Mustafa Abu Rayyan – S 01 Ep 02 Seerah The Lineage & Family Of The Prophet
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The importance of understanding the Prophet's story for future reference is highlighted, including the secret messages and disagreements between their father and brother. The segment also touches on Abraham Lincoln's camp and the upcoming attacks on Abraham Lincoln's camp. The speaker emphasizes the need to find a right spouse for a man's son and a suitable partner for his father.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
I'm going to ask the brothers to humbly
sit down and finish inshallah wa ta'ala.
There's always more barakah if we come closer
to each other.
So unless you're among the elderly, the elderly
love that needs to lean against the wall,
I'd recommend everyone to come closer inshallah wa
ta'ala.
Barakallah fikum.
Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen wa bihi nasta'eenu ala
umuri dunya wa al-deen wa laa aqibat
al-muttaqina wa laa udwana illa ala al
-dhalimeen wa salallahu wa sallamu ala nabiyyina muhammadin
wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'een.
It is a blessing from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala that we are gathered here today
in the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, listening to that which inshallah wa ta
'ala will irrigate our hearts and allow our
iman to grow.
The purpose of these types of gatherings is
mainly to build your iman.
And among the best ways to build your
iman of course is by getting to know
your beloved Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And that's why we are gathered here today.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow it
to be a beneficial gathering.
So inshallah wa ta'ala today's class, we
will not necessarily be speaking about the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam himself, because to truly
understand and appreciate the mission of the Prophet,
and the da'wah of the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and the struggles, you have
to understand if you will, what was Makkah
like before he became a Prophet?
What was the situation like?
And also, who is his family?
Who is Quraysh?
And what was Makkah like?
And in what kind of society is the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam born in?
Inshallah wa ta'ala we'll be discussing that.
I'm going to inshallah wa ta'ala give
a general overlook on Makkah and the Arabian
Peninsula, and how Makkah was established and the
connection between Prophet Ibrahim, Prophet Ismail, and Prophet
Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Then we'll speak about the Prophet's lineage and
family.
We'll speak about the tribe of Quraysh.
We'll speak about certain key individuals in the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam's ancestry.
We will speak about his father Abdullahi, his
grandfather Abdul Mutalib, and even some of his
great great grandfathers that were key individuals in
the formation of the city of Makkah.
That will help you appreciate later on inshallah
wa ta'ala, when the Prophet is born,
what was society like, and in what kind
of society will he grow up in, and
what are some of the main reasons why
he is sent to Makkah.
You'll learn all of that inshallah wa ta
'ala.
So today's lesson will end around the time
the Prophet will be born, and then next
week we'll discuss the major incident that happened
in the year he was born.
What major incident is that?
The elephant's attack and the Abraha and trying
to destroy the Kaaba, and also we'll talk
about the birth of the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wa sallam himself.
So that's next week.
So today inshallah wa ta'ala you'll learn.
So there's a lot of information to go
through.
I'll be mentioning a lot of names.
If you're taking notes that's great, but see
if you can inshallah wa ta'ala benefit
either way.
So Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam is the
final Prophet.
Before him there were many many Prophets.
What was the last Prophet before Prophet Muhammad
salallahu alayhi wa sallam can anyone tell me?
Raise your hands, go ahead.
Prophet Isa alayhi salam, very good.
So between Prophet Isa and Prophet Muhammad salallahu
alayhi wa sallam, it's many years, almost 500
years I believe, if not more.
So you have centuries without a Prophet.
Centuries without a Prophet.
So the question we first have to ask
ourselves is, and also Prophet Isa was sent
to which group and which people?
The Banu Israel who lived in which area
where Palestine is today?
So if they had the lessons and the
book of Isa alayhi salam, it got corrupted
afterwards.
What did the people of Mecca and its
surrounding and the Arabs believe in?
What was their religion before Prophet Muhammad was
sent to them?
That's a fair question to ask, correct?
This is where you have to go back
further than Isa alayhi salam and go back
to the establishment of Mecca as a city
and who established it and why it was
established.
So we know the city of Mecca was
established by Hajar and Prophet Ismail.
And the way this happened was Prophet Ibrahim
alayhi salam, we're now going way back in
history, Prophet Ibrahim alayhi salam, among the things
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded him to
do was to bring his wife Hajar and
his newborn son Ismail in the valley of
Mecca which was at that point a barren
desert and there was nothing there.
There was no Kaaba, there was no water,
there was nothing there.
And he was meant to leave Hajar and
his son Ismail there.
This was a test for Ibrahim.
Will you obey your Lord?
Will you obey your Lord and will you
trust your Lord to take care of them?
Will you trust your Lord to take care
of them?
A big conversation that happened between Hajar and
Ibrahim was, who are you leaving us with
and who's commanding you this?
And Ibrahim said, my Lord is commanding me
this.
And then she said, if your Lord, our
Lord, Allah is commanding you to leave us
here, nothing bad will happen to us.
She had that trust in Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Then as she realizes her provisions are gone
and she needs water, she starts looking for
water, running between the hills of Safa and
Marwa and as she's looking for water in
this area where no one lives, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala sent Angel Jibreel and then
the Zamzam water was born.
So it's the Zamzam water that was born.
And that was as a result of the
efforts of Hajar, the barakah of Ismail, and
of course the dua of Ibrahim a.s.
Because Ibrahim made dua for them.
And he said, O Allah, make this place
a safe place.
O Allah, allow crops and vegetation to grow
from it.
And you can't have crops and vegetation without
water.
So he made that dua.
Then surrounding Arabs that lived realized, wait a
minute, there is water here.
And when there is water, there is life.
And that was the initial establishment of this
place called Mecca.
Is everyone with me?
Ibrahim comes back years later and his son
has grown up.
And there is a community there.
There is a community there.
And his son has grown up.
That's when he is commanded to build the
Kaaba.
That's when he is commanded to slaughter his
son.
And you all are familiar with the story.
Keep that story in mind, by the way,
the slaughter of Ismail.
Because something similar will happen to a key
person in the Prophet's life.
So, a few questions we have to ask
ourselves.
Was Prophet Ibrahim an Arab?
No.
He is from Canaan, right?
And he is an immigrant to this area.
So is his son Ismail an Arab?
No.
Does he speak the Arabic language?
No.
So who are the Arabs then?
Here you learn something key.
When you hear the term Arab, three things,
three people are meant by this.
You have Al-Arab Al-Baida.
Or the perished Arab.
The extinct Arab.
They are two groups that are mentioned in
the Qur'an.
Aad and Thamud.
Aad and Thamud were Arabs.
But they are perished.
They were destroyed.
They don't exist anymore.
So that's one group of Arabs.
Then you have what is known as Al
-Arab Al-Ariba.
The pure Arabs.
Those pure Arabs will be the tribe that
will join Hajar and Ismail.
And form that community.
Those are the pure Arabs that live in
these lands.
And then you have Al-Arab Al-Musta
'riba.
They are the Arabized Arabs.
They are not really originally Arabs.
But they became after.
That's Ismail and his descendants.
Because Prophet Ismail will marry into these people.
And from that you will have everyone that
we know now.
And his grandfather.
And his wife.
And all of Quraysh.
All of them are the descendants of the
Arabs that became Arab.
After Ismail moved to the Arabian Peninsula.
Does that make sense everyone?
So that gives you a rough understanding of
how Mecca was formed.
At that time what did they worship?
What do you think?
Who was worshipped do you think?
When Ibrahim is building the Kaaba.
And when Ismail is growing up in Mecca.
And when he was born.
What do you think they were worshipping at
that time?
Or who do you think they were worshipping
at that time?
I should say.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
They were worshipping Allah.
So Mecca was a Muslim land for the
longest time.
It was a Muslim land.
And the whole point of the establishment of
the Kaaba.
Was to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And here is the important fact that I
mentioned here before.
The Kaaba.
Although it was built by Prophet Ibrahim.
And it was built by Prophet Ismail together.
Like Allah says in the Quran.
And when Ibrahim and Ismail were raising the
foundations of the house.
They were raising the foundations of the house.
But the Kaaba existed before that.
The Kaaba existed from the time of Prophet
Adam.
And that area that the Kaaba is on.
Is one of the most blessed areas in
the world.
And the Kaaba itself signifies the worship of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
As opposed to anyone that worships other than
Allah.
It is symbolic to the worship of Allah.
The reason we face it.
The reason it's so important is.
It symbolizes the most important point of humanity's
existence.
Which is the worship of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
When Ibrahim is building it.
He's creating an area that symbolizes Tawheed.
Then Ismail marries into the Arabs.
And they worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
alone.
And these people were known as the Hanifiyah.
Meaning those that turned away from all else.
And fully turned themselves towards Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Then life continues and goes on.
The tribe that Ismail alayhi salam married into.
Was called the Jurhum tribe.
They were from the ancient and early Arabs.
And from then they established themselves in Mecca.
Now I'm gonna stop here.
You now understand.
Just imagine then the city grew and grew
and grew.
And established itself as a major town in
the Arabian Peninsula.
Let's go back.
Jump back forward in time.
To the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
his lineage.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam lineage.
Goes directly into Ismail.
So he's a direct descendant of who?
Of Ismail alayhi salam.
Between the Prophet and Ismail.
There are how many people?
We don't know.
The Prophet's lineage.
What we know for sure.
Is up to a certain point.
When we say lineage by the way.
A lot of us nowadays we take surnames.
And our surname may not be our grandfather's
name.
Or our great grandfather's name.
It may be just a wider family name.
Right?
Some of us our surnames are our grandfather's
names.
But each one of us has a lineage.
Meaning what?
It's you.
Then your father.
Then your grandfather.
Then your great grandfather.
In fact let me do a social experiment
here.
This should be easy.
If you know your father's name.
Raise your hand.
It will be everyone right?
Keep your hand up if you know your
grandfather's name.
Keep your hand up if you know your
great grandfather's name.
Keep your hand up if you know your
great great grandfather's name.
Mashallah.
Okay.
Keep your hand up if you can go
back up to at least ten names.
A lot of hands came down now.
You see?
But the point I'm trying to make is.
Your ancestry goes back a very long time.
And you should wonder.
How far do I know my ancestry and
can I find it?
The prophet's ancestry.
We know a hundred percent for sure.
Counting backwards twenty names.
Up to a person called Adnan.
Up to a person called Adnan.
So the prophet's name is Muhammad.
Ibn Abdullah.
Ibn Abdul Mutalib.
Ibn Hashim.
Ibn Abdul Manaf.
Ibn Qusay.
Ibn Kilab.
Ibn Murra.
Ibn Ka'ab.
Ibn Ghalib.
Ibn Fihrin.
Remember that name, Fihr.
I'll mention it later.
Ibn Fihrin.
Ibn Malik.
Ibn Nadhar.
Ibn Kinana.
Ibn Khuzaym.
Ibn Mudrik.
Ibn Ilyas.
Ibn Mudhar.
Ibn Nizar.
Ibn Ma'ad.
Ibn Adnan.
Up to Adnan.
That's twenty.
We know up to twenty.
Please.
If you memorize the lineage of the prophet's
name next week.
And you come to this class next Friday.
Come here.
And you'll read it to everyone.
Mashallah.
Okay?
So, let's see who can do that.
Especially for the younger ones.
Actually, no.
For everyone.
Next week, before we start the class, I
will say, من منكم حفظ نسب النبي?
Which among you has memorized the nasab of
the prophet of Allah, up to as much
as you can.
And then, mashallah ta'ala, the person that
can go the furthest will recite the nasab.
Nasab means the lineage of the prophet of
Allah.
It's important that we should know this.
Especially our prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
So now, up to Adnan, we know for
sure.
The ulama mention even beyond Adnan.
From Adnan.
From Adnan to prophet Ismail.
But all of that is disputed.
Exactly.
The history that far back is unclear.
So there are different views and how many
are they and what were their names.
But there's no conflict or dispute from Adnan
onwards.
We know who they were and we know
some of their stories and how important they
were.
So now, from the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, his lineage, where does Quraysh come in?
And what is Quraysh?
Where does Quraysh come in here?
And what is Quraysh?
So a tribe is formed, you go back
into your line of ancestry, and at some
point, there will be a person that many
people consolidate their name into and that would
be, that's how a tribe is formed.
The prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, is from
the Quraysh tribe.
And Quraysh, one of these people in his
lineage, was also known as Quraysh.
Who is that?
It's Fihr.
Fihr.
Fihr ibn Malik.
Which is the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's
eleventh grandfather.
Right?
Muhammad ibn Abdillah, ibn Abdul Mutalib, Hashim ibn
Abd Manaf, ibn Kilaab, ibn Murr ibn Ka
'b ibn Luay, ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr.
Eleven, sorry, yeah, eleven.
Ibn Fihr, right.
So Fihr is Quraysh.
So all of Quraysh, their common ancestor was
Fihr ibn Malik, also known as Quraysh.
Why was he called Quraysh?
And what is the point of Quraysh?
The word Quraysh, there's different meanings.
Some of the ulema mention it comes from
taqarrush, which is to come together.
Because at some point, the Quraysh tribe, and
there was a reason for that, and I'll
tell you why, they all came together and
formed a solid tribe around Mecca.
And there was a reason for that, I'll
tell you in a bit.
Other than that, it comes from trade.
And the Meccans were good traders.
And I'll tell you why that is in
a bit as well.
If I mention a name, try and remember
that name, because I have a list of
names I'm testing you on at the end
of the lesson as well.
There are certain key figures in the Prophet's
ancestry that had significant impact in Mecca and
its surroundings.
One of them that we're going to start
with is Qusay.
Qusay ibn al-Kilab.
Qusay would be the Prophet's fifth grandfather.
Muhammad ibn Abdillah ibn Abd al-Madhalib, ibn
Hashim ibn Abd al-Manaf, ibn Qusay.
So, Qusay ibn al-Kilab was a very
interesting figure.
Remember, let's go back in time.
Mecca was established by Prophet Ismail and his
mother, correct?
Then a tribe moved in.
What was the name of the tribe?
Jorhum, right?
And he married into them and they established
themselves and everything was fine and dandy.
Qusay was born many years later.
Qusay ibn al-Kilab was born.
And then Qusay, he was in Mecca.
Then his father passed away.
His mother married someone else.
And he moves in the outskirts.
He moves far away from Mecca.
Hence why he was called Qusay.
Qusay means the one that's far away.
Qusay means the one that's what?
Far away.
You'll see a lot of nicknames here, by
the way.
But his actual name was Zayd.
His actual name was what?
Was Zayd.
But he's not known as Zayd, he's known
as Qusay.
So then Qusay, after a while, comes back
as a young man.
And when he comes back, by this time,
a different tribe took over Mecca.
The Khuza'i tribe.
They took over Mecca and they established themselves.
What is this tribe called?
The tribe of Khuza'i.
And actually there's a key, there's an important
figure, I say important but he's horrendous and
horrible, figure that is from the Khuza'i
tribe.
His name is Amr ibn al-Luhay al
-Khuza'i.
Amr ibn al-Luhay, before I tell you
what he did, what was the religion of
the Meccans from the time of Ismail onwards?
Who were they worshipping?
Allah SWT.
Amr ibn al-Luhay al-Khuza'i, from
the Khuza'i tribe.
He travels to Syria, he sees people that
worship idols, he finds that interesting, he buys
a bunch of idols, brings them to Mecca
and says, guys, let's try this out.
The culture of idol worship was started by
this man, Amr ibn al-Luhay al-Khuza
'i in Mecca.
He brings idols.
Mecca did not know idols, they worshipped Allah
SWT alone.
Remember, they are the children of Ismail, the
son of Ibrahim AS, whose whole life and
mission was about Tawheed.
Why was Ibrahim thrown into the fire?
Because of Tawheed, right?
Now this man comes along, completely derails Mecca.
And the place, I want you to figure
this out, the place that was built for
the worship of Allah, is now being turned
into a place where they worship rocks and
stones.
One man.
That is the ability that a human has
to create evil, and it continues onwards.
The Prophet mentioned that Amr ibn al-Luhay
said, I saw Amr ibn al-Luhay in
Jahannam, as he is holding his intestines, as
they are falling out, being punished and burned
for what he did.
Right?
Because how many people ended up not worshipping
Allah because of him?
So Amr ibn al-Luhay, so this Khuza
'i tribe are here.
Then Qusay realized what's going on.
He marries the chief, if you will, the
king of the tribe that's in charge of
Mecca.
He marries his daughter.
He marries his daughter and he has many
sons as a result of this.
And his father-in-law likes him.
He says, you're a very smart man.
But Qusay was a very smart man.
And the moment his father-in-law died,
him and his many sons and his many
cousins, he said, we're taking Mecca.
We're taking Mecca from the Khuza'i tribe.
It never belonged to you.
You took it from our ancestors to begin
with and they took it back.
Wars happened as a result of it.
Many people died, but in the end, they
took Mecca again.
Qusay re-established himself as the most powerful
leader of Mecca.
He is the great-great-great-great-great
-grandfather of who?
Of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
Qusay ibn Kilab.
So Qusay, when he becomes the de facto
ruler of Mecca, there's certain things he put
in place.
First thing he put in place was something
called Hijabah.
And something called Rifada.
And something called Siqaya.
And Darul Nadwa and Al-Liwa.
What are these things?
Hijabah is the custodianship of the house.
That the Ka'bah is not something anybody
can be in charge of.
No.
Qusay said, he said, my family is in
charge, in other words, he is in charge
of the custodianship of the Ka'bah.
Who opens it, who closes it, who guards
it, who closes it.
All of this important aspect of keeping the
honor of the house came under him.
Number two, Rifada and Siqaya.
Something that was very honorable that they did,
which was the honor to feed and give
water to the pilgrims.
Because the Arabs used to make Hajj.
A question to ask is, how are they
doing Hajj when Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is not
even born and Islam doesn't exist yet?
How did they know about the five pillars
of Islam?
If there is no Islam, how can there
be a Hajj?
Because Hajj predates the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
Hajj started with Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ.
But then it got corrupted.
Meaning what?
It got infused with idolatry.
But the culture remained.
So, Hajj predates the Prophet ﷺ.
So, people used to come and at some
point when Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ built it, they
used to come to worship Allah.
But after Amr al-Luhai introduced idolatry, and
that became the culture, people would make the
pilgrimage to honor their idols.
Right?
And they would do a lot of things
that are prohibited now.
But they still had a level of honor
and respect for the house.
So, the custodianship of the Kaaba, the honor
of feeding and giving water to the pilgrims,
as well as the liwa, he brought Uraish
under one banner and moved them all close.
Meaning his tribesmen, his cousins, and the second
cousins, and third cousins, and all of these
people, he brought them close so that they
can be the de facto house that is
in charge of and is in the surroundings
of Mecca.
He was making very important moves.
And finally, he created something called Daar al
-Nadwa.
Daar al-Nadwa was the house of assembly
where all the elders would make decisions together.
We're going to war, it has to be
decided where?
In Daar al-Nadwa.
A big alliance is happening, it's decided where?
Daar al-Nadwa.
Right?
Daar al-Nadwa, the pilgrims are coming and
we need to prepare for it.
Daar al-Nadwa.
Interesting fact, we will get there in Asira.
After the Prophet is sent and everything happens,
where do you think Quraish meet to discuss
Prophet Muhammad?
Daar al-Nadwa.
In fact, before his hijrah, the decision to
assassinate the Prophet was made where?
In Daar al-Nadwa.
So Daar al-Nadwa was, but it wasn't
always a place where only evil was decided.
It was just the house of assembly of
Quraish.
So it's almost building a proper infrastructure.
You have the honor of the Kaaba, you
have the custodianship, you have the feeding and
the giving water to the pilgrims.
You have Daar al-Nadwa and he also
brought them under one banner, meaning they wouldn't
just go to war unless it was together.
Unified Quraish as well.
So these are some of the things that
Qusayy ibn Qilat did.
A key figure in the ancestry of the
Prophet.
Because the Prophet grew up in Mecca and
Quraish is generally together, Daar al-Nadwa is
established, the custodianship established.
Does it all make sense?
So that's Qusayy.
Qusayy had sons.
Among his sons was Abdu'l-Banaf, which
is the great-grandfather of the Prophet ﷺ.
But he also had other sons, such as
Abdu'l-Daar and others.
Abdu'l-Daar was not as wise, as
established, as smart, as charismatic as his other
brothers, but he was the oldest.
So when Qusayy was about to die, he
said, I give every responsibility I had to
my son Abdu'l-Daar, to kind of
lift him up a little bit.
But what that meant was, so Abdu'l
-Daar became the custodian of the Kaaba, overseeing
Daar al-Nadwa, all of that.
His brothers accepted their dad's decision.
But then after that, they had children.
And after a while, the children of Abdu
'l-Daar and his children, and the Bani
Abdu'l-Banaf, they end up warring over
this honor.
This honor.
And this happens, right?
After a while, people go at each other's
throats.
And then, they split the responsibilities.
And the responsibility of Siqaya and Rifada.
What does Siqaya and Rifada mean again?
Water and?
Food for who?
For the pilgrims.
By the way, think about this.
Think about, why are they fighting over the
honor to feed people?
Because it is honorable to feed people.
It is honorable to give people water.
And even the Arabs understood it.
And Islam just emphasized that.
Hence why one of the proper statements was,
I have been sent to complete the best
of character.
So the Prophet, a lot of the characteristics
that he told us to have, some of
them, Quraysh already had it.
And the Prophet just re-emphasized it.
Okay.
So now, let's go down.
After Abdu'l-Banaf, you have the Prophet's
grandfather, Hashim.
The Prophet's great grandfather, Hashim.
Hashim is a very important figure for Quraysh
as well.
So, by this time, Hashim is in charge
of the Siqaya, and the Rifada, the giving
of water, and the giving of food, and
the custodianship, the rest of it is from
his cousins, the Bani Abidar.
Hashim was a very intelligent man.
And he introduced something that helped the Meccans
become extremely established in Arabia.
And that was trade routes.
He was a very smart man.
Mecca is in the peninsula.
And the closest sea would be where Yemen
is.
And so, travelers from Yemen that want to
go to Syria and Damascus, vibrant cities, they
would have to travel to Arabia.
So what the Meccans started doing is, they
created two trips in the year.
A trip in the summer and a trip
in the winter.
And in the winter, they would go to
Sham, Syria and Damascus.
They would get goods from there.
Food, grains, clothing.
And then they would bring that over and
sell it and take it to...
And similarly, when it's the summer, they would
go to Yemen and the ports there and
they would get spices and things that came
from either China or Africa and they would
bring it in.
So that trade route was in the...
How did they do that?
By making alliances with the tribes that lived
there.
Hashim's idea was, we make alliances with all
the tribes so that when people are traveling,
they leave them alone and they would tax
them.
So this was an interesting way that made
income for Mecca.
Not only that, everyone would stop at Mecca
to, of course, to deify their idols and
they would visit the Kaaba.
So they really established themselves.
Hashim traveled one day to Sham.
Sham would be Syria, even Palestine.
But on his way there, he stopped at
a very important city.
And that city was Yathrib.
Yathrib would one day be known as Medina.
He stopped there and he married a woman.
He married this woman and when he married
her, she became pregnant.
Then he continued.
He went all the way, subhanallah, to Gaza.
He went to Gaza.
The Prophet's great-grandfather is in Gaza and
he dies there.
He dies there.
May Allah aid our brothers and sisters in
Gaza.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ease their
difficulty.
So the Prophet's great-grandfather is buried in
which city?
In Gaza.
But remember, where is his son?
He has a son that was just born
to him that not many people know about.
Where is he?
He's in Yathrib.
The people he left in Mecca have no
idea.
And that boy was named Shaibah because he
was born with grey hair.
He was named what?
Shaibah.
And he grows up.
His father died.
His mother just raises him among his maternal
uncles in Yathrib.
Hashim's brother, Hashim's brother in Mecca, his name
was Mutalib.
Hashim's brother's name was what?
Mutalib.
Mutalib finds out that his brother passed away
and he got married.
And this is like now years later that
there is somewhere, there is a son somewhere.
There is a loss.
His nephew.
His son is lost.
He said, we can't have that.
He goes to, because Hashim was the eldest.
He was in charge.
One day that his son would have to
be also in charge of the things they
were in charge of.
So he travels to Yathrib, negotiates, argues, says,
this is my son.
This is my nephew.
I'm taking him to Mecca.
And as a seven-year-old, Shaybah, goes
with his uncle to Mecca.
People don't know this boy.
And they said, Mutalib, did you get yourself
a new abd?
Did you get yourself a new slave?
Abd.
Abdel Mutalib.
Abdel Mutalib.
You guys know who Abdel Mutalib is?
The Prophet's grandfather.
The Prophet's grandfather was called Abdel Mutalib because
that name just stuck.
Remember the whole issue of nicknames.
That name stuck.
The slave of Mutalib.
He wasn't a slave.
He was his what?
He was his nephew.
So, people forgot his name, Shaybah.
And the whole Abdel Mutalib stuck until old
age.
Even the Prophet, peace be upon him, he
said, I am the son of Abdel Mutalib.
He was referring to his grandfather.
That name stuck.
Abdel Mutalib.
So now Abdel Mutalib grows up in Mecca.
But if someone asks you, his name was
Shaybah tul Hamd.
Oh, I forgot to tell you.
Hashim, the Prophet's great-great grandfather, Hashim, who
I told you about.
Where did he die?
He died in Gaza.
Hashim was not his name.
That was a nickname.
His name was Amr.
But he was known as Hashim.
You know why he was known as Hashim?
Hashim used to pulverize something.
Because he used to get bread, and he
used to crush the bread, and add soup
to it, and give it to the pilgrims.
That's why they called him Hashim.
So, his name was Amr.
In any case, Hashim died in Gaza.
His son, Shaybah, grew up a few years
in Medina.
And then, he was brought back to Mecca
by his uncle, Mutalib.
And as he grew up, he was known
as Abdel Mutalib.
He is the grandfather of the Prophet.
We're getting closer to the Prophet now.
This is the Prophet's grandfather.
Muhammad ibn Abdillah ibn Abdel Mutalib.
Let's talk about Abdel Mutalib then.
Abdel Mutalib, when he grows up, there are
key incidents in his life.
The most important one, the most important one,
is the rediscovery of Zamzam.
Now, what do I mean by rediscovery of
the Zamzam water, the Zamzam well?
We briefly spoke about the Zamzam well earlier.
How was it established?
By which Prophet?
Who was the baby?
The Prophet?
Ismail.
Now, a lot of things happened over the
time.
Remember Qusay ibn Qilab?
And that war to take over Mecca again.
Which tribe was inhabiting Mecca before Qusay made
a plan and took it back?
The Khuza'a tribe.
And which tribe did they remove?
The Durum.
The Durum tribe, you know what they did
before they got removed?
They did something that was a bit petty.
But it makes sense.
They destroyed the Zamzam water and buried it
and kind of filled it with sand to
the point where it couldn't be found anymore.
So from that onwards, centuries later, people forgot
where the Zamzam water was.
So there was no Zamzam water during the
time of many of the Prophet's ancestors.
There was no Zamzam water in Mecca.
They had other wells, but Zamzam water wasn't
available.
So by the time Abdul Muttalib grows up,
in Mecca there is no Zamzam water.
Are you guys with me?
Abdul Muttalib one night goes to sleep.
And in his sleep, he sees a vision
that is telling him to dig somewhere near
near the Kaaba.
He ignores it.
It happens again and again and again.
Until one day, he's like, I gotta see
what this is about.
So he takes his one son.
He had one son called Harith.
Harith.
Harith.
The uncle of the Prophet ﷺ.
He takes his son and he starts digging.
He starts digging.
And Quraysh is like, what are you doing
Abdul Muttalib?
What's going on?
Just leave me.
And then, one day he kept on digging
until the spring, the Zamzam spring is back.
So the rediscovery of Zamzam happened by who?
The Prophet's father?
Grandfather, what was his name?
What was his real name?
Shaybatul Hamd.
Abdul Muttalib.
Then the Quraysh tribes, different chiefs from different
clans were like, no, you don't get exclusive
right to this, Abdul Muttalib.
This is shared.
And you're not gonna just take custodianship of
Zamzam.
And then they start to argue.
And this could result in problems now.
So then, they decided to resolve it by
going to a woman.
And this woman, she was like an oracle
or a soothsayer that the Arabs or the
Quraysh would go to to solve disputes.
And she was in Syria.
She said, let's travel to her and see
what she has to say about this.
So they decide, Abdul Muttalib and the leaders
of Quraysh, they decided to take matters to
this person in Syria.
And some reports say Yemen as well.
And then they journeyed.
And it was a really bad time to
travel.
A really bad time to travel.
But they traversed the desert.
They had a little bit of water with
them.
And what happened was, they got lost.
And when they got lost, this is all
reported in the Sahaba reports in Hisham as
well.
When they got lost, they just ran out
of water.
And it looked like they were going to
die.
These men that set out to solve this
dispute, it looked like they were going to
die.
The Prophet's grandfather, Abdul Muttalib, was there as
well, of course, and other men.
And Abdul Muttalib then said, I think
it's about, rather than us dying of thirst
in the desert, undignified, we can't move anymore.
Let each one of us dig our own
grave.
And then when one of us dies, it's
easy for us to just push him in.
And he says, for all 11 of us
to be found here dead out of thirst
is undignified.
At least if the last man standing falls,
that's just one person is better than all
of us.
So they thought it was over.
Then as they are sitting there just waiting
for the end because they couldn't move anymore.
Some reports say that Abdul Muttalib gave them
almost like another push, saying, no, we shouldn't
just sit here.
Let's see what we can do.
And he made his camel stand up and
under it, water started coming.
And they started drinking from that water.
And they said, we don't need to go
to no person.
This is the sign that you should be
the chief.
And they drank from that water and they
went back to Mecca.
And that's how Abdul Muttalib established himself as
the head, if you will, of Quraish, the
Prophet's grandfather.
Now, if you go back just a little
bit, if you go back just a little
bit, when Abdul Muttalib is digging for Zamzam,
who did he take with him, I said?
Harith, which was his only son.
And when the rest of Quraish started to
come at him, he said he wished he
had more sons.
He wished he had what?
More sons.
And he made a vow.
He said, oh Allah, if you give me
10 sons, I'll sacrifice one of them for
you.
If you give me 10 sons, I'll sacrifice
one of them for you.
Over time, children were born for him.
Many daughters, many sons.
Until he had his 10th son.
His 10th son, Abdullah.
And then he tells Quraish, I made this
vow, I have to fulfill it.
He brings his sons to the Kaaba.
And he says, guys, I don't know how
to decide, but the only fairest way to
decide is to draw lots.
They drew lots.
And Abdullah, the father of the Prophet ﷺ,
he was the one.
There's nothing else he can do.
He took him with him and he said,
a vow is a vow.
A vow is a vow.
By the way, Islamically, if you make a
vow, are you meant to fulfill it, yes
or no?
You're meant to fulfill it.
What does it depend on, Haroon?
If I vow that if you get the
question wrong, I'm going to punch you in
the face.
Can I fulfill that vow?
No, why not?
Because it is?
Haram.
Very good.
Sorry, I won't punch you in the face,
right?
And you won't get the questions wrong.
Now, in Islam, it's not encouraged to make
vows.
It's not encouraged to make vows.
You know some people, they say, Ya Allah,
if you give me this, I'll do this.
Just make dua to Allah SWT.
Allah does not need your conditions.
Allah is too great, too generous for you
to put conditions in.
Does that make sense?
But the Prophet said, whoever makes a vow,
let him fulfill it.
As long as the vow is something good.
So if you say, Ya Allah, if I
pass this test, I will fast 10 days.
Should you fulfill that, yes or no?
You should fulfill it.
Because it's a righteous action.
Right?
It's a righteous action.
But if you say, Ya Allah, if this
happens, I'll divorce my wife.
Do you fulfill that?
No.
Because that's not a righteous action.
So, Abdul Muttalib's vow, should that have been
fulfilled?
Absolutely not, of course.
Sacrificing his own son.
But then, of course, except their culture, at
this time, they're so far away from the
lessons of Prophet Ibrahim, and Ismail, and Hanifia,
that they're all in idol worship.
He then goes, and he's ready to sacrifice
his son, and then the Quraysh, they allow
him to come, and they stop him, and
they say, what are you doing, your son?
He used to love Abdullah.
He was one of his most beloved to
him.
Very handsome.
Subhanallah.
The father of our beloved Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
Then, it was suggested to go to a
soothsayer, which was their culture.
And the soothsayer said, you can ransom him.
What you do is, you put 10 camels
to the side, and your son, and then
what they would do is, for example, they
would write his name, or something that signifies
his son, and something that signifies 10 camels,
and then they'll just mix it up, and
it comes up, and they, like you know,
Champions League draws?
You know how they go?
Those of you that watch football?
So they do that, and they look at
it, and when his son would come up,
each time his son would come up, he
was told to add another 10 camels.
So Abdullah would come up, another 10 camels.
And then he would do that again, and
Abdullah would come up, he didn't want to
sacrifice his son, another 10 camels, until it
became 100 camels.
When it was 100 camels, the camel's turn
came, and then he sacrificed 100 camels.
And that meat was taken by anyone that
needed it, people, animals, whatever ate from it,
and that's how the ransom for his son,
Abdullah, was made.
This is why, there are some narrations that
mention that the Prophet said, I am the
descendant of the two that were ransomed through
sacrifice.
The first one was the Prophet, second one
was his, his dad, Abdullah.
So, Abdullah then grows up in Mecca, and,
Abdul Mutalib, again, an established figure, that is
loved, trusted, kind, wise, he wanted to find
the best woman he could find for his
son, Abdullah.
Now, there is an important sunnah that fathers
need to act upon, which is finding a
spouse for your children.
Sometimes, nowadays, you just let them do, figure
them out themselves.
And, people are struggling.
Yeah, Sheikh, I can't find a wife.
Sheikh, I can't find a husband.
Parents, please, support your children in this.
Here you have, Abdul Mutalib, looking for a
suitable wife for his son, Abdullah.
By the way, who can name me, so
far, how many children of Abdul Mutalib did
we mention?
Who was, which was the son that was
with him when he was digging?
Harith ibn Abdul Mutalib.
And, which was the son that was almost
sacrificed?
Abdullah ibn Abdul Mutalib.
There's some major ones that you should know.
Abu Talib, Abu Talib ibn Abdul Mutalib, the
Prophet's uncle, Abu Talib.
Who else?
Abu Lahab, Abu Lahab, again, another son of
Abdul Mutalib.
Anyone else?
Hamza, and who else?
Abbas.
All of these, are the siblings.
Meaning what?
The neck could have been gone as well,
by the way, just so you know.
If you appreciate, you know that when he's
listing all of his sons, and they're drawing
lots, you got Hamza there, you got Abbas
there, you got Abu Lahab there, should have
been him.
Right?
So, just to kind of help you appreciate,
who we're talking about.
Then, where was I?
So then he found, for the Prophet ﷺ,
a very suitable person to marry, and that
was Aminah bint Wahab.
Aminah bint Wahab, who was the daughter of
one of the chiefs, and most important people
of Quraysh.
And, do you know, Aminah bint Wahab, and
the Prophet ﷺ, have a common ancestor?
I'm going to give you a hint who
he is.
This ancestor, was a proper politician.
We talk about him today.
Qusay ibn Qilab.
Qusay ibn Qilab.
Qusay?
So, in other words, Qusay has a great
great great great great granddaughter, called, Aminah.
And a great great great great great great
grandson, called, Abdullah.
And both of them gave birth, got married,
and they gave birth to, our beloved Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ.
So the Prophet's lineage, through his mom and
through his father, goes where?
To, Qusay ibn Qilab.
Okay.
They got married.
And, when they got married, as the culture,
and the norm was, Abdullah travelled for trade.
Just like his, grandfather, Adham Mudallib, or his
great grandfather, Hashim.
And he went through, Yathrib.
He got sick there.
And it's as a result of that sickness
that he died, at a very young age.
Some ulama say at the age of 20.
Some say at the age of 25.
And, when he passed away, his wife, Aminah,
was pregnant.
And she was pregnant, with the light of
this world.
The greatest of Allah's creation.
The final messenger.
The Sayyid, the leader of all of mankind.
The most beloved to Allah ﷻ.
Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abdul Mudallib.
Peace be upon him.
Aminah is pregnant.
Her husband has passed away.
And that beautiful boy, our Prophet ﷺ, will
be born without a father.
Without knowing his father.
As an orphan.
And, to mark his birth, the year of
his birth, a great incident occurred.
And that incident, was as a result, of
a man, who was jealous, of the centrality
and importance of the Kaaba.
And this man was from, Yemen.
And that side of the world.
From Ethiopian descent.
His name was Abraha.
He saw, how the Arabian Peninsula, everyone is
either talking about, the Kaaba, or going to
the Kaaba, or sacrifice to the Kaaba, or
visiting the pilgrimage.
And he wanted something similar for himself.
And, it didn't work out.
We'll go into details next week.
And he will march an attack, against, the
holiest site in Islam.
The Kaaba that was built, by Prophet Ismail
Ibrahim.
And Allah will mark, the defense, the defense,
of the greatest and holiest site, that year,
with the birth, of the greatest man.
Peace be upon him.
The Prophet was born in Amulfil.
And we'll discuss Amulfil.
And who will confront, and deal with, Abraha,
Abdul Mudalib.
So, how will Abdul Mudalib, and the rest
of Quraysh, deal with the attack of Abraha?
How will Allah, protect the Kaaba?
And the Prophet's birth, and the circumstances, will
inshallah be our lesson, for next week.
I'm going to conclude the lesson here.
And now I'm going to start with, asking
you guys questions.
Before I take some questions.
Is that okay with everyone?
Let me start with some questions.
Who was Hashim Ibn Abdi Manaf?
And where did he die?
Raise your hand if you know the answer.
Yes brother at the back.
No, Hashim is not the 11th one.
Hashim is very close.
It's the Prophet's great-grandfather.
So the great-grandfather of the Prophet, who
was he and where did he die?
Yes, at the back.
What's your name?
Yes.
Abdul Aziz, go on.
He died in Gaza.
Very good.
Why was he there?
For trade?
Trade, yes.
And, who can tell me, who Shaybatul Hamd
is?
Who is Shaybatul Hamd?
Yes, you brother.
What's your name?
Hasib.
Who is Shaybatul Hamd?
Shaybatul Hamd is Abdul Mutalib.
And who is Abdul Mutalib?
The grandfather of the Prophet.
Why was he called Abdul Mutalib?
By the way, if you're sitting on a
chair, get yourself prepared because you're in my
line of sight.
Abdul Mutalib.
Why was he called Abdul Mutalib Harun?
His uncle found him.
What's his uncle's name?
It's right there in the name.
Abdul Mutalib.
Mutalib, yes.
He was a slave that he bought.
So they called him Abdul Mutalib and the
name stuck.
Very good.
Who is Fihr Ibn Malik?
Fihr, who is he?
Does anyone know who Fihr is?
Yes.
The, what?
Yeah, I know but, what was he known
as?
there's a key fact about him.
Yes, brother.
Quraysh.
So when you say Quraysh, it's the ancestors,
it's the descendants of Fihr.
Fihr Ibn Malik, very good.
Who was Amr Ibn Al-Luhai Al-Khuzai?
Amr Ibn Al-Luhai Al-Khuzai.
Yes, Talha.
Talha, you want to pass it along?
Yes, brother.
The one who started idolatry in Mecca and
it became a culture.
Very good.
Who's Adnan?
Yes, brother.
And up to Adnan is where we know
for sure who he is.
We did a lot of lineage, but I
hope this lesson was beneficial inshallah for all
of you.
Final question is, what shall I make the
final question?
Yes.
Where was the Prophet's grandfather Adnan Mutalib born?
Yes.
Yathrib.
Very good.
Jazakallah Khair.
And Yathrib is mentioned in the Quran.
But Yathrib is the city of?
Medina.
Medina.
Hayakumullah.
Hayakumullah.
That's very good.
Let me see if there are any questions
from the sisters.
What was the reason that Adnan Mutalib dug
the ground to rediscover Zamzam?
What was the reason why Adnan Mutalib was
digging the ground?
This is a question that's been asked, but
some of you should know the answer.
Yes, brother.
He had a dream.
And what happened to Zamzam Mortar?
Why was it gone?
Why was it gone?
Yes.
The tribe, they destroyed it, and after that
it was lost in time until the dream
of Adnan Mutalib.
So the sisters are asking, what was the
reason for Adnan Mutalib's rediscovering of the Zamzam?
He kept on seeing it in a dream.
Someone is asking here, are the parents of
the Prophet ﷺ upon Hanifiyyah?
So Hanifiyyah is the pure belief in Allah's
right to be worshipped alone.
The religion that was, Hanifiyyah is Islam.
Hanifiyyah is Islam, right?
Allah calls Prophet Ibrahim Hanif, right?
Hanifiyyah is the pure religion, so we all
are Hanifiyyah, meaning we are all upon the
path of Prophet Ibrahim, turning away from all
religions, all faiths, all types of devotion, except
for the worship of Allah ﷻ alone.
There were people in Mecca that, as you
know, we went through a lot of history
today.
Up to the point where Amr ibn Luhay
introduces idolatry, people are upon Hanifiyyah.
Then people accept this, and it becomes a
culture, and it goes on, on, on, and
every generation, more people accept idolatry.
Up to the point where, when the Prophet
ﷺ is being born, there are people you
can count on one hand in Mecca that
are upon Hanifiyyah, the father, and the Prophet's
mother.
So, there are two hadiths that tell us
that they were both, that they were not
upon Hanifiyyah, that they were not upon Hanifiyyah.
And before I continue explaining this, it is
important to understand being related to a Prophet,
being related to a Prophet does not mean
salvation.
Being related to a Prophet does not guarantee
salvation.
Among the greatest Prophets is one that we
were talking about, that we were talking about
today, the Prophet of Islam, whose whole life
was about Tawheed, and worshipping Allah alone.
And his father, Azhar, his father was not
a believer.
In fact, he threatened his son, if you
keep telling me about the worship of Allah
alone, I will kill you.
So, his father Azhar was not a believer.
Meaning, we know of a Prophet whose son
was not a believer.
Who the Prophet is?
Prophet Nuh, peace be upon him.
So, my dad is a Prophet, is also
not a guarantee for salvation.
We know Prophets whose wives were not Muslim.
Prophet Nuh and Prophet Lot.
So, again, I am married to a Prophet,
is not a cause for salvation either.
So, were Abdullahi and Aminah upon Hanifiyyah, there
is no evidence in this Hadith in Sahih
Muslim, a man came to the Prophet, and
said, Ya Rasulullah, where is my father?
And the Prophet said, your father is in
the fire.
And the man was visibly upset, and he
walked away, and the Prophet called him, and
he said, both my father and your father
is in the fire.
There are some Ulama that go
in the Quran, Prophet Ibrahim asked Allah to
ask forgiveness for his father, and Allah refused.
And said, if you die upon idolatry, then
that's it for you.
So, a lot of the evidence suggests that
they both died upon idolatry.
There is also another view that says that
they are from the people of Fatrah.
The people of Fatrah are if you are
born between two Prophets.
If you are born between two Prophets, and
the pure message doesn't reach you, if you
have those two views, that the Ulama argue,
if you look at the Hadith and their
apparent meaning, it leans more towards that they
were not upon Hanifia.
And Allah knows best.
And Allah knows best.
What was the disagreement that occurred between Abdi
Dar and his brothers?
It was a fight over, not Abdi Dar
and Abdi Manaf, not the brothers, but it
was their children who fought between the Quraysh
clans over who gets to have custodianship of
those things.
Who can tell me what those things were?
The main things that signified that you are
the leader of Quraysh that you were in
charge of.
That Qusay ibn Killaab instituted in Mecca.
Who can tell me what they were?
Let's see if we can figure them out.
Mustafa ibn Bisaid, what was one of them?
The hijabah, which was what?
The caretaking and custodianship of the Kaaba, hijabah.
The Siqaya, which was giving water to the
pilgrims.
Allah speaks about that.
So Siqaya, as well as Rifada, which was
giving them food.
And then one more thing, the banner.
So what they were fighting over, the sisters
are asking this, what they were fighting over
was who gets to be in charge of
all of this, because that's what would symbolize
leadership in Quraysh.
Okay, Jazakumullah khair everyone Do the brothers have
any questions?
I'll take two questions before I conclude.
If there are no questions, Alhamdulillah we conclude
the lesson here Does anyone know where we're
going to pick up next week?
Where are we going to pick up next
week?
The year of the elephants, the attack of
Abraham on the Kaaba, and the birth of
the greatest man, Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam
may we be among those that follow him.
And remember if you want to say salallahu
alayhi wa sallam as often as you can,