Numan Attique – How Well Do You Know The Sahabah
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The interview discusses the importance of the Prophet Muhammad's teachings and his use of them to shaping culture. The Prophet's teachings were thought to be the most knowledgeable among their peers and were the first to teach their religion to their children. The importance of protecting their movement and the false prophet's plan to kill the woman is highlighted, along with the importance of confidence in protecting their family and the false prophet's plan to kill the woman.
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So tonight's topic is for everybody, of course,
but it's particularly for everyone here who is
a youth.
Now, I know everybody considers themselves youthful, masha
'Allah, but I mean particularly the ones who
are aged younger, okay?
This is for everyone who's of that age
group.
Now, I want you all to imagine with
me, you are in Mecca before the Hijrah,
you get out of your house, you're walking
through the streets of Mecca, you come to
the Kaaba, and what do you think you're
going to see?
What do you think?
You're going to see idols.
Do you guys know how many idols there
were around the Kaaba before Islam, and even
after Islam, till the Prophet ﷺ came back?
Approximately 360.
Idols around the Kaaba that they would worship
other than Allah.
You're going to walk through those idols being
worshipped, people doing Tawaf, but naked.
All sorts of horrendous stuff is happening there.
You're walking through there, and you go towards
the mountain of Safa, which is just further
out, and over there, there's a little house,
and this house is the house of Arqam.
It's called Darul Arqam.
This house right here is the first school
of Islam.
It's the school in which the Prophet ﷺ
first taught revelation, Wahi, Qur'an, and Sunnah.
So you enter into this house, and you're
asking the Prophet ﷺ, is there anything recent
from the Lord?
Has anything been revealed from the skies?
Now, I want you guys to think, how
old do you think Arqam was, whose house
it was?
It was the house of Arqam, right?
How old do you think Al-Arqam ibn
Abi Al-Arqam was?
Any ideas, guesses?
He was approximately 14 to 16.
When he made his house the place of
refuge for the Prophet ﷺ and everyone else
who had accepted Islam.
Okay, so you enter into this house, revelation
is descending from Allah ﷻ, and you look
around, who do you see?
You see the giants, the legends, the greats
of history.
You see the likes of Zubayr ibn al
-Awwam, the lion, the one who was known
to cut the lines of the enemies, one
way come out from the other way, all
by himself, from the ten who are granted
Jannah.
Do you know how old he was when
he was sitting there?
Zubayr ibn al-Awwam was approximately 12 or
13 when he sat in those circles.
You're going to see Ali ibn Abi Talib,
the cousin of the Prophet ﷺ, sitting there.
Do you know how old he was when
he accepted Islam?
Some narrations say 7, some say 9.
You're going to see Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas,
the man who about the Prophet ﷺ said,
go ahead and shoot the first arrow of
Islam, may my parents be sacrificed for you
O Sa'd.
He's the same man when the Prophet ﷺ
was having a hard time sleeping that night
out of fear of what's going to happen
to him and the Ummah.
He asks, who's out there guarding me?
They say it's Sa'd.
Then Aisha says, I could hear the Prophet
ﷺ sleeping with a small breath coming out.
You know the breaths you take when you're
deep in sleep and relaxed?
Those are the breaths he was taking after
knowing it was Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas outside
who was his guard.
He was also 12-13 when he sat
in those circles of Darul Arqa.
There was nobody in that circle, that first
circle of Islam, who was above 40.
The eldest of them was Abu Bakr and
we know that he was two years younger
than the Prophet ﷺ, so he was 38.
Everybody else was in your age group.
15, 13, 16, 17, this was the age
group.
Their stories did not start after graduation, after
college, after high school.
Their stories started very early.
That's what made them great.
And again, not everybody needs to be this
warrior, this leader.
You have the likes of Mu'adh ibn
Jabal.
One of the narrations is that the Prophet
ﷺ said, he's the most knowledgeable of my
ummah, of halal and haram.
He's the same companion the Prophet ﷺ said,
Ya Mu'adh, I love you.
And then he says, SubhanAllah, he says, I
love you Ya Mu'adh.
He says, Do not forget to read after
every prayer, O Allah, assist me upon your
remembrance, upon beautiful worship, and your gratitude.
Three times.
This is the same Mu'adh who the
Prophet ﷺ sent to Yemen as the first
ambassador of Islam to teach them their religion.
Do you know how old he was when
the Prophet ﷺ sent him?
24, 25.
As the ambassador.
You have the likes of Zayd ibn Thabit,
from the youngest of the companions, the same
one that the Prophet ﷺ told him to
learn Hebrew, to be able to read the
Bible in its original language.
The same one who was a scribe of
the Prophet ﷺ, of wahi, of revelation.
He is the same one that Abu Bakr
ﷺ told to preserve the Qur'an, the
same one that Uthman ﷺ put in charge
to preserve the Qur'an.
Do you know how old he was when
the Prophet ﷺ passed away?
18.
He was 18 when the Prophet ﷺ passed
away.
We speak about Umar ﷺ.
We speak about this giant, greater than life.
When he walked the street, Shaytan ran from
there.
The one who was such a big fear
before Islam, that they knew that if he
did anything, nobody could stop him.
The one that the Prophet ﷺ made du
'a that Allah gave them Umar.
The Prophet ﷺ made du'a that Allah
gives Islam Umar.
Do you know how old he was when
he accepted Islam?
He was 25.
His son, who again is known to be
one of the narrators who has narrated the
most hadith, Abdullah ibn Umar.
One of the greatest people of knowledge in
our religion.
He was approximately the age of 14, 15,
16 at this time.
The purpose I'm trying to show you here
is that if you're 14, 15, 16, 17,
20, whatever, that age range, your entire job
is not to play Fortnite and online games,
or like chill out and watch anime, and
then just play with your friends, and that's
the only thing.
You know, when I grow up, I'll figure
out what I'm going to do with life.
No.
I remember when he was 25, when he
accepted Islam, when he was 25, when he
was sent as the ambassador of Islam, to
teach an entire nation of people, religion, in
which there are scholars of Jews and Christians,
mind you, and there's pagans, there's all sorts
of people there.
The Prophet ﷺ was sending him as a
scholar.
Today, if we get married at 25, mashallah,
you got married early, 25.
It's quite early to get married.
Some people, they treat their children as, oh
my little boy, my baby.
It's 25.
The point is responsibility, vision.
Living to that vision starts at a very
young age.
You can live with vision.
You don't have to be purposeless.
You don't need to be a lost child.
You can figure it out.
You can sense the responsibility on your shoulders,
and you can push forward.
It can be meaningful ways from a young
age.
Remember, we just spoke of Sa'ad ibn
Abi Waqqas?
He had a brother.
His name was Umair ibn Abi Waqqas.
Umair ibn Abi Waqqas was younger than, he
was 15 or 16 when the battle of
Badr happened, and the Prophet ﷺ turned him
away.
He said, you're too young.
Go away.
He started to cry.
He started to cry, why will you not
let me fight in the way of Allah?
So everybody else accepted it, begrudgingly accepted it,
turned around and left.
But he couldn't take it, and he ended
up crying.
So the Prophet ﷺ let him fight, and
he was a martyr, he passed in the
way of Allah.
And if you go to where Badr occurred,
you look at the names there, you're going
to see his name written there.
You feel a sense of responsibility to do
more.
You know Umair ibn Yasir?
Umair ibn Yasir, the son of who?
Sumayyah and Yasir.
Sumayyah the first martyr of Islam, female, who
was killed for Islam, for not rejecting the
Shahada.
By her masters.
Her son was Ammar.
He was also tortured.
And then he said on his lips, yeah
I don't believe, I don't believe, just stop,
please stop.
And when he came back to the Prophet
ﷺ, he felt horrible.
Horrible that he didn't stay firm when he
should have.
And the Prophet ﷺ told him, he told
what did he tell him?
He said, Ammar, belief is what's in here.
You believed, even when you were forced to
say otherwise.
He felt horrible that he had to protect
his life.
He was 14 when this happened to him.
If today that was the case, we could
not picture a 14 year old feeling this
way afterwards, saying, I should have stood my
ground, or feeling horrible about it.
We know that the Prophet ﷺ had a
beloved son who was not his son, who
he had adopted, Zayd ibn Harithah, we all
know about him.
We know how he was young, but there
was somebody else.
He was called Hibun Nabi ibn Hibun Nabi.
The love of the Prophet, the son of
the love of the Prophet ﷺ, it was
Usama ibn Zayd.
Usama ibn Zayd was the son of Zayd
ibn Harithah.
Once the Prophet ﷺ was in his house,
Zayd and Usama were sleeping, and their feet
were outside of the blankets.
Somebody walked in who knew, who had this
knowledge, this art of being able to tell
who is related, by looking at faces and
different things.
And he just looked at their feet, and
he said, this is father and son.
And the Prophet ﷺ got so happy.
He was so happy that somebody said that,
because of his love for the both of
them.
This is the same Usama ibn Zayd, that
when the maqzumiyyah, the Qurashiyyah, had stolen, and
the punishment was to be applied to her,
the people said, well this is a Sayyidah,
this is a noble woman of high lineage,
how can we possibly give justice to her?
She should be given special favors.
She shouldn't be treated like the rest.
Because this is how tribalism works.
If you're higher up, the rules don't apply
to you.
If you're lower, they apply to you.
Unfortunately today, you still have this level of
injustice, where people who think that they're above
the law, and the people who are below
them, are the ones that the law is
for, not them.
So this goes way back.
And so this type of feeling was still
there.
Because this is somebody of such high stature,
how can we treat her the same as
a regular person?
So when they wanted somebody to intercede with
the Prophet ﷺ, do you know who they
sent?
They sent the love of the Prophet, the
son of the love of the Prophet, Usama
ibn Zayd.
And the Prophet ﷺ said, what are you
asking me of?
Even if Fatimah was to steal, I would
have applied the same punishment to her.
What did Usama do to possibly have this
type of love of the Prophet?
What was it about him?
What type of actions did he do, that
he had so much love of the Prophet?
Do you know how old he was?
When the Prophet ﷺ passed away, he was
16.
16 when the Prophet ﷺ passed away.
And do you know what the Prophet ﷺ
made him in charge of?
Before he passed away, he made him in
charge of the greatest army of Islam to
go and fight the Roman Empire.
He gave that charge to this 16 year
old Usama ibn Zayd.
There was something very special about him.
It wasn't just his lineage.
There were actions he did.
There was a way, there was vision about
him.
Depth of understanding of life at such a
young age.
You know, it was never to be like
a two minute stop, when they said it
was ten at that time.
No, exactly.
Like from the highest of the minds at
this young age.
In fact, after the Prophet ﷺ passed away,
the army hadn't been sent out yet.
So, when the Prophet ﷺ passed away, they
first figured out who was going to be
the Khalifa.
And then it came time to continue with
the orders of the Prophet ﷺ.
Umar came to Abu Bakr and he said
to him, Abu Bakr, do you realize that
the army you are sending out has some
of the greatest sahaba, the most senior, most
practiced sahaba that are going in that army
and you're making it go with a 16
year old?
Like, this question naturally was coming from within
the army.
How can you have somebody who's so inexperienced
lead the army?
Abu Bakr said, Wallahi, I will not change
the command of the Prophet ﷺ.
He put Usama in charge, Usama will lead
this army to victory.
And he did.
He led it to victory with extremely senior
sahaba, Ashar al-Bashirin, of the highest stature,
those given Jannah in that army.
And he led them to victory.
These stories require you to think of yourself
as a visionary.
You don't live for yourself.
Your life is not just about play, having
a good time with friends.
There's something more to life here.
It's bigger than yourself.
There's a vision to life.
If you can see that, then you're set.
Because now, you will try to live to
that vision.
And the vision is greater than you.
You're not the vision.
It's bigger than you.
But you're a part of that change.
You're a part of that growth.
We will have one more story.
Which is the story of the most noble
of families.
The family that the Prophet ﷺ loved the
most.
The family of Abu Bakr.
And we will be talking about his first
daughter.
Who was Asma bint Abu Bakr.
She is the same Asma who the Prophet
ﷺ nicknamed Dhatun Yataqi.
The one with the two ribbons.
Why did he name her that?
Because she was a direct assistant in hiding
and supporting the Prophet's ﷺ migration to Medina.
She would tie the supplies, make them and
have them sent out to them in the
mountains.
When they were hiding from the Quraysh.
Because they had a bounty on the Prophet
ﷺ.
They said whoever finds him and kills him
will be given a hundred camels.
That's basically more than a million dollars.
More than that.
And so she would prepare their supplies.
And the Prophet ﷺ out of love for
her.
Because this one time she took off her
ribbon that was holding her hair.
She took it off and she tied the
supplies with it.
The supply bags.
So the Prophet ﷺ out of love he
called her the one with the two ribbons.
How old was she when she took on
this role of being one of the confidants
of the Prophet ﷺ?
She was 15 or 14.
14 or 15.
And she's playing the most vital role that
you can play in protecting the Prophet ﷺ.
Secret of the most important and potentially most
damaging time.
Which is of the hijrah.
And she's doing this knowing it's for the
sake of Allah.
Where did she get this confidence from?
Where did she get this conviction from?
To be able to do that.
Today if, let's be honest.
Would you give a 14 year old this
type of responsibility?
This something so delicate.
So important.
Would you give it over to a 14
year old?
But clearly they had lived.
They knew better.
They were better.
Where did she get this confidence from?
Well she got it first from being from
the Quraish.
From coming from knowing that her background is
a background of nobility.
She got it from being the daughter of
Abu Bakr.
And most importantly she got it from being
a musta.
From being upon the truth.
This same woman then went on to marry
Zubayr ibn al-Awwab.
Remember the lion we were talking about?
From the 10 who were granted Jannah?
She married him.
And they had a son who was called
the first son of Islam.
Because he was the first child to be
born in Medina.
His name was Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr.
So she was the daughter of the greatest
of men after prophets, Abu Bakr.
Married to Zubayr ibn al-Awwab from the
10 granted Jannah.
And having the first son of Islam, Abdullah
ibn al-Zubayr.
Do you see her position?
Do you see the type of like the
tarbiyah she got?
The support she became and was given?
And was given to by her husband?
And then who she formed?
She formed disputably the sixth caliph of Islam,
Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr.
When the fitna occurred after the death of
Muawiyah radiallahu anhu.
There was a fitna where everybody gave bay
'ah to Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr radiallahu anhu.
Everyone gave bay'ah to?
Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr radiallahu anhu as the
khalifa.
And the people who were descendants of Muawiyah,
they didn't accept this.
And so they had a fitna.
And they sent the slaughterer, the butcher.
His name was Hajjaj ibn Yusuf.
They sent him to go sort out things
in Mecca and Medina.
And so he fought Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr
radiallahu anhu both in Mecca and Medina.
And it came to a point where everybody
had left the side of Abdullah ibn al
-Zubayr radiallahu anhu because of just how horrible
and how * Hajjaj was able to get.
He would kill without any consequence.
And he would butcher.
And so to stop him from doing that,
people left the support of Abdullah ibn al
-Zubayr radiallahu anhu.
And he alone fought the armies of Hajjaj.
When they would come from one side, he
would fight them from one side.
When they would come from the other side,
he would fight them from the other side.
Until they overcame him.
He was 70-some years old when he
did this.
When they then managed to kill Abdullah ibn
al-Zubayr radiallahu anhu.
Asma bint Abi Bakr, his mother, was in
Mecca at that time.
She was over 92 years old.
And the slaughterer, the murderer of her first
born child said, Come to my palace in
Mecca.
She said, I'm not going to come.
He sent the messenger again and he said,
If you do not come to me, I
will get you dragged by your hair and
brought here.
She said, I'm not coming.
Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the slaughterer, the butcher, came
to Asma bint Abi Bakr.
To her house.
He came down.
He sat down to talk to her.
To show her, to gloat.
Look, I killed your son.
Look, I won.
I'm victorious.
So he comes to Asma.
She says to him, she looks at him
and she says, The Prophet ﷺ had told
us that from Bani Thaqeef, from the tribe
of Thaqeef, there will be two.
One will be the liar and the other
will be the Mubir, the slaughterer.
As for the liar, we know who that
was.
The false prophet who had come before.
And as for the slaughterer, Wallahi, it is
nobody except you.
You are the slaughterer of Bani Thaqeef.
How could she do that?
To a man who had killed hundreds of
Sahaba, just hung them, knowing that he's very
capable of horrible things, goes back.
It goes back to when she was tying
ribbons for the Prophet ﷺ.
It goes back to that time where she
built who she was.
She cared nothing for herself.
She cared for Allah and His Messenger and
for the truth and for justice.
That's what she lived for her entire life.
And at 92 years of age, that upbringing
rang true for her.
She lived a life of truth and remained
on it until the end.
And so the point of this reminder today,
my dear brothers and sisters, is that feeling
the weight of responsibility Living with this vision
and acting on it from a young age,
writing your stories from now, is important.
For your story does not begin at 25,
35, after university.
It begins now.
Alhamdulillah.
Live with vision and you will do great
things in life.
Live for Allah.
And Allah will remember you and the people
will remember you.
You will be somebody who goes down in
history.
Because at the end of the day, it
doesn't matter whether history remembers you.
What matters is if Allah knows you.
There's many people, millions of people in this
world, who've died and nobody remembers them.
But they had the most important roles.
That one person who made sure the masjid
was being maintained.
That one person who taught somebody else a
basic lesson like how to do wudu, how
to read Qur'an, how to think of
Allah Azza wa Jall.
Simple things.
It wasn't a big name, it wasn't anything
like that.
But those people are legends.
Because they lived for more than themselves.
They lived for the higher purpose of Allah
Azza wa Jall.
These people that we just spoke of are
legends.
They changed the world.
The world was never the same after them.
Look at us, we're sitting in North America.
The new world.
That's only been so-called discovered in the
past 500 years.
Speaking English, yet we're talking about Islam.
Yet we're Muslims.
From all across the world.
It's because of these people and their sacrifices.
And how they lived.
But remember, going back to Dar al-Arqa,
if you walked in, you would have seen
people, men, who were 13, 14, 15, 16,
17.
These were men.
These were not children.
These were men who were dedicated.
And so, may Allah Azza wa Jall allow
us to write our stories upon the Qur
'an and the Sunnah.
And in a way that allows us to
be satisfied when we die with our lives.
As-Salaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu