Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Abu Mahdhura – Ra The Kid Who Mocked Adhan
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So if I was to ask you
who are the Mu'avans of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam? Who would you say?
The very first one.
Who is it? Bilal Habashi,
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. And then who?
Abdullah ibn Maktoum radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. Those are
the 2 most famous Mu'adins of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The person that we're gonna talk about now,
truly a powerful story.
His name is Abu Mahdura.
Abu Mahdura. And
just like Abi Bakr, he's known by Abu
Mahdura.
His actual first name
is,
is disputed.
So is it or
or
All of these are possibilities with him. Alright.
Or or or
Ibno Romayr,
and he is Al Jumahi. He's from the
the same area as that woman, so he's
sort of a mix between Ta'af and Makkah
in this regard. Alright?
The incident
that is known as the incident of Abu
Mahdura
is something that gives such a beautiful dimension
of the character of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
has left the siege of Ta'if. He's making
his way back to Al Madinah,
and he has with him now these 23
escaped slaves amongst them, Abi Bakr Nufayyah
And obviously, on the way, they're
making salah and they're going about their business.
Bilal
was with the Prophet
on this journey back from Ta'if the second
time around.
So it's actually really interesting. The prophet, salAllahu
alayhi wasalam, never actually gets to go into
Ta'af. Right?
He's bringing people out. He sends back the
delegation. They become Muslim, but but we don't
actually have the incident of the Prophet, sallAllahu
alaihi wa sallam, like going back to the
place where he was stoned and going back
to the garden. It's all now happening on
the way out.
The emotions are high,
and,
you know, there's at any moment a sneak
attack that could happen, an ambush that could
happen. The Hawazan,
those Bedouin tribes were famous for that.
Right?
The Prophet
orders
Bilal radiallahu anhu to give the Adhan, to
call the Adhan,
and he would alternate, of course, Bilal and
ibn al Maktoum depending on the situation.
Bilal radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu stands up to do
the adhan.
Abu Mahdura
was with a group of
youth.
So they're they're a bunch of kids, and
they hate the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Why?
Because their parents hated the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
They don't know anything about the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. All they know him is as
the man that came from Mecca tried to
cause us trouble, and then he came back
again and tried to cause us trouble. They
don't know about the message of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So while Bilal radiAllahu anhu was giving the
Adhan,
what does Abu Mahdura say we did? He
said, we started to make fun of the
Adhan of Bilal.
Okay.
We started to mock Bilal from afar.
So you can imagine
a bunch of 10 kids,
you know,
on the outside making fun of him, laughing,
and they're making fun of the Adhan. So
they're trying to call out the words
and the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
then in a stern voice, he says,
ta'alu, come.
Alright. We're in trouble now.
Why? Because at the end of the day,
you forgot for a moment that this man,
salallahu alayhi wasalam, is not just the messenger
of Allah. He's also a military general. Right?
The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is
fully suited,
armored
like, you kids come here.
So they come to the prophet and they're
terrified.
Like,
and so this is the opposite of Abi
Bakr doing ruku and inching in. This is,
uh-oh, we didn't think about the consequences here.
We got caught
and all 10 of them come in front
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, go
ahead and do what you were doing. You
were repeating the adhan, so keep saying it.
They kind of look around at each other.
The prophet said, yeah, go.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam listened to
them.
And then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
Which one of you was the one that
was loudest
and, you know, making fun of the?
And Abu Mahdura said, they all pointed to
me. It's also a lesson for kids too.
Your friends will sell you out very quickly
when fear comes
so you're making fun of them together
But then when there were consequences,
the other 9 kids all pointed to Abu
Mahidura.
Abu Mahidura was like, alright, I'm in trouble.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
after that, so, kulloom asaro ilayyah, they all
pointed to me.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said to the other 9 in Salifu, you
guys can go.
What's he gonna do to Abu Mahdura?
Chances are,
execute him, torture him, enslave him. What would
a military general do? I mean, you play
out the scene. It's tense moments. It's what's
he gonna do with him?
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
kept me with him.
The prophet came to me,
came closer to me,
and the prophet said, Say it again.
Said, say what? He said,
So he said, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. Prophet
encouraged him, Allahu Akbar.
So say it again.
And so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
call it out the way you were calling
it out.
So he had him call the Adan after
him, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
After he finished that, so he starts off
in a low voice, raises his voice eventually,
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is clearly
having him demonstrate
his voice in the Adan.
And Abu Mahdura had a beautiful voice.
So he said that after I finished,
the Prophet
gave me a pouch with some silver in
it.
Right?
And he smiled, he said, Hadihi laka,
this is a gift for you.
And al Muhamdul was stunned. He thought he
was in trouble. Now he's got silver in
his hand. So
he says,
So then the prophet put his hand
on my forehead,
and he made du'a for me.
And then he moved his hand, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
from a wada yadahu alaqalbi
Put his hand on my heart, Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam on my chest,
and he made du'a for me. And the
prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam moved his hand
making du'a for me as I was looking
at the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he,
he said, Allahumabarik
lahu Allahumabarik
alaihi. Allahumabarik
lahu alaihi.
So part of the dua, the prophet, SAW,
was silent. Then he said, O Allah,
bless him.
Bless him and put blessings upon him. Bless
him and put blessings upon him. He said,
SubhanAllah. And this will be a familiar story.
He says,
That the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was the
most hated person to me. I hated the
prophet before that. We knew bad things about
him. They're kids. His reputation was horrible.
Fassar Habun Nasi, ilayhi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam became the
most beloved person in the world to me.
Like in those moments, suddenly,
I was in awe of him SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
So he asked the prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
teach me again.
So the prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
So he's repeating it. And the Prophet went
through the whole Adhan with him
to make sure that he memorized it
properly.
And then the nerve of Abu Mahdura,
man, these young people.
Abu Mahdura
says,
Oh Messenger of Allah, let me be the
Mu'adhun of Mecca. Like a minute ago, you
were making fun of my Mu'adhun.
You're lucky I spared you. I gave you
some money and I made du'a for you,
and you're Muslim now, and your heart is
full of love for Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala.
Now you're saying, let me be the Mu'adhun.
You haven't even prayed a salah
The Prophet
said, Okay,
I'll make you the Mu'adhun of Mecca.
And so he has Bilal radiAllahu anhu with
him and Ibn Umaktoum radiAllahu anhu obviously in
Madina.
And the prophet
had left
Atab ibn Usayd.
Atab ibn Usayd radhiallahu alaihiwasallam was the amir
of Mecca. I mean, this is right after
IFAH Makkah. So Mecca has just been conquered
fresh, and they moved on to Ta'af, and
the Prophet left an amir there. And the
prophet
said that I'm going to send for him,
for you to be the Mu'azin
Go ahead. You're going to give the Adhan,
Adal Baytul Haram.
It's yours.
SubhanAllah, in one moment you're mocking Him and
Ta'af, the next moment you're being sent to
be the Mu'addin
of Mecca.
And
this is, SubhanAllah,
so powerful and profound.
He goes to Makkah
and he had such a beautiful voice. Abu
Ma'adura had such an enjoyable voice in Mecca
that people loved to hear zalman, so people
would ask him to repeat it. He had
the singer's voice, right, but he used it
for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And so he goes back to Mecca. The
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
has appointed him
as the Mu'adhvin,
and Abu Mahdura
would never leave the Haram.
He was the 5 times a day Mu'adhun
of Makkah.
While the Prophet was still alive, he would
not leave his position
out of fear that someone else would take
it from him. So no one else is
giving adhan
except for me, Abu Mahdura radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And his voice was beautiful, so people,
let it happen. And on top of that,
SubhanAllah, this is this is something so powerful.
See the love that he had for the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He would not ever
cut the part of his hair that the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam touched.
Lam yahiluka, walam yafrikha. He wouldn't even part
it.
So the part of his hair that the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam touched when he made
du'a for him, Abu Mahdura said, I'm never
cutting this again.
Never parting it. I'm never cutting it. So
he was known, radiallahu anhu, that he would
trim, he would do everything, but he'd leave
that part of his hair
because he was like the Prophet made dua
for me. He touched that part of my
head and he prayed for me, sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
And what ends up happening, SubhanAllah, is that
he goes on as well to become a
companion.
He has students who narrate from him.
All 8 of his narrations have to do
with Adhan.
You know, like, just the Mu'adhvin,
and that's it. Ubas. Nothing else.
I'm a. I know the. That's what the
prophet pointed me to do. I'm not doing
anything else. So all of his narrations,
have to do with the.
And by the way, if you hear
Adhan Abi Mahdura, it's a term in fiqh.
It's a term in jurisprudence. Why? You You
know how sometimes people wanna fight each other
over the way the i'tamah is done? So
for example,
Right? So do you repeat it 4 times,
or do you repeat it 2 times?
You can find narrations for both. The adhan
of Abi Mahdura,
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, taught him,
So the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam taught him
what is known in this regard, right, as
the the the quadruple form of this
recitation. So there's a tarjir with tarbir
to literally repeat it 4 times.
Right? And it was narrated from the Messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So when
you hear Adhan Abi Mahdura as an acceptable
way of making Adhan, this is who it
goes back to Radhi Allahu Ta'ala Anhu. The
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam taught me to make
the Adhan this way and he was not
combated in this regard. And so for
generations,
that's how the Adhan of Mecca was, Adhan
Abi Mahdura.
If you went to Mecca, you heard the
Adan in the style
of Abi Mahdura radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. On top
of that, you know how the prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam gave the key to the Kaaba,
to Usman, Muntalha and his relatives, radiAllahu Anhu,
and said it has to remain in his
descendants.
Abi Mahdura,
his descendants have to be the Mu'adhun al
Makkah. Up until the time that Imam Azahabi
is
writing about
Abi Mahdura
who says,
Until today in Makkah, the Adhan has remained
from the children, the grandchildren, the great grandchildren
of Abu Mahdura radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. Only the
children
of Abu Mahdura
get to give the adhan,
and he lived a long life radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu. And And there's actually a really, funny
incident before I move on, to the last
part of this.
Again, his name is is not really known.
Mu'awiya had sent a Mu'eddin
to, to Mecca the time of Abu Mahdura
and
Abu Mahdura was like, I'm not having it.
So when the Mu'adh then for Ma'awiya came,
it literally says,
pushed him into zamzam.
So you're not taking the Sudan from me.
So he still had that attitude like, nope.
I'm the Muadhan of Mecca.
No one else will come between me
and this reward of Abu Mahdura,
There's even a poem, subhanAllah, that was, that
was authored,
So he rhymed it. He said that I
swear by the Lord of the dressed Kaaba
and by Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam on what
he recited of Surah and by the Adhan
of Abi Mahdura that I'm going to do
something you're not gonna like. So he used
those rhymes because it became known that this
is the Adhan of Abi Mahdura radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu. SubhanAllah, the lessons that can be gleaned
from this again.
Sometimes
you have to see potential even in a
person who doesn't even show
any willingness to be guided.
And you have to be able to see
what they're good at.
So just like the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
saw something very specific in Abi Bakr radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu,
I see something very specific
in this young man, Abi Mahdura Radhiallahu Ta'ala
Anhu. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam gave
him a task, and he stuck him to
that. And Abi Mahdura owned that task, and
he never left it. So how do you
not break a young person? Like, you literally
could take the lessons
1 by 1 here. And how do you
not break a young person
that is showing you great potential, the way
that the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sama, did
not break this young person.