Nadim Bashir – Abu Ubayda Ibn Al-Jarrah 40 Ahadith Of The Sahaba
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The speaker discusses the history of the Prophet's name and the importance of gaining trust through subhan administration and the names of the people. They also talk about the history of the Prophet servicing Allah and the importance of protecting one's life and contributions from the people. The story of the church's loss of life due to COVID-19 and the use of digitalization to save lives is also discussed. The importance of protecting oneself from the plague and the loss of life due to COVID-19 is also emphasized.
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So this is the fifth hadith in this
series of 40 hadiths regarding the Sahabah رضي
الله عنهم.
The very first hadith was related to Abu
Bakr رضي الله عنه.
The second one was related to Umar ibn
al-Khattab رضي الله عنه.
The third one was related to Uthman.
The fourth one was related to Ali رضي
الله عنه.
Today, this hadith is related to a Sahabi
who was very beloved to Rasulallah ﷺ, who
migrated to Medina with Rasulallah ﷺ.
And this is none other than Abu Ubaidah
ibn al-Jarrah رضي الله عنه.
So there's a hadith narrated by Hudhayfa رضي
الله عنه.
He says جاء العاقب والسيد صاحب نجران إلى
رسول الله ﷺ يريدان أن يلاعناه فقال أحدهما
لصاحبه لا تفعل فوالله لئن كان نبيا فلاعنا
لا نفلح There's a hadith, Hudhayfa رضي الله
عنه says that there were two people who
came from a tribe or an area called
Najran.
They came to the Prophet ﷺ to discuss.
And this is something that has been highlighted
also in the third juz.
Allah سبحانه وتعالى talks about this incident that
they came to discuss with Rasulallah ﷺ.
And the discussion was about Aqeedah.
It was about theology.
Because these were people who were Christians by
Aqeedah.
So it says that when they came to
the Prophet ﷺ and after the entire discussion,
they were thinking of engaging in which is
called Mubahala.
Mubahala is an act or a type of
thing that would take place a long time
ago.
Though it was rare in Islamic history but
what it was is that two parties, two
opposing parties would inflict or they would invoke
Allah's curse upon the other.
Meaning that if I am lying then may
Allah's curse be upon me.
And if you're lying may Allah's curse be
upon you.
It was a way to invoke curses upon
each other in order to come to the
truth as to who is the truth, who
is speaking the truth and who is making
the false statement.
So these two people who came to the
Prophet ﷺ, they said before they engage in
this Mubahala, then let's not engage in Mubahala.
Why invoke curses upon each other?
What if this man is truly Rasulallah ﷺ?
What if he is indeed the Prophet of
Allah then we're going to be invoking curses
upon ourselves.
So they went to the Prophet ﷺ and
they said, اِبَعَثْ مَعَنَا رَجُلًا أَمِينًا وَلَا تَبَعَثْ
مَعَنَا إِلَّا أَمِينًا They said to the Prophet
ﷺ that we want you to send a
man with us, a man that you consider
as trustworthy.
And this is something very big because you
have to understand, we're talking about none other
than Rasulallah ﷺ.
And imagine if the Prophet ﷺ says, I
trust a person, that is a very high
honor for a particular person.
So the Prophet ﷺ, he went to the
Sahaba radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhum, and he says
that I'm looking for two things within a
person.
I'm looking for a person who has the
capacity, he is Qawiyy, and number two is
he is Ameen.
Now by the way, pause here for a
moment.
If you look at the Qur'an also,
if you look at the Qur'an, these
are two characteristics that are mentioned in two
different places in the Qur'an.
First of all is when Suleyman ﷺ said,
who is going to bring the throne of
Bilqis?
A jinn came forward and what did he
say?
He says, وَإِذْنِي عَلَيْهِ لَقَوِيُّ أَمِينٌ First of
all, I have the capacity, but number two
is one person could have the capacity to
do something.
But are they trustworthy?
Could they take that throne and go somewhere
else?
No, I am also trustworthy too.
I'm not going to cheat on you.
I'm not going to cheat the system here.
So he's saying this.
Also interestingly, when the two women, when they
came to Musa ﷺ, when Musa ﷺ escaped
to Madian, and he went with one of
those women, and he came to the father
of those women, what did he say?
He says, وَإِنَّ خَيْرَ مَنِ اسْتَأْجَرْتَ الْقَوِيُّ الْأَمِينُ
That I want to hire a person who
is قوي.
Number one, they have the physical capacity to
do the job because I'm an elderly man.
I have two daughters.
They cannot do it.
I need someone who has the physical capacity
to do this job on a day-to
-day basis.
But number two is, they will not cheat
me.
They will not cheat the system.
They will not take something away from me.
I need someone that I can put my
trust in someone.
So this is why subhanAllah, even now, Rasulullah
ﷺ, he comes to the Sahaba and he
says, I'm looking for someone who is قوي
and who is أمين.
Now all the Sahaba radiallahu anhum, imagine if
the Prophet ﷺ said this.
Every single Sahabi is saying, I hope Rasulullah
ﷺ picks me.
And who did he pick the next day?
He came and he says that, where is
Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah radiallahu ta'ala
anhum?
And then he says, وَلِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ أَمِينٌ وَأَمِينُ
هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةٍ إِبْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ
تَلْعَانُ So this is an honor, an amazing
honor.
Because once again, when we talk about, when
you love someone, you want to always gain
their trust.
Think about gaining the trust of Rasulullah ﷺ,
subhanAllah.
So then he was the one who was
sent on behalf of or by Rasulullah ﷺ.
Now, regarding Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah radiallahu
ta'ala anhum, there are many things I
want to share with you today about him
and his life and his contributions.
First of all is that Abu Ubaidah ibn
al-Jarrah radiallahu ta'ala anhum was someone
in the early days of Makkah, he was
first of all someone who converted to Islam
because of Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'ala anhum.
Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'ala anhum, as we
all know, one of the very first people
to accept Islam.
But subhanAllah, many of the Ashara Mubashara, because
Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah is one of
the Ashara Mubashara.
Many of the Ashara Mubashara were brought to
Islam through Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'ala anhum,
subhanAllah.
So think about how much hasanat he's getting
as it is.
Number two is, he was someone who always
dedicated his life to the Prophet ﷺ.
Though he migrated to Abyssinia, he came back
from Abyssinia and he stayed with the Prophet
ﷺ.
And when the call came to make hijrah,
to Medina, he also migrated with the Prophet
ﷺ.
There in Medina, he contributed in every single
battle.
In the battle of Badr, because of the
fact that he became a Muslim.
His father was a staunch enemy of Islam.
He wanted to literally kill his own son,
Abu Ubaidah, because of the fact that he
became a Muslim.
Though Abu Ubaidah was in the battle of
Badr, and the battle of Badr in the
Qur'an has been referred to as يَوْمَ
الْفُرْقَانِ يَوْمَ الْتَقَى الْجَمْعَانِ This is the day
where the truth became distinct from the falsehood.
So the Qur'an refers to the battle
of Badr in this way.
Abu Ubaidah is in the battlefield.
His father is on the opposing side.
At this time there is no family, there
is no relationship if you're standing on the
opposite side.
Abu Ubaidah tried to stay away from his
father, but his father kept on coming around,
looking for his son, because he wanted to
kill him, because of the fact that he
became a Muslim.
Of course when they both met, you have
to defend yourself.
And this was a point that where Abu
Ubaidah, because he was being attacked by his
father, he had to defend himself, and he
killed his father.
And based on this, many ulama, though this
is not a practice that was often done,
but the sahaba radiyallahu anhum had a certain
attitude, that when it came to Allah and
His Prophet ﷺ, versus if it comes down
to my parents, I'm always going to give
preference to Allah and His Prophet ﷺ.
And this is why some of the ulama
they say, based on this incident, there is
an ayah in the Qur'an, where Allah
says, لَا تَجِذُ قَوْمًا Meaning Allah is talking
about what an interesting group of people they
are, meaning the sahaba radiyallahu anhum.
لَا تَجِذُ قَوْمًا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ يُوَادُونَ
مَنْ حَادَ اللَّهِ You will find these kind
of people that they will never love those
who are against Allah and His Prophet ﷺ.
وَلَوْ كَانُوا Even if it is who?
أَبَاءَهُمْ أو أَبْنَاءَهُمْ أو إِخْوَانَهُمْ أو عَشِيرَةَهُمْ Even
if it is their father, their sons, their
brothers, or even their family members, when it
comes to Allah and His Prophet ﷺ.
First comes Allah and His Prophet ﷺ, then
comes anyone else.
Even if their own family members are the
enemies.
So this is in the battle of Badr,
he made sure that he set his alliance,
he made sure that his alliance was with
the Prophet ﷺ and Allah ﷻ.
Then in the battle of Badr, in the
battle of Uhud, his contribution was even greater
in the battle of Uhud.
If you go to the battle where, subhanAllah,
when we just went right now, it's the
same thing, you have the mountain of Uhud.
And once again, the Prophet ﷺ, he stationed
himself in such a manner that the mountain
was behind him.
So that there will be no attacks from
behind.
He only has to worry about what's in
front of him.
There was a point where the 50 archers
left their positions.
This gave Khalid ibn Walid at that time,
who was not a Muslim, an upper hand
to come and attack the Muslims.
The Prophet ﷺ and the Sahaba, they had
to retreat.
Because the Prophet ﷺ was wearing a helmet.
And someone attacked the Prophet ﷺ, causing the
helmet to break.
And not only that, but the two sides
of the helmet, because it was metal, they
were lodged in the jaws, and in the
cheek of Rasulullah ﷺ.
What happened was that when they took the
Prophet ﷺ away, Abu Ubaidah ibn Jarrah r
.a, he came.
And he said that, because the Sahaba r
.a, you got to understand one thing about
them.
They were looking for their moments.
You understand?
They always want to do something that they
can always be remembered for.
They want to leave behind a legacy.
So the Prophet ﷺ, he's sitting there, he's
bleeding.
Abu Ubaidah comes, and there's no way to
take that metal piece out.
So Abu Ubaidah, he puts his mouth into
the cheek of the Prophet ﷺ, and he
pulls out the metal piece with his front
two teeth.
As he pulls it out, one of his
teeth is lost.
He loses a tooth in that process.
At that time, Abu Bakr r.a says,
Abu Ubaidah, just let it go.
Let me do the other side.
Let me go to the other side of
the Prophet ﷺ and let me take that
out.
And Abu Ubaidah is like, no, this is
my moment.
I'm not going to let you steal my
moment here.
This is my time.
And this is my time to serve Allah
and Prophet ﷺ.
He went to the other side, and he
pulled out that piece of metal.
And when he did that, he lost the
second front tooth.
And though it's mentioned about the physique of
Abu Ubaidah ibn Jarrah r.a, that he
was a muscular man.
But think about this, I want you to
picture this in your mind.
A muscular man, a tall man, who's missing
their front two teeth.
Who's missing their front two teeth.
And that's why it's mentioned in some riwayat
that Rasulullah ﷺ, he would praise him that
he is the most handsome toothless man.
This is the Prophet ﷺ, he would praise
Abu Ubaidah ibn Jarrah r.a. But this
was his heroism in the battle of Uhud.
Then of course we know what happened when
it came to the expedition of Najran.
Even there was another time, because one thing
about Abu Ubaidah ibn Jarrah was that he
was an amazing commander-in-chief also.
He was a military leader.
So one time Rasulullah ﷺ, he sent a
group of people known in Bukhari and Muslim
as Sayful Bahar.
It was an expedition.
It was not a Ghazwa.
A Ghazwa is where the Prophet ﷺ he
participated.
A Sariyya is where the Prophet ﷺ did
not participate.
So the Prophet ﷺ, this was considered as
a Sariyya.
The Prophet ﷺ sent a group of people
on an expedition, and their leader was Abu
Ubaidah ibn Jarrah r.a. And it is
mentioned by many of the Sahaba r.a.
that as they were traveling, they were running
out of food.
And they were just trying to get whatever
they can to take care of their, you
know, to take care and curb their hunger.
That subhanAllah later on in that same battle,
or in that same expedition, the well-known
story of a whale that, you know, got
washed up on shore.
And subhanAllah, this was from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to provide for the entire army.
And it said that this army, I mean
this animal, this whale was so big that
even the Sahaba r.a. they ate from
its meat.
But at the same time, they were able
to use, because we're talking about a very
big animal, the rib cage of that animal
was so big that many of the Sahaba
r.a. they were able to seek shelter
underneath the ribs of that huge animal and
that whale.
Later on they came back to Rasulullah ﷺ,
and they narrated the entire incident.
And that is when the Prophet ﷺ said
that this was a gift from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
This was sent to you by Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Now, come the time of Abu Bakr r
.a. The Prophet ﷺ passes away.
Now comes the time of Abu Bakr r
.a. I want you to understand.
If you go to Medina today, and subhanAllah,
you know, last year when I went to
Medina, they still had that garden there where
the Khilafah took place.
It's called Saqifah Bani Sa'idah.
So it's right next to, if you go
to current day Mofan Peak, you just get
out, it's right there.
However, subhanAllah, this time when we just went,
they have actually, they have removed the whole
garden there.
They removed the whole garden.
They're doing a bunch of construction there.
The only thing they've left, subhanAllah, interestingly, they've
only left one tree trunk.
That's all they left.
Besides that, they have wiped out everything else,
though it is surrounded.
And it says large on there, Saqifah Bani
Sa'idah.
But nonetheless, subhanAllah, it's always a lot of
history that took place over there.
When the Prophet ﷺ, his funeral process was
taking place, the Ansar had gathered over there
to decide who's the next Khalifah.
Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه went with Uman
al-Khattab رضي الله عنه, and they were
talking to the Ansar and they said, listen,
this is not the right way to do
something like this.
Here the Prophet ﷺ is being buried and
you're discussing the next leader or the next
Khalifah.
Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه, he had so
much trust in Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه
that he, first of all, look at his
taqwa, that he not even nominate himself.
Although in the last days of the Prophet
ﷺ, it was Abu Bakr who was leading
the salawat in the absence of the Prophet
ﷺ, which shows that the mantle of leadership
is being transferred to Abu Bakr رضي الله
عنه.
But he did not nominate himself.
He told the Ansar, do whatever you want,
but these are two people that I would
suggest.
Umar ibn Khattab and Abu Ubaidah رضي الله
عنه.
I would suggest that you pick one of
these two people, because they've always been there
with the Prophet ﷺ.
They've made a lot of sacrifices.
And though, yes, you are the Ansar, but
we were the very first people to convert
to Islam and we made certain sacrifices that
you're not even aware of.
Of course, we all know what happened was
that instead of Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله
عنه said that instead of me, how about
all of us we agree that Abu Bakr
رضي الله عنه becomes the next Khalifah and
they all agreed to that.
But at the end of the life of
Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه, he is the
one who actually chose Umar ibn Khattab رضي
الله عنه to be the next Khalifah.
And it is mentioned that Abu Bakr رضي
الله عنه had a choice.
Either he could pick Umar ibn Khattab رضي
الله عنه, it was either between Umar ibn
Khattab or Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah رضي
الله عنه.
And this goes to show you how much
trust Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه had in
Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه.
But because the leadership style that Umar رضي
الله عنه had, and not only that but
overall there was a consensus amongst the Sahabah
رضي الله عنهم that Umar is the right
choice.
That is why Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه
he went with Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله
عنه.
Now, as far as in the early days
of Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه's time, it
is mentioned that there was something called the
Ridda Wars.
Basically, there were people who just began to
go against.
They refused to pay their Zakat.
They had turned their backs onto the deen.
And there was a lot of things that
happened at that time.
Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه, he played a
very pivotal role in helping Abu Bakr رضي
الله عنه in these expeditions and in these
battles.
Not only that, but even during his time,
he actually played a very important role also
in conquering, which is Ash-Sham.
Now, remember Ash-Sham is not today Syria.
When you say Sham, it is a combination
of four countries, right?
Yes or no?
Which countries?
Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan.
So these four countries.
So we're talking about the area of Ash
-Sham.
Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه he went to
Ash-Sham.
And though at that time, Khalid ibn Walid
was the appointed leader by Abu Bakr رضي
الله عنه.
But nonetheless, he played an important role because
these were two people that all the Sahaba
used to look up to.
And not only that, but after that, they
made sure that even afterwards, when the siege
of Damascus took place, in the year 634
after Hijrah, it is mentioned that he made
sure that once the siege was over, once
Damascus was theirs, then he made sure that
there was safety, rules, regulations, freedom, and property
rights for everyone in that place.
Now, one of the things that Umar al
-Khattab رضي الله عنه did, that as soon
as he became the Khalifa, one of the
things that he did, was that he removed
Khalid ibn Walid from the position of leadership.
And he handed that leadership mantle over to
Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه.
And though many people have asked that, why
would Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه, I
mean, why would he do this?
And the reason why he did this was
because the Muslims were successful in many expeditions
and many battles.
And what was happening is that there was
a mindset that was being created and developed
that we have Khalid ibn Walid, that is
why we're winning all these battles.
Umar رضي الله عنه wanted to remind everyone
that you don't win battles because of Khalid
ibn Walid رضي الله عنه, but you win
battles because of the help of who?
Because of Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
So in order to change this mindset, he
put Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه in charge.
Now, of course, there were some battles that
took place.
There was a battle of Yarmouk that also
took place.
But the most important thing that happened in
the life of Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله
عنه, which was the plague of Amwas.
And this was a plague that broke out
in Asham.
And Umar رضي الله عنه, and if you
remember when COVID had come, there were many
people who are using the story of Umar
ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه that he saw
that the city was plagued and he refused
to walk into the city or go into
the city.
When he was asked that, aren't you running
away from the plague?
What did he say?
He says, I'm running away.
I'm going from one qadr to another qadr.
You understand?
Like basically, I remember when COVID was happening,
everyone was using this example of Amin al
-Mineen to explain that you just don't walk
into the problem, but rather you try to
protect yourself from the problem.
So once again, now here there is a,
you know, what happened was, there's a hadith
of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that
talks about someone who's in the plague and
they get the reward of a shaheed.
This hadith was narrated by Abu Ubaidah رضي
الله عنه.
Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه, though Umar ibn
Khattab, he left.
Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه said, I'm going
to stay here.
Now Umar ibn Khattab said, that the explanation
of this hadith is that if you're inside
the plague, you don't get out of the
plague.
You don't go out of town.
But if you're on the outskirts, you don't
have to go on the inside.
Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه said, I'm going
to stay here.
I'm going to help out and so forth.
Now Umar ibn Khattab went back to Medina.
He sends a letter when he hears that
this plague is spreading.
He sends a letter to Abu Ubaidah رضي
الله عنه, telling him that I want you,
once you get this letter, I want you
to come back to Medina.
Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه knew right away
that Umar رضي الله عنه does not have
an issue.
He does not need to send me somewhere.
Rather, he's trying to protect me from the
plague.
He decided I want to stay here.
I want to support the people.
And if I lose my life in this
process, then let it be.
قدر الله ما شاء فعل So what happened
was he decided to stay.
And then slowly and gradually, it is mentioned
that Abu Ubaidah رضي الله عنه, he actually
was affected by the plague and he lost
his life due to that.
But nonetheless, it is mentioned that when Umar
رضي الله عنه, he heard the news of
Abu Ubaidah passing away.
He was crying profusely because they understood what
kind of a loss this was for the
Ummah of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم.
A man who has so much zuhud.
And you know how much zuhud he had?
How much asceticism he had?
It is mentioned that when Umar رضي الله
عنه had come to visit him in Ash
-Sham, he told him, take me to your
home.
Abu Ubaidah said, O my Umineen, you don't
want to come to my home.
Trust me, you don't want to come to
my home.
Because if you come to my home, you
will cry.
And he was like, why would I cry?
He said, just take me to your home.
Subhanallah, when he took Umar رضي الله عنه
to his home, all that he saw was
that he had a prayer mat, he had
one empty vessel there, and he probably had
one or two more things over there.
And when Umar رضي الله عنه saw this,
he said that, I sent you as a
governor, you are the governor, you're living like
this.
And he began to cry.
And Abu Ubaidah said, you see, this is
why I did not want to bring you
to my home, but you're crying in front
of me, because I don't have anything.
But he says that, you know, he just
saw, he was affected by how much zuhud
and asceticism that Abu Ubaidah had.
But nonetheless, he was a commander-in-chief,
he was a military leader, someone who was
extremely beloved to the Prophet ﷺ.
So this is, you know, once again, if
there's four things you can take, I'll finish
on this.
Four things we can take away from the
life of Abu Ubaidah.
Number one, his bravery and his devotion.
Number two is his humility, especially when he
was a leader.
You know, today, one of the greatest challenges
of leadership and power and authority is that
people feel like that I'm someone, I can
use this power against someone else.
Whenever he was in the position of leadership,
he was always very smart.
By the way, even when Umar al-Khattab
became the Amir al-Mineen, he sent a
letter that there is a transfer of leadership.
When Abu Ubaidah got that, there was an
expedition taking place.
He never gave this news to Khalid bin
Walid because for him, that expedition and the
success of that expedition was more important.
He realized that if I bring this news
right now to Khalid bin Walid, everyone's attention
is going to be diverted.
We all need to be focused on the
expedition and the success of that expedition.
But if I bring this right now to
Khalid bin Walid, it's going to take away
from Khalid bin Walid's attention and not only
that, but it's going to divert the attention
of the entire Muslim army.
He kept that letter with him.
He never changed the leadership at that time.
After the expedition was over, then he brought
it to Khalid bin Walid, which goes to
show you once again about Abu Ubaidah and
how smart he was.
And this brings me to the third point,
strategic.
He was always strategic in everything that he
did.
And number four is, in terms of his
power, in terms of his leadership, he was
always very compassionate.
So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that once again, these are the great sahabah
radiallahu anhum.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us
the tawfiq to become like them.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us
their characteristics.
And more importantly, may Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala grant us their company in the akhira
and jannah for those al-a'la along
with our families.
Ameen.
Jazakumullahu khair.
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.