Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Abbad Ibn Bishr – Ra The Friend Of The Quran
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I want to welcome you all back to
The Firsts, alhamdulillah wa barak to all of
you.
We continue now with another companion whose life
intersects with the battle of Al Yamamah.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased
with all of the companions of the Prophet
ﷺ except the shuhada amongst them in Uhud
and Yamamah and beyond as well as our
own shuhada, Allahumma ameen.
A question that I was asked is why
are we talking about some of the firsts
now?
And the reality is that there are so
many sahaba of the Prophet ﷺ that we
could go on and on and we could
dig into different episodes and highlight them.
And so some of the people that we
are speaking about in these few weeks are
actually some of the first Muslims.
But it gives us insight inshaAllah ta'ala
into a very unique dimension of the seerah
of the Prophet ﷺ.
So last week we talked about Thabit ibn
Qais radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
Just a small note because I forgot to
mention it last week in the story of
Thabit ibn Qais radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
As I mentioned that he and Abdullah ibn
Rawaha radhiAllahu anhu were actually brothers from the
same mother.
They had the same mother.
May Allah be pleased with them both.
And it's really subhanAllah something when you think
about it.
Abdullah ibn Rawaha radhiAllahu anhu was also someone
who was known for his eloquence, a poet
of the Prophet ﷺ and who died as
a shaheed.
And here you have his brother Thabit ibn
Qais radhiAllahu anhu, the spokesperson of the Prophet
ﷺ who also dies with courage as a
martyr.
May Allah subhanAllah ta'ala accept them.
Allahumma ameen.
But there's something about what was nurtured into
those two men and the similar characteristics.
And that's something very beautiful about the sahaba
is that they rubbed off on each other
in very beautiful ways.
And the man that we are talking about
today, he shows up very few times in
the books of Sira.
Because he was not survived by any children
that would go on to narrate his story.
And his story is often tied to another
companion of the Prophet ﷺ.
Meaning you rarely find him being discussed alone.
But when you combine the virtues of this
man, you would wonder subhanAllah, what is his
status with Allah subhanAllah ta'ala.
And his name is Abbad ibn Bishr ibn
Waqsh ibn Zughbah radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
As Imam al-Zahabi rahimAllah introduces him, al
-imam Abu al-Rabi' the imam Abu al
-Rabi' al-ansari al-ashhali.
Meaning from Banu Abdulashhal.
Ahadu al-Badriyeen.
He was one of the people of Badr.
And he was one of the leaders of
the Aus tribe.
So by now this should come very natural
to you.
The two main tribes of the Ansar are
Al-Aus and Al-Khazraj.
So he is one of the leaders of
Al-Aus.
And he is from the tribe of Banu
Abdulashhal radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So Abbad ibn Bishr, you might have only
heard this name.
Because Shaykh Muhammad al-Shanawi is Abu Abbad.
So it's a shout out to him and
to his family as well.
So hopefully more people will name their sons
Abbad after this lecture inshaAllah ta'ala.
So we know of him and he has
a sister whose name is Umama bint Bishr
radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So him and his sister are both considered
from the early Muslims.
And his sister is married to Mahmood ibn
Maslama radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So a little bit of the tree again.
Abbad ibn Bishr and his sister Umama bint
Bishr.
Umama bint Bishr is married to Mahmood ibn
Maslama radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu who is the
brother of Muhammad ibn Maslama radhiAllahu ta'ala
anhu.
Hopefully inshaAllah ta'ala you can connect those
things.
So that would make him the brother-in
-law of Mahmood ibn Maslama.
May Allah be pleased with him.
And his brother Muhammad ibn Maslama radhiAllahu ta
'ala anhu who we spoke about in great
detail about a month or so ago.
So how early is the Islam of Abbad
ibn Bishr radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu and what
is his story?
Where does he shine in the seerah most?
First and foremost, he is one of those
who converted at the da'wah of Mus
'ab ibn Umayr radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
But his conversion is so early that he
converted to Islam or he accepted Islam before
Usaid ibn Hudair radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu and
Sa'd ibn Mu'adh radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So if you go back to when we
started this set of companions, we talked about
the Ansar and the first Ansar.
So he's actually in the first of the
first Ansar before Usaid ibn Hudair and Sa'd
ibn Mu'adh and that's why Imam al
-Zahabi rahimAllah has his short entrance of him
in seerah alam al-nubula in his collection
before Usaid ibn Hudair radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu
who was a far more famous Ansari from
the companions of the Prophet ﷺ.
So he's an early early Muslim.
He witnessed the da'wah of Mus'ab
ibn Umayr and he fell in love with
particularly the Quran through Mus'ab ibn Umayr.
So everything about the life of Abad ibn
Bishr has to do with the Quran.
He saw Mus'ab ibn Umayr, he heard
him recite the Quran, he memorized everything that
Mus'ab had taught him of the Quran
and when the Prophet ﷺ made his way
to Medina, Abad already memorized everything of the
Quran that was in Al-Medina.
So it kind of gives you a bit
of his personality.
Anything of the Quran that was given to
the people of Medina, Abad was a hafidh
of it up until that point before the
Prophet ﷺ comes to Al-Medina.
Now because I like to give some of
the background just to help us understand Al
-Medina a little bit more.
The tribe that he's from, Banu Abd al
-Ashhal, which is a sub-tribe of Aus.
In one narration the Prophet ﷺ said, خَيْرُ
الْأَنصَارِ بَنُوا عَبْدِ الْأَشْهَدِ The best of the
Ansar is Banu Abd al-Ashhal.
This is considered the best tribe of the
Ansar.
In another narration the Prophet ﷺ seemed to
privilege Banu Najjar, which are his uncles, his
maternal uncle ﷺ.
And the way the scholars reconcile the two
narrations, they say that it may be that
Banu Abd al-Ashhal is the best of
Aus.
And Banu Najjar is the best of Khazraj.
And the Prophet ﷺ was saying that the
two of them make up the best tribes
of the Ansar.
And the Prophet ﷺ said, and all of
the Ansar are khayr.
All of the Ansar are great.
So when he points to this, the Prophet
ﷺ is merely saying that the most righteous
of companions will be found amongst these two
tribes.
To get a little bit deeper, Aisha radiyaAllahu
ta'ala said, ثلاثة من الأنصار There are
three men from the Ansar.
لم يكن أحد يعتد عليهم فضله No one
is equal to these three men in virtue.
It's a heavy statement.
Aisha radiyaAllahu ta'ala says, three men from
the Ansar that surpass everyone.
And she said, كلهم من بني عبد الأشهل
All three of them are from the same
tribe سعد بن معاذ عباد بن بشر وسيد
بن حضير سعد بن معاذ وسيد بن حضير
and عباد بن بشر In the words of
Aisha, may Allah be pleased with them all,
these are the three best men of the
Ansar.
Some of you are like, well, but you
said this person is the best man of
the Ansar.
That's the point of fadha'il and virtues.
Sometimes when these people are praised, you think
they're the most important companion of the Prophet
ﷺ.
And indeed in their own rights, they occupy
a certain place with Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
Now it's narrated, one last narration about Banu
Abdul Ash'al, the superior tribe of the
Ansar, is that it just so happens that
their masjid is still preserved.
And so if you can actually show it
on the screen, inshaAllah ta'ala, the remains
of their masjid is still preserved.
Oh, that's the wrong picture.
That's the one, okay.
Their masjid is still preserved in Madina Munawwara,
subhanAllah.
So this is the musalla, the masjid of
Banu Abdul Ash'al.
And basically, the tribes used to have their
own masjid.
And oftentimes the Prophet ﷺ will go out
to one of the masajid and lead the
people in salah as he goes out to
visit that tribe.
You also would have sometimes a companion who
would pray with the Prophet ﷺ in masjid
Nabawi, and then go back and lead their
people in salah.
So the imam of Banu Abdul Ash'al
in this masjid is Abad ibn Bashir radhiAllahu
ta'ala anhu.
And what is narrated is that the Prophet
ﷺ once went out to pray Salatul Maghrib
with Banu Abdul Ash'al.
So sometimes the Prophet ﷺ will go out
to them and pray in their musallas.
And as he prayed with them, Salatul Maghrib,
immediately afterwards, the Prophet ﷺ رَآهُمْ يُسَبِّحُونَ بَعْدَهَا
The Prophet ﷺ saw them praying extra salawat
after the fard prayer.
Meaning they were praying some of their sunan
and nawafil in the masjid after the fard
salah.
And the Prophet ﷺ said, هَذِهِ صَلَاطُ الْبُيُوتِ
That these extra prayers are to be prayed
at home.
Which is one of the ways in which
the Prophet ﷺ demonstrates the superiority of nawafil
at home.
Okay, the sunan and the nawafil, they're better
to be prayed at home.
Unless of course you're staying in the masjid
between Maghrib and Isha.
And you're gonna pray your sunan here and
pray some of the nawafil here.
But generally speaking, the superiority, because this is
a sahih hadith, the superiority of the voluntary
prayers at home over the masjid.
This is one of the hadith that's used
to describe that superiority.
So that's his reputation.
He is the imam.
He is from the favored tribe of the
Ansar to the Prophet ﷺ.
Is one of the earliest Muslims.
And he has an exquisite love for the
Qur'an.
Okay, so everything about him has to do
with his love of the Qur'an.
His title is either al-imam, so he's
al-imam Abad ibn Bishr, or what he's
called as Sadiq al-Qur'an, the friend
of the Qur'an.
What a beautiful name to have.
He's Sadiq al-Qur'an radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu.
So the Prophet ﷺ paired him off with
Abu Hudhaifah ibn Utbah ibn Rabi'ah radiAllahu
ta'ala anhu from the Muhajireen.
And their house was known to be a
house in which the turns of qiyam were
being taken.
So the brothers are reading Qur'an throughout
the night because Abu Hudhaifah is also distinguished
by his love for the Qur'an.
So they're reading their Qur'an throughout the
night.
And then of course you can factor in,
though it's not explicitly mentioned, Salim Mawla Abu
Hudhaifah, the best friend of Abu Hudhaifah and
who would become like his son, Salim radiAllahu
ta'ala anhu and his love for the
Qur'an as well.
So it's a house of Qur'an and
he is Sadiq al-Qur'an.
He narrates a single hadith from the Prophet
ﷺ.
The Prophet ﷺ said, يَمَعْشَرَ الْأَنصَارُ أَنتُمُ الشِّعَارُ
وَالنَّاسُ الدِّثَارُ That, O people of the Ansar,
you are like the internal lining of a
garment.
وَالنَّاسُ الدِّثَارُ Everyone else is like the outward
part of the garment.
What do you think that means by the
way?
What's that?
That you are the closest people in the
world to me.
So, O Ansar, you are like the inner
part of the garment.
And everybody else is like the outward part
of the garment.
May Allah Azawajal make us from the inner
circle of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
So this is his single narration from the
Prophet ﷺ.
As we said, his name is Al-Imam
or his title is Al-Imam, Sadiq al
-Qur'an, the friend of the Qur'an.
His name Abbad, for anyone that might wanna
name their sons Abbad.
SubhanAllah, fits him perfectly.
So it is سِغَ مُبَالَغَ مِنْ عَبَدَ So
it's an intense worshipper.
So it refers to intense worship.
And everything about him, every incident with him,
and we're gonna start going through them, has
to do with his intense devotion to Allah
Azawajal and his intense worship.
So let's go through the narrations inshaAllah ta
'ala.
And every single story has something beautiful and
miraculous about it as it relates to him.
The first narration is narrated عن عباد ابن
عبد الله بن الزبير عباد, the son of
Abdullah ibn Zubair.
So you already noticed something.
Abdullah ibn Zubair named his son عباد after
عباد بن بشر.
And that son is narrating a story about
عباد بن بشر.
So عن عباد ابن عبد الله بن الزبير
عن عائشة, and she was the aunt of
Abdullah ibn Zubair.
May Allah be pleased with them all.
قَالَتْ تَهَجَّدَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم
في بيتي.
That the Prophet ﷺ was praying qiyam al
-layl, he was praying tahajjud in my house
at night.
فَسَمِعَ صَوْطَ عَبَادِ ابْنِ بِشْرِ And the Prophet
ﷺ heard while he was praying qiyam, the
voice of عباد ابن بشر رضي الله تعالى
عنه.
The implication is that he was praying in
the masjid.
And the Prophet ﷺ turned to me as
he was admiring the voice of عباد ابن
بشر.
And said, يا عائشة, do you know whose
voice that is?
Because he had a beautiful voice of the
Qur'an.
So عائشة رضي الله تعالى عنها said, who
is it, يا رسول الله.
The Prophet ﷺ said, this is the voice
of عباد ابن بشر.
This is the voice of my companion عباد
ابن بشر.
اللهم ارحم عباد, اللهم اغفر له.
That is عباد ابن بشر.
Oh Allah, have mercy on عباد.
Oh Allah, forgive عباد.
Okay.
So this is the first narration.
The Prophet ﷺ impressed by his qiyam, loving
the recitation of the Qur'an.
When the Prophet ﷺ hears his recitation, the
Messenger of Allah ﷺ stops and pays attention
to his recitation.
Now again, SubhanAllah, you pay attention to the
narrator and we'll come back to this.
عباد ابن عبد الله بن زبير.
عباد, the son of عبد الله بن زبير.
He says about him, مَا سَمَّانِي أَبِي عَبَادًا
إِلَّا بِهِ My father did not name me
عباد except because of him.
Meaning I was named after عباد ابن بشر
by my father عبد الله بن زبير.
May Allah be pleased with him.
And we'll come back to this inshaAllah ta
'ala at the end of the lecture.
Because there's something special about that as well.
So that's the first narration that we have
about him.
The second narration is a narration from Anas
ibn Malik رضي الله تعالى عنه.
That one night, two companions of the Prophet
ﷺ came to sit with him at night.
And after they sat with him, and the
implication is that they prayed with him ﷺ,
or they asked him for something.
But the point is that they're with the
Prophet ﷺ in the quiet of the night.
They went out.
خَرَجَ مِنْ عِنْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَنِهِ
وَسَلَمَ فِي لَيْلَةٍ مُظْلِمَ وَمَعَهُمَا مِثْلُ الْمِسْبَاحِينَ They
left from the Prophet ﷺ on this extremely
dark night.
And they were accompanied by what appeared to
be two lamps.
So two lights that were in front of
each of them.
يُضِيآنِ بَيْنَ أَيْدِهِمَا And they were lighting everything
that was in front of them.
So it was like there were two lights
in front of each of them as they
were leaving the house of the Prophet ﷺ.
And each one of them had their own
light.
فَلَمَّ فْتَرَقَ صَارَ مَعَ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا وَاحِدٌ
حَتَّى أَتَى أَهْلَ And then once they parted
from each other, the light went with each
of them until they ended up at their
family homes.
Now obviously, subhanAllah, this is very much so
resembling of what the Prophet ﷺ mentions of
the Day of Judgment.
Give glad tidings to those who walk at
night to the masajid بِنُورٍ تَامَة With a
long stretching light on the Day of Judgment.
So the light on the Day of Judgment,
may Allah عز و جل give us that
light, the light of wudu, the light of
qiyam, the light of walking to the masajid
that night, which was their situation at that
time.
But in this situation, these two men, Anas
صلى الله عليه وسلم said, were Abad ibn
Bishr and Usaid ibn Hudair, may Allah be
pleased with them.
And the implication is once again that the
dhikr that they had in the presence of
the Prophet ﷺ, that light Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ
تَعَالَى sent, either an angel or a miracle
otherwise with each of them as they went
to visit the Prophet ﷺ and as they
came out with the Prophet ﷺ.
And it was said that the light on
the stick of Abad, so he had a
staff that he was using, never really went
away.
So they used to call him the possessor
of al-'asaa, the stick that is mudia, that
is lit up.
So whatever light that Allah ﷻ gave him,
it stays with him, either that night or
slightly beyond.
His most famous story, and this is my
favorite story of Abad and one of my
favorite stories of the companions of the Prophet
ﷺ in this regard.
And it contains a miracle.
There was an expedition that the Prophet ﷺ
went out on called ذات الرقاء, ذات الرقاء.
And we could talk about this expedition in
many ways because there are many miracles that
happened on this expedition in different ways, ذات
الرقاء.
And it was a difficult expedition with the
Prophet ﷺ and his companions.
So one of the assassination attempts on the
Prophet ﷺ took place in ذات الرقاء, where
he was apprehended ﷺ as he was laying
under a tree by Ghawrith ibn al-Harith.
And Allah ﷻ gave him a miracle that
prevented him from being assassinated on that particular
journey.
But the Prophet ﷺ was leaving ذات الرقاء,
leaving this particular expedition.
And it was late night and the Prophet
ﷺ said, مَن رَجُلًا يَكْلَأُنَا لَيْلًا Which amongst
you is going to watch us for the
night?
أَوْ يَحْرِسُنَا Who's going to be our guard
for the night?
Because it was time to sleep.
So Abad and Ammar ibn Yasir, may Allah
be pleased with them both, they stood up
and they volunteered to protect the Muslims that
particular night.
And some of the books say that Abad
and Ammar, at some point there was mu
'akha between them as well.
So they were brothers as well from the
Ansar of the Muhajireen.
But these two men, both courageous, both loved
the Quran.
They said, Ya Rasulullah, we will do it.
So the Prophet ﷺ said, go to the
tip of the valley and spend the night
at the tip of the valley watching for
any attackers at night.
So Abad and Ammar go to the tip
of the valley.
And Abad says to Ammar, let's split the
night.
Because we're going to need to sleep, we
can't stay up all night.
So he said, أَتُرِيدُ نِصْفَ اللَّيْلَ الْأَوَّلُ وَأَكْفِيكَ
آخِرَهُ Would you like the first half of
the night?
And then I will take care of the
next half.
أَمْ تُرِيدُ آخِرَهُ وَأَكْفِيكَ آوَلَهُ Or do you
want to take the second half and I'll
take care of the first half.
Meaning he's telling Ammar ibn Yasir, choose which
part of the night you'd like to sleep.
And I'll take that shift insha'Allah ta
'ala to protect us from any type of
attackers.
And it was still a very volatile situation.
So an attack is likely.
It's not an easy situation here.
So Ammar ibn Yasir said, you take the
first half and I'll take the second.
Meaning you be on guard the first half,
I'll sleep and I'll take the second.
So Ammar ibn Yasir went to sleep right
next to Abad ibn Bishr.
And Abad ibn Bishr is in charge of
watching through the night.
And subhanAllah it was a beautiful night and
he's out in the valley and he's looking
at these surroundings and the calmness of the
night.
And Abad did what he always does.
He went into his qiyam.
So he started to pray.
So just imagine the Prophet ﷺ and his
companions are asleep away from the valley or
further in.
Abad is all alone praying his qiyam and
Ammar ibn Yasir is asleep next to him.
And Abad starts to recite.
He reads Surat al-Fatiha.
And then after Surat al-Fatiha, he started
to read some other parts of the Quran.
And in particular what's narrated is Surat al
-Kahf.
So just picture the scene of this lonely
companion.
Ammar asleep next to him and he's reading
Surat al-Kahf.
And then as he is reading Surat al
-Kahf, he gets struck by an arrow right
in his midsection.
So there's an attacker.
And it's a single attacker.
He doesn't stop reading.
He pulls the arrow out, puts it down
next to him and he goes back to
his salah.
The man hits him from a distance with
another arrow.
And he's still reading and the blood is
coming down from him.
He pulls out the arrow, puts it down
and he's a little weaker now but he
keeps reading Surat al-Kahf.
But then he goes into rukur.
He gets up from his rukur and he
gets hit by a third arrow in his
back.
Pulls out the third arrow, puts it next
to him and he goes into sujood.
And when he goes down for sujood, he
puts his hand on Ammar to kind of
wake him up, to shake him, to get
up and to pursue the man or to
help out.
And then, as he's soaked in blood, he
finishes his salah and he shakes Ammar ibn
Yasir and he says, قُمْ لِلْحِرَاصَةِ مَكَانِي فَقَدْ
أُصِبْتُ Stand up and guard in my place
because I was struck.
Ammar ibn Yasir wakes up and he sees
Abad covered in blood and three arrows on
the ground next to him.
So Ammar ibn Yasir immediately goes to pursue
the man that shot the arrows and by
the time he went to pursue him, the
man had fled back to the camp of
Dhat al-Riqa.
When Ammar comes back to Abad and he
sees him covered in blood and trying to
treat his wounds and the three arrows next
to him, he says, سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ هَلَّ أَيْقَطْتَنِي
أَوَّلَ مَا رُمِيتَ Why didn't you just wake
me up the first time you were struck?
سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ هَلَّ أَيْقَطْتَنِي أَوَّلَ مَا رُمِيتَ Why
did you wait until you got hit with
three arrows?
And Abad radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu says, كُنتُ
أَتْلُو فِي صَلَاةِ آيَاتِ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَلَأَتْ نَفْسِي
رَوْعَةً He said that I was reading some
verses from the Quran that completely filled me
with awe.
فَلَمْ أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَقْطَاعَهَا وَوَاللَّهِ لَوْلَا أَنْ أُضَيِّعَ
ثَغْرًا أَمَرَنِ الرَّسُولُ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَمَ بِحِفْظِهِ
لَآثَرْتُ الْمَوْتَ عَلَىٰ أَنْ أَقْطَعَ تِلْكَ الْآيَاتِ الَّتِي
كُنتُ أَتْلُوهَا He said, I swear by Allah
that had I not feared giving up the
position the Prophet ﷺ told me to hold,
I would have continued to read the Quran
until the man killed me.
Basically, my idea of rushing the salah was
to finish it a little bit quicker.
But he said, I was enjoying my salah
so much and I was enjoying the ayat
I was reading so much from Surah Al
-Kahf that if the Prophet ﷺ would have
allowed me, if I wasn't afraid of giving
up the territory that the Prophet ﷺ had
commanded me to hold, then I would have
simply allowed myself to die and I would
not have finished reading the Quran until Allah
ﷻ took my life away from me.
رضي الله تعالى عنه And so this is
considered the most famous incident of two brothers.
Two brothers who loved the Quran, two brothers
who were watching and protecting the back of
the Muslims on that particular night and a
man who truly was صديق القرآن, a man
who truly was a friend of the Quran.
رضي الله تعالى عنه On top of that,
the Prophet ﷺ noted him for his courage.
And so he was someone that participated in
the Battle of Badr.
He was someone that participated in the assassination
of Ka'b ibn Ashraf.
If you remember in the story of Muhammad
ibn Maslamah رضي الله تعالى عنه who we
now know as a relative of Abad ibn
Bishr رضي الله عنه Abad was one of
the men who went with Muhammad ibn Maslamah
رضي الله تعالى عنه to kill Ka'b
ibn Ashraf who of course was one of
the prime instigators against the Prophet ﷺ.
He participates in Uhud, he participates in Khandaq,
and he participates in every battle alongside the
Prophet ﷺ.
And he's one of the few companions that
the Prophet ﷺ used in multiple capacities all
in terms of amanah and protecting the state.
So Imam al-Zahabi رحمه الله says that
the Prophet ﷺ used him على صدقات مزينة
وبني سليم.
The Prophet ﷺ sent him as a charity
collector, as the zakat collector from Bani Sulaym
and Bani Muzayna.
And in both situations he stayed for 10
days and he carried out the mission as
the Prophet ﷺ commanded him to carry out
the mission.
The Prophet ﷺ sent him to Bani al
-Mustalaq to collect their charity, their zakat.
He stayed for 10 days and he came
back to the Prophet ﷺ.
The Prophet ﷺ appointed him as a distributor
of the spoils of the battle of Hunayn.
So after the battle of Hunayn, after Fath
Makkah he was the one that distributed the
spoils which requires a lot of trust from
the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and integrity.
And the Prophet ﷺ made him his own
guard, his own harith in the famous battle
of Tabuk.
So for 20 days he was watching the
back of the Prophet ﷺ and watching the
back of the Muslims while the Prophet ﷺ
engaged in that very difficult expedition of Tabuk
which we've spoken about many times.
And then finally where we find the story
of Abbad ﷺ is in the battle of
Yamama.
In the battle of Yamama.
So that's where we come to today and
it always becomes sort of that final point
in the battle of Yamama.
After the Prophet ﷺ passes away, Abbad continues
as an imam, he continues as a reciter
of the Quran, he continues as a trustee
of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq ﷺ.
And on that day, Abbad was leading a
large group of the Ansar.
And present as well was of course his
brother Abu Hudayfa ibn Utbah ibn Rabi'ah
رضي الله تعالى عنه.
And he has a very particular dream.
Now subhanAllah, before I share his dream, I'm
gonna remind you of someone else's dream on
the battle of Yamama.
Because you start to see a connection here
where many of the companions dreamt of their
martyrdom before their martyrdom actually happened.
Right?
And one of those dreams was the dream
of Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi رضي الله
تعالى عنه.
And if you remember, if you go back
to his story, Tufayl رضي الله عنه had
a dream that he was basically re-entering
the womb of a woman.
Re-entering the womb of a woman.
So subhanAllah, as if backward transition into life.
And when he woke up and he had
this dream, Tufayl رضي الله تعالى عنه interpreted
that dream as a shahada.
He interpreted it that he was going to
be martyred because the shaheed is hayd.
The shaheed is alive.
And indeed subhanAllah, Tufayl ibn Amr رضي الله
تعالى عنه would be martyred.
And so again the dream of Tufayl was
going back into the womb of his mother.
Alright?
Like the womb closing in on him again
as if he has new life رضي الله
تعالى عنه.
And you remember the dream of the father
of Jabir ibn Abdullah the night before Uhud.
So these dreams are significant that the companions
would have before these battles.
As for Abbad, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri
رضي الله تعالى عنه one of the great
companions who we've spoken about.
He narrates that the night before Yamama, the
battle of Yamama, Abbad ibn Birshir said, يا
أبا سعيد Oh Abu Sa'id, I saw
something interesting last night.
قَالَ رَأَيْتُ اللَّيْلَ كَأَنَّ السَّمَاءَ قَدْ فُرِجَتْ ثُمَّ
أُطْبِقَتْ عَلَيَّ He said that I saw in
my dream as if the heavens opened up,
the skies opened up and I was engulfed.
Like imagine a door opening, a gate opening
in the heavens and I was engulfed in
it and then the door shut behind me.
Like the sky shut behind me.
So imagine like a portal, subhanAllah.
As if I elevated, I ascended into the
skies and then it closed on me.
So Abbad is saying to Abu Sa'id
al-Khudri, فَهِيَ إِنْشَاءَ اللَّهُ الشَّهَادَةِ Insha'Allah
this means that I'm going to be martyred.
So it shows you the mindset of these
companions of the Prophet ﷺ.
Like he's saying it with love, with devotion
and you can imagine.
I mean a man who is حامل القرآن
a man who holds the Qur'an so
preciously, so beautifully in every way.
Imagine what it was like for him to
read the ayat of shahada.
If he's someone that contemplates upon every verse
of the Qur'an and pushes himself the
way that he does.
So he said, Insha'Allah it is shahada.
So Abu Sa'id says, I said to
him, خَيْرًا وَاللَّهِ رَأَيْتُ That it is good
that you have seen.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you
and give you what you have envisioned.
So Abu Sa'id says, So I followed
him with my eyes in the battle of
Yamama.
I wanted to see what he was going
to look like in Yamama.
I mean a man with that much conviction,
certainty, what does he look like in Yamama?
So he says that, I saw Abad ibn
Bishr taking his horse going between the ranks
and saying to the Ansar, أَحْطِمُوا جُفَانَ السُّيُوفِ
وَتَمَيَّزُوا مِنَ النَّاسِ يَا مَعْسَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ Break the
handles of your swords and distinguish yourselves from
the people, O Ansar.
Break the handles of your swords and distinguish
yourselves from the people, O Ansar.
Push yourself.
So he was reading the Qur'an, رضي
الله تعالى عنه.
So you imagine a person in battle like
this and he's reading the Qur'an.
And between reading the Qur'an, he's telling
the people to raise their morale.
Break the handles of your sword, go forth,
fight, distinguish yourselves from the people, O Ansar.
And he said, and he would go forward.
And anywhere there was a line or there
was penetration in the army, Abad ibn Bishr
was at the front line.
And he would say, أَخْلِصُونَ So send reinforcements,
send reinforcements.
And so he ended up with 400 men
of the Ansar behind him.
And they were cutting through the army.
And he says, مَا يُخَلِطُهُمْ أَحَدُ That there
is no group of people that would come
in front of them or amongst them.
They would not be in a situation, except
that Abad ibn Bishr رضي الله تعالى عنه
would be in the front.
And with him, Abu Dujanah and Al-Bara
'a ibn Malik.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased
with them.
So three companions that kind of led the
way on that day or that had penetrated
very far as Abu Sa'id is narrating.
Abad ibn Bishr, Abu Dujanah and Al-Bara
'a ibn Malik حَتَّ انْتَهُوا إِلَى بَابِ الْحَدِيقَةِ
Until they got to the door of the
garden.
Of course, this is something that also would
be familiar to you at this point that
Musaylim al-Kathab had a garden, the garden
of death, which was his innermost circle.
So Abad was one of the people who
got there.
فَقَاتَلُوا أَشَدَّ الْقِتَالِ And so they fought with
the most severe fighting.
وَقُتِلَ عَبَادٍ بِنُ بِشِرٍ رَحِيمَهُ اللهِ And Abad
ibn Bishr was killed.
And this is what the narration says.
He says that, I saw that his entire
face was struck.
And this is something very relevant to the
moment by the way.
مَا عَرَفْتُهُ إِلَّا بِعَلَامَةٍ كَانَتْ فِي جَسَدِهِ I
did not recognize his body except by something
like a mark that was there like a
birthmark or something else on his body.
The bodies are mutilated, but the souls are
sent.
And subhanAllah, when we see the images from
Gaza and other places of mutilated bodies, it's
hard for us to try to imagine that
other realm.
But think about the dream that he saw
the night before.
It's all in the same narration.
That he's ascending to the heavens and the
heavens are closing on him.
And then think about the image of this
world where people are looking at his body
and he's lost everything or he has been
mutilated to a point, that you could only
tell him by something that was on his
body, some sort of scab or some sort
of birthmark that was on his body.
رضي الله تعالى عنه And he was only
45 years old when he was martyred.
رضي الله تعالى عنه So he's one of
the youth of the Ansar or one of
those people who embraced the Prophet ﷺ early
on as a young man and who lived
his life of the Qur'an.
رضي الله تعالى عنه And as we said,
he had no sons.
He did have a daughter according to some
narrations, but his line ended and the only
hadith that he narrates, رضي الله تعالى عنه
is the narration, يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنصَارُ O people
of the Ansar, أَنتُمُ الشِّعَارُ وَالنَّاسُ الدُّثَارُ That
O Ma'shar al-Ansar, O people of the
Ansar, you are the inner linings of the
garment and the people are the outward part
of the garment.
رضي الله تعالى عنه Now the thing I
wanted to come back to, subhanAllah, because this
is the first and because we're talking about
the image that these people have in our
lives and how we model ourselves after them.
Who was the companion that named his son
after him?
Abdullah ibn Zubayr.
How would Abdullah ibn Zubayr die?
Not just as a martyr.
SubhanAllah, you have that incident of Abad ibn
Bishr getting struck by the arrows, removing the
arrows, but not breaking his salah.
And the most famous thing about Abdullah ibn
Zubayr radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma, who we haven't
done our own full episode on, we've talked
about him in the context of his parents,
was that when he was martyred, radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu, as he was praying next to
the Kaaba, when he was firebombed and when
they came and they struck him from every
direction, he did not leave his salah, radiAllahu
ta'ala anhu.
And so he was martyred, refusing to leave
his prayer, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, in front
of the Kaaba.
Doesn't it strike, subhanAllah, something very beautifully, that
the man that he loved from the sahaba
was Abad ibn Bishr to the point that
he named his son Abad.
And here he was, and Allah subhanAllah ta
'ala honoring him to leave the world in
that same beautiful, momentous way in his salah
as a martyr, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
And so we ask Allah subhanAllah ta'ala
to be pleased with the companions of the
Messenger of Allah, salAllahu alayhi wa sallam.
And we ask Allah subhanAllah ta'ala to
grant us that same certainty, to grant us
that same ability to see the Qur'an
through all things, to connect to the Qur
'an through all things.
And we ask Allah subhanAllah ta'ala to
have mercy on our shuhada, and to grant
us as well the reward of ash-shahada.
Allahumma ameen.
InshaAllah ta'ala I'll go ahead and I'll
take a few questions bi'dinAllahi ta'ala.
And you can ask questions about Abad or
any other, one of the recent companions.
So the famous assassination attempt is Ghawrath ibn
Harith.
Ghawrath ibn Harith radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, I
say radiAllahu anhu because the Prophet ﷺ spared
him.
It was in this journey that Ghawrath, basically
the Prophet ﷺ was sleeping under a tree,
and his sword was hanging up in the
tree.
And Ghawrath grabbed the sword and stood on
top of the Prophet ﷺ and said, يا
محمد من يمنعك مني Oh Muhammad, who will
protect you from me?
Who will protect you from me?
So imagine the scene, the Prophet ﷺ was
looking up at this man, he's got a
sword standing over him.
And the Prophet ﷺ looks up at him
with full certainty and he says, Allah.
And Ghawrath was so stunned by the certainty
of the Prophet ﷺ as he was holding
the sword that he dropped the sword.
Then the Prophet ﷺ got up, he threw
him on his back and he picked up
the sword.
And the Prophet ﷺ was standing over him
and he said, من يمنعك مني الآن?
Who's going to protect you from me now?
So Ghawrath said, يا محمد كن خير آخذ
Be generous, let it go, please forgive me.
And the Prophet ﷺ forgave him.
He let him go, عليه الصلاة والسلام.
So this was the same journey, subhanAllah, which
the ambush happened on the Prophet ﷺ after
the journey, after that suriqa, and one of
those other miracles that just from the Prophet
ﷺ looking up at him and with full
certainty, like not in any way moved or
frightened, Allah, Allah is going to save me
from you.
But it shook the man.
SubhanAllah, it's that same journey of yaqeen, that
same journey of certainty that Abad bin Bishr
is praying and he doesn't even feel the
arrows that are striking him while he's reading
the Qur'an.
May Allah ﷻ be pleased with them all
and send His peace and blessings on our
beloved Messenger ﷺ.
Allahumma ameen.
Yes.
Good question.
I'm glad you asked the question.
So the narration about praying sunnah at home,
is it permissible to pray in the masjid?
If you don't think you're going to pray
at home, pray in the masjid.
It's permissible, there's nothing wrong with it.
The Prophet ﷺ's preference was to pray them
at home.
But if a person knows that by the
time they go home, they're not going to
pray their sunnah, then pray it in the
masjid.
Okay.
So it's better to pray them at home
and it's better to pray them at the
masjid than not pray at all.
Does that make sense?
JazakAllah khair.
I appreciate the clarification question.
Yeah.
Yeah, so in a situation, it's a good
question.
You see these videos, subhanAllah, of a missile
hitting a masjid, a rocket hitting a masjid.
Some people leave their salah and some people
just stay as if nothing is happening.
Or you see an earthquake hit and you
see some people just remain in their salah
and other people take shelter.
Those that go to take shelter are not
sinful at all.
What they're doing is entirely permissible.
So you can admire both the stillness and
the calmness of those that remain in their
salah as if even if the whole world
is crumbling around them, their jannah is in
their heart and there's nothing that can move
them.
While still saying there's absolutely nothing wrong with,
you know, rescuing yourself, saving yourself, if there's
fear, whatever it may be.
So both of those things are true at
the exact same time.
And so a story like Abad ibn Bishr,
you can admire it, you could derive, you
know, the blessing of it obviously in his
attachment to the Qur'an as the friend
of the Qur'an without in any way
implying that you would have to do the
same thing if you were in that situation.
Alright, I saw one more question here maybe.
Alright.
JazakumAllahu Khayran.
InshaAllah ta'ala we'll see you all next
week.
SubhanAllah wa ta'ala wa alhamdulillah I bear
witness that there is no god but Allah
I ask forgiveness and I repent to Him
Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh