Omar Suleiman – Thabit Ibn Qays (Ra) Promised Jannah After A Sin – The Firsts
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So we continue with the series and alhamdulillah
rabbil alameen as we have been going through
the lives of people who passed away Or
who were martyred particularly in the battle of
al-yamama against musaylim al-kaddhab we're actually
getting a chance to revisit some sahaba that
are otherwise pretty unconventional and If I was
to ask a group of Muslims tell me
who the people that were promised Jannah are
Who are al-ashr al-mubashreen You know
what?
Tell me some names other than the ten
promised paradise.
Let me hear it from you all Who
are some names that you know?
Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas is from al
-ashr al-mubashreen These are all al-ashr
al-mubashreen, ten promised paradise.
Outside of the ten promised paradise, who else
did the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam promise
paradise?
Bilal radiyallahu ta'ala anhu Nusaybah radiyallahu ta
'ala anha.
There are so many names that come to
mind.
Umm Sulaym radiyallahu ta'ala anha, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saw her The mother
of Anas ibn Malik radiyallahu anhu.
There's so many names that come to mind
of people that were promised paradise If I
was to ask a group of Muslims, I
almost guarantee that the name that we're covering
today will not come up and That's because
his guarantee of Jannah is so unconventional and
everything about him is so different From the
nature in which other people were promised Jannah
and that is Thabit ibn Qais ibn al
-Shammas al-Ansari radiyallahu ta'ala anhu Thabit
ibn Qais al-Ansari radiyallahu ta'ala anhu
Thabit ibn Qais has one of the most
beautiful titles He is Khatib Rasulillahi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam He is the spokesperson of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And so the
sahaba or the historians would say that Hassan
ibn Thabit radiyallahu anhu was sha'ir Rasulillahi
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the poet of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Thabit ibn Qais
was the khatib of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam the spokesperson of the messenger of
Allah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he's actually
one of the early Muslims So he actually
shows up early on in the seerah and
some of those incidents that we know about
The Ansar meeting the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and securing that alliance from them So
he was particularly from the tribe known as
Banu Amr ibn Auf.
I'm sorry Banu Salim ibn Auf Banu Salim
ibn Auf Now this helps you when you
go to Umrah inshallah If any of you
have been to Umrah or Hajj recently You
would notice that they have a walkway from
Masjid Quba or to Masjid Quba, Mamsha Quba
Right the walkway that you can go from
Masjid Nabawi all the way to Masjid Quba
and you could pray two rak'ahs as
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did and
then there is a left turn That you
would take on the way to Masjid Quba,
which is Masjid al-Jumu'ah The masjid
of the Friday prayer and we've spoken about
this in some of the other companions But
it's always good to refresh the memory Masjid
Quba was Banu Amr ibn Auf Was a
tribe from the Ansar a sub-tribe of
Khazraj So you have Ansar, Aus Khazraj and
then you have under Khazraj Banu Amr ibn
Auf a tribe that occupied the area of
Masjid Quba and they were the hosts of
the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Banu Salim
ibn Auf were the cousins of Banu Amr
ibn Auf and they lived between Masjid Quba
and Masjid Nabawi and They asked the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as he was making
his way To Al Medina to set up
Masjid Nabawi Give us something by which we
can have some sort of privilege, right?
You stayed with our cousins for two weeks.
Give us something as well Oh messenger of
Allah So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
stopped at the area of Banu Salim ibn
Auf and he prayed Salat al-Jumu'ah
Hence, subhanAllah, they forever have the masjid, Masjid
al-Jumu'ah, the masjid of the Friday
prayer So Thabit ibn Qais radiyallahu ta'ala
anhu is From this particular tribe and he
was considered before being khatib Rasool Allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam The spokesperson of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam khatib al-Ansar.
He was the spokesperson of the Ansar Why
is that and and what does that look
like in terms of the incidents of the
seerah?
Number one, he was extremely eloquent Number two,
he's the opposite of Zayd ibn al-Khattab
radiyallahu ta'ala anhu in this regard.
He was very loud Sultan Jahir Like he
had a microphone in his voice All right,
when he spoke his voice boomed radiyallahu ta
'ala anhu So he had a loud voice
and he was extremely eloquent Well versed in
the Arabic language and he comes from a
noble tribe So the Ansar Aus and Khazraj
kind of saw him as the spokesperson when
they would go to any sort of arena
Which required a spokesperson Thabit ibn Qais stands
on the part of the Ansar Now a
little bit about his family really quick inshallah
ta'ala just so we can we can
keep this in as part of the history
He's actually the half-brother of Abdullah ibn
Rawaha radiyallahu ta'ala anhu.
So he actually has the same mother as
Abdullah ibn Rawaha radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, the
famous sahabi, the famous shaheed, the famous martyr
in the battle of Mu'tah So he and
his and his half-brother Abdullah ibn Rawaha
According to some of the historians, they both
have the same mother.
Her name was Kapsha bintu Waqid Kapsha bintu
Waqid.
So he's the maternal brother of the great
Abdullah ibn Rawaha radiyallahu ta'ala anhu wa
'an akhir now Here's something else about him
he specifically was not very good-looking and
It's actually important to put that out there
because the sahaba were different personalities obviously every
time you talk about the sahaba, you know,
you get this sort of image, right and
He was notably unattractive and this actually plays
a role in his life It actually shows
up in his life and it's important to
mention it not for the sake of degrading
him at all But for the sake of
pointing out that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala la
yanzuru ila suwarikum wala ila arsadikum Allah does
not look at your appearances nor does he
look at your bodies rather Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala looks at your hearts and at your
deeds and so he was noted for not
having a pleasant appearance but a loud eloquent
voice and a spokesperson of the Ansar and
When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam comes
to al-Madinah He is the one who
says to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
on behalf of the Ansar.
He says ya rasool Allah namna'uka mimma
namna'u minhu anfusana wa auladana fama lana
Oh messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
We will protect you the same way that
we protect ourselves and we protect our children
So, what do we get in return what
was the answer of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam Anyone remember it's a famous conversation
What did the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
tell the Ansar?
Jannah Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said you
get Jannah for protecting me like you protect
yourselves and you protect your own children and
That's one they said to the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam radina.
We're pleased.
We'll take it.
We get Jannah We'll take it.
We don't want anything else from you.
Oh messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
So Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala anhu comes forth
and he brings his elderly mother.
So Umm Thabit Takes her shahada with the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam her bay'ah
with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And
he immediately garners favor with the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam specifically for his ikhlas for
his sincerity So he's noted for his sincerity
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu And we said that
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would pair
people off from the muhajireen and the ansar
That were of similar dispositions So as an
ansari he receives in his home Ammar ibn
yasir radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and Hudhayfa ibn
al-yaman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu The secret
keeper of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
who was the furthest from an nifaq the
furthest from Hypocrisy now, by the way, just
a side note There were some of the
ansar that accommodated more than one brother And
that was a sign of their status obviously
that they had bigger homes that they had
more wealth that they could actually take in
More than one person There are also instances
where you find one of the muhajireen who
has multiple brothers from the ansar Because he
was hosted for some time in one home
and then eventually moved into another home for
whatever reason So Ammar ibn yasir actually is
also the brother of someone else that we
will talk about inshallah ta'ala But here
I think if you just want to focus
on the idea of his ikhlas, his sincerity
and his fear of hypocrisy Hudhayfa radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu feared hypocrisy so much that the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam essentially told him
you are immune from hypocrisy Thabit ibn Qais
as we will see is a man who
fears hypocrisy to an extreme level To the
point that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
will have to assure him on Multiple occasions
that he is not radiAllahu ta'ala anhu
from the hypocrites and that he is indeed
from those that are Praiseworthy in the sight
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So what
role does he play?
His main role is Certainly to be the
spokesperson of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
now khatib al-ansar khatib rasoolillahi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam But he also is a warrior
He's not amongst those that witnessed badr due
to circumstance He simply wasn't present in the
battle of badr because of course the battle
of badr took place out of surprise So
he attended every battle alongside the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam with the exception of the
battle of badr So he was present at
uhud and he was present at bayat al
-ridwan at the pledge of ridwan May Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased with him
and all the companions The Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam said about him on more than
one occasion ni'ma rajulu thabit ibn qais ni'ma
rajulu thabit ibn qais What an awesome man
thabit ibn qais is What an amazing man
thabit ibn qais is now when the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam goes out of his
way to praise you There are many reasons
for that One of them could clearly be
because you deserve praise Right and the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam never praises anyone from
hypocrisy So anyone that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam praises has virtue that is assigned
to them So it's certainly that he was
indeed praiseworthy radiyallahu ta'ala anhu The other
one is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is making his position amongst the companions
known Making his position amongst the companions known.
So when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
says to other people ni'ma rajulu thulan What
a great person this is Everyone takes note
Says the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
about this person that they're a great man
The third one is to elevate the self
-esteem of the person that he's speaking about
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And you can clearly
see in the case of thabit radiyallahu ta
'ala anhu That those assurances are needed from
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for more
than one reason It's narrated that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam If he did not
see him in a gathering, he immediately asked
about him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Can't talk
about the beauty of a companion without talking
about the beauty of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam If he saw him missing in a
gathering, he immediately asked ayna thabit, where is
thabit radiyallahu anhu And in one narration subhanAllah,
which we take The dua that we make
when someone is ill or one of the
duas that we make when someone is ill
is because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
saw thabit missing in a gathering He asked
about him alayhis salatu wassalam They told him
that he is sick the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam entered upon him And he put
his hand on his head sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and he recited adhibil ba's rabb al
-naas wa shfi anta sh-shaafi la shifa
'a illa shifa'uk shifa'un la yughadiru
saqaman adhibil ba's, remove the harm, rabb al
-naas, O Lord of the people wa shfi
anta sh-shaafi, and heal, you are the
healer, la shifa'a illa shifa'uk shifa
'un la yughadiru saqaman There is no healing
except for yours, a healing which leaves no
trace of illness behind So the Messenger of
Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam made the dua
for him And that is one of the
ways in which we know how to make
dua for the sick So the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam asks about him alayhis salatu
wassalam Now what's interesting about him in this
regard and as I said, it's not always
conventional is that he's also known for a
famous divorce a famous talaq and His divorce
is the first khula' in Islam the first
khula' that we know Which is the divorce
that's initiated by the woman and it gives
you a very real look at that time
That And it's narrated in Bukhari and Muslim,
Ibn Abbas radiallahu anhu and others That the
wife of Thabit ibn Qais radiallahu ta'ala
anhu came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
and said ya rasool Allah Thabit ibn Qaisin
ma a'ibu alayhi fi khuluqin wa la
deen Thabit ibn Qais, I do not find
flaw with him in his religion or his
character I'm not coming to you to complain
about a bad man I'm not coming to
you because he has an issue with his
deen or his character.
That's not what it is She said wa
lakinni akrahu al-kufra fil-islam But I'm
afraid of al-kufr fil-islam the kufr
that she's talking about is ingratitude In gratitude,
which of course can be disbelief and it's
qualified What she's really trying to say is
that I don't want to disobey Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala in regards to him Because in
one narration she said wa lakinni la utiquhu
She said I cannot endure to live with
him I cannot endure to live with him.
A more specific narration and it hurts, but
it's important to mention it That Amr ibn
Shu'ayb narrates and Thabit ibn Qais kana
dameem that Thabit ibn Qais was not very
good-looking Wa anna mra'atahu qarat lawla
makhafatullahi idha dakhala alayya labasaqtu fee wajhihi She
said that if I didn't fear Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala, I would spit when I saw
him So she said some very harsh things
about him and it appears to be that
this was in the very beginning of the
marriage and it gives you a dimension obviously
of This particular relationship.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to
her Atruddeena alayhi hadiqatahu Will you return back
to him his garden?
Meaning what?
He gifted her a garden for the mahr
and she said naam She said yes, the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said give him
back his garden and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam Annulled the marriage.
Therefore this is known as the first khula'
in Islam.
Now, why is this an important thing to
mention?
number one it's real and You know, you
don't glance over it because it gives you
another companion.
It gives you another dimension of a sahabi
Right and again that Allah Azawajal praises people
for different reasons Number two this couldn't have
been easy for him This must have been
very difficult for him wa man yataqillaha yaj
'al lahu makhraja wa yarzuqhu min haythu laa
yihtasib wa man yatawakkal ala Allah fa huwa
hasbu But whoever fears Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
Allah makes a way out for them Number
three and I'll mention this as well Do
not read Hadiths and extract your own fiqh
without Understanding from a scholar because this is
one of the most abused hadiths in Islam
as well so it's important for us especially
when it comes to affairs of marriage and
divorce that people don't sit there and pick
and choose a Hadith when they want to
and then utilize them in the way that
they want to but it does give the
Legal basis for what is known as the
khula' in Islam with all of its conditions
and we're not going to get into the
fiqh Khula' we're not going to get into
the fiqh of the divorce in this regard.
However What did Allah give him as after
that?
What did Thabit ibn Qais get after that?
So this obviously could not have been a
good experience for him He ends up marrying
Jameela bint Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul Abdullah
ibn Ubayy ibn Salul chief of the hypocrites
His daughter Jameela radhiAllahu ta'ala anha a
very righteous woman She was the widow of
Hamdala Ghaseer al-Malaika radhiAllahu anhu Remember Hamdala
radhiAllahu anhu Ibn Abi Amr came to the
battlefield of Uhud in Janabah He was in
a state of impurity because his wedding night
was the night before Uhud SubhanAllah, so she
was married to Hamdala for one night and
then became a widow of Hamdala and She
married Thabit ibn Qais radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu
wa anha and Through that Thabit had his
first son Muhammad or Abdurrahman So you have
another Muhammad in the seerah Muhammad ibn Thabit
and they had multiple children Muhammad ibn Thabit,
Zaynab Abdullah Abdurrahman Yahya and more so this
became his wife after that experience which was
early on in Islam and You know set
a motion or Or gave us the legal
determination for the Khulaa in Islam now That's
his family life so he gets married to
a very noble woman a woman that Allah
azawajal gave very special status to and He's
someone that still assumes that position of being
the spokesperson of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam Like I said, nothing is going to
be conventional about him The Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam when he would walk to a
place He would ask for his sha'ir
and he would ask for his khatib So
one of the things is to be asked
about by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said where
is my poet?
Where is my spokesperson?
Right.
So Thabit is not someone that's gonna get
into it with people.
He doesn't have the Dispoetry of Hassan ibn
Thabit radhiAllahu anhu or others But he praises
Allah and he praises the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Beautifully and so the
words flow about Allah and the Messenger sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam Like poetry even though he's
not a poet you understand the concept even
when he's just giving a regular address He
sounds poetic radhiAllahu anhu when he's asked to
praise Allah or asked to praise the Messenger
of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And in
the year of delegations where the tribes were
coming to embrace Islam with the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam Thabit ibn Qais radhiAllahu anhu
was present and The tradition of the Arabs
Was to praise their own tribes The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did not ask for
responses to be praise of Quraysh Rather praise
Allah and praise the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
There's a different notion here of Connection that
we have so the most famous praise that
we have is that when Banu Tamim Came
to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in
the year of delegations and They stood up
and they gave their introduction The Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said Qum fa ajib khateebahum.
Thabit stand up and give an address so
they gave an address Stand up and give
an address to give you some of the
dynamics if you came and insulted the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam You're getting that guy
Hassan ibn Thabit.
If you came and said something nice you're
getting Thabit ibn Qais All right, so Thabit
is not one who insults he's one who
stands up with praise so Thabit stood up
Fa hamidallaha wa ablagha He praised Allah so
beautifully and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
was so proud of him Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam had a big smile on his
face When Thabit stood up and what's narrated
and it's even beautiful in Arabic He said
alhamdulillahi allathee assamawatu wal ardu khalquhu qada feehinna
amrahu wa wasiAAa kursiyahu ilmuhu walam yakushay'un
qat illa min fadlihi All praises be to
Allah whose creation is the heavens and the
earth who then decreed his command over them
and whose knowledge encompasses his kursi and Nothing
has been given to us except min fadlihi
except from his grace Thumma kana min qudratihi
an ja'alana mulukan and then it was
by his power that he made us kings
And he went on to praise the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wasstafa min khayri khalqihi
rasoola akramahu nasaban wa asdaqahu hadithan wa afdalahu
hasaban and he gave us a prophet He
chose from us a messenger sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam the most noble of them in lineage
The most truthful of them in speech and
the most beautiful of them in character fa
anzala alayhi kitabahu wa'tamanahu ala khalqihi fa kana
kheeratallahi minal alameen And then Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala descended his book upon him and Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala entrusted him with his creation
And then he became Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala's
chosen one amongst the people or amongst all
of the worlds thumma da'an nasa ila
al-eemani bihi fa aamana bi rasoolillahi sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam al-muhajiroon min qawmihi wa
dawi rahimihi He said that then Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala sent down upon him the book
And he called upon the people to believe
in him And the muhajireen from his people
and the chosen one from his kin believed
in him as well Meaning his kinfolk, his
family as well And he then went on
to praise the muhajireen He said akram al
-nasi hasaban, wa ahsan al-nasi wajuhan, wa
khair al-nasi fi'alan That they are
the best of people in lineage They are
the most beautiful of people They are the
best of people in character And they are
the most truthful in what they do Meaning
they actually act upon what they say thumma
kana awwal al-khalqi ijabatan, wa istajaballahi heena
da'ahu rasoolallahi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam anahnu
He said and then after them We were
the first creation to respond And we answered
Allah when his messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
called upon us And he says fanahnu ansarullahi
wa wuzara'u rasoolihi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
We are the ansar of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam And we are the ministers
of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had this
huge smile on his face Because what a
beautiful introduction to Allah and to the messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam To a people that
are coming from afar That only know how
to praise their idols and praise their ancestors
And all sorts of different things This is
the praise of Allah And the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam From Thabit ibn
Qais radiallahu anhu All good, right?
Except He also is associated famously With an
ayah of negativity And that is in Surah
Al-Hujurat Thabit ibn Qais radiallahu anhu Remember
we said he is jaheer al-sawt He
had a loud voice And so what do
you think it did to him When he
heard the ayah revealed Ya ayyuhallatheena aamanu laa
tarfa'u aswaatakum fawqa sawt al-nabi wala
tajharu lahu bilqawli kajahri ba'dikum riba'dun an tahbata
a'malukum wa antum laa tash'uroon O you
who believe, don't raise your voices Over the
voice of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam Right?
Don't compete with him in the volume of
your voice Or in speaking over him sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam Or else your deeds will
be nullified And you would not have even
known wa antum laa tash'uroon Thabit heard
this ayah revealed And Thabit radiallahu anhu crumbled
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Noticed him missing
for a while So he said to the
companions, what happened Where is Thabit?
They said, Ya Rasulullah, he is at home
crying And when we asked him why he
is crying He said, I'm done I'm done
I'm done Like, this is all over for
me I'm just going to sit here and
cry Until the end And so the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Sends a messenger to
him first And asks him, what's wrong Ya
Thabit?
So he says, ana kuntu arfa'u sawti
fawqa sawtihi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I used
to raise my voice over his voice Fa
ana min ahlin naar So I'm certainly from
the people of hellfire There is no way
that I'm going to survive this Because I'm
certainly from the people of hellfire And then
it says about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam Tafaqadahu sallallahu alayhi wa sallam The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam missed him Like, where
is Thabit?
So when the messenger came back and told
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam That Thabit
says that this verse was revealed for me
Certainly it was revealed for me And I
am done, and I'm from the people of
hellfire My deeds are all nullified at this
point The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
Go back to him Wa qullahu bal huwa
min ahl al-jannah Go tell him that
rather you're from the people of paradise So
the guarantee of Jannah comes to him As
a result of his fear That an ayah
had been revealed for his destruction RadhiAllahu ta
'ala anhu Sounds very Hudhayf ibn al-Yaman
like radhiAllahu anhu, right?
That fear of hypocrisy Where he thought Even
though I raised my voice for the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Naturally the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam spoke low The Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam was shy My voice was
louder than his voice And in this the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam guaranteed him You
are not from the people of fire Rather
you are from the people of Jannah So
he said idhab ilayhi Go back to him
Say to him innaka lasta min ahl al
-nar walakin min ahl al-jannah You're rather
from the people of paradise This is in
Sahih al-Bukhari Another incident where he also
thought he was destroyed Where Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala revealed Inna allaha la yuhibbu kullu
muqtalin fakhur Allah does not like prideful boastful
people So Thabit thought I'm done Because I
have a lot I mean he stands and
speaks with the pride of the Ansar And
now with the pride of the Messenger of
Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam again Misses Thabit Where
is Thabit?
He said Ya Rasulullah he's at home crying
again This time the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam went to him directly Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam entered upon him And he said
what's going on O Thabit?
What's your problem?
He said Ya Rasulullah inni akhsha an akuna
qad halaktu He said Ya Rasulullah I fear
that I've been destroyed Yanhanallahu an nuhibba an
nuhmada bima la naf'al Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala prohibits us From wanting to be
praised for things that we did not do
Wa ajiduni uhibbu alhamd And I see myself
I love to be praised SubhanAllah he's talking
about his inner Remember a sincere person is
harder on themselves So he doesn't say alhamdulillah
I don't like No he's saying look I
find this inside of myself That sometimes I
like to be praised And he says wa
yanhanallahu anil khuyala'i wa inni mra'un
uhibbu aljama' And Allah azawajal forbids us from
boastfulness Now I'm a person who likes beautiful
things I dress a certain way Comes with
the office of the spokesperson of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Like I like nice
things I like to be praised And he
says and I'm done I don't see any
way out for myself wa yanhanallahu an narfa
'a aswatana fabkasawtik And Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala Prohibits us from raising our voice over
yours wa ana rajulun rafia'us sawt And
I'm a person who has a very loud
voice The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam laughed
And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
gave him a very specific bushra So it's
not just the glad tidings of Jannah He
gives him a more specific glad tidings He
says ya thabit ama tarda an ta'isha
hameedan wa tuqtala shaheedan wa tadkhulil jannah Oh
thabit aren't you pleased That you will live
a praiseworthy life So he's answering exactly what
it is ta'isha hameedan You'll live a
praiseworthy life And he says wa tuqtala shaheedan
And you'll be killed as a martyr May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept all of
the shuhada from Gaza and beyond And may
Allah azawajal grant us the reward of shahada
Allahumma ameen Wa tadkhulil jannah And you will
enter into paradise So he gave him three
glad tidings And thabit radiallahu ta'ala anhu
Was so happy, was so pleased And he
would hang on to that message from the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam For the rest
of his life So he would remember what
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to
him Basically the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
told him You'll live a good life But
you're going to be killed as a martyr
And you're going to enter into Jannah And
so what happens Prior to the battle of
Al Yamama This is actually the only documented
incident That we have for certainty That I
know of, Allah knows best Of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam actually meeting Musaylim al
-Kaddhab So before Musaylim announced his prophethood from
afar And Musaylim started his fitna Which undoubtedly
grew worse After the death of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Musaylim al-Kaddhab Ubaidullah
ibn Abdullah ibn Utbah He narrates that Musaylim
al-Kaddhab Came to Al Medina And this
is early on in his fitna Before his
fitna really took the next step And he
says that we were informed that he was
staying At the house of the daughter of
Al Harith ibn Quraiz And there was some
sort of relationship there So the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam And this is how the
narration actually goes فأتاه رسول الله صلى الله
عليه وسلم ومعه ثابت بن قيس بن الشماس
وهو الذي يقال له خطيب رسول الله صلى
الله عليه وسلم The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam came to Musaylim al-Kaddhab And he
had with him Thabit ibn Qais And Thabit
ibn Qais is the one that we called
خطيب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم The
spokesperson of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
وفي يد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
قضيب And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
had a stick in his hand So the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke to Musaylima
And Musaylima said to him إن شئت خليت
بيننا وبين الأمر ثم جعلته لك بعدك أو
جعلته لنا بعدك He said that if you
want We're not going to get involved right
now in your leadership But after you're done
Meaning after you die Then the rule will
be transferred to us So Musaylima clearly is
asking the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam For
political power Which of course is going to
drive his claim to prophethood later on But
he says to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam Look if you want We'll leave you
alone for now We won't ask for any
power right now But you need to tell
the people to follow me after you pass
away The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam responded
to him And he said لو سألتني هذا
القضيب If you were to ask me for
this stick I would not give it to
you I wouldn't even give you a stick
And he says وإني لأراك الذي أريت فيه
ما أريت And I think that you are
the one that I saw in my dream
And he said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam وهذا
ثابت ابن قيس And this is Thabit ibn
Qais And he will speak to you from
here on out Meaning Thabit will speak on
my behalf And I don't want to talk
to you So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam saw and sensed the evil from Musaylima
al-Kadhab But Musaylima had not taken that
next step yet And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam left Thabit ibn Qais to actually
continue the conversation With Musaylima al-Kadhab And
then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam left
So Thabit ibn Qais confronted Musaylima al-Kadhab
And basically told him off until Musaylima left
And then he asked the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam what the dream was So the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says بَيْنَ أَنَا
نَائِمٌ أُرِيْتُ أَنَا وُضِعَ فِي يَدِي سِوَارًا مِن
ذَهَبٍ He said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that
while I was sleeping I saw that I
was granted in my hand Two golden bracelets
And he said that I hated them كَرِهْتُهُمَا
I hated them And because كَرِهْتُهُمَا I hated
them فَأُذِنَ لِي فَنَفَخْتُهُمَا فَطَارًا Allah azawajal gave
me permission and I blew on them and
they flew away So two bracelets were in
my hand and I hated the way they
looked And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave
me permission, I blew on them And they
flew away And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said I interpreted that as two liars
That have risen from my ummah Two liars
that have risen from my ummah And he
said one of them is al-Aswad al
-Ansi And the other one who is in
Yemen, a false prophet in Yemen And the
other one is Musaylima al-Kadhab So he
was privy, Thabit ibn Qais was privy To
the fitna of Musaylima al-Kadhab This man
who would claim prophethood Before the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam passed away And when the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam passed away Thabit
ibn Qais assumed the position of the khateeb
Of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyaAllahu ta'ala
al'anhu So he became the spokesperson of
Abu Bakr So it's really beautiful subhanAllah He
combined being the khateeb of the Ansar The
spokesperson of the Ansar Then the spokesperson of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Then the spokesperson
of Khalifatul Rasulillah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And
it was understood that he will be the
spokesperson Of the Muslims in all of their
affairs Now when the battle of Yamama comes
He goes out to fight amongst the sahaba
That would fight against Musaylima al-Kadhab And
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyaAllahu ta'ala al
'anhu Put him in charge of the Ansar
Because they would still be divided into battalions
obviously In the battlefield So he put him
in charge of the Ansar So he's the
spokesperson of the Khalifa And he's now in
charge of the Ansar And Anas ibn Malik
radiyaAllahu ta'ala al'anhu He narrates subhanAllah
the last moments of Thabit ibn Qais radiyaAllahu
ta'ala al'anhu In this regard He
said that while we were preparing for the
battle I noticed Thabit was missing So he
said that I went to see him And
he was applying وَهُوَ يَتَحَنَّطُ He was applying
hanoot Which is of course what you apply
to the dead body To his body So
he said I caught him while he was
applying to his thighs So he was applying
to his entire body And I told him
Oh my uncle What's holding you back from
coming?
And he said I'm coming oh my nephew
So Anas radiyaAllahu ta'ala al'anhu said
This was my conversation with him He said
then he did something very strange He finished
the hanoot on his body And then he
basically wore two white garments Like a kafan
So his war outfit On the battle of
Yamama was his kafan Were two white shrouds
That he wore on that day RadiyaAllahu ta
'ala al'anhu SubhanAllah as if he is
living to The promise of the Prophet ﷺ
And then Anas radiyaAllahu ta'ala al'anhu
As they were coming out Anas radiyaAllahu ta
'ala al'anhu mentioned to him That some
people Fled from the battlefield Very natural that
anytime you see an army that large That's
bigger than yours Some people turn back from
the battlefield And Thabit radiyaAllahu ta'ala al
'anhu Said ها كذا عن وجوهنا حتى نضارب
القوم He said Then move from my face
So that we can fight these people I
don't want to see these people That are
fleeing away from the battlefield Let's go forward
Let's fight And so he assumed the front
line And he said clear the way for
me And as the battle started He looked
at the companions And this is very powerful
He says ما ها كذا كنا نفعل مع
رسول الله ﷺ This isn't the way we
used to fight When the Prophet ﷺ was
amongst us You've got to fight with more
energy Fight with more sincerity Fight with more
determination And he says that What miserable ways
you've learned from your enemies This is not
how we fight Fight harder So he was
pushing the people حَرِّضُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَى الْقِتَالِ He
was pushing the people to fight And as
he was going forward Anas radiyaAllahu ta'ala
al'anhu Describes the scene I mean imagine
as a horseman And he has this two
white shrouds And he says that he was
right and left In the battlefield of Al
Yamamah And he kept on saying then أُفٍّ
لِهَٰ أُولَٰئِ وَلِمَا يَعْبُدُونَ وَأُفٍّ لِهَٰ أُولَٰئِ وَلِمَا
يَسْنَعُونَ He said may these people perish Meaning
the enemy For that which they worship Besides
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And he said
And what is it with my people That
they have this slowness In that which they
used to do And he made a dua
اللهم إني أبرأ إليك مما جاء به هؤلاء
وأعتذر من صنيع هؤلاء Oh Allah I free
myself I disassociate myself From what these people
worship And I disassociate myself From what these
people do يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنصَارِ Oh Ansar خَلُّوا
سَنَنِي لَعَلِّي أَصْلَى بِحَرْبِهَا سَعَى Clear my way
So that I can spend this hour In
the heat Let me face the heat for
a moment Meaning no one Go in front
of me in this battle Put me in
the front line In front of the enemy
And so he kept clearing the way And
going forward رضي الله تعالى عنه Until he
was struck As he was on his horse
رضي الله تعالى عنه And he was a
shaheed On the day of Yamama Already wearing
the shroud of shahada And already having applied
to himself The hanout The scent of the
deceased believer May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
Be pleased with him And accept him as
a martyr In accordance with The promise of
the Prophet ﷺ Allahumma ameen But it's not
over One of the strangest cases So we
say that khul'a The case of khul
'a The divorce initiated by the woman The
first legal precedent we have is from The
story of Thabit ibn Qais He also has
a story after his death That legally gave
the scholar Something to ponder upon So here's
what happens After he was martyred After he
was martyred He shows up in a dream
To one of the Muslims And he says
to this dream He says in this dream
to this Muslim He says that I had
my armor on that day I had my
shield on that day My dir'a on
that day And he says that one of
the men Picked it up One of the
men picked up my shield After Yamamah Because
he was struck on a horse And he
fell from his horse And his shield fell
So one of the men picked up my
shield And he says إِنَّهَا فِي قَدْرٍ تَحْتَ
إِيكَافٍ بِمَكَانِ كَذَا وَكَذَا He said listen It
is right at this place Under a pot
in this house So he gives him in
the dream The exact location of his shield
And he says What I want you to
do Is I want you to go to
Khalid ibn Walid رضي الله تعالى عنه Because
he is the commander of the army And
tell Khalid رضي الله تعالى عنه What I
just told you And tell Khalid to go
to خليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
أبو بكر الصديق رضي الله تعالى عنه And
tell Abu Bakr This is a very specific
dream Tell Abu Bakr That my shield is
in the house of so and so And
it is under the pot of this man
And the man presumably would have taken it
Because he thought it was one of the
spoils of war And SubhanAllah In the dream
he says I have a debt to pay
I owe so and so some money Ask
Abu Bakr الصديق رضي الله تعالى عنه To
retrieve that shield And then to sell it
And then to use that money to pay
off my debt It is a long dream
Long narration Very detailed Very specific So Khalid
رضي الله عنه Comes to Abu Bakr الصديق
رضي الله عنه He says look One of
my warriors saw Thabit ibn Qays In a
dream And this is what he said He
said my shield is gone And it's in
the house of so and so Under the
pot Exactly in this location And Khalid رضي
الله عنه says Thabit's shield was not found
amongst us Meaning like his shield was indeed
missing And he had a very prominent shield
رضي الله تعالى عنه That he used to
go to war with So Abu Bakr الصديق
رضي الله تعالى عنه Said I don't see
this except as Allah SubhanAllah Is sending us
a message through Thabit They went to the
house of that man Looked right under that
pot And they found the shield of Thabit
ibn Qays رضي الله تعالى عنه Abu Bakr
الصديق رضي الله تعالى عنه Basically You know
Sold it Took the money Paid off his
debt And they say that this is the
only case The legal precedent Of a wasiyah
Of a will That was given through a
dream Was Thabit ibn Qays رضي الله عنه
And Abu Bakr الصديق رضي الله تعالى عنه
Because Abu Bakr acted upon that dream And
found it to indeed be the case رضي
الله تعالى عنه And so as Ibn Qayyim
رحمه الله said The only dead man's will
who was fulfilled Like we don't know of
another narration like this Where a dead man
showed up And gave a will And the
khalifa acted upon that will Like Abu Bakr
صديق رضي الله عنه did And found it
to indeed be true رضي الله تعالى عنه
And subhanAllah After he passed away And after
he was a shaheed All of his children
Were shuhada In Waq'at al-Hara Which
was the massacre of al-Madina Al-Munawwara
The one that Anas ibn Malik رضي الله
تعالى عنه Lost most of his descendants through
So all of his children Were also shuhada
on that day Muhammad and Abdurrahman and Zaynab
And so on and so forth May Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala accept them all As
shuhada And be pleased with them all And
be pleased with Thabit ibn Qays رضي الله
تعالى عنه And be pleased with all the
companions Of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
And the shuhada May Allah gather us with
them May Allah gather us with them InshaAllah
ta'ala next week we will continue Along
the same lines And talking about this noble
set of companions وصلى الله وسلم وبركة على
نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين