Mustafa Khattab – Sahabas Love for the Prophet PBUH
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I pay witness that there is none worthy
of our worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And I pay witness that Muhammad Sallallahu Wa
Salam, peace be upon him, is the seal
of the prophets and the final messenger
to all humanity.
Whomever
Allah guides, there is none to misguide.
And whomever Allah
leaves to go astray, there is none to
guide.
So today, inshallah, we'll continue our discussion about
So even the Guffar of Mecca, the people
of Mecca before Islam,
they used to wonder why
in the world the sahaba of the prophet
used to love him so much. So in
this narration,
Abu Sufyan radiAllahu, before he accepted Islam, he
said, I have never seen anyone
loves another person just like the Sahaba, the
companions, and the prophet sassan have loved Mohammed.
I wonder. I don't know why.
Why we also love the prophet, salallahu alayhi
wa sallam,
number 1, this is what we are told
in the Quran. We are told that the
prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam is closer to
us than our own selves,
and he is more beloved to us than
ourselves.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran
that indeed the prophet is closer to the
believers than their own selves than their own
souls.
And if you read in the the Tasir
ibn Kabir al Qutubi, they say,
because yourself,
your soul, the lower self,
and desires will always prompt and motivate you
to do the wrong, the Haram.
Do this, drink this, mold that. But the
prophet
always tells you to do what is good
and to avoid what is evil. If something
is bad to you, he's telling you to
avoid it.
But your desires tell you, no. Go ahead
and do it. And if there's something good
for you, the prophet
will tell you, do it, and your lower
self will tell you, no. No. No. Don't
go there. No.
And this is why this
is more beloved to you than yourself.
So the prophet
mentioned the same thing in an authentic Hadith
as high as Muslim. He said,
the example of myself and my companions, my
ummah, is some like someone who is standing
by a fire,
and
the butterflies
and insects, they keep throwing themselves in the
fire.
And I'm standing there trying to protect you
from the fire, and you are throwing yourself
in there. So this is the meaning of
the ayah and the Quran.
And we know the khalil from Muhammad Al
Ababa and so on and so forth.
So the second reason, the prophet was
very humble always
before he migrated to Madinah and after
when they were persecuted in Mecca and when
Allah gave them victory in Madinah. He was
always the same person, humble.
So the prophet was always humble. We're told
in the authentic ahadith and in the sirup
that the prophet
when the Sahaba were building the masjid, he
was carrying rocks with them.
When they were digging the trench to protect
adi Badina, the prophet was carrying dust and
digging with them.
When he traveled and it was time to
make food, the prophet
would collect firewood for them. And they say,
oh, prophetullah, you don't have to do
people like if someone is their king or
their ruler,
they like that person to be one of
them. If they feel you are one of
the people, they will always be there. They
stand up for you, and they try to
protect you. And do the best they can.
But if they think you're up there and
they are down here, you're looking down upon
them, treating them like slaves, nobody will care
about you.
So the second or third reason why the
sahabah loved the prophet
so much was because he was so honest
with them. He never
lied. And even before Islam, he was called
the reliable and the trustworthy.
He never lied.
So it so happened as reported in the
hadith in Bukhari and Muslim,
when the son of the prophet
died, the son of Ibrahim passed away, in
the same day it so happened,
a coincidence,
that that there was a solar eclipse. The
sun was eclipse.
So some people
started a rumor that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
feels sorry for the prophet's son. This is
why we have a solar eclipse.
So the prophet, salaam, came out and he
gave a footba and said,
let all of you know that the sun
and the moon are two signs of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. They lone eclipse for anybody's
death or life.
And if you see a solar eclipse, makes
a lot of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Someone, another person
who is hoping to get the support
of people and the people who believe in
his message, and he was fought and persecuted.
He would say, you know what? Yes. Allah
is sad that my son died. And if
betray us the same name, he would say,
you know what?
The the angels are crying.
This is a raid that'll be done. This
is steers. No. The prophet
was very honest with the people.
Also, the prophet
was sincere, and people loved him for his
sincerity.
He was persecuted. The sahaba were killed. He
was injured.
And
the people of Mecca sent someone to bribe
him. So they said, if you want money,
I'm gonna write you a check right now.
If you want
a position or a status in the society,
we'll make you a king over us.
If you want women, we'll get you the
most gorgeous women in town.
But the prophet
said, no. By Allah, my role is to
convey the message. Even if I die, convey
the message.
Somebody else would say, okay. You're giving me
500,000.
I would accept a1000000. Thank you.
No. The prophet, salaam, was ready to give
all it takes to deliver the message.
So how did the Sahaba of the qtymels
defended the prophet
If you look at the sera,
the sahaba, all of them, men, women, and
children,
they were ready to sacrifice everything, their money,
themselves to protect the prophet, salaam,
and to support him.
So number 1, they tried to defend him
in the media,
And the media at that time was poached.
It would say a poem and people would,
you know,
just spread the word and say this poem
everywhere. So they spread the word in this
way. They didn't have Fox News back then.
So Hassan ibn Abdul was the point of
the prophet
He used to make points to defend the
prophet
And in one point, he's telling him,
you have tracked the prophet
and I tried to respond on his behalf,
hoping to get that word from Allah.
I sacrificed my honor and the honor of
my father and his father to defend the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam from everything he
say. He's saying, basically, if you want to
attack someone,
attack me and my family, and don't say
a word about the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Many of them, they sacrificed their money to
defend the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, like
Uthmar and Afar and all of the sahab
to our
Muslims to defend the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and defend Madin.
Also, they tried to protect him with themselves
and their souls.
If you read the story of Alayna Bintalib
in the Hijra or Taha in the Arabayna
land in the battle of Badr, When they
tried to kill the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, so he made himself as a shield.
He took he took all the stabs instead
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam until
they say in the narrations, he lost all
of his fingers,
and
they almost found his hand, trying to protect
the prophet, and some of them, those are
liars trying to defend them.
So we're told in the seerah
that a lady from Bani Dinar, a tribe,
that her father and her husband and her
brother were killed in the Battle of Benin.
And when the news came to her, the
first thing she said, what did the prophet
do? How how is the prophet
do? They said, he is fine,
after the prophet is tiny and small. If
the prophet is okay, everything else is okay.
In this story,
at the time of Umar ibn Khathar in
Bahrain,
the state of Bahrain,
so
some of the children of the Sahaba, they
were playing hockey with sticks and a small
ball.
Okay?
So somebody kicked the ball so hard, so
it fell on the chest of the man.
He was not Muslim.
So what happened? They went him to to
get the ball, to retrieve the ball. So
they said, will you please give us the
ball?
What then was bad? Okay?
But they were very nice to them and
said, okay. We apologize. The ball hit you
in the chest. Okay.
But please give us the ball. He said,
no. I'm not gonna give you the ball.
So they said, we asked you they thought
he was Muslim because he had a beard.
He looked like, you know so they said,
we ask you by your love
to the prophet to give us the boat.
He started to pass at them and the
prophet
So as narrated in the story,
they fixed him up New York style.
And when the news came to Umar alayhi
lawu, he was so happy, and he said
Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, has given Islam victory
today. So the sahaba said, why? He said,
because the prophet
his name was abused
in front of little kids,
and they supported the prophet and they defended
him in this way.
So
about 2 weeks ago, we started this campaign
to collect funds so we can send pamphlets
to all the homes in Edmonton and neighboring
cities. And inshallah, if we give more support,
maybe you will print out a 1,000,000 pamphlets
and we'll send them to all the homes
in Alberta.
Sayeed.
The best way to defend the prophet
is through doubt, to
the
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
to me, with the hadith balimu ani wailu
aye. Convey my message
even in the form of 1 ayah or
1 hadith.
I've seen a lot of cases where people
come to me and after we give them
shahada, they start crying and they said,
and know what? You guys should have told
me about Islam 10 years ago. If my
father knew about Islam before he died, he
would have a trip in Islam. But you
guys are lazy. Allah, this is what people
say.
So this call will say, draw three purposes
behind making down onto people.
Number 1, when you deliver the message to
them, you're fulfilling a religious obligation.
So
when you come in the day of judgment,
you will stand before Allah and say, oh,
for all Allah, I delivered the message as
you said in the Quran.
My role and the role of the prophet
and all prophets before him is to convey
and not to convert.
Just convey the message. This is what Allah
says in the Quran. Whether they accept or
not is not your problem.
Number 1, if they accept Islam Alhamdulillah,
every single person will get the reward in
the masjid and in the community.
Number 2, those who don't know about Islam,
if if they don't take Shahada, at least
they will have a positive
attitude toward Islam and Muslims.
If someone says something wrong in the media
or in front of them, they'll say, no.
You know what? Muslims are good people. Islam
is a peace and a religion. What you
are saying is wrong.
This is the purpose number 2. Number 3,
if we don't get people
to take child
or to change attitude about Islam, at least
they will hate Islam less.
And if we settle down to this, that
we get less
hatred from people, this is a success.
We said in the past 2 weeks that
the initial
quote we got is 2 pounds per dog.
But Alhamdulillah, the brothers in the Masjid were
able to negotiate a better deal, and now
we're getting 5 up 4 up to 5
pamphlets per per dollar. So if you pay
a $100, we'll be able to send the
pamphlets to 500
homes.
A $1,000,
4,000
homes or 500,
homes
multiplied by 4 people in the household, that's
20 up to 20,000
people.
So this is an obligation. Insha'Allah, after the
fundraise after the salahatul Jum'ah, there will be
brothers standing
or go to the office inshallah and pay
in the office if you have a Mastercard
or any other means. That's Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. And