Mustafa Khattab – The Sahaba 3 3

So today, InshaAllah, we'll continue our talk about

the Sahaba, the greatness of the Sahaba of

Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

So the scholars talk about the Sahaba. They

classify them into 2 groups.

And this is an answer to the question,

are there among us today people who are

like the Sahaba,

In terms of their greatness in this life

and their level in Jannah, so the scholars

say that the Sahaba are 2 groups. The

first one

are the family of

Then

you have the people of Badr who fought

with the prophet sasaihi wa sallam in Badr.

Then you have the Sahaba who gave their

pledge to the

prophet under the tree, Bayatul Ridwan. They say

that these are the pioneers. No one will

ever get their reward or get to their

limit

in

the family of the prophet, salaam,

and this is the only reward you give

to the prophet, salaam, for conveying the message

to you. So the prophet, salaam, says in

the Quran that I ask no payment or

no fee from you for conveying the message

to you except kindness

and respect to my family.

So it's not only one group of Muslims

that will love Alabayd or respect them. All

of Muslims is part of your iman, of

your faith to love Alabayd.

So the scholars say that the second group

of people of the Sahaba, they they are

they are the average Sahaba.

And this includes the other Sahaba that we,

didn't mention in the first group. There are

people among us today who are like the

Sahaba, the average Sahaba. Why?

Because some of us, they sacrifice their money

to give sadaqah although they might need the

money. They contribute to building the sajid and

Islamic schools and so on and so forth,

and this is my biggest to lower sales.

Okay? Shaitan will come to you, oh man,

you need to take the money and go

to Hawaii, man. You need to buy a

new car. If you go ahead and contribute

to the Muslim community,

you will give that award of the Sahaba.

If you take 5 minutes out of your

out of your business schedule to pray, you

are like the Sahaba. You sacrifice your time.

If you bring up your kids in an

Islamic way, you are like the Sahaba because

this is what they did.

The prophet

says in an authentic hadith

that my nation is like rain. You don't

know which part of it is better than

the other. The first part or the middle

or the last. So the prophet is saying

basically that, oh, my Ummah is good.

So the prophet SAWA SAWA SAWA

certifies

or confirms that the people among us

who love the Prophet SAW and they follow

his example in our time,

they love him more than anyone else among

the first generations of Muslims. And this is

mentioned in an authentic hadith,

the Prophet SAW says or he was asked,

who loves you the most? I'm a be

your Ummah.

So the prophet says, as reported in Sahih

Muslim by Abu Ghrahi,

those who love me the most

are people who will come after me.

They have never seen me, and they still

believe in me. One of them or they

wish to sacrifice all their money and all

their families just to see me.

So this is a good proof that, Alhamdulillah,

there is goodness in our time too.

The there are different reasons why the Sahaba

accepted Islam at the time of the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Some of them,

they saw the miracles of the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam. The water coming out between

his fingers, the stones making tazbih with him,

the splitting of the moon, and all that

stuff. So they believed.

We haven't seen this, but we still believe.

Some of the Sahaba,

they accepted Islam because they saw the manners

of the Prophet

and how,

courteous

and and kind and nice he was to

people. Like,

when he was asked, why did he accept

this man? He said, when I looked at

the prophet

and I saw the goodness

of his personality,

he didn't look like a, like a liar

to me. He seemed alright. He seemed like

a very noble and honorable person, and this

is why I accepted Islam.

We haven't seen this because we didn't see

the prophet

face to face. We've heard about his manners

and his lofty character, but we haven't seen

him like face to face.

So this is one example

of a person who accepted Islam because of

the generosity of the prophet

So Safwan ibn Numa'yaw witnessed

one of the battles for the prophet I

think it was for night,

and there was a valley full of goats

and sheep from the booty or the ghanibal

of the battle. So he kept staring at

that battle for a long time, and the

prophet

came close to him, and he was at

that time, and he plotted actually to kill

the prophet

earlier in the story. So the prophet

said, do you like this valley? I see

you looking at it, you know, for a

long time. So he said, yes. I like

it. So the prophet

said, it is for you.

Fell down. He couldn't say that they then

later in the store, he said, allahi, no

one would never give something so generous like

this except a profit. And he accepted Islam

instantly

because of this.

For us, we haven't seen anything. Did the

prophet

gave you a check or $10, a $100

or anything? No.

So and this is what makes

us get the reward of the sahaba who

accepted

Islam, and they have never seen the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. We have never met

him. We have never experienced his generosity and

his kindness as a Sahaba din, and we

haven't seen his miracles like Allah sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam calls you in the Hadith that

you love him the most.