letting Islam down during my shift.
This ain't happening.
And then they just surround him and they
attack him.
And the Prophet, his cousin, his brother, his
beloved cousin, he says Jafar has been killed
and he's on the member and he's crying.
And he's telling everyone, Jafar just was killed.
And the Prophet pauses.
He pauses and the Sahaba are like, well,
what happened to Abdullah?
Because Abdullah is supposed to be there.
Well, back in the battlefield, Abdullah, he was
fighting and he heard his name called.
You got to come forward now.
You got to assume leadership.
And right when he was about to go,
this is amazing.
Right when he was about to go, he
felt his nafs hesitate.
Like his rooh was ready to go, but
his natural bodily instincts stopped him.
And so it's amazing.
In this moment, he says, aqsamtu ya nafsu
latanzalanna.
He's saying poetry to his own rooh, to
his own nafs.
He says wallahi nafs, you're about to go
or I'm gonna make you go.
Wallahi nafs.
He's speaking to his own soul, his own
self.
Not now.
He says, in ajlab al-naas, wa shaddurrinna.
Everyone's in the thick of it and the
screams of war are coming.
ma li araaka takraheena al-janna.
He's speaking to his own self.
He's like, why do I see you?
To himself.
Why do I see you not wanting janna?
laqada taala qada kunti mutma'inna.
You wanted this for so long.
Now go get it, nafs.
And then he says, ya nafsi.
Ya nafsi, go.
Go fight.
Isn't there an example in your two companions,
Zayd and Jafar?
So he's about to go.
And now he's ready to go.
He has a cousin that's in the battle
too.
His cousin sees him and he stops him
and he says, cousin, here, take this piece
of meat you haven't eaten all day.
Just eat some so you can go and
fight.
So he grabs the piece of meat and
he bites into it.
And the moment he bites, he hears a
believer screaming in the battlefield.
And in that moment, he says, am I
eating and janna is that close?
Am I eating food and janna is right
there?
He throws the food down and he jumps
into the battlefield.
He's hugging the flag.
And Abdullah bin Rawaha, fighting his soul, fighting
his nafs, is shaheed.
The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, back in
Medina, is narrating the entire thing to the
majlis.
He says, Abdullah bin Rawaha stopped.
He hesitated.
But no, now he's moving forward.
And now he's shaheed.
The Prophet is weeping.
The Prophet is weeping.
Thabit bin Arqam, the same guy, the OG,
that looked at Abu Hurayra and said, don't
worry, he picks up the flag because he's
old school.
He says, we have to choose somebody.
They say you.
He goes, not me.
Khalid.
Khalid bin Walid was here the whole time.
But he was a new Muslim.
He's the mastermind of strategy.
He's the mastermind of war.
But now I'm a regular soldier.
I'm no one.
I'm a new Muslim.
How do we do tayammum, y'all?
Show me how to do wudu again, y
'all.
He's a new Muslim.
They say Khalid.
Khalid goes, I got it.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam is back
in Medina.
The words of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam are so profound.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam is back
in Medina.
And he says, Akhadhal liwa Khalid.
Khalid has the flag.
They gave it to him.
And then the Prophet on the member, he
raises his hands.
And just imagine you're sitting there in front
of him.
He's weeping because he just lost Zayd, his
almost son.
He just lost Jafar.
Abdullah bin Rawaha, who stayed the extra Jummah
to be with him, has just died.
Now Khalid bin Waleed has the flag.
He's watching it in real time, telling it
to the believers.
And in that moment, he raises his hand.
Imagine him on the member.
He raises his hand.
He says, Allahumma huwa saif min suyufika fan
surhu.
He says, O Allah, he's a sword from
your swords.
Help him.
Everyone's like, Ah, ameen, ya Rabb.
Ameen, help Khalid, ya Allah.
From that day, Khalid bin Waleed was called
Saifullah, the sword of God, the sword of
God.
Last week I told you, Khalid bin Waleed
died on his deathbed, not in a battlefield.
And he said that, I tried my best
to die in the battlefield, but Allah wrote
for me to die on a bed.
And the scholars said, what do you expect?
The sword of God can't be broken.
It has to be put back in its
sheath.
It can't be broken.
Once the Prophet gave him that name, he
couldn't die on a battlefield.
He just had to die, go to rest,
and go back to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala like that.
Khalid radiyallahu ta'ala a'an is a
master strategic person.
He immediately calls everyone, retreat, retreat, retreat.
By the way, in this whole battle, we
only lost 14 people.
Three of them were their leaders.
We only lost 14, 15 people in the
whole battle.
So what happens?
Khalid bin Waleed, he says, everyone retreat.
He retreats.
They think that they're fleeing.
He brings in the other sides of the
battle from the side, and they break through
the forces until they split them up.
The next morning, so for that night, the
battle ends.
The next morning, Khalid says, you know what?
The Arab armies used to have four positions.
They used to have the front, the back,
the maimana, and the maysara.
These were the four, and the qalb was
in the middle.
They had a strategy of this four style
with one in the middle.
So what he said is, he said, I
want everyone on the right side to go
to the left side, everyone on the left
to the thing, and everyone on the back
to the front.
When they came out to battle, the Byzantium
said, I think reinforcements have come.
And they started to retreat.
And so Khalid bin Waleed said, they retreat,
and we retreat in two.
Let's go.
Like, we're not going to chase 150,000
heads.
We're going to retreat, too.
And so the scholars differ of whether we
call it a victory or not, but it
was clearly a victory.
The Muslims make their way back, and this
is really beautiful.
They make their way back.
They're on their way back, and all of
the families, the wives, the children, the grandchildren,
all of the people come out to welcome
the soldiers.
And the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam knew that
a number of people had been killed.
He saw the battle, and he told them
about it in real time.
Everyone saw this miracle of the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasalam right before their face.
And so there were little children that were
coming out to meet their fathers, but their
fathers had died.
And so the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, he
said to the community, he said, pick up
the kids, y'all.
Pick up the kids.
Hold them.
Bring them close.
We are a community.
We help each other out.
Those are our children now.
Those are our children.
He said, And then he said, give me
Jafar's son, Abdullah.
Jafar's son, Abdullah, bring him, give him to
me.
So he sat him on his horse with
him.
And Jafar's son is sitting on the horse
with him.
And then Hassan, his grandson comes.
He says, give me Hassan too.
So Hassan is sitting behind him, and Jafar
is sitting in front.
This is our Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam.
And he's leaning on the son, and he
says to him, I see your father flying
in Jannah with like an angel right now.
Don't worry.
Your father's in Jannah flying like an angel
right now.
Flying like an angel right now.
They welcome everyone back.
The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam is heartbroken by
the death of Jafar.
He only had a little time with him.
And that's what I want us to understand
that people going on to Akhirah just makes
Jannah more real, y'all.
People going on just makes our brother Hadi,
you know, subhanallah.
It just makes it more real.
I told you the story about the one
guy that said Jannah just got personal.
There was a brother.
I said it before.
I'll share it again.
There was a brother.
He's from the streets, mashallah.
He converted.
And when Mufti Abdurrahman, Abdurrahim passed away, he
was standing at the grave.
And he's at the grave, and he looks
at him and he goes, Jannah just got
personal, man.
Like I have someone there now.
I got someone there.
So the Prophet, salallahu alaihi wasalam, he's bringing
the children close.
He was hurt deeply.
And he mourned a lot at the loss
of Zayd bin Harithah, who was like his
son, who he's known from before Ta'if.
He's the one who believed him in the
beginning.
And now he passed away.
The Prophet, salallahu alaihi wasalam, he goes to
Jafar's house because his wife doesn't know yet.
Jafar's wife doesn't know.
Asma binti Unais was her name.
She was a wise woman, amazing woman.
So he goes into the house and he
sits down.
She had got the children all dressed up
because dad's coming.
The kids were all, you know, oil, you
know, Vaseline all over your face.
You know what I mean?
You know what I mean?
Got them all dressed up.
And she cooked food.
She's dressed up.
Everyone's ready because daddy's gonna come.
So he comes in the home.
And he sits down.
He says, can you bring the boys to
me?
And she brings the boys and he just
puts his head on their heads.
And she says, what happened?
And he doesn't hold.
He says, he's been killed.
And she shrieked.
He just shrieked.
Lost my beloved.
Prophet held the children, held the children.
Then he went outside and he told the
family, he said, he told the neighbors, he
said, make sure y'all cook food for
them.
Take care of the family right now because
they're busy.
And he taught us, like someone passes away
in a family, send food, take care because
people forget to eat.
You know how it is.
You lose a loved one.
You don't even want to eat.
The Prophet said, cook food for them.
Take care of them.
Take care of them.
Look after them.
And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in
this battle, in this moment, he lost someone
that was very close to him.
And this was a very hard moment.
But in this moment, we see one of
the most beautiful miracles.
And we see just this deep connection that
the Sahaba had with him.
And we learn a lesson that speaks.
It's a timeless lesson.
But in the post, in the time we
live in right now, over and over again,
we were reminded that we don't care about
numbers, y'all.
Some of us have always grown up where
Muslims seemed weak and we always had less
numbers.
These Sahaba, just think of that uncle saying
to Abu Huraira, Habibi, this is how it's
always been for us.
This is nothing new, what you're seeing.
This is how it's always been.
But the help of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la will come for sure.
The help of Allah will come for sure,
inshallah.
So this is the battle of Mutah.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he mourned over
the martyrs for many, many days.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam then brought those
children under his own wing and took care
of those children.
And he taught the Sahaba.
He said, look after these children.
Look after these children.
And in that moment, Khalid bin Walid is
stamped.
Khalid bin Walid has stood up to the
plate and shown the Muslims that he's going
to start defending and standing up for Islam
the same strength that he was fighting against.
And so this is the battle of Mutah.
It has many lessons in it for us,
but we see the humanity of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
I want you to think of that moment
where he has Jafar on the front of
his horse and he's holding this boy, but
then he tells all of the other Sahaba,
pick up all the young boys, pick them
up, hold them, because they're hurting right now.
They're hurting right now.
And may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la allow us to emulate his sunnah.
May Allah give us love for these great
companions that were blessed with his presence.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
allow us to have a heart that just
has a deep, deep love for the sunnah
of our Habib Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, inshallah.
So this was the Battle of Mutah, inshallah.
And in our next session, we'll move into
some of the more final years in the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's mission, inshallah.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
accept from us.
May he put barakah in these gatherings, inshallah.
SubhanakAllahumma wa bihamdik.
Nashhadu la ilaha illa anta.
Nastaghfiru wa atubu ilayk.
Subhana rabbika rabbil-izzati amma yasifoon.
Wassalamu ala al-mursaleen.
Walhamdulillahi rabbil-alameen.
Jazakumullahu khair.