Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Hakim Ibn Hizam (Ra) When Money Stops Mattering
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The interviewer discusses the importance of the Prophet servicing needs of Islam, including gifts and spending on poor people. The Prophet's teachings and motives for life are emphasized, along with avoiding evil and learning the meaning of the statement. The interviewers also highlight the Prophet's time and encourage viewers to follow him, highlighting the importance of his teachings and motives for life.AI: Transcript ©
I wanna welcome you all back to
the first. We
continue. We are on episode
130.
So we're moving, Alhamdulillah, Ablimeen.
The person that we're speaking about tonight,
I wish
every single Muslim who Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has blessed
with means
will watch the Surat Alaihi Ta'ala and will
heed the lessons.
What do I mean by that?
You hear
of Uthmar ibn Affan, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. Who
else do you hear about when you think
wealthy companion?
Who's the other companion do you immediately think
of?
Abdulrahman Nahu, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
Hakim Nuhizam,
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu is right up there in
terms of someone who
greatly shifts with his story.
The perspective that we are to have of
this world and a very special person,
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. Do we have any Hakims
here by the way? No Hakims in the
house? Okay. So Hakim is a very common
name amongst the Muslims,
and this is, of course, the man
who, at least when you look through Islamic
history, most of those who are named Hakim,
if they were tracing back to a companion,
they are certainly thinking about Hakim
He's a person, subhanAllah,
who comes from a particular place of lineage
that we're going to talk about.
A person who is a scholar of the
soul, who when you see that turn that
he has in Islam
becomes an absolute gem of a human being
and someone who clearly
doesn't just gain perspective of the outer world,
but gains great perspective of the inner self
in a very special way. Kabir al Shatin,
a person who occupies
a high standing with Allah and with the
people.
If he was to walk into the room,
you would immediately know that he was a
man of great standing. If you knew him
before Islam, you would see him and you
would admire this
man,
So who is this person? And so let's
start with the lineage part.
Hakim ibn Khayzam
ibn Khaylid.
Right away, you should understand when you hear
Huaylid that he's a relative of the great
Khadija
our mother Khadija
So just so you know, right away, he
is the paternal
nephew
of Khadija.
So Khadija is his amtu,
is his paternal aunt.
So typically he gets introduced to us in
the books of Sirah
through the biography
of Khadija
bint Huaylid.
Now, let's talk about what that means and
sort of give you a little bit of
a perspective of the family background in this
regard.
You've obviously it's been a long time since
we covered the life of Khadija
So just to refresh her on her father,
who is the grandfather
of Hakim, Khuwalid ibn Asad.
Khuwalid was the chief of Banu Asad.
And if you were to think about Abdul
Muttalib in Mecca and his place in Mecca,
Huwailid is the closest that will come to
that in terms of nearness to him. So
I want you to think of Abdul Muttalib,
and we know his position in Mecca,
and Khaweelid
as
people that are extremely close to each other.
They hold similar honorable places in Mecca in
terms of lineage,
Khuwalid
more so in terms of wealth as well,
but they are honorable
senior men in Mecca when you were to
come into Mecca.
They once
or or Hueyelid is amongst those who once
defended the Kaaba against its desecration. So he's
considered one of the custodians
of Mecca at the time in that regard.
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala spared
the Kaaba
from the attempted destruction
from Abraha
coming from Yemen,
Abdul Muttalib and Khawyelid went together
to Yemen to congratulate
Saif bin the Yazan, who's the ruler that
succeeded Abraha. So you kind of I just
want you to get the picture. Nobleman along
with Abdul Mutaleb, they traveled together to Yemen
as they both were considered protectors of the
Kaaba. They congratulated the ruler
after Abraha.
Their children married each other.
So,
Khawalid's
son Awam
marries Safiya bint Abdul Muttalib.
Safiya, radiAllahu Anha, the aunt of the prophet
shalaihi wa sallam,
the daughter of Abdul Muttalib marries
Awam,
the son
of Huaylut.
And you can think about again who's the
son of Al Awam is Az Zubayr. Az
Zubayr ibn Awam radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. So this
kind of gives you a little bit of
their picture in Mecca at the time.
Khawaylid
passes away in the Battle of Fijar, some
of the the the battles of the days
of ignorance,
well before Islam, and before he gets to
see what comes out of our mother Khadijah
radiAllahu ta'ala Anha in her marriage to the
prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the birth of the beautiful children that
would come from Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
our mother Khadija RadiAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Of course,
you go through all of the children up
until Fatima Az Zahra
So that gives you that side of the
family
in terms of where Hakim is going to
come from.
Now just quickly for those that are taking
notes,
the children of Khawaylut, if you were to
think of a chart and I apologize, I
didn't get to make you one. I was
gonna try to make a chart. I didn't
get to make one on time. You have
Khadija, radiAllahu ta'ala Anha,
Awam,
the father of Az Zubayr
Bint Khuayed. You know, when the prophet used
to hear the sister of Khadija,
and he would immediately rush to her voice
because she resembled Khadija
so much. Allahumahaalaumahaalaumahaalaumahaalaumahaalaumahaalaumahaala.
This is Hala, bint, qaylid.
And then you have 2 more sons.
Nafal,
who is considered Shaitan al Quraysh. This was
a man who staunchly opposed the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam. Nafal ibn Khawaylid.
And Noufal had one son that became Muslim.
We don't know anything about him except that
he became Muslim and he migrated to Abyssinia,
al Aswad ibn Noufal
And then finally, you have the youngest brother,
Hizam.
Hizam.
So Hizam
passes away before Islam
and his one son that we are going
to learn about today
is Hakim ibn Khizam. Now, it's very interesting
because last week we gave you a picture
of the
birth of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the
neglect of the orphan. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
the best of Allah's creation,
the orphan who adopted the world,
the image of Aminah giving birth to him,
alayhis salatu as salam, as a young teenager
and the father has already died. The image
of Aminah holding out the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and no one taking him in
except for Halima as Saadia.
The image of the Prophet
then going to Abu Talib, Abdul Muqtaleb, Abu
Talib being passed around
as a baby who is transitioning from house
to house
because of the crime of being an orphan
who had no money to offer, alayhis salatu
wa sallam. That's the birth of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
You compare this to the birth today, an
extraordinary birth.
So Hakim No Hizam
was born about 13 years before the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, about 13 years before the
Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And he
has an incredible birth story
which clearly dustens him for greatness.
Now you'll often hear the story of Ali
being born in the Kaaba. Hakim Nur Hizam
has a story,
an authentic story of his birth in the
Kaaba and there's a context to that,
which you can kind of parallel to the
life of the messenger
as a baby.
Remember that Quraysh raised the door of the
Kaaba
so that only the elites could access it.
And when you see the images today of
only the heads of state and, you know,
very special people being granted access, that's exactly
what the prophet didn't want to happen.
Right? Rasool Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned
that if he could reconstruct the Kaaba,
but it would be a fitna for the
people, it would be a test for them,
He would bring the door back down
because people used to enter the Kaaba and
exit, but Quraysh elevated the door so that
only the elites could access it. So you
had to be of a special caliber,
which totally defeats the purpose. Right? A special
caliber
to enter into the Kaaba.
So as far as Hakim, his mother, Hakim,
she entered with a group of women into
the Kaaba, Fadaraba
Halmahaab.
And as she entered into the Kaaba, she
went into labor.
And she fell down,
and
she was
too into her labor at that point to
come out of the Kaaba.
So they basically
coached her in her pregnancy and her delivery
in the Kaaba,
and Hakim ibn Khizam was born inside the
Kaaba.
So he's destined for something clearly,
Imagine that. Right?
You know, you think about, like, a woman
who gives birth on, like, a flight or
in a restaurant and gets a free gift
card for the rest of her life. What
do you think about this? Right? A guy
who is born, a boy who is born
as his mother just happens. Right? The qadr
of Allah happens to be entering into the
Kaaba. And this is a sign of his
sha'en, of the honor that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala will bestow upon him one day, certainly.
So he's born 13 years before the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He comes from a lot of money.
Khadija radiAllahu Anha's wealth
was largely inherited from her father, Kuwaitit.
So the whole family is extremely wealthy,
extremely
prestigious,
and very well loved.
They're not a family
that have any negative akhlaq, negative traits associated
with them. They're not people that get involved
in hurting others.
They're a loved family, and Khadija, radiAllahu ta'ala
Anha, represents the best of that akhlaq, the
best culmination, the best woman,
of all of those qualities.
But Hakim comes from that.
Right? He comes from that family. Very wealthy,
13 year senior to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam, the nephew of Khadija. And of course,
in those societies
as we've already established,
the nephew is like the son.
Right?
The Ammo, the Amtu, the Khala,
these are basically your parents at the time.
Right? So Khadija is a motherly figure
to Hakim,
and he takes to a special love to
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So he basically
becomes like an older brother to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
in the family. He's someone who is a
good friend of the messenger of Allah alaihi
wa sallam.
It's implied that he attends the wedding of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the momentous occasions of the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam, Hakim is there. So he's there
for the wedding.
He's there for the bestowal of Hibbur Rasulillah
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, the beloved one of the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Zayd ibn Harifa radiAllahu
Anhu.
In fact,
remember the story of Zayd ibn Harifa.
We actually learn it
from a narration from Hakim Nuhizam.
Zayd ibn Harissa
was kidnapped
as a child and sold into slavery.
Right? That's the whole story of Zayd.
He was kidnapped,
sold into slavery,
and they had the slave market at the
time, sukaluqaf.
Right? So Zayd is in the slave market
and he enters into the life of the
Prophet
through Hakim No Hizam.
Hakim El Khazam says about himself,
He said, I was a merchant. I used
to always go out to Yemen and I'd
go out to Hashem, Greater Syria. And he
said,
and I used to make a lot of
money.
I was really good at what I did.
I was a good merchant. And he said,
and I'd come back and I'd spend that
on the poor people of my tribe.
By the way,
Khadija, radiAllahu anha, was most famous for spending
on the poor. She literally had a tent
or or like a a marker in front
of her home
that indicated, come come over here if you
need to be taken care of. Hakim has
that same spirit of caring for the poor,
spending on the poor, not to the level
of our mother Khadijah
Anha, but it's the same type of attitude,
spend on the poor. So he said,
He said, I found Zayd ibn al Harifa
and Sukh Al Uqav,
and I gifted him to my aunt Khadija
She marries the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the Prophet
immediately
develops a beautiful relationship with Zayd bin Harissa.
Khadija
says, do you love Zayd, O Muhammad Sallallahu
Anaihi Wasallam? And the prophet
said, I do.
So Khadija said, Fahuwalaq,
he's yours.
The prophet, sallai, frees Zayd and makes him
his adopted son instead.
So Hakim is the beginning
of the transition of Zayd ibn Haritha into
the life of the prophet So he's there
for the wedding.
He's a part of
the means by which Zaydul al Haritha Hibbur
Rasulillah sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam, the loved one
of the Prophet sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam, comes
into
the life of the Messenger
sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam.
He also lives up to his name, Hikma,
wise.
He's Hakim, he's a wise man. And what's
narrated about him
is In the time of the Prophet
Darul Nadwa, which was the house where all
of the decisions would be made so the
wise men would gather,
no one would be allowed to enter into
Darul Nadwa to give an opinion unless they
were 40 years old
except for him.
He was allowed into there and he was
asked for his opinion when he was only
15 years old.
So that was the wisdom that he had.
That was the brain that he had. He
was wealthy. He had good character.
Everything
is paving the way for him
to embrace Islam.
But you know what?
There is arrogance,
there is ego, and then there is indifference.
There's a person that is so
bogged down by their worldly life, by their
career, they don't even think about religion.
This whole deen stuff, this whole religion stuff,
I don't got time for that. I'm going
to Yemen. I'm going to Syria. I'm going
to this place. I'm going to that place.
I'm in the marketplace.
I don't really feel strongly one way or
the other because I'm busy.
That's a diagnosis of Hakim al Hazam.
He's not an enemy of the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam, but he's also not interested in
being a Muslim.
He's barely in Mecca anyway. He's always out
and about.
Right? So he's making the 2 journeys, and
you have to think that back then,
you know, you don't take flights to Yemen
and to Syria.
We talked about how devastating that journey was
in terms of the family of the Messenger
So if you're going to Yemen and to
Hashem on an annual basis, if you're just
making those 2 trade routes,
you're someone who's always on the road. Right?
Your natural disposition is you're always on the
road. You are always trading. He is not
someone, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, who is involved in
religion, not in the affairs of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam or in the affairs of
Makkah.
However,
we do find sympathy.
He has sympathy
and he still loves his aunt Khadija
RadiAllahu Anha. She's like his mom.
So
when the boycott happens
on Banu Hashm and Banu Mutalib,
which would ultimately claim the life of Abu
Talib and Khadija,
Right? The family of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam placed under such severe
restriction.
Hakim
had an interest in trying to take care
of his aunt and trying to take care
of the people by extension.
Right? So he's entering into this
from the perspective of being family, not from
the perspective of being a Muslim. I don't
care about the idols. I don't care about
Islam. Just,
you know, this is wrong and I wanna
help in some way that I possibly can.
And realize, subhanAllah, the nobility of our mother
Khadija Radhiallahu Ta'ala Anha.
Khadija did not have to be in the
boycott, which is one of the most poetic,
tragic, beautiful ironies of it all.
Khadija radiAllahu Anha could have stayed back with
her people, but she wanted to be with
her husband Alayhi Salatu Wasallam.
And as a result of that suffering, she
would die.
Right?
So Hakim Nuhizam,
who's her nephew,
Hakim
would secretly bring food to her.
And you know what Khadija Radiallahu Anha would
do? She'd distribute it to everyone else.
So Hakim Nuhazam wants to take care of
his aunt. Khadija, our mother, wants to take
care of the ummah, so she'd distribute the
food amongst her people.
And
Hakim Nuhizam actually had an interesting practice.
You know, what he would do is
he would go to the valley
outside of Shereb Bipaleb, outside of the place
where they were boycotted,
And he would take grain, and he would
take food and and goods, and he would
load them onto
some camels and some some animals,
and then he would strike them in the
direction
of Benuhash and Benu Walpabat.
Right? So he was trying to send goods
in at night. He was secretly trying to
help. He was someone who generally had a
good disposition,
good heart, wants to help, wants to support,
not hostile to Islam, but you know what?
Not really interested in becoming a Muslim.
So he's someone who is
still,
you know,
met for Islam, and it shows very early
on. Now, did he fight against the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam? Kind of.
How?
Remember the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said about
the Battle of Badr, that there are some
people that were brought out in the Battle
of Badr against us.
Look, they don't wanna fight us.
Their people just brought them out. They were
forced out. Amongst them was, Amun Nabi
Prophet Abbas And Abbas
didn't wanna fight the Prophet
He came to the battle and he just
put his hands down
until he got caught basically. Right? I'm not
trying to kill the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
but their people brought them out and they
drove them out against the Messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Hakim, there's not a single narration of him,
you know, carrying a sword or fighting or
killing, but he was present.
And in fact,
when he used to take an oath after
Islam,
he would say,
He said, by Allah who saved me from
fighting or being killed on the day of
Badr.
Why? Because if he would have died on
the day of Badr, he would have died
a disbeliever. He would have died an enemy
to the Prophet
So after he became Muslim, that was his
oath. Alhamdulillah,
who saved me from being present on the
day
of Badr or being active on the day
of Badr and potentially killed
on the day of Badr. So that's his
disposition. There's some indications he may have been
present in Uhud. Again,
no real explicit nature except for something from
his son.
Later on who we'll talk about, who saw
him crying one day as a Muslim later
on in life and regretting that, you know,
how could I be there in bedir in
Uhud against the prophet, salallahu alayhi sallam,
and swearing that he would never fight the
prophet, again? Right? That's all we kind of
get in terms of a hint. So you've
got the profile in mind.
Right?
Here's something that makes him also interesting.
He visited Madinah to come visit the prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
still not as a
Muslim, to give him a gift.
Interesting. SubhanAllah.
So Muslim Imam Ahmed,
he says, kana Muhammadun sallallahu alaihi wasallam, ahadban
nasillayafil jahaliyah. He said, look, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam was the most beloved person to me
or of the most beloved of people to
me in the days of ignorance.
So he said,
when he received prophethood
and he
migrated,
he said, I bought this really special hula.
It's a suit from Yemen.
It was like a reddish suit
from Yemen
that belonged to Ziyazim.
I mentioned his name for a reason.
Alright? So some it was like a royal
suit.
He said I wanted to give it to
the prophet's alaihisam as a gift.
Not as a prophet,
just as you know, an old friend, family
member, someone I loved and I cared about.
And I thought it was befitting
to Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So I bought it for 50 dinaps. It's
a very expensive suit.
He said, and I came to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to give it to him
as a gift in Madinah.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
Abba,
he refused it. Now here is a beautiful
lesson
in the integrity of Dawah.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
did not want it to come off as
a bribe perhaps.
He didn't want there to be any type
of transactional
muddying of the waters in this da'wah.
Right? So the ulama say Abba alayhis salatu
wassalam,
he refused salAllahu alaihi wasalam because of the
circumstances, not because he wanted to hurt his
feelings, because of the circumstances. You're, you know,
a disbeliever who's opposing us.
We're in
this strange situation right now where our own
people have run us out to accept the
gift from you.
There's some sort of normalizing of relationships.
It's strange. It doesn't make sense.
So the prophet, salAllahu alaihi wa sama, refused
it kindly. Right? Not like, get out of
here and and, you know, I'm gonna kill
you if you don't become Muslim. I have
no interest in this. No, he refused it,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, but graciously.
Khim Nuhazam said, Well, I bought the suit
and I'm not leaving until you take it.
So the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he said,
Bismen. He said, Then sell it to me.
I'll buy it from you.
Hakim Nurhizam is stuck now
because he brought it as a gift to
the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And the prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam doesn't wanna disappoint him, but
he doesn't want to muddy the waters of
the da'wah.
So So he said, Bissamal. I'll buy it
from you.
So Hakim finally agreed to let the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, purchase the suit that
he brought as a gift,
to him, alayhi salaat wa salaam.
Now this gives you, by the way, a
little bit of,
richness to the story from the Shamal al
Muhammediyah, the Shamal of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, the description of him alayhi salatu
wassalam.
There's a very famous narration
that says, 'I saw
the prophet, 'sallaihi, 'alal minbar, I saw the
prophet, 'sallaihi, 'sallaihi, 'alal minbar, I saw the
prophet, 'sallaihi, 'sallaihi, 'sallaihi, 'sallaihi, 'alaihi, 'alaihi, 'alal
minbar, 'I saw the prophet, 'sallaihi, 'alaihi, 'alaihi,
'alaihi, 'alaihi, 'alaihi, standing on the pulpit. One
day, the prophet, was giving Khutba,
and he was wearing that suit.
Right? And he said,
I've never seen anyone look more stunning than
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam looked in
that suit. Like, he's already beautiful, alaihi salatu
wa sallam. He's already the most beautiful being
that you would ever see. You put a
suit of royalty on him as well, Sallallahu
alaihi wa salsam.
He's wearing the clothes of a nobleman from
Yemen.
Right? A royalty
from Yemen.
So when the prophet salAllahu alaihi wasalam was
giving holtba and not hula, it was something
of of of grand of a grand nature
that's actually documented in the Shamal of the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And it seems, and Allah knows best, this
is that same suit.
Now here's the thing.
The the story continues. The prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam, gave it to Usama ibn Zayd,
the beloved one, the son of the beloved
one of the prophet, sallallahu alayhi sallam. So
he gifted the suit to Usama alayhi sallam,
like the prophet, sallallahu alayhi sallam, it wasn't
really his thing. Right? So So he gave
it to Usam and Uzayd.
So Hakim Rahazam saw Usam Abu Zayd wearing
it.
And he looks at him and he says,
Yeah, Osama,
Atalbasuhullah
Tv Yazan,
are you wearing the suit of v Yazan?
Think about
it. Zaid Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu was a freed
slave.
Right? You talk about nobility and lineage in
the way that these people think, and Usab
Abu'zaid is the son of Afrid. In fact,
he's the son of 2,
right, freed slaves.
So he said, are you wearing the Hillel?
Are you wearing the garment
of the Yazan?
And look at what Usama says, not out
of pride but to show him the beauty
of Islam.
He said,
He said, Yes, and I'm better than him
and my father is better than his father.
Like, what?
Right? I'm better than him and my father
is better than his father.
I went back to Mecca, and I told
the people of Mecca what happened, and they
were, like, totally amused by this. What is
he talking about?
They still don't understand how Islam
privileges people on the basis of taqwa, on
the basis of piety, and it does away
with all of the tribal nonsense
that existed
before. So Hakim El Khazam, again,
hostility,
very low. Indifference to religion, high.
Noble in many ways,
kind of aloof to the entire call of
the Prophet, salAllahu alayhi wasalam, wasn't particularly
a worshipper when it comes to the idols
and when it comes to the things in
Mecca
as well. And that's why you'll find the
following statement.
When Rasool Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was coming
into Mecca before Fatiha Mecca,
before the conquest of Mecca, we've talked about
the enemies of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Right? Some of these people, the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam is forgiving them for the cause,
like Abu Sufyan.
You don't put Abu Sufyan on the same
scale
as Asabi Pun and Awalun, the early companions
or these great no. Like, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam was letting him go. They
were tulaqa. They were people that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam was overlooking their transgressions against
Islam for the sake of Allah, and Alhamdulillah,
as time went on, their Islam settled in
their hearts and they became who they became.
Alhamdulillah. Right?
But there's a different category here too.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
as he was Surah Alaihi Wasallam, as he
was entering into Mecca, he said Alaihi Wasallam,
Arba'a,
Arba'ubhim
and a shirk.
There are 4 people
that shirk is beneath them.
Polytheism is beneath them. Like, I it's almost
like I don't understand how they're still polytheists,
how they're still mushrikun.
And he said,
He named 4
Suhail ibn Umran. We've already talked about Suhail
ibn Umran previously. May Allah be pleased in
them. So the Prophet is saying like, these
people are way too intelligent.
They're too noble. Shirk is beneath them. There
is no reason why they should have held
out this long.
And the prophet
is clearly intending
to forgive them.
And this is where it gets very interesting
because you find multiple narrations.
In one of the narrations when the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam enters into Mecca,
he doesn't just say,
Whoever enters in the house of Abu Sufyan
for Huwama.
He says, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and this is
authentic, from Hamad ibn
al
So stay with me with this narration because
it has some depth to it. Whoever enters
in the house of Abu Sufyan, he's safe.
Now, why did the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
mention Abu Sufyan, radiAllahu Anhu, to win his
heart over? Right. Abbas, radiAllahu Anhu, said, look,
this man is a chief of his people.
You wanna soften his heart to Islam? Don't
treat him like an enemy anymore.
Say whoever enters his house is safe.
Hakim El Khizam is not an enemy of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So it's a different category.
Relatives,
The people we've been talking about, like Abu
Sufyanam al Harith and others. Relatives.
People who this whole affair
has unfortunately put them on the opposite side,
but they're family. There's no reason
for them to be in this way. Not
hostile. Some of the scholars also mentioned that
Hakim El Nizam's house was just that big,
and we'll talk about that. He had a
huge house.
Right? So there's a there's a logistical component,
but you can't just reduce it to logistical
component. The prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam doesn't
just think in terms of
logistics here.
And the last one, one day maybe we'll
we'll talk about Budayl
ibn Warqa. Budayl al Nawarqa
was the chief of the Khuzaa,
Banu Khuzaa. So it's a way of bringing
in
everyone,
sort of big tent approach now to bringing
everyone back into safety and bringing them into
the ties of brotherhood.
And the prophet said, woman,
and whoever shuts his door in his own
home is safe.
Right? So there's a softening of the heart,
there's a softening of the ties,
but it's not like
Abu Sufyan Mir Harish, the brother of the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam radiAllahu Anhu, like it
was a lot of hurt and pain. Like
it's not like the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam can't look at him or has deep
trauma because of what he did to him.
It's just
why now? Why did you wait so long?
You were so distracted by your money, so
distracted by your wealth, so distracted by your
pursuit of this dunya,
You missed out. Right?
So on that day,
Hakim al Hizam embraces Islam, officially embraces Islam
on the day of Fatah Mecca.
Also,
because he's older than the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam, his children are also
companions as well. So his children Hisham,
Khalid,
Hizam, Abdullah,
Yahya,
Sumayyah,
Amr, Hisham and his wife all embrace Islam
as well. So his entire family embraces Islam
with the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Now when he embraces Islam,
remember this is a man who was known
to do great things.
Right?
And one of the questions that he asked
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is the
basis by which when someone becomes
hadith
that the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when he
accepted the shahada
of Hakim.
Like, you remember Amr
Ras, he pulled his hand back like, wait
a minute, am I forgiven for all the
horrible things I did to you?
Hakim Nuhazam has the opposite problem. Like, You
Rasool Allah, what happened to all the good
stuff I did? It's literally the opposite approach,
the opposite question to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
So he says,
He said, You Rasoolullah,
do you see that there are some things?
That there are some things that I used
to do that were good deeds in the
days of Jahiliya. It means.
I used to establish the ties of kinship,
sosilah.
Ataka, I used to free slaves.
I used to give a lot of charity
to people.
Like, does all that go away? Do I
have any reward for it? And the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
SubhanAllah.
He said, You embraced Islam with all of
the good deeds that you have done before
it.
Meaning, all of the good that you did
before Islam is now preserved with Islam.
So when someone becomes Muslim,
not only are they purified of the sins,
the good deeds are purified
of what would have held them from being
rewardable in the akhirah shirk.
Right? So that goes away. So we take
it from
this narration.
And of the beautiful narrations, Irwad n Zubayr
who is now the 2nd cousin because Zubayr
is the first cousin. Zubayr bin Awam bin
Khwalid Hakim Nizam bin Khwalid.
Urwa,
who is the most prolific narrator of the
Sira of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he
narrates about him,
that he freed
That in the days of ignorance, he freed
a 100 people from slavery,
and he donated a 100 camels
in charity. And then when he became Muslim,
he freed another 100 people from slavery,
and he donated another 100 camels. Like, it's
all accepted by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala through
his becoming
Muslim.
Many of the hadith about the virtues of
freeing people from slavery
come from Hakim Nuhazam radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu and
his way with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and his way with wealth.
Now, here's the thing.
If you've been following the last few weeks,
there's this point where people embrace Islam at
Fatah Makkah, at the conquest of Makkah, and
then they kinda learn
something
in Hunayn, in the battle of Hunayn. Right?
You you keep on following this trajectory if
you've watched the last 5, 6 weeks that
it's Fatiha Makkah and then it's Hunayn and
Ta'if. Right? And then there's, like, these conversations,
the Ansar,
the new converts in Makkah. Everyone's trying to
figure out where they stand with the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, after the Battle of
Hunayn, which is the first battle that now
everyone fought on the same side.
Right?
And the Prophet
was giving more money to who
Of the spoils.
This is a very easy question by the
way, so don't overthink it. Who is the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam giving a lot of
money to from the spoils of war?
The new converts from Makkah. Right? To soften
their hearts, to solidify their place in Islam.
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was giving them
more of the spoils and he
guaranteed the Ansar that he will go back
with them in Madinah
and that they were still privileged in his
eyes, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. But this was
a different type of thing.
Hakim, ibn Hizam,
is someone who liked a lot of money,
and he gave a lot of money.
So he's wealthy and he likes being rich,
but he also gives money too.
Okay. So you've got a profile here. And
the prophet of course said,
If the child of Adam was given 1
valley of gold,
what would they do?
They'd wanna turn it into 2 valleys of
gold.
That's how we are as human beings. Right?
You
always like to gather more and more and
more. If Allah gives you one valley of
gold, you don't go, Alhamdulillah, for the valley
of gold. You say, how can I turn
this into 2?
Right?
So Hakim Rahazam is a rich man,
and he comes to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam
in her name.
I asked the prophet for a share of
the spoils of war and he gave me.
Then he said,
I asked him again
and he gave me another batch of wealth.
He said, I asked him a third time
and he gave me a batch of wealth.
But this time, the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said to me, You Hakim.
Oh Hakim. Like, look, I get Abu Sufyan
and Safan Abi Umayyah and some of these
others. Let me talk let me real let
me be real with you as my brother.
Right? You're someone we grew up together. I
know you, and
I want you to hear me out. Yeah,
Hakim.
It's ironic that it's he said that this
money
is green and sweet, not because they used
to have dollar bills, American dollar bills. Alright.
Green,
meaning,
like when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions,
Right? That it starts off green and then
it becomes yellow and then it rots away.
Right?
So it's green as in it looks evergreen.
It looks perfect. It looks just right.
Right?
And it's sweet.
Then he said,
Whoever takes that money
without greed, Allah is gonna put blessing in
it. So don't try to take so much
money, just take the little
and if you take it without greed, without
attachment, Allah will put Barakah in it. 1
man,
And whoever takes it with greed in his
soul will find no Barakah in their wealth.
Allah will not bless that wealth for them.
And then he says to him,
He said, he's like a person who eats
and never gets full. Don't be a person
who eats and never gets full.
And he says,
So the upper hand is better than the
lower hands.
Meaning what? The giving hand is better than
the receiving hand. Give charity.
Don't be someone who gets addicted to this
money.
Give from that charity.
Don't ask too much instead be asked, be
someone who gives.
And he said, salaam,
wama yastarifif?
You're ifahullah.
And whoever
is whoever abstains, who ever seeks to be
financially independent, Allah will help them become financially
independent.
And whoever seeks to be self sufficient in
a more wholesome way, Allah will make them
self sufficient. So,
you know, whoever
abstains,
is to abstain from asking. Right? Whoever abstains,
Allah will make it for them so they
don't have to. And whoever seeks to be
self sufficient, Allah will open the doors for
them to be self sufficient. He's giving Hakim,
like, this crash course
on how to approach money.
Like, I know you've done this for a
long time, and this is your way of
thinking. And you have to remember,
Hakim El Khazam is in his seventies now.
He's an old man. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam is 60 plus, so that means he's
at least 73 years old. He's lived his
whole life
looking at money in a certain way, and
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying, I
need you to switch your perspective.
Don't get addicted to it. Take it without
greed.
Don't take more than you have to and
give and give and give and give.
Hakim said, I said to the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam,
Oh Messenger of Allah, by the one who
sent you with the truth.
I will never ask anyone for money again
so long as I live on this earth
until I die.
Like I hear you, that's it. This is
the last time I'll ever ask anyone for
anything.
I'll never burden anyone with the ask ever
again
in my entire life. So he took an
oath on himself. He said, from now on,
I'll be a liyadul Ulya, I'll never be
a liyadul suflah. I'll be the giving hand,
I'll never be the asking hand, the receiving
hand.
For the rest of my life, I'll be
this hand, I won't be this hand.
As if that one conversation with the prophet,
salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, completely blew his mind
and changed his entire perspective on money. He's
been thinking about it a certain way. Now
you think differently.
I'm always going to be the giving hand.
I'm never gonna be the receiving hand again,
and I'm gonna change the way that I
think about money. Remember this oath as we
get to the later years of his life
that he took with the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi
wa sallam.
Then you find he narrates practically
all ahadith
or all of his ahadith, and they are
quite a few, are about money.
So if you wanted to teach money or
how to approach wealth as Muslims, you should
just teach a course on how Hakim Nuhizam
narrates from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Because he's clearly asking the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam a lot of questions because he still
has a lot of money
and he wants to know how to handle
it. So he narrates that the prophet
said to him,
said, the best sadaqah
is that which you give
in excess of your wealth. Now,
I'm translating it that way because andhar I
rinah, as the scholars say in the shirk
of the hadith, the explanation of the hadith
means you pay off your expenses and whatever
is left over, donate.
Right? Like you always think about it. They
say money is sitting in the bank account
and it's being wasted. That doesn't mean it's
haram to invest. No. We know the famous
hadith of the man who would,
invest 1 third, spend 1 third on his
family, and give 1 third in sadaqa. But
the point is the prophet salAllahu alaihi wasalam
is saying, like that wealth that comes after
your expenses
that you don't even need, give it.
Wabdabimantaoon
and start with those who are closest to
you.
So give of what Allah
has given you that you don't even need
for your immediate expenses
and start with those that are nearest to
you. So he gets a message here from
the Prophet, salallahu
alayhi,
musallahu.
Hakim al Hazam also, he said that the
Prophet
once gave me a dinar to go and
buy,
a udhiyah, a sacrificial animal. So he's with
the prophet in Hajj.
And the prophet, salaised, said, go buy me
a sacrificial animal.
So he said, I took that 1 dinar,
and I bought a sheep for that dinar.
Then I sold that sheep for 2 dinars.
He's really good in his in in the
marketplace. He said, I figured I could turn
the sheep around. I looked at the sheep.
I said, no. This one will go for
2 dinars.
Right? He's a businessman, and there's nothing wrong
with that. So just by his own business
sense, he said, I bought the sheep for
1 dinar, but it's really worth 2 dinars.
He went and he sold it for 2
dinars.
Then he went and he bought another sheep
for 1 dinar. Follow the the logic here.
Then he came back to the prophet and
he gave them back the dinar and he
gave them a sheep.
Do you see what happened here? The prophet
gave him 1.
He took the 1. He bought a sheep.
He said, That's worth 2.
Sold it for 2,
got 2,
bought another sheep for 1 dinar. So now
he has 1 sheep, 1 dinar. He comes
to the prophet and he says, You Rasulullah,
here's the dinar
and here's the sheep.
The prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam then made du'a
that Allah would bless him in his trade.
Right? You get a du'a from the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to be blessed in your
trade.
Something very special
about that. You also find that Hakim El
Hizam narrates the famous hadith.
He said, You Rasoolullah, a man comes to
me in the marketplace,
and he wants me to sell him something
that I don't yet possess.
You hear this hadith in home financing quite
a bit. So he said, should I sell
something I don't yet possess? The prophet, salallahu
alayhi wa sama, don't sell something you don't
yet possess. So we learned that from Hakim
Nizam
Radhi Allahu Ta'ala Anhu. He also narrated the
prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that 2 parties
in a business transaction, they have a right
to annul that transaction as long as they're
still in the discussion of it, like as
long as they're still together and they haven't
yet separated.
And if they tell the truth
and they make everything clear in the transaction,
like no one tries to cheat the other,
Allah will put Barakah in the transaction.
So no one's trying to cheat the other,
Allah is gonna bless that transaction.
And if they lie to each other and
they deceive one another, all the barakah of
that transaction, all the blessing of that transaction
will be lost. So he's teaching you halal
financing. He's teaching you barakah. He's teaching you
how to use your money properly, how to
earn your money properly, how to think about
it. Because the first thing you'll be asked
about with your money on the day of
judgment,
how you earned it and how you spent
it. And he narrates some other hadith from
the prophet
for the sake of time, I won't go
into the rest of them, just to continue
with the story. So you get the you
get the gist.
Hakim Nuhizam radiAllahu anhu, wealthy,
businessman,
charitable, and is someone who becomes very concerned
about halal risk,
halal sustenance
after he becomes a Muslim and never asks
anyone for anything and is extra careful to
make sure there's blessing in what he does.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam passes away.
And the narration in Al Bukhari,
when the time came to distribute the spoils
of war.
Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
Abu Bakr would call Hakim and Hakim would
not take his share. Basically the way that
it worked was every Muslim got a share
from the spoils.
Hakim Al Khizam refused to share of the
spoils.
Omer Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu,
He
calls him to give him his share.
And he refused.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu is like, wait a
minute. That's on you. If you wanna take
it and you wanna give it in sadaqa,
that's your business, but I'm not gonna meet
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala having cheated a Muslim.
Take your share. Hakim says, no, I don't
want it. I took an oath with the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. I'll never take anything
from anyone again. So take your share. Hakim
says no. Ramar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he gets
so frustrated.
He calls out and he says, Yeah, Ma'ashar
al Muslimim. He said, I want all the
Muslims to come here.
He said, I need you.
I need you to bear witness.
I need you to all bear witness that
I tried to give Hakim his share and
he refused to take it. Umar is like,
I don't wanna meet Allah with this on
my neck on the day of judgment.
Hakim El Hizam refuses
it. So Hakim does not take anything that
he doesn't earn directly in the marketplace. It's
like, I'm not taking it
anymore. And SubhanAllah's narration
says
that he was this way
all the way until he passed away,
until the day that he died.
Now, by the way,
plot twist,
Hakim Nuhazam died at the age of a
120
years old.
He's one of the longest living companions. Some
of the scholars actually say the longest living
companion of Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And there's
a relationship between sadaqa
and the extension of your life.
Right? He lived to a 100 20 years
old. This is in Bukhari Muslim, by the
way. This is not, like, just in the
books of Siyar. A 120 years old.
And he refused to take any wealth from
anybody else.
He became the richest man in Madinah.
The
richest, the person who used to give the
most sadaqah, the most blessed in his transactions.
Because again, he outlives his Istani, he outlives
Abdulhaman al-'Afradayallahu
anhu. He outlives those other companions. He was
known as the richest man in the Medina
of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And people of a like mind and a
like spirit become close. He was a close
friend of Uthman, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And when Uthman, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
who was like him or he was rather
like Uthman because Uthman remains
in the greater category.
Right? When Uthman radiAllahu passed away, Hakim Nuhizam
radiAllahu anhu was one of the people who
secretly buried him at night when he was
assassinated
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. A few more narrations about
him and they become they're extremely touching, SubhanAllah.
One of them
is that he lived all the way to
the time Mu'awiya.
And when Muawiyah Radiallahu came to Mecca,
he
purchased Darul Nadua
from Hakim Nuhizam.
That means Hakim Nuhizam owned the place. The
famous Darul Nadua, Hakim Nuhizam actually owned it
at some point, became his property,
And he sold it to Muawiyah
for a 100,000
dinars.
And ibn Zubayr
radiAllahu Anhu was from the family. Right?
He's his second cousin because Zubayr is his
first cousin. He was upset with him. And
he said, when he heard about it, he
said that the old man doesn't know, the
sheikh doesn't know what he sold, what he
just gave away to Marawi. Like, he has
no idea how precious that was. This belonged
to us. This belonged to Quraysh.
This is a special piece
for us, and he just sold it
to Muawiyah.
So as ibn Zubair
says to him,
You sold this the nobility of Quraysh.
Right?
And he responds to him and he said,
He said, all nobility has gone out the
door, oh son of my nephew except for
Taqwa.
Nothing's really left except for Taqwa.
The most noble of you in the sight
of Allah are the people of the most
God conscious consciousness.
So he said,
I purchased with that a home in paradise.
I bear witness that I took the entire
profit
that I made off of that trade to
Muawiyah and I donated it for the sake
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So there's no none of this nobility stuff.
None of these the royalties and it's it's,
you know,
what it gives us in terms of its
memories and when it gives us none of
that.
Right? That is all out the window.
I sold it for the sake of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We also find that when
a Zubayr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu passed away.
Zubayr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
died and he had a lot of debts
because he used to give a lot of
charity and he used to always be in
jihad.
SubhanAllah. Zubayr radiAllahu anhu was in the battlefield
and he was giving, giving, giving, and he
ended up piling up a lot of debts.
So Abdulla ibn Zubayr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma,
he, you know, he tells the story with
Zubayr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma. If you go back
and you watch that episode, we talked about
the last conversation, like, what do I do
about your debt? He said,
seek help from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. It's
gonna come to you as you pay off
those debts.
Abdulaz ibn Zubayr
said that Hakim Nuhizam
RadiAllahu Anhu came to me when my father
Zubayr RadiAllahu passed away.
And he said,
How much debt did my brother leave behind?
How much debt did he have? So I
told him alf alf, a1000
times a1000. How much is that?
Now you guys are really tired. I just
wanted to make sure that it's time to
wrap up the lecture.
A 1000 times a 1000 is
a 1,000,000.
Alright? So for the all the Arab in
here, is not an Arabic word.
Alright.
Is how you would say a million. Right?
A 1,000 times a 1,000. So he said
a million.
Right? That's if I was to round up
the debt,
I've been left with a $1,000,000 of debt
from Az Zubayr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
Hakim Nuhazam says, Alayi yakham sumi ati alf.
I'll take care of half of that 500,000.
So the stories of paying off someone's debt,
how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would spare a
person on the day of judgment from paying
off someone's debt. Imagine the nobility of this
man who goes to
a person in need, knows he's in need
and says, Here's half a1000000 from me. He's
that
anonymous donor
that shows up and says, I've got it
covered. Don't worry about it. And he said,
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
He said, I don't wake up a single
day of my life
seeing someone
at my door who is in need except
that I know that
is testing me and I seek the reward
of that test from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So when I see someone in need, I
immediately clear house. Give, give, give. I don't
think about these things. I'm gonna give you
one more scene from his life,
which will come back up in the Dhul
Hijjah series insha Allah ta'ala because it's it's
one of my something I think about in
Arafah. May Allah enable us to do Hajj
and have an accepted Hajj. I want you
to think of the scene on the day
of Arafah.
Hakim Nuhizam Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu comes on the
day of Arafa,
and Hakim Nuhizam purchases the freedom of any
enslaved person he can see in sight.
A 100 people, he purchases their freedom on
that day with his money, clears house, freeing
people from slavery.
And then he brings forth a 100 camels
and a 100 sheep.
SubhanAllah.
So he is immersing himself in sadaq on
the day of Arafah, and the people are
watching this scene on the day of Arafah
with people who are excited proclaiming their freedom
with the animals being brought forth for sacrifice,
200 animals from a single man to be
sacrificed for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and the charity given.
And Hakim Nuhizam radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu raising his
hands to the sky and weeping in du'a
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for acceptance.
People are looking at him like, what a
man.
Right? Like, calling out to Allah in desperation.
O Allah, free our necks from the fire.
O Allah, free our necks from the fire.
Like I freed these people, O Allah, free
our necks from the fire.
And the people this is actually an incident
that happened. The people all looked at him,
and they all started to cry.
And they said a word. Some of the
people said a du'a on that day with
what had happened with Hakim.
They said,
Oh Allah, this is your slave
and He has freed your slaves,
and we are
your slaves,
so free us from the fire.
Oh, Allah, this is your slave Hakim.
He has freed
your slaves
and we are your slaves. So free us
from the fire.
Meaning you are more merciful to us than
Hakim is
to the creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
What a sight
as the people are crying and looking at
the outpouring
of the sadaqah, the generosity
of this man.
When
he was passing away in Bukhari, he says
a 120 years, half of his life in
Jahiliyyah, half of his life in Islam, Half
of his life was in ignorance. Half of
his life was in Islam.
As he was passing away in Madinah peacefully
in his bed.
His last words that are narrated
by his son Hisham.
I used to fear you and now I
have hope in you.
So these were the last words that were
narrated from him, RadiAllahu ta'ala Anha, and he
was buried in Al Baqir
next to our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam with
the companions of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala dustened him. Born
in the Ka'aba
a 120 years later,
dies in Al Madin al Munawara
with a life of sadaqa and charity
and spending, but a lot of regret as
to why he didn't do it earlier. And
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows best. Allah knows
best. That is the Qadr of Allah. Allah
knows best that he didn't become Muslim earlier
on. What a beautiful legacy
to have.
Before I finish,
because I can't do a whole separate lecture.
You know, sometimes, subhanAllah, the the kids get
left out here. So his son, Hisham,
who's his oldest son, Hisham Nuhakim Nuhizam, you'll
find him. He's a hadith narrator.
And he inherited the beauty of his father
in terms of character.
So Ad Dahabi actually has a separate, chapter
for Hisham.
And Hisham,
was someone that had a lot of hayba,
a lot of presence.
That's how he's
described. And the prophet immediately loved him. And
in fact, one of the beautiful narrations,
The prophet wrestled him once and the prophet
beat him.
So it's a family affair.
Right? He was strong. He had a a
lot of presence, and the prophet, salAllahu alaihi
wa sallam, wrestled him, a young man, and
the prophet, salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, overcame him,
alayhi salatu alaihi wa sallam, even though the
prophet, salAllahu alaihi wa sallam,
to something, very powerful and related to the
moment.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
loved him. He became like an immediate close
friend of Umar. Why?
He used to enjoin good and he used
to forbid evil.
So he was someone who was
like really, really strict in a way. Right?
In joining good, forbidding evil. And Omar used
to say when he would say evil,
If it wasn't for me and Hakim being,
Hisham Ruh Hakim being alive,
this would pass. Right? We're the ones we're
kind of in charge here. We gotta make
sure this doesn't happen. So we're the ones
that check evil together.
However,
Omar has a a pretty funny narration with
him, but it's also,
one it's one that,
we can take some wisdom from and perhaps
you've heard it. Hisham Nurwa.
He narrates from Omar RadiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu.
Omar says that one day we're sitting and
then, Hisham started leading the salah,
and Hisham was reading Surat Al Furpan different
than the way that I was reading it.
So think about yourself in Ramadan when Masha'Allah,
Hafidafal, and,
Ahmad, and and Hamza start reading in those
different pirat, and you go, are you sure?
Right. Are you sure this is okay?
So with Umar,
he's listening to him, and Umar never heard
this recitation of Surat Al Furqan,
and he's older than Hissam. He sounds like
a younger brother to him, and he says,
wakitu an ajalalahi, like I wanted to jump
on him.
Basically beat him up for reading the Quran
differently. Like I thought the man changed the
Quran.
Right?
So he said, but I held myself.
I left him until he finished the salah.
Then Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said, I took
his cloak and I wrapped his neck and
I dragged him to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
So this is in the time of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Like, I'm bringing
you this this young man, Hisham ibn Hakim
alaihi wa sallam. He's changing the Quran. New
convert, this young man is reading the Quran
differently. So he said, I dragged him to
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and I
had his cloak around his neck. Like he's
strangling Hisham al Hakim
and bringing him to the Prophet
So he said so I brought him to
the Prophet and I said
that I heard him reciting, this young man
reciting different than the way you taught me
to recite. The prophet said, first law, arsihuh,
let him go.
Let the young man breathe.
And the prophet said
to him, Iqra, read.
So Hishamr Hakim Nuhazam read Surat Al Furqan
to him.
And then the prophet said to Umar Iqra
read. So Umar
read
and the prophet said
This is how it was sent. This is
how it was sent.
The prophet, salAllahu alaihi wa sama, said the
Quran was revealed in 7 modes. Read of
it as you want.
Right?
So, Adam, next time you're reading, if they
come and choke you,
just remind them of this hadith. Alright?
So this was the way that this all
kind of functioned at the time. But why
do I mention Hisham? So
this is a very famous narration about Hisham.
And give them aid in this moment, and
they are never far from our hearts and
our minds. And as we live these moments
with the sahaba of the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam, these glory days, we ask Allah to
restore the glory of this ummah,
and we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
allow us to see it in its beauty
and its 'izzah once again.
Hisham
one day was in Asham in Syria
And he walked by some people,
and they were being made to stand out
in the sun.
And they were kind of put out in
the
sun, not tortured, not beaten, but under harsh
conditions. Clearly they were in trouble.
So Hisham
asked the governor at the time,
he said, 'Mashat Nochom,
why are they being treated like this?'
And the governor responded and he said, they're
Christians
and they're not paying the Jizyah. They're not
paying the tax.
Okay? And Hisham
quoted
the most famous Hadith and actually one of
the only Hadith he has from the prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So he said to them,
I swear by Allah that I heard the
Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam say,
Allah will torture the people who torture people
in this dunya.
Allah will torture the people who torture people
in this world.
Allah will certainly torture the people who torture
people in this world.
And so, subhanAllah,
as I was reading it, I just couldn't
help. I said, you know what? Even though
it's not Hakim El Khizam, it's a son,
but the fact that he narrates that. Again,
as you're seeing dear brothers and sisters, what's
happening with our brothers and sisters.
Your Lord does not forget. May Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
avenge our brothers and sisters. May Allah compensate
them. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala overcome
the enemies and the oppressors.
Allahum Amin. May Allah have mercy and be
pleased with Hakim Hizam radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and
allow us to approach the dunya in the
way that he approached the dunya seeking the
akhirah. May Allah subhanahu ta'ala open our hearts
to that which is righteous. May Allah subhanahu
ta'ala free our minds, free our hearts from
greed. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allow us
to see the beauty of the messenger, sallallahu
alayhi wasallam, and his example early on in
our lives and to follow it to the
best of our ability and may Allah gather
us with the the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
with his family, with his companions, with the
siddiqun, the shohadah, lasa alaihoon, allama ameen.
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