Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Abbad Ibn Bishr – Ra The Friend Of The Quran
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The importance of the Prophet appointment and the conversion of first companions to Islam is discussed in a series of stories and narratives. The Prophet servicing needs of the Muslim religion is highlighted, along with his actions and emotions during the night and during the day. The segment also discusses the importance of praying at home and not at work, as well as the origin of a statement about the Prophet being praying at home and the importance of not praying at work.
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I
want
to welcome you all back to the first.
We continue now with another companion whose life
intersects with the battle of Al Yamamah.
May Allah be pleased with all the companions
of the Prophet, except the shuhada amongst them
in Uhud and Yamamah and beyond, as well
as our own shuhada, Allahuma 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 radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.
Just a small note because I forgot to
mention it last week in the story of
Thabit ibn Qais radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.
As I mentioned that he and Abdullah ibn
Rawaha radiyaAllahu 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 radiyaAllahu 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 radiyaAllahu 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 seerah 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And his name is Abad ibn Bishr ibn
Waqsh ibn Zughbah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.
As Imam al-Zahabi rahimahullah introduces him, the
Imam Abu al-Rabi' al-Ansari al-Ashhali
meaning from Banu Abd al-Ashhal, 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 Abd al-Ashhal radiyaAllahu ta'ala
anhu.
So Abad ibn Bishr, you might have only
heard this name because Sheikh Muhammad al-Shanawi
is Abu Abad, so it's a shout out
to him and to his family as well.
So hopefully more people will name their sons
Abad after this lecture inshaAllah ta'ala.
So we know of him, and he has
a sister whose name is Umama bint Bishr
radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So him and his sister are both considered
from the early Muslims, and his sister is
married to Mahmood ibn Maslamah radiyaAllahu ta'ala
anhu.
So a little bit of the tree again,
Abad ibn Bishr and his sister Umama bint
Bishr, Umama bint Bishr is married to Mahmood
ibn Maslamah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, who is
the brother of Muhammad ibn Maslamah radiyaAllahu ta
'ala anhu.
Hopefully inshaAllah ta'ala you can connect those
things.
So that would make him the brother-in
-law of Mahmood ibn Maslamah, may Allah be
pleased with him, and his brother Muhammad ibn
Maslamah radiyaAllahu anhu, who we spoke about in
great detail about a month or so ago.
So how early is the Islam of Abad
ibn Bishr radiyaAllahu 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 radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.
But his conversion is so early that he
converted to Islam, or he accepted Islam before
Usaid ibn Hudair radiyaAllahu anhu and Sa'ad
ibn Mu'adh radiyaAllahu 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
'ad ibn Mu'adh, and that's why Imam
al-Dhahabi rahimAllah has his short entrance of
him in seerah alam an-nubula in his
collection before Usaid ibn Hudair radiyaAllahu ta'ala
anhu, who is 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
Qur'an through Mus'ab ibn Umayr.
So everything about the life of Abad ibn
Bishr has to do with the Qur'an.
He saw Mus'ab ibn Umayr, he heard
him recite the Qur'an, he memorized everything
that Mus'ab had taught him of the
Qur'an and when the Prophet ﷺ made
his way to Medina, Abad already memorized everything
of the Qur'an that was in Al
-Medina.
So it kind of gives you a bit
of his personality.
Anything of the Qur'an 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-Ash'hal, Banu
Abd al-Ash'hal, which is a sub
-tribe of Aus.
In one narration the Prophet ﷺ said, Khayru
al-Ansar Banu Abd al-Ash'hal.
The best of the Ansar is Banu Abd
al-Ash'hal.
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-Ash'hal 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.
Right?
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, Thalathatun min al-Ansar, there
are three men from the Ansar, Lam yakun
ahadun ya'taddu alayhim fadlah.
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, kulluhum min Bani Abd al
-Ash'hal, all three of them are from
the same tribe of Bani Abd al-Ash
'hal.
Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, Abad ibn Bishr, and
Usaid ibn Hudair.
Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, Usaid ibn Hudair, and
Abad ibn Bishr, 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 fada'il, in virtues,
that sometimes when these people are appraised 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 Bani
Abd al-Ash'hal, 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 insha'Allah 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 Madinah al
-Munawwara, subhanAllah.
So this is the musalla, the masjid of
Bani Abd al-Ash'hal.
And basically the tribes used to have their
own masjid, and often times 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 Bani Abd al-Ash
'hal 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 Bani Abd al-Ash'hal.
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 going to 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.
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 Hudhayfa ibn Utbah ibn Rabi'a 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 Hudhayfa 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 Hudhayfa, the best friend of Abu Hudhayfa
and who would become like his son Salim
radiAllahu 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, يَا مَعْشَرَ 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 want
to name their sons Abbad, subhanAllah, fits him
perfectly.
So it is seegha mubalagha min abada, so
it's an intense worshipper.
So it refers to intense worship and everything
about him, every incident with him, and we
are going to 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 on Abbad ibn
Abdullah ibn Zubayr, Abbad the son of Abdullah
ibn Zubayr.
So you already noticed something, Abdullah ibn Zubayr
named his son Abbad after Abbad ibn Bashir.
And that son is narrating a story about
Abbad ibn Bashir.
So on Abbad ibn Abdullah ibn Zubayr, on
Aisha, and she was the aunt of Abdullah
ibn Zubayr, may Allah be pleased with them
all.
Qalat tahajjud Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam fi bayti,
that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was praying
qiyam ul-layl, he was praying tahajjud in
my house at night.
Fasami'a sawta Abbad ibn Bashir, and the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam heard while he was
praying qiyam, the voice of Abbad ibn Bashir
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, the implication is that
he was praying in the masjid.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam turned to
me as he was admiring the voice of
Abbad ibn Bashir and said, Ya Aisha, oh
Aisha, do you know whose voice that is?
Because he had a beautiful voice of the
Quran.
So Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala anhu said, who
is it Ya Rasulullah?
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, this is
the voice of Abbad ibn Bashir, this is
the voice of my companion Abbad ibn Bashir,
Allahumma arham Abbad, Allahumma akhfir lahu.
That is Abbad ibn Bashir, oh Allah have
mercy on Abbad, oh Allah forgive Abbad.
So this is the first narration, the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam impressed by his qiyam, loving
the recitation of the Quran.
When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam hears his
recitation, the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
stops and pays attention to his recitation.
Now again, subhanAllah, you pay attention to the
narrator and we'll come back to this.
Abbad ibn Abdullah ibn Zubair, Abbad, the son
of Abdullah ibn Zubair, he says about him,
ma sammani abi Abbadan illa bihi, my father
did not name me Abbad except because of
him.
Meaning I was named after Abbad ibn Bashir
by my father, Abdullah ibn Zubair, 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 radiAllahu ta'ala anhum, that one
night two companions of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam came to sit with him at night.
And after they sat with him, and the
implication is that they prayed with him Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, or they asked him for something.
But the point is that they were with
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the quiet
of the night.
They went out.
Kharaja min AAindi Rasoolillahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam fi
laylatin mudhlima wa ma'ahuma mithlul misbahayn.
They left from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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.
Yudhi'ani bayn AAidihima, 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 Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And each one of them had their own
light.
Falamma iftaraqa saara ma'a kulli wahid minhuma
wahidun hatta ata ahla.
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 Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
mentions of the Day of Judgment.
Give glad tidings to those who walk at
night to the masajid binurin taamah.
With a long stretching light on the Day
of Judgment.
So the light on the Day of Judgment,
may Allah Azawajal 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
radiAllahu anhu 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 Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that light Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sent, either an angel
or a miracle otherwise, with each of them
as they went to visit the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and as they came out with
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And it was said that the light or
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, right.
So whatever light that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala 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 subhanAllah of the companions of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in this regard.
And it contains a miracle.
There was an expedition that the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam went out on called dhaat al
-riqaa.
We could talk about this expedition in many
ways because there are many miracles that happened
on this expedition in different ways, dhaat al
-riqaa.
And it was a difficult expedition with the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and his companions.
So one of the assassination attempts on the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam took place in dhaat
al-riqaa where he was apprehended as he
was laying under a tree by Ghawrath ibn
al-Harith.
And Allah Azawajal gave him a miracle that
prevented him from being assassinated on that particular
journey.
But the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was leaving
dhaat al-riqaa, leaving this particular expedition.
And it was late night and the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, man rajulan yakla'una
layla?
Which amongst you is going to watch us
for the night?
Aw yahrisuna?
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 muakha'
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 Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam 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, Aturidu nisfa layla al awwal
wa akfeek aakhirahu?
Would you like the first half of the
night and then I will take care of
the next half?
Amturidu aakhirahu wa akfeek awwalahu?
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 Qur'an 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
Dhaat 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 اللَّهَ هَلَّ أَيْقَطْتَنِي
أَوَّلَ مَا رُمِيتَ Why didn't you just wake
me up the first time you were struck?
Why did you wait until you got hit
with three arrows?
And Abad radiyaAllahu ta'ala Anhu says, كُنتُ
أَتْلُو فِي صَلَاتِ آيَاتِ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَلَأَتْ نَفْسِي
رَوْعَةٌ He said that I was reading some
verses from the Qur'an that completely filled
me with awe.
فَلَمْ أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَقْطَعْهَا 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 Qur
'an 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 ayaat 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 Qur'an 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 Qur'an, 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
Qur'an 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 رضي الله تعالى عنه who of
course was one of the prime instigators against
the Prophet ﷺ.
He participates in Uhud رضي الله تعالى عنه
He participates in Khandaq رضي الله تعالى عنه
And he participates in every battle alongside the
Prophet ﷺ رضي الله تعالى عنه And he's
one of the few companions that the Prophet
ﷺ used in multiple capacities رضي الله تعالى
عنه all in terms of amanah and protecting
the state.
رضي الله تعالى عنه So Imam al-Zahabi
رضي الله تعالى عنه says that the Prophet
ﷺ used him على صدقات مزينة وبني سليم
رضي الله تعالى عنه The Prophet ﷺ sent
him as a charity collector رضي الله تعالى
عنه as a zakat collector from Banu Sulaym
رضي الله تعالى عنه and Banu Muzayna رضي
الله تعالى عنه And in both situations he
stayed for 10 days رضي الله تعالى عنه
and he carried out the mission رضي الله
تعالى عنه as the Prophet ﷺ commanded him
رضي الله تعالى عنه to carry out the
mission رضي الله تعالى عنه The Prophet ﷺ
sent him to Bani al-Mustalaq رضي الله
تعالى عنه to collect their charity, their zakah
رضي الله تعالى عنه He stayed for 10
days رضي الله تعالى عنه and he came
back to the Prophet ﷺ رضي الله تعالى
عنه The Prophet ﷺ appointed him رضي الله
تعالى عنه as a distributor of the spoils
of the Battle of Hunayn رضي الله تعالى
عنه So after the Battle of Hunayn رضي
الله تعالى عنه after Fatih Mecca رضي الله
تعالى عنه he was the one that distributed
the spoils رضي الله تعالى عنه which requires
a lot of trust رضي الله تعالى عنه
from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and integrity
رضي الله تعالى عنه And the Prophet ﷺ
made him his own guard رضي الله تعالى
عنه his own haris رضي الله تعالى عنه
in the famous Battle of Tabuk رضي الله
تعالى عنه So for 20 days رضي الله
تعالى عنه he was watching the back of
the Prophet ﷺ رضي الله تعالى عنه and
watching the back of the Muslims رضي الله
تعالى عنه while the Prophet ﷺ engaged in
رضي الله تعالى عنه that very difficult expedition
of Tabuk رضي الله تعالى عنه which we've
spoken about many times رضي الله تعالى عنه
And then finally رضي الله تعالى عنه where
we find the story of Abad رضي الله
تعالى عنه is in the Battle of Yamama
رضي الله تعالى عنه in the Battle of
Yamama رضي الله تعالى عنه So that's where
we come to today رضي الله تعالى عنه
and it always becomes that final point رضي
الله تعالى عنه in the battle of Yamama
رضي الله تعالى عنه After the Prophet ﷺ
passes away رضي الله تعالى عنه Abad continues
as an Imam رضي الله تعالى عنه he
continues as a reciter of the Quran رضي
الله تعالى عنه he continues as a trustee
of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq رضي الله تعالى
عنه And on that day, Abad was leading
رضي الله تعالى عنه a large group of
the Amsar أمصار And present as well was
of course his brother Abu Hudhaifah بن عتب
بن ربيع 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 radiyallahu ta'ala anhu And if you
remember if you go back to his story
Tufayl radiyallahu anhu 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 radiyallahu ta'ala anhu Interpreted
that dream as a shahada He interpreted it
that he was going to be martyred Because
the shaheed is hay, the shaheed is alive
and Indeed subhanAllah Tufayl ibn Amr radiyallahu ta
'ala anhu would be martyred.
And so again the dream of Tufayl was
Going back into the womb of his mother
All right like the womb closing in on
him again as if he has new life
radiyallahu ta'ala anhu 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 Saeed al-Khudri
radiyallahu ta'ala anhu one of the great
companions who we've spoken about he narrates that
The night before Yamama the battle of Yamama
Abbad ibn Burshid said, Ya Abu Saeed Oh
Abu Saeed, I saw something interesting last night
qala ra'aytu allayla ka'anna assamaa qad
furijat thumma utbiqat alayya 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 Saeed al-Khudri, fahiya insha
'Allah al-shahada Insha'Allah this means that
I'm going to be martyred So it shows
you the mindset of these companions of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam like he's saying it
with Love with devotion and you can imagine
I mean a man who is hamil al
-Quran a man who holds the Quran so
preciously so beautifully in every way Imagine what
it was like for him to read the
ayat of shahada Right if he's someone that
Contemplates Upon every verse of the Quran and
pushes himself the way that he does so
he said Insha'Allah it is shahada So
Abu Saeed says I said to him khairan
wallahi ra'ayt 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 Saeed says So I followed
him with my eyes in the Battle of
Yamam.
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 a bad
abnubisher taking his horse going between the ranks
and Saying to the Ansar ahtimu jufan al
-suyuf wa tamayyazu min al-nas ya ma'shar
al-ansar Break the handles of your swords
and distinguish yourselves from the people of Ansar
Break the handles of your swords and distinguish
yourself from selves from the people of Ansar
push yourself So he was reading the Quran
radiallahu ta'ala anhu So you imagine a
person in battle like this and he's reading
the Quran and between reading the Quran he's
telling the people To raise their morale break
the handles of your sword go forth fight
distinguish yourselves from the people Oh Ansar and
he said and he would go forward and
he and Anywhere there was a line or
there was penetration in the army a bad
abnubisher Was at the front line and he
would say a khalisuna khalisuna 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 mayu khalituhum ahad 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 a bad abnubisher radiallahu ta'ala anhu
would be in the front and with him
abu dujana and al-baraa 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 saeed is narrating abad
abnubisher abu dujana and al-baraa ibn malik
hattan tahu ila baab al-hadiqa 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-kaddhab had a garden the garden of
death, which was his innermost circle So abad
was one of the people Who got there?
Faqatalu ashad alqital and so they fought with
the most severe Fighting waqutila abad abnubisher rahimahullah
and abad abnubisher 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 maa araftuhu illa bi alamatin
kanat fee jasadihi 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 assent SubhanAllah, this is you know,
when we see the images from ghaza 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
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 RadhiAllahu ta
'ala anhu and he was only 45 years
old when he was martyred RadhiAllahu ta'ala
anhu so he's one of the youth of
the Ansar or one of those people who
embraced the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam early on
as a young man and who lived his
life of the Quran RadhiAllahu ta'ala anhu
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 RadhiAllahu ta'ala anhu
is The narration, Ya Ma'shar Al-Ansar, O
people of the Ansar, Antumush shi'ar wal
nasid duthar Wal nasid duthar, 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 RadhiAllahu ta'ala anhu now the thing
I wanted to come back to subhanAllah because
this is the first and because we're talking
about the 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 RadhiAllahu 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 RadhiAllahu 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 RadhiAllahu ta'ala anhu and so
he was martyred Refusing to leave his prayer
RadhiAllahu 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 subhanahu wa'ta'ala honoring
him to leave the world in that same
Beautiful momentous way in his salah as a
martyr RadhiAllahu ta'ala anhu And so we
ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to be pleased
with the companions of the Messenger of Allah
Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and we ask Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala to grant us That same
certainty to grant us that same ability To
see the Quran through all things to connect
to the Quran through all things and we
ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala To have mercy
on our shuhada and to grant us as
well the reward of a shahada Allahumma ameen
InshaAllah ta'ala I'll go ahead and I'll
take a few questions bid minnahi ta'ala
And you can ask questions about Abad or
any other One of the recent companions.
Yeah So
the famous assassination attempt is Ghawrith ibn al
-Harith Ghawrith ibn al-Harith RadhiAllahu ta'ala
anhu I say RadhiAllahu anhu because the Prophet
Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam spared him.
It was in this journey that Ghawrith Basically
the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sleeping
under a tree and his sword was hanging
up in the tree and Ghawrith grabbed the
sword and stood on top of the Prophet
Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And said Ya Muhammad
man yamnauka minni.
Oh Muhammad who will protect you from me?
Who will protect you from me?
So imagine the scene the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam was looking up at this man
He's got a sword standing over him And
the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam looks at
up at him with full certainty and he
says Allah and Ghawrith was so stunned by
the certainty of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam as he was holding the sword that
he dropped the sword Then the Prophet Sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam got up He threw him
on his back and he picked up the
sword and the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
was standing over him And he said man
yamnauka minni al-an.
Who's gonna protect you from me now?
So Ghawrith said Ya Muhammad kun khayra aakhid,
be you know, be generous You know, let
it go.
Please.
Forgive me and the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam forgave him He let him go alayhi
salatu wassalam So this is this was the
same journey subhanAllah which which the ambush happened
on the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam After
the journey after that to be caught and
one of those other miracles that just from
the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I'm looking
up at him and with full certainty like
not in in any way moves or frightened
Allah Allah's gonna save me from you But
it shook the man SubhanAllah, it's that same
journey of yaqeen, that same journey of certainty
that Abadu Nubishad is praying And he doesn't
even feel the arrows that are striking him
while he's reading the Quran May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala be pleased with them all
and send his peace and blessings on our
beloved Messenger Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allahumma ameen.
Yes So how you said the three arrows
that struck him from all the narrations, where
was his shoulder?
So it could be in the area of
the of the strike, but it definitely hit
him in three different places So perhaps something
around here and some of the narrations would
would say that Mashallah Anyone else any other
questions before we break for Adhan Al-Isha?
Yeah A
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 gonna pray at home pray
in the masjid It's permissible.
There's nothing wrong with it The Prophet Sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam's preference was to pray them
at home But if a person knows that
by the time they go home, they're not
gonna 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 Zakum Allah have
I appreciate the clarification question.
Yeah Praying with the blood flowing.
Yeah, it's it's interesting and I figured that
question would come up So this is obviously
a unique situation.
This is not in regards to the farad
In a situation where a person is praying
their mandatory prayer and the blood flowing There
are two ways to look at it.
One of them is the extent to which
the blood is flowing Right, and the other
one is that if it is a fatal
prayer versus a nafila prayer And that's how
the scholars kind of reason with this and
that's where the discussion becomes.
So it's a nafila salah and Obviously he
was he was Engulfed in his recitation of
the Quran and that was what made it,
you know So so pleasing to him and
that's what kept him going and all the
allotted time There's also a lot of hope
that that these people would pray in actual
battles and be struck sometimes in the capacity
of Actual battle and they would continue their
salah because of these extraordinary situations But if
it was a follow-up if you have
blood that flows in a follow-up and
obviously in our normal Situations the right thing
to do would be to make up that
salah Was that come on?
Okay.
All right.
I'll take we got some more time so
I can take two questions.
Inshallah.
Yeah, I Can't hear you.
I'm sorry.
Can you raise your voice a bit?
The question is what about the nafla salah?
Can you pray the nafla before the fard
or after?
So there are there are there are times
so there are the sunan muakkadah where the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would pray So
the two before fajr the four before dhuhr
the two after dhuhr the two after maghrib
the two after isha And then there are
times in which there are nawafil that are
prayed extra sunan that are prayed So between
maghrib and isha is a time where the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam actually would sometimes
pray multiple rakaat some of the Sahaba would
pray Six eight multiple rakaats between maghrib and
isha The time before maghrib is not a
time of nafila, right?
So it's you look at the times the
windows in which praying voluntary prayers is permissible
And then you look at where the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam assigns priority obviously and
that's where the more virtuous times would be
wallah ta'ala All right.
Last question inshallah.
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 is 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 you could derive
You know the the blessing of it obviously
in his attachment to the Quran as the
friend of the Quran without In any way
implying that you would have to do the
same thing if you were in that situation
All right.
I saw one more question here.
Maybe all right Jazakum Allah khairan inshallah ta
'ala.
We'll see you all next week SubhanAllah wa
hamdika ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah wa
astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayka wasalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
Next week we will be after