The Firsts – Halima Al-SaDiyya RA – The Long Lost Mother
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The interviewer discusses the history and struggles of the Prophet's mother, including loss of family members and struggles with his mother. They also discuss the importance of the Prophet's teachings and his education, as well as his treatment of his mother's life, including the loss of family members and the struggles of his mother. The interviewer also touches on the church's treatment of the Prophet's mother and the treatment of his followers, as well as the presentation on Halima's treatment of his followers.Transcript ©
Dear brothers and sisters, Insha'Allah ta'ala, tonight we
are in for a treat
because we will speak about
a very personal time in the life of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam at a time
that we often don't focus on and something
near and dear to him,
which is his mother or his mothers.
SubhanAllah, when we started the series, we talked
about Umayman
Baraka Umayman
and she is indeed a woman who
was one of the mothers of the prophet
and
has a long life in the sire of
the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, even outlives the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
We spoke about some of you might remember
Fatima bint Assad radiAllahu ta'ala Anha. Who knows
who Fatima bint Asad is? Who can remind
me? It's been about a 100 something episodes
ago.
She's the wife of Abu Talib, the mother
of
Ali
was also a motherly figure to the Prophet
But
tonight, insha'Allah, we're going to speak about
the birth mother of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam and the nursing mother of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam or the most prominent nursing
mother of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
because there are
more than one women that we find in
the sirah that nurse the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam to some extent,
but the wet nurse of the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, and his actual biological mother,
and how these two stories are intertwined with
the life of the messenger of
his biological mother who died before he received
revelation, and Halima
Asadiyah,
his wet nurse, Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, who
will be the focus of this. Now before
we get started,
it's important to go a little bit back
into history, and I'll tell you exactly why
I chose
to start with this now. Why didn't we
talk about hadima
back early on in the seerah? Why didn't
we talk about
these particular figures back early on in the
seerah? Because, subhanAllah, we're at a point in
the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, in these last few halaqas
where it's all coming full circle.
Right? So last week, we talked about Abu
Sufyan ibn Harith,
his brother,
who comes back to him
at the very end. We we kind of
see a coming together moment where there are
all sorts of figures that are coming back
into the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
after Fatha Makkah. And that is the case
with Halima, as we're going to see in
her biography
So it's a it's a full circle moment
in the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam in these last couple of years
of his life where suddenly these figures are
coming back to him from the past. As
for Uma Iman
she was with him through and through alayhis
salatu was salam. But Halima is literally a
woman that is in the very beginning then
disappears until the very end. And the reason
why I also thought it would be important
to talk about her is because she's also
the mother of
who we spoke about last week, Abu Sufyan
ibn Harith, the brother of the prophet
So she, at some point,
is the wet nurse of Abu Sufyan ibn
Harith
as well. So let's kind of go back
in history here
and briefly talk about how the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam starts to interact with
this woman after his own mother, Aminah. And
we start with Aminah bint Wahab.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is the son,
of course, of 'Abdulla
ibn Abdulmutallib ibn Hashim.
And we know very famously that 'Abdulla ibn
Abdulmutallib
was the son of Abdul Muttalib, the 10th
son who was spared from sacrifice.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was, of course, in this regard, the son
of Azabi Hatan,
the 2 children
that were
marked for sacrifice. Isma'il alayhis salam and then
once again his own father,
Abdullah, who was marked for sacrifice, but through
the blessing of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
the greater purpose of what was to come
from
the loins
of these people, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam, his father was spared.
After Abdullah,
the son of Abdul Muttalib, is spared from
sacrifice,
immediately after that, Abdul Muttalib
decides to marry off his son,
Abdullah,
to
the mother of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
Aminah
bint Wahb ibn Abdimannaf.
Amina bint Wahb ibn Abdi Manaf.
And Amina,
her father,
Wahb,
is the chief of the tribe of Banu
Zahra. Obviously, you have Banu Hashim
and Abdul Muttalib
is the chief of the tribe,
and he wants to marry his son, Abdullah,
who has just been spared from sacrifice, who's
a young man,
to the daughter of a chief of a
tribe. So he chooses
Aminah,
who is a woman of noble lineage, also
from the broader tribe and of the nobles
and the elites of Quraysh from Banu Zuhra,
and almost immediately
makes this marriage happen. So you have 2
chiefs of 2 tribes
that marry off their very young children. At
the time that they get married,
Abdullah,
the father of the Prophet would
have been slightly over the age of 20
years old.
Aminah bint Wahab was a teenager.
So they are a very young couple
that have just gotten married,
and
a few days or a few weeks or
maximum of a few months
after the marriage of the parents of the
Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
'Abdu'llah
embarks on what was known
as rikhlatu,
a safe. Rikhlatu safe. So you have rikhlatu*a,
the winter
commerce, the winter travel, which was to the
area of Yemen, and you have Rekhla to
Saf, the summer travel, which was to Greater
Syria, to Hasham.
And so he goes out to basically earn
a living for himself. He's a new husband,
and he doesn't realize, by the way, that
he is
about to become a new father
because he has left before he could even
receive the news
that his wife is pregnant
with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So, SubhanAllah,
it gives you a dimension.
This man has no idea what role he
plays in history. He left who he thought
was simply his wife, not knowing that the
greatest creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was
in her womb, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and embarks upon this route to Asham,
which is, of course, Syria, Palestine,
Lebanon, and Jordan.
Now some of the books of history, you
know, try to trace the route that he
would have that he would have went on,
and it would make sense
that
certain families had certain routes that they knew
of. And if you had a family that
you knew in Hashem or you had a
group of merchants in Hashem, then you knew
to go to those merchants.
And this is a very important point, subhanAllah,
especially relevant to the moment
that for that reason, many of the
Gaza. Hashem, the great grandfather of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, the great grandfather of the
Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi
Wasallam, the
Gaza.
Hashem, the great grandfather of the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam, who would have been the grandfather
of Abdullah,
died as well in one of these trade
routes and is buried in Gaza today. May
Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, give victory to the
people of Gaza, Allahum Amin. So it's a
coastal city, obviously. And Gaza was part of
a sham where the trade is happening.
Abdullah goes
on this journey with his tribe.
On the way back,
he starts to develop a sickness.
And SubhanAllah,
I want you to connect all of the
dots because
this is the poetry of divine decree.
SubhanAllah, he falls most ill
around Al Madinah, Madinah Munawwara, what was done
Yafirib.
And as he's getting sick
on the way back
and the tribe is finding it hard to
travel with him, he doesn't realize that it's
a fatal illness.
So he says to his tribe, he says
to his people, look, you go ahead. You're
almost at Mecca. Finish your way to Mecca,
and I'll stay here with some of my
uncles until I get better. And then I'll
make my way to Mecca as well. But
he didn't wanna hold up the tribe any
longer as they were on their way back
from
this journey. And you can imagine, of course,
the excitement to get back home,
the eagerness to get back home. There there
are trade implications.
There are family implications.
And so in any case, they went ahead
and they left 'Abdulla, the father of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in Al Madinah or in the area of
Al Madinah
where he passes away.
So he actually died
somewhere in the vicinity of Al Madina and
no one knows where his grave is. SubhanAllah.
But the father of the prophet died within
the vicinity of Al Madina,
within the area of Al Madina.
And while there are some books that will
say, like, at Nabi'at, they'll start to give
the names of homes that he was buried
in, there isn't anything that's established about where
the grave of the father of the Prophet
is,
but it's somewhere there in Al Madinah, around
Al Madinah Al Munawwara.
Of course, back then, the news travels very
slow.
Aminah
is
a teenage
mother to be.
She finds out that she's pregnant while her
husband is gone.
She's excited to receive the caravans.
The caravan comes back. She asks about her
husband. They say that he was a little
sick. He's getting better in Yefrem. He's getting
treatment.
He'll come soon.
A few weeks later, she receives the news
that her husband passed away.
So you have now a mother,
pregnant mother,
who only was with her husband. Some narrations
say as little as 4 days.
Four days, the parents of the prophet, salAllahu
alayhi, salam, together.
Right?
She's pregnant,
poor,
doesn't know what to do. Her child is
going to be born into this world as
an orphan. On top of that, Abdullah never
really had a chance to make money. Right?
This was his first trade route.
So she had a few camels,
a small a small number of goats,
of course, one female servant,
Ayman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhabaraka radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu would
later serve as
the nurse of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam as well and the caretaker for the
Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam as well.
She's absolutely devastated,
SubhanAllah, to be in this situation as any
mother would be. Her husband never even knew
that he was having a a son, that
he was having a child.
In this process,
of course, her father-in-law, Abdul Muttalib,
becomes a major
person, a major figure in the life of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, steps in and
does what he can, even though he's also
at the brink of death. He's a very
old man at this point. Abdullah was the
youngest of his kids, but he steps in,
He tries his best to be a father
figure of sorts to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam and to provide in the ways that
he can provide. However, the Messenger of Allah,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salam is born into this
world as a yateem, as an orphan.
And in that society,
the person most subject to exploitation is is
al yateem, is the orphan.
Right?
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is born
into a harsh reality,
and Abdul Muttalib will do everything he can
with the few years that he'll have with
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to make sure
that he doesn't miss out. He names him
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
which of course is a name that you
don't find anyone else in Makkanet.
And he said, I wanted him to be
praised in the heavens and in the earth,
to be praised in the earth as he
is in the heavens. He's a boy who's
meant for praise. He's a boy who's not
a burden on the family. You can imagine
the sentiment that's surrounding this child that's born
after
the death
of the father,
without any finances
to take care of him. And Aminah, it's
narrated that she may have had one brother.
So she doesn't even have brothers to take
care of her in this situation.
She is completely vulnerable
in this difficult situation.
And subhanAllah, you pause here
and you think then about all the ahadith
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
about being found amongst the Du'afaa.
Find me amongst the weak ones. Find me
amongst the the vulnerable ones.
Right? You think about all the ayaats, about
iqramul yateem, to honor the orphan.
Don't turn away from the orphan. Don't make
the orphan feel repulsed. Think about the prophet,
salAllahu alaihi wasalam, growing up in that society,
and people would simply say, oh, that's Yateem.
He's an orphan.
And not taking him seriously, alayhis salatu wa
sallam, or not believing that he's going to
bring about any real value to society. Think
about how hurtful those looks are to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam growing up, and think
about how the very first way that Allah
azza wa Jal explains the situation of the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and Surat Al Mujadika
Yateem and Ta'awa.
Of all the
situations and circumstances of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam, the first way that he's described Allah
found you an orphan
in a society that did not treat orphans
well. They would not show you any compassion
if you were an orphan. They would not
look at you if you were an orphan.
They would take your wealth, so they put
you to work. You almost became a slave
of sorts. Because who was going to protect
your wealth against extended relatives or other members
of the tribe that would take whatever you're
earning? So you could be put to the
hardest jobs, and your wealth would land in
the hands of people that did nothing to
earn it. So you see all of that
in the Quran and all of that in
the sunnah and the way the prophet, salAllahu
alaihi wa sallam, lived that reality himself, and
it's only him and his mother
Aminah bint Wahab and around Umayman
Baraka, and of course, an aging grandfather
in Abdul Muttalib.
Now with that,
how do we then see the next mother
enter into
the picture?
And I wanna give you as much context
as possible.
The women of Quraysh,
particularly from noble tribes,
they used to have this practice where they
would send out their children
to a desert tribe named Benusarat.
And they'd spend some time with Benusarat
in the desert, far away from civilization,
where they would be nursed, where they would
learn how to deal with life
being in the desert. Right? So they'd become
accustomed to sort of that that
bare minimum,
or minimalistic life with absolutely nothing at their
disposal.
They would learn the purest Arabic language, and
we're gonna talk about that. Ben Usa'ad spoke
the most beautiful and pure language. So they
would learn Arabic in the purest way away
from all of the corruption
of, you know, the corruption of the language
because of the mixing with different cultures and
different tribes. So they had the purest Arabic
tongue. And on top of that, they were
protected from the diseases that people were bringing
back from travel.
So in that society and subhanAllah,
both of the parents of the prophet died
from an illness that they contracted while travelling.
At that time, going to these trade routes
meant very well that you could die on
the way. Why? Because you interact with different
diseases, and I don't need to get into
the science of all of this, but you
really don't know how to protect yourself from
these things. And then you bring that back
home, and your whole family can contract that
disease.
And especially with infants, it's a very sensitive
time for them. So they would send them
away from
civilization where people are coming from Hajj and
where the men are going out on these
trade routes, so that they could be protected
from these diseases
from travel.
So
Ben Usad, and I want to show you
a map, inshaAllah, ta'ala, because it'll explain to
you why hadima comes into the,
into the life of the prophet
so much later on. Banu Sa'ed is located
in an area that is about 70 kilometers
south of Ta'af. I actually took this from
Google Maps.
Today it's an area called Maysan, Maysan.
And if you remember, after Fath Makkah,
the tribes around Makkah, the Hawazin, the Hawazin,
they're known as the Hawazin,
were plotting an attack on the Prophet
Right? It's an unfamiliar power that's taking the
main area. And so they were plotting this
ambush of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and
that's where Ghazwad al Hanayin will take place.
And Hunayn was a very difficult battle. It's
hard to fight in the middle of nowhere.
Right? It's hard to deal with the tricks
of the deserts and these tribes in the
desert. Banu Sa'ed is actually one of the
Hawazan. So Halim, radiAllahu Anha, technically, is from
the Hawazan. So when you hear about the
Hawazan, the attack of the Hawazan after Fata'
Makkah,
these are people that live far away from
Mecca.
Now, there's another feature of these people that
they're really disconnected from what's happening in Mecca
and happening in Medina and happening in the
major cities. Like, they're not just protecting the
children when they come out and they nurse
the mothers.
They are in remote villages
away from it all.
To give you an idea here, you could
live in one of these places throughout the
entire asirah of the Prophet and have no
idea what's happening with the Prophet
And by the way, till today, SubhanAllah, if
you start to drive a little bit out
of Madinah, you start to go, like, especially
on the route to Badr, you see these
villages and you're like, these people have no
idea what's going on.
They have no idea what's happening, and they're
only 30, 40 miles away from El Medina.
No idea what's happening in civilization. They're Bedouin
tribes that are in the middle of nowhere,
and so
you could have been Halima radiAllahu anha and
really not heard anything for 20 years about
the prophet, salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. That's not
that's not a distant
possibility. It is actually a possibility that the
whole sireh can unfold, and you're kind of
doing your own thing. You're a Bedouin tribe,
and, you know, some of the elders and
the chiefs and the warriors of the tribe
are keeping their ear to the political situation
and then deal with it accordingly. And that's
where you start to see the plot
to sort of deal with the unfamiliar power
of the Prophet, salAllahu alaihi wa sallam,
not really on the basis of ideology, but
let's try to attack because we don't really
know what he brings for us being in
Ta'af, being in, you know, even further from
Ta'af in the case of Al Hawazah.
So Banu Sa'ed,
faraway tribe,
and they had this relationship with the elites
of Quraysh, with the noble ones of Quraysh,
and they came once a year. The women
would come once a year. The nursing mothers
would come once a year,
and they basically take
a child or more than one child with
them, and they'd contract with that family to
bring them back in a year or 2.
Right? So this is the way that this
is all going to unfold with the Messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Enter
Halima
bint Abi Du'aib. Her name is actually Halima,
bint Abi Du'aib. And, subhanAllah,
the name has something to it. Halima, of
course,
comes from alhel, which means forbearing and gentle
and patience.
There's there's a loving feature even to her
name.
Halima
now tells her own story
to or through,
Eiman
And there are various narrations
that meet the,
that that meet the threshold for the books
of Sirat, not necessarily for the books of
Hadith, where you can sort of collect the
story of what exactly is happening
with Halima,
Radiallahu Ta'ala Anha and her family.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is with Amina
Halima bint Abi Du'aib
and her husband
whose name is Al Haris ibn Abdul
Uzzah because most of the scars say he
became Muslim as well later on, that there's
enough to establish that he himself inshaAllah accepted
Islam as well. Al Haris ibn Abdul Uzzah
whose name was also Abi Kaapsha.
So Hanima bint Abi Louayd al Harith ibn
Abdul Urza say, let's go out with the
women
or let's go out with the families from
Banu Sa'id to collect
from the children
of Quraysh
and contract with the children
of Quraysh.
She had an elder daughter
named Ashamah,
Ashamah,
and she had a son that she had
just given birth to that's the same age
as the prophet which is why she had
the ability to give milk.
And, some of the books, like Ibn Taym
Rahimullah mentions that his name was 'Abdullah.
Okay?
So she comes with a shayma and 'Abdulla,
and
she describes her situation as the following.
She says that that particular year was a
year of famine,
and we had absolutely
nothing to eat.
Our animals were completely malnourished,
and we were the most stricken home of
the homes of Ben al Sad.
We had the worst situation of them all.
So I couldn't produce any milk because of
how malnourished I was
And our animals, and we had 2 animals.
We had a old brown donkey, and we
had a malnourished she camel. So one camel,
one donkey.
And they couldn't produce anything because of the
difficulty of the situation.
So we're all tired,
we're all slow, but we're dying. Right? And
so this is sort of a last ditch
effort. Let's go to Mecca,
and let's see if we can, you know,
get one of the families of Quraysh
to give us their child
because that way we can make some money
out of this.
And, you know, hopefully, the fact that she's
not able to produce milk due to her
situation will not stop someone from actually contracting
her. Right?
So she said we would go the entire
night without sleeping because of hunger.
Our children
were sleeping without or were not able to
sleep because they were deprived of food and
drink as well.
We were constantly praying for rain, for some
sort of relief to come to us. Nothing
was happening, inshallah, even as they were making
their way to Mecca. This is a pretty
long journey, by the way. This isn't an
easy journey if you think about it. Right?
70 kilometers south of Qa'af all the way
to Mecca
is a very difficult journey. It's like our
animals kept getting left behind.
You know, the rest of the tribe was
far better than us. They were able to
get ahead.
So we make it to
Mecca.
And
there's a mutual benefit here, right, obviously for
the elites of Quraish and the women of
Ben Usad,
but the women of Ben Usad will choose
children
on the basis of a few things. 1,
rich family.
So either we're gonna get a lot of
money for taking this child.
2,
if this child is being groomed to be
a leader of his people,
Because then, if I become his mother,
then later on that's going to bear some
fruit. So there's either the promise of wealth
or the promise of leadership and authority later
on. If this child is the one that's
being groomed to be a leader in Quraysh,
then I get the benefit of that. So
it's either money
or family, a powerful
family.
What do you get out of the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
SubhanAllah,
he inherited nothing from his father Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. His father died before he was born,
he was broke Alaihi Wasallam.
Abdul Muttalib
is barely alive. He's dying
and he's poor at this point in his
life as well. Abu Talib, who is the
uncle of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
kind of stepping in as well, was so
poor that he will ask the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam later on in life to
relieve him, right, by taking some of his
children
out of his home, right, to help raise
the children.
His mother is a teenager, a single mother
in poverty, in absolute poverty.
The prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wasallam, doesn't even have
an older brother, an older sibling
that could maybe be redeeming in that regard.
Right? That maybe an older brother
who'll grow up to be, you know, a
leader of the tribe, and then he can,
you know, promise us that type of authority,
people would look at Aminah holding out Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and and just think about,
Subhanallah, this is the story of the life
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
Abbas radiAllahu anhu presenting the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is being persecuted in Mecca to see
if anyone will take him in and hear
his mother holding him out, literally holding him
out while the women of Ben Usa'ad come.
And she can hear them say, Huwayatim?
What's his mother gonna do for us?
He's an orphan.
They ask a few questions. Oh, he's an
orphan. No money, no family,
no power, no money, no family, no power.
Think of the scene.
So you have all these talks happening between
the women of Ben Usad, and they're contracting
with
the women of Quraysh.
They all take a child. Aminah is still
holding out Muhammad
and no one took him. The only child
that was left was the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
Halima initially did not take the prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
She sees the
scene,
and then she comes back to her husband.
No one of the other women wanted to
give Halima their child
because she also is a woman who's
depleted, and she doesn't have milk or money.
Right? So she's the worst of the lot,
if you will.
And Halima comes home,
talks to her husband in the town, Al
Harif,
and says, listen. There's this one boy,
one boy whose mother is holding him out.
I don't have any milk. She doesn't have
any money. He's the last child.
I don't wanna go back empty handed. We
made this trip.
We might as well take this child. I
mean, it's better than going home empty handed
and
Maybe Allah maybe God will put some good
in this boy. Maybe some good will come
out of this child. She has no idea
what she's saying. Subhanallah.
Maybe something good will come out of him.
So let's just give it a shot.
What's better, that we go home empty handed?
Plus, the foremother, right, she just wants someone
to take her child. She's desperate. We're desperate.
This is a match.
And Hadith says, you know what? You're
right. Let's take him.
So Halima comes back to
Aminah
and she takes the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
on the basis of a contract for 2
years.
Right? That she will take the Prophet, SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam and nurse the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam, along with her son, Abdullah.
And as I said last week so so
just side note, Abu Sufyan ibn al Harith
would have been nursed by Halima at some
point, not necessarily within this context. Also, Hamza
Radiallahu ta'ala Anhu
was nursed by Halima and Thwaiba, who's another
woman that nursed the prophet SAW at some
point. So Hamza was nursed by 2 women
that nursed the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Abu Sufyan al Harith
was nursed by Halima al Saadi at some
point, which is why when later on, remember
last week, the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
said about Abu Sufyan, perhaps Allah Azzawajal will
give him to me as a reward
or replacement as I lost Hamza. Because Hamza
and Abu Sufyan are the only 2. Abu
Sufyan al Harith, not Abu Sufyan al Harith,
the only 2 that have this station with
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So in this situation, Halima takes back
takes the Prophet
and she says that as we start to
set sail,
she said, suddenly,
my husband goes to the camel udders
and it's full of milk.
Camel has milk.
So he said, okay. This is interesting. SubhanAllah,
the camel has milk and the camel has
life all of a sudden. So obviously, we
were all able to drink from the milk
of the camel and the camel seems energized.
Said, I got on my donkey,
and we started to ride back
to
our karya,
to our town.
And the same donkey that people would say,
Hurry up, Halima, come on. Hurry up. You're
holding us back. Now she said the donkey
was so energized
that it was going faster than everybody else
and people were saying, wait up. Wait
up. You're going too fast.
Suddenly, the donkey has energy,
has some sort of barakah in it that
I can't explain. The donkey's moving super fast.
The donkey produces as well.
And then she says, and, subhanAllah, this is
just an incident.
Imagine how beautiful of a boy the prophet,
salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, would have been. She
said, the first time I held Mohammed, salAllahu
alaihi wa sallam, the first time I hold
this boy, this 2 year old boy,
to nurse him alayhi salatu was salam, she
said that suddenly I was full of milk.
I put him in my lap and the
milk started to flow for the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
So this is very interesting, SubhanAllah. And you
can imagine her nursing the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and knowing
something
is going on. Now the Arabs were a
superstitious people, by the way. So they didn't
understand
notions of tawhid and barakandi,
but, you know, they were a superstitious people.
So they knew something good was happening, and
they were the type of people that would
talk about, you know, the universe is helping
us out or the or something is happening.
So they did have this concept of something
being blessed in some way.
Right?
And Hadith, her husband,
says to her as she's milking the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and able to milk her
other child, Abdullah now, who also didn't have
any milk before. Right? So she's able to
nurse both the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and
nurse her other son, Abdullah.
Her husband looks at her and says,
Halima,
you've put your hands on something blessed.
Somehow
you were blessed. Somehow something
extraordinary
has come your way. Right? We don't know
what's coming out of this child,
but wow. Is it a good deed that
we did because we didn't neglect him? We
were the only people that didn't neglect him,
And then something good happened to us as
a result. Is it something supernatural? All we
know, this is a blessing. Something good is
coming out of this.
Halima radiAllahu ta'ala Anha says, we got home.
We have the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
We have our son, Abdullah.
Suddenly, there's food in the household. Suddenly, there's
milk in the household.
She said then,
because it's still a time of drought and
famine, she said, we sent a few of
our sheep out to graze. And she said,
wallahi,
it was ajdabi'arudillah.
It was the, you know, the driest of
the land of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. Like,
we don't even know where they're gonna graze,
where they're gonna get
anything. Somehow, subhanAllah,
the places that they went become like meadows.
They come back full and now the sheep
are giving as well.
So we knew that we had a blessing
on our hands.
And Halima steps in
and Halima pretty much is the mother of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam for 2 years.
That's not insignificant.
The Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, will live with
her
for 2 years in this regard.
And the Prophet is learning what's intended to
be learned. Prophet
is protected from the diseases of travel. He's
a healthy boy.
Abdul Mutlar, when he saw the prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam, when he came back, he said,
The beauty of Quraysh he has the beauty
of Quraysh in him and he has the
eloquence of sad. He he's learning the Arabic
language, SallAllahu Alaihi Salam, in a way that's
beautiful and pure, so they were pleased.
But here's the thing,
Halima says when the 2 years is over,
we don't want to give Muhammad
back to Aminah.
So we're trying to think of a way
that we can convince
her
to let us keep him.
And the prophet
has, by the way it's it's important to
mention here because,
you know, just for historical purposes.
Whatever children are narrated that she had, a
shayma, there's also Anisa Bint Al Harith,
other, children that they might have had, those
would be the foster brothers and sisters of
the prophet, salAllahu alaihi wasalam, but the prophet,
salAllahu alaihi wasalam is growing up in the
household as a full child with siblings. He's
playing with Abdullah.
He loves Shayma, his older sister. Like, he
has a family now, Alaihi Salaam.
So this is a comfortable arrangement for him
as well, Alaihi Salaam.
And Harima says, we wanna go back and
we wanna keep him. Lima ra'ina min barakati
'Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam because of the blessing that
we saw from him.
So we go back to Amina
and we say to her, look, how about
you let us keep him more?
Let us keep him for another term.
He'll only build on the skills that he's
building, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. He'll get even
healthier.
He'll become further refined.
And she's kind of curious, like, what is
it that they want? Like, this is an
unusual ask. Remember to Amina, she was holding
out the prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam hoping
someone would take him to nurse him, alaihi
salatu alaihi salatu alaihi salatu alaihi salatu alaihi
salam. And now they're like, can we keep
him?
In any case,
Amina eventually agrees. Says, you know what? That's
fine. You can keep him for another term.
Take care of him. He's healthy, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. He's beautiful. Jamalu Qurays, how beaut
the most beautiful child that you'd ever seen.
Right? Because he was the most beautiful man
you'd ever seen, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So
imagine the cutest kid in the world. Right?
Beautiful, eloquent, playful, happy. You know what? Something
is going right. Aminah out of the love
of a mother for the child says, just
keep the environment for him then, Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
So Halima
and Al Harif,
take back
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on this journey.
And the idea is that they get to
keep him for another term.
So they got to keep him for another,
you know, up to 2 years or so.
So up until he was 4 or 5
years old, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, they kept
him for another term, alayhi salatu, sallam.
But then,
one day,
as the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, is playing
with his brother, Abdullah, the son of Halima,
the biological son of Halima,
2 men
come to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in white robes,
and no one had seen them before.
Halima's at home,
and her son, Abdullah, comes running to Halima
and says
that 2 men just threw the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam to the ground, just threw Mohammed
to the ground and they started to cut
his chest open.
So she thinks that someone killed him SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Now, what happened, of course, is that this
was Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam.
That Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam had pinned the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam down to the ground
and he took the heart of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam out and the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam could see his heart in the
hand of Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam and he took
something
as Anas, salAllahu Anhu, said, there was makhheet,
there was surgical stitching on the chest of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that no one
could ever explain. Right? But like he literally
was stitched up Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
from that moment in his life.
Halima and Al Harith come running out to
find their son, to find Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is laid
down on the ground. His face has completely
changed colors, and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
is shell shocked. Obviously, he's a 4 year
old boy that just had someone take his
heart out and put it back in with
no explanation.
The prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, is completely shocked.
And so they take him in, they see
the stitching on his chest, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
and then there's another conversation that night.
Hadith
is upset
for the prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. He
feels bad,
but we knew that this child was different
from the start. We knew, you know, The
barakah that came from him, and now this
weird thing that happened to him,
he says, looking at Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he says,
SubhanAllah.
I'm afraid like he's been struck with something,
he's been cursed.
Right? Someone put something on him, sorcery or
some kind of said on him.
SubhanAllah,
later on in life when the prophet will
come running to Hadid radiAllahu ta'ala Anha and
he says, Khashi to Allah Nafsi. I'm afraid
for myself after seeing Jibril in the cave.
And that's when Khadija radiAllahu Anha will say
to the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, no. No.
No. No. No.
No. Allah is not disgracing you. Something else
is happening.
He said something happened.
Something must have happened to this boy.
So now
they come earlier than the term that they
agreed upon to Amina. Amina is like, what's
going on here?
First, you came at the agreed upon time,
and you said, can we extend the contract?
Now you're coming before
the end of the next term
to bring my son back.
What happened?
And so they kind of tell her reluctantly
what happened.
Right? And they're worried about him. They don't
know what happened to him. They wanna give
him back to his family, like figure out
what we don't know.
And Amina,
she says, and later on, this will be
narrated by Harima,
she says, Wallahi,
this child of mine has a special status.
No. No. This child of mine is blessed.
And she said that when I carried him,
I never felt the load of him. It
was a light burden when I was pregnant
with him.
And when he was delivered, I saw a
light come out of my womb, and that
light was like a shooting star that illuminated
the necks of the backs of the camels
all the way in Busra and Asham. I
saw a light that lit up the palaces
of the world. I could see when he
was born, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. I could
see
everything being lit up from my womb.
She even said that
the posture that he was in, salAllahu alaihi
wasalam was like a posture of sujood,
and he he was born miraculously.
I knew he was a miraculous child, but
don't say my child is cursed.
If that's what you're indicating that my child
is cursed, you're wrong. Is he blessed? Yes.
I knew that when he was born. Sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. I knew something was special about
this child,
and Amina couldn't put it all together. She
dies well before Islam. She doesn't know
what's happening to her. She doesn't know what's
happening in her womb. She doesn't know what
what what's this that she's seeing at the
time of the birth. Just like Halima cannot
understand what's happening, you know, in this situation.
There's one more narration, by the way, that
Shayna,
the sister of the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
said to Halima that when he walks, there's
a cloud that's over him all the time,
And this is throughout the life of the
Prophet
in his childhood
that
strange things happen around him
Miracles are abundant around him, salallahu alayhi salam,
and even he can't explain it.
He can't explain it in Hashem. He can't
explain it in Mecca. The mother of the
prophet, sallAllahu alaihi, sallam, can't explain it. Halima
can't explain it. But Amina is saying to
Halima, don't suggest that my son is cursed.
No.
He's special.
He's not cursed.
And something is gonna come out of this
child, and I know it, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
that later on
will be made apparent.
Halima radiAllahu ta'ala Anha, as far as she's
concerned,
she cared for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
for 3 or 4 years. There's a lifelong
attachment that's there.
Right? But at the end of the day,
she goes back to the middle of nowhere
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam continues his
life in Mecca.
Aminah
wants to take the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
at that point
around the age of 6 years old, to
visit some of her relatives where?
Anyone know?
Madin al Munawwara, Yathrib at the time again.
So 'Abdulla died in Al Madinah, the father
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in the
area of Al Madinah,
Yathrib at the time.
Aminah,
her great grandmother or the great grandmother of
the prophet, her grandmother and her relatives are
from Al Madina,
Yafir about the time. So she wants to
take the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on a
journey
to meet his relatives
over there.
The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was 6 years
old.
When he now travels with his mother, Amina
Bint Wahab,
to visit his relatives. And this is, subhanAllah,
a way that Allah is
creating the scene as well for the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. This place which actually carries
great pain for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is going to be a place of refuge
for the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Also,
the recognition
of the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, of Al
Madinah.
I mean, when you're 6 years old,
you have these flashes. Right? The recognition of
the place.
Also, those same relatives that later on would
receive the prophet in Qubah from Banu Najjar
that would take the
Prophet from site to site
as he continues on in his Hithra. So
there's a lot that's happening here that is
building for the future with the Prophet
as he's coming on this journey with his
mother, a 6 year old boy. Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And then SubhanAllah,
Amina
got sick, they say, from the water. She
developed a fever.
And if you remember, the water of Madinah
was very difficult for the people of Mecca.
Right? Even in the Hijrah, Abu Bakr and
Bilal almost died
because
it's just a different type of water. It's
a different type of environment.
Amina became sick.
She developed a very high fever.
And as they are on the way back
to Mecca,
they're in a place called Al Abwa. If
you could pull up the map of Al
Abwa.
Al Abwa is a village
that if you're coming from Madinah to Makkah,
you would veer off of the path to
Al Abwa, and it could be that they
were looking for a set
of relatives that are there or a tribe
that is there that is able to help
them. So they pull off to
Al Abwa,
which is about 23
miles
from Al Madinah.
And while they're there, Umayman radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
is nursing. So you can kinda see I
just want you to see the the depth
of the land, right,
Going into this path.
Ayman radiAllahu anha is nursing the mother of
the Prophet in terms of taking care of
her. The Prophet
is 6 years
old. He's vividly
watching his mother die in front of him.
And while none of the narrations,
on their own will give us a full
view,
right, into what that's like,
You can imagine a 6 year old boy
who's already an orphan,
who is watching his mother die in front
of him in the middle of nowhere, sallallahu
alaihi wasallam,
crying, clinging onto her. This is the childhood
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. SubhanAllah. When
you say tragedy and pain, this is the
tragedy and pain of the life of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He never even knew
his dad.
And he's holding on to his mother in
the middle of some weird town
away from civilization,
and she's dying in front of him Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
got to see her
take her last breath
in front of him, Alaihi Salatu Wasallam.
They buried the people of the village,
buried his mother.
And now the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam comes
back to Mecca with Ummayman radiAllahu ta'ala Anha.
Now he
has no mother with him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
This pain is a pain that the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam will carry for his life.
And SubhanAllah,
Takheeden al Fasi
he says that Amina would have been 19
or 20 years old. I mean, she was
a young mom. The Prophet is experiencing a
lot of grief very early on. His parents
really didn't their lives combined,
right, don't make 40 years.
Barely 40 years. Their lives combined.
And the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, has
to carry this pain for the rest of
his life.
And if you met the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam later on in life, you don't quite
understand the pain that he's carrying Alayhi Salatu
Wasallam.
Now Now Allah mentions tasabum akhaniyah, you would
think that they're self sufficient because of their
tahfuf, because of their humility, their shyness. The
prophet sallAllahu alaihi salatu wa sallam was not
someone who talked much about his pain, the
pain of his childhood.
Dad's dead, mom dies at 6 years old
in front of him, and then his grandfather
dies when he's 8 sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam
Abdul Muttalib passes away shortly after that. I
mean, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
passing hands.
Right? Has a very difficult childhood. He doesn't
talk much about it. So if he met
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
in Al Madina later on and he is
Rasulullah
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, like, you don't even know
how to broach a subject like that with
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. He is He's
coming into Madinah as Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Right? This head of state master, prophet of
Allah,
that we have so much glory towards. So
he didn't talk about these things Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. He really did not talk much about
the pain that he carried.
And, subhanAllah, this is where you see it
all start to come full circle
When he's over 60 years old, Sala'i Islam,
6 to 60,
6 to 60,
And that whole history
is really kind of to himself Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
But now he's 60,
are
travelling with the Prophet
on this road outside of Al Madinah,
between
Al Juhaifa
and Al Madinah.
And suddenly the prophet salAllahu alaihi wasalam takes
this right turn
and he starts to walk through this very
difficult terrain.
The Sahaba don't dare to ask
the Prophet, salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, like, what
are you doing?
They just follow.
So they all gather around the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and they walk with him, Alaihi
Wasallam, and this is a 20 plus mile
walk
silence.
He's not telling them what he's doing Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam gets
to this area
in Abu'a,
and he comes to the site of
this grave Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And
while the grave is very gently marked,
right, it used to have something that was,
bigger on top of it, and I'm not
sure if you all have the picture of
it there. The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
comes to this grave of his mother Amina.
No one knows that it's his mother Amina.
But the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
cried
so much, Becca,
Wa Apka Manhaulahu
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He cried
so much Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to where his
beard became soaked with tears, Alaihi Salatu Wasallam,
and all of the Sahaba around started to
cry with the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and
console him, alayhi salatu wasallam,
not even knowing who is his grave. Like,
who are you sitting with? Who is this
person?
And after Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu asked the
prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam like
to give some sort of explanation,
the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says
that this is the grave of my mother
Amina.
And he asked Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
Astaghfirullahha
to do Istighfar for her and he was
not given permission for
that. But he asked Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and Azura Qabraha
that I can go visit her grave
And Allah
gave me the permission to come and to
visit
her grave.
I mean, 54 years of pain
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And this is also something that we kind
of get in this journey
that like so many of the people that
made the possibility of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in this life to this place of prominence
are not there with him in these last
moments of his
Right? So when he's coming back to Mecca,
he wants to pitch a tent near where
Khadija radiiallahu anha is buried. Khadija is not
there to celebrate with him. Hamza radiiallahu anha
was buried in Al Madinah, martyred in Madina.
He doesn't have these people around him, SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam, but it was extremely painful for
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to visit his
mother for the first time in over 50
years.
And you can imagine being one of those
Sahaba around him, so I'm crying with him,
like, wow, that's his mom. We had no
idea.
We had no idea this is his mom.
But such is the pain that the Messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
used to carry with him.
And that's part of why he had such
empathy, alayhi sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
The pain that he was subjected to, Sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, is part of what comes out
in that mercy
that he could look at anyone in society
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam knows
exactly what they're going through. He knows exactly
the pain that they're going through. You're bereaved.
I know what you're going through. You're an
orphan. I know what you're going through. You
lost a parent. I know what you're going
through. Lost a sibling. I know what you're
going through. Children, I lost 6 of them.
Anyone that's going through pain, the prophet can
relate,
but Rasool Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam doesn't
talk about his own pain. SubhanAllah, just a
side tangent here because it's it's really powerful.
You know when he saw the woman that
was crying in the graveyard,
and he told her to be patient,
And she didn't know who he was. And
she said, you know, what do you know
about patience?
She blew up at him salaisedallahu.
Like, what do you know what I'm going
do you have any idea what I'm going
through right now?
Prophet salaam did not say to her, well,
let me tell you.
Where do I start?
Dad, mom, grandfather, uncles,
brothers, sisters, children, spouses, where do I even
start with you? None of it. The prophet
salAllahu alaihi wa sallam doesn't mention it. He
just walks away out of your salAllahu alaihi
wa sallam.
Leave it.
That's because
Halimun
Awa'un Muneeb,
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had an outlet with
his Lord where he would take that pain
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
at night Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
So this is his mother Amina
and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam visiting her
so many years later.
Full circle moment as well
after Hunayn.
Hunayn is a moment where
brothers are coming back together.
Right, because those that waged war on the
prophet
for 20 years are now by his side.
Right? Hunayn is actually an interesting moment. There's
something therapeutic about Hunayn even though it's a
battle after Fathah Nakah that we're now one
hand all again,
including the brother of the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam Abu Sufyan al Harith.
Right? There's a lot of emotion
that is happening
in this situation.
And after Hanaym,
the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is sitting down
in his encampment, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And I love that word now. Now when
I read encampment, I'm like, I know exactly
what that means. May Allah bless the encampments.
Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sama is sitting down
with his with his
main companions around him after the battle,
and this woman comes forward
and says, Anna Uchto Amirakom.
I'm the sister of your leader.
The Sahaba are like, what?
What do you mean you're the sister of
our leader?
She says, Anna Uchta Amirakom.
I am the sister of your leader.
Take me to him. I'm the sister of
your leader. Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is
sitting with the companions and the Sahaba come
and say, you Rasulullah, there's a woman here
that says, Ana'uktum
miracle. I'm the sister of your leader.
Prophet says bring her in. He hasn't seen
her
for 60 he was 4 SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
the last time he saw her.
So she comes in and she says I'm
your sister.
Prophet, salAllahu alaihi wasalam, looks at her
and he says, If you're my sister,
there is a mark that I left with
you that only you and I will know
about.
And she shows her arm. The prophet
bit her
as a child,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And they were playing around. She was his
older sister
holding him. This is Sheima bint al Harith,
Sheima the daughter of Halima.
And the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
sees her and he immediately jumps up, SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam, like, he stands up, like, this
is jolting. Right? Like, woah.
SubhanAllah talk about someone coming from
the past. He embraces her, alayhis salatu as
salam. He takes his his rida and he
spreads his cloak on the ground, sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, for her to sit on. He tells
her to sit down next to him, sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. He sits down next to her
and he talks to her and he talks
to her and he talks to her. We
have a lot to catch up on. And
then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says,
if you want, you can stay with me.
You will be loved and you will be
honored. I'll take care of you. If you
wanna stay with me from now on, come
back to Madinah. You're my sister. I'll take
care of you. I'll honor you.
And he said, if you wanna go back
to your people, you go back to your
people. Muhabiban Mukaraman, loved and honored. It's up
to you. I'm not forcing any type of
situation on you.
So she said, You Rasoolallah,
I wanna go back to my people. The
prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, said absolutely. So
the prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, makes arrangements
for her. She goes back to her people
and the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
obviously
moves on. This is shayma,
a shayma bintalharif
RadiAllahu Ta'ala Anha. What about the mom Halima
RadiAllahu Ta'ala Anha? Somewhere in those tents
is Halima
a Sadia,
the mother of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Now, it's interesting because
there's only one possible incident
from the time that the Prophet
was dropped off by Halima until this moment
that he would have seen her
and it's what comes in,
you know, by
by Ibn Ishaq and,
Ibn Sa'ed narrates in his Tabakat
that
at some point in the marriage of the
prophet
Hadija,
Bannusah had suffered a drought and a famine
again, and they came to Mecca looking for
help.
And Halima
came to know about the Prophet,
and he's married to Khadija radiAllahu ta'ala Anha.
So the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam is
now in a different financial situation. So she
came to the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
and she complained about her situation.
And how,
how devastated their crops were and everything that
was happening.
So
the prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam talked to
Khadija about her situation.
And Khadija, radiAllahu ta'ala Anha,
gave her
40 sheep and a camel.
And that's one of the ways of making
the prophet
happy and the prophet was enjoyed because he
got to repay his mother once again. And
Khadija, radiAllahu anha, loves to show honor to
those who honor the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
and knows what this woman did for the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, when he was a
child. So Khadijah says, here are 40
sheep,
and here is a camel.
And by the way,
this is, if you think about the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, later on in life,
what did he used to do for the
friends of Khadija? Anyone who he knew that
Khadija loved, what would he do, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam? He'd send a sheep, he'd send
gifts to the friends of Khadija radiAllahu anha.
So you can see, subhanallah, this beautiful Mawadda,
this beautiful love and this relationship early on
in their lives that Khadija radiAllahu Anha saw,
oh, this is the Hadima,
right, who took care of you, your mom,
of course,
and gave her everything
that she needed.
But now after all these years,
the Sahaba see this strange sight. Abba Tufail
says,
I saw the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
cooking meat himself, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He
was slicing the meat himself, alayhi salatu wa
sallam, and al jirana.
And then as he prepared the food, alayhi
salatu wa sama,
this old woman came close to the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi salam,
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam spread out his
garment on the ground, and in one narration
he said, marhaban bi ummi. Welcome to my
mother. Welcome to my mother. And the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam sat her down and the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam started to serve her,
alayhi salatu wasallam, and he sat next to
her, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, making sure that she
was taken care of. Imagine the excitement,
the sadness of the Prophet when he came
to the grave of Aminah and he knew
that he didn't have that chance.
And how almost immediately after that, now he's
in his sixties, Salayhi Salaam, and his mother
Halima is with him and he's able to
sit with her and serve her. So Abba
Tufayb says, I asked, like the Sahaba don't
know, who are these people coming back in
the life of the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam?
So I said, who is this?
And he
said,
That's his
mom that nursed him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
That's his mother, Halima
Asadiya
And it would be
that though there is so little that is
narrated about her,
that,
most of if you go to Al Baqir
today and you can actually put up the
picture
that this is what is believed to be
the grave of Halima
in Al Baqir. And for for centuries, it's
been the case. Some of the historians say
that her grave is actually back in her
village but this was the grave that is
marked for Halima
in, Jannah Al Baqir. The mother of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam It was said
that her husband also embraced Islam as well,
as, her her children,
that were still alive. Obviously, a shayma and
whatever children she still had embraced Islam with
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, which makes sense
because the Hawazan, of course, after the battle
did come into Islam. Those areas all came
into Islam. Ta'if and,
the areas surrounding Ta'if and surrounding Mecca and
surrounding in Madinah did embrace Islam as a
whole, as tribes.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala made it as
such
that the barakah that this woman had radiAllahu
ta'ala Anha from taking in the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam was far more than simply the
barakah
of
the camels and the goats and the donkeys
and the milk, but it was that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
through this treatment
that she gave to the orphan who adopted
the world Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
that Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, gave them 4
barakah 4 years of barakah in their lives,
and then the greatest barakah of all of
embracing Islam 60 years later at the hands
of the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And SubhanAllah, I wanna end on this note.
Obviously, this gives you again a dimension into
the life of the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
that is beautiful and profound and
heartbreaking too.
It's hard. It is very, very hard
to read about the pain of the prophet,
salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, and not feel deep
pain yourself,
and to read about the tears of the
prophet and not get thrown into that yourself.
It's like, subhanallah, this man
never stopped. The pain never stopped, Farim salAllahu
alaihi wa sallam, the memories,
the difficulty, but that's part of what made
him so beautiful, Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
But SubhanAllah, on top of that,
the orphan is the prototype
in Islam for the most overlooked and undervalued
member of society,
for the person who's given absolutely
no
respect,
no love, no honor because they don't have
an immediate worldly benefit that is attached to
them.
And you can think about all of the
different types of people that that speaks to.
And when the Prophet
mentions something,
like, you know, when 2 people walk by
and the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, says,
what do you say about this person? They
say, this person is the best of his
people. If he asks, then he will be
granted. If he intercedes, his intercession is accepted.
If he proposes in marriage,
then we will accept his proposal. And the
prophet says, what about this one? They say,
well, this is a person. If he asks,
he's rejected. His intervention
his intercession doesn't matter. And if he proposes,
his proposal is not going to be accepted.
And the prophet says, one of those is
better than an earth full of the other.
One of those is better than an earth
full of the other men. What are you
doing overlooking these people? Don't you know the
value that Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la puts in
these people?
Don't overlook these people.
Don't look past them. You're not necessarily going
to find, in fact, you will not find
someone as great as Raul SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in front of you. But when you're seeing
these fuqara and these masakeen around the world,
and
the number is becoming bigger and bigger of
devastated children
in different parts of the world,
hungry, distraught, oppressed,
and you think, yeah, but Or when you
see someone who doesn't seem to deserve Diwah
because they're not famous, they're not rich, they're
not powerful.
Yeah. What's the what's really the value of
this person embracing Islam?
Remember
Halima, think of seeing the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam being held out by Aminah
and your Halima radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu looking at
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as this baby
that's just being held out like somebody
see the value of my child.
Someone see that this child matters. Someone see
the beauty. Someone see the blessing.
Someone see that there's something special in this
child. And, Subhanallah, there's one narration. Adib al
Mufrad, and I'll end with this.
The best house amongst the Muslims is a
house in which an orphan is present
and treated with honor, and the worst house
amongst the Muslims is the house in which
an orphan is present
and ill treated.
The Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
is Rahmatanlil
Alamin, is a mercy to the world. And
at some point in his life, SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam, he was looked at as someone who
wasn't worth even a penny who wasn't worth
even a second look
from anyone in the world at the time
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam We ask Allah to be
plea to be, to send his peace and
blessings upon the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
to be pleased with his companions, with his
family and companions,
those that cared for him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
those that gave him mercy Alaihi Salatu Wasallam.
We ask Allah azza wa Jal to join
us with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and with
those blessed people in the highest rank in
Infirdos ala'ala. Allahu alaamin.
Just a quick note, I said last week
that I was gonna try to do 2
halakas tonight. My intention was to do Hakim
Nuhizam
at length and then do a short presentation
about Halima,
I decided
to instead do a long presentation about Halima
radiAllahu ta'ala Anha.
Next week, there will be no class. I
will be traveling. So Insha'Allah,
2 weeks from today, we'll continue with Hakim
Nuhazam radiAllahu anhu, another person that was close
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in
childhood
after
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