Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Muhammad Ibn Maslama – Ra The Knight Of Rasulullah
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I'm going to start off tonight with a
question, Insha'Allah.
Was anyone named Muhammad before Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam?
What do you all think?
Have you heard of anyone named Muhammad before
Muhammad
Okay.
You don't know the answer, which is a
good thing. Alright?
SubhanAllah, it's an interesting
way to start the story that we have
today, the person that we're speaking about today,
because you literally don't find another Sahabi like
him.
A man whose name
was Muhammad
before Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam received revelation.
So how did this happen and how do
we introduce this person in that context?
Al Qadhi Ayad
he mentions in a Shifa,
he says that you don't find people named
Muhammad amongst the Arabs. It wasn't a common
name. There are very common names. In fact,
sometimes the names get so common that it
gets hard to distinguish people. Right? So if
you were to take, for example, the name
Sa'ed,
you have Sa'ed, Sa'ed, you have As'ed, you
have all the versions of Sa'ed. If you
took the name Hind,
Hind for boys and girls over and over
and over again.
But the name Muhammad is not a name
that you find common amongst the Arabs at
all.
And that is from the blessings of the
Prophet
that Allah chose that name for him.
So how is it that we have the
presence of some individuals around the time of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? So perhaps born
after the birth of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam,
but also name Muhammad before Rasool Allah receives
the revelation.
It is so rare that you only nail
it down to about 5 or 6 individuals.
Okay. 5 or 6 individuals amongst the Arabs
as a whole. So these are people that
know lineage, that study lineage,
that are looking in Yemen, that are looking
in Mecca, that are looking in Yathrib, that
are looking throughout the Najd area at the
time trying to find the names Muhammad.
And Al Qadhi Ayad
says when the prophet
received revelation, around the time that the Messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was to receive
revelation,
that
there were people that were asking the people
of the book about the description of those
who were going
to be or or the one that was
going to be the next prophet, the prophet
that was foretold in a Torah wal Injeel.
And because some of those rabbis, some of
those priests
deduced the name or a derivative of Muhammad,
you had a few people
that named the name Muhammad. So he actually
offers that as an explanation, and it does
make sense, especially when you start studying,
the regions. And he names,
the people. So you have a man by
the name of Muhammad ibn
Oyeh Oyeh,
Mohammed ibn Bara'a
al Bakri,
Mohammed ibn Sufyan ibn
Mujashir,
Mohammed ibn Hamran al Jarafi, Mohammed ibn Khuzari
al Silmi, Mohammed ibn Yahmat. You don't need
to know any of these names,
except for the name that we're going to
be speaking about today,
and that is the companion that is named
Muhammad ibn Maslama
Now, SubhanAllah, when we spoke about Abu Bakr
when we talked about how
easy it is for a man whose name
is Abu Bakr to get lost in the
Seerah because of how similar his name is
to Abu Bakr as Siddiq, radiAllahu anhu.
Imagine being someone who's named Muhammad. Talk about
being overshadowed.
Right? There literally is possibly not a single
human being on the face of the earth
that was probably named after this man,
because the one who was named that name
before him is the greatest human being that
ever walked the face of the earth and
the greatest of the creation of Allah
Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So his name gets lost
and it sparks some curiosity. How is it?
Is it that
he was born after Islam the way that
Abu Bakr
had Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr or you know,
Muhammad the son of Talha?
Or is it something else? And the reality
is is that he's one of those rare
individuals,
one of those rare individuals
who had the name Muhammad before Islam. So
this was actually
his name,
Muhammad ibn Maslama
ibn Salama
ibn Khalid Al Ansari
So I wanna give you a little bit
of an
intervention here.
I told you last week that we were
going to talk about the attempted assassinations of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And we talked about Umayr ibn Wahab
Sallafanub Umayr radiAllahu Anhu.
I felt like it was important to know
this individual
because there's a lot of context into the
person that we're going to speak about next
week, InshaAllah, and some of those assassinations.
So Muhammad ibn Maslama
is not
one of those attempted assassins of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
In fact, he's someone who defends the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam against assassination attempts,
and he's someone who carries out the riskiest
missions on behalf of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. So his nickname is the Faris,
the Knight of Rasulullah
He was the night of the Prophet
that would be sent on the riskiest missions
that would patrol Al Madinah, that would watch
the back of the Prophet
that would patrol anything around Al Madinah to
make sure that no threats were coming towards
the beloved Messenger,
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And he's an amazing man, a fascinating human
being, SubhanAllah,
who again gets so lost in history.
Now let's talk about him. So he's from
the tribe of al Aus
in yafrib, which would of course become al
Madinah. So he's from the tribe of al
Aus, one of the,
two tribes of the Ansar.
But there is debate about whether he was
originally
amongst them or if he was a hadith
or if he was someone who was allied
to them, who became part of them. So
whether he is from them or whether he
comes from another land
and basically became adopted into Aus
over
time. But how early of a Muslim was
this man?
He becomes Muslim
at the hands of Mus'ab ibn Umayr
So when Mus'ab comes to Al Madinah
as an ambassador of the Prophet
he embraces
Islam at his hands.
But
it was so early that Ibn Sa'ad
narrates,
He became Muslim
at the hands of Musaab ibn Umayr before
Saad ibn Mu'adh, before Usaid ibn Qudayr, before
many of the first that we talked about
from the Ansar.
This man
immediately
embraced Islam with the Prophet
So he's one of the first of the
first in this regard.
He is one of the earliest of the
Ansar.
Now what is his description?
He's 18 years younger than the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam,
and he's a man who's described first and
foremost as someone who only speaks when he
has to. He's a man of few words,
And that costs you in the seerah, right,
when you talk about history and
documentation. Someone who's not accustomed to speaking much,
right, often gets lost. And, SubhanAllah, that's a
disservice that we have, to these figures and
to these individuals.
But he's a man of few words,
but great actions, and he had a great
presence
So his description
is the following.
He was tall. He was extremely
strong. He was very dark skinned, so he
was black. So if you read some of
the early,
collections of the Black Sahaba by Ibn Jazir
Rahimullah and Imam al Suyuti Rahimullah, he's included
amongst
the black companions of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. He had dark skin. He was extremely
handsome. He was awe inspiring.
If you saw him, you were immediately captured
by him.
And he spoke little and people were embarrassed
to speak in front of him. You know,
when someone has such a presence
that they neither speak much nor do you
speak in their presence because you're worried about
saying the wrong thing.
So if you saw him,
you were immediately
overtaken by the imposition of his size and
his haybah
radiAllahu anhu, the glory that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
gave to him.
Now, as I'm describing him, I want you
to think about who would be his parallel
from Mecca. Because SubhanAllah,
we find that it's often that there is
a parallel between a Madani Sahabi and a
Mecci Sahabi. Like Mus'ab and Mu'ad. Right? Like
you start to pair them off and you
start to see the way that they resemble,
one another.
So his description is that in battle,
he was someone who never once took a
step back.
So he was always advancing in battle, and
they said about him
that we never once saw Muhammad ibn Muslim
take a step back. He's always advancing
no matter what. He was the most skilled
on a horse, and he was the most
skilled on foot. So he was able to,
partake in battle,
both,
on horse and on foot.
He was someone that would analyze the battle
before it happens.
And so he's that person that you send
to read the whole battlefield,
to count the army on the other side,
to analyze the points of attack, to analyze
how many animals they have. He could read
the body language of the opposition and tell
you who's going to probably do what. So
he was that person,
extremely analytical in
battle
as well.
And for that reason, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam paired him off with someone, SubhanAllah, who's
his twin soul.
The souls are like conscripted soldiers.
He was the host of Abu Ubaydah Al
Jarrah
Aminu Hadil Ummah, the trustworthy one of this
Ummah.
If you took a description of Abu Ubaydah
and you took a description of Muhammad ibn
Maslama
it's like you're talking about the same person.
I even like open my notes of Abu
Ubaydah from the first and I looked back
and said, SubhanAllah, you could take sentences from
the Sira of both of these men and
mix them together. And the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, liked to pair people off that
were of a similar disposition,
that had similar personalities, that were complementary to
each other. Imagine being in that household.
SubhanAllah,
2 trustworthy men of the Ummah
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would send
to read a situation, to analyze a situation
across the board, and that the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam trusted so much
because of their taqwa, because of their piety.
Imagine the qiyam in that house. Imagine the
discussions
between these 2 men, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma, and
we'll see, subhanAllah, that they are hand in
hand
in the expansion of Islam throughout the land
of Asham and other places before the death
of Abu Ubaydah
in the Plague of Amwas.
So
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam assigns him as
the host of Abu Ubaydah Jarrah.
Just a little bit about his family in
that regard.
He eventually brings forth his siblings and his
families to embrace Islam as well.
Amongst those people, he had his brother-in-law,
whose name was Salama, Ibn Salama, Salama Ibn
Salama Ibn Waqash.
And Salama Ibn Salama was the host of
Az Zubayr
So in this one family, you're hosting 2
of Ashar Mubashareem, 2 of the 10 people
that are promised paradise.
And he was also,
a fierce warrior, even though we don't have
much information
about him. We also see that he had
a lot of kids, and he tended to
name his kids after the Muhajireen.
So he had documented 16 children,
documented 16 children. And
the names that we have, Abdullah, Abdul Rahman,
Ja'far,
Zaid and Sa'ed. And they are all narrators
of his hadith.
So he's naming his kids
after Asabiqun al Awaloon min al Mujajarin, after
the first
from the Mujajarin,
which is a beautiful quality and kind of
tells you what type of person he is
and what it is that interests him
and connects him to the Prophet
Very interesting. He has a brother named Mahmoud
as well.
Mahmoud
So you had Mohammed and Mahmoud
and Mahmoud embraces Islam as well. Mahmoud ibn
Maslama, as well as a sister by the
name of Abs.
Abs
So he embraces Islam early on, brings his
wives, his children, his siblings, all to the
Prophet
to embrace Islam.
And when the Prophet
comes to Al Madinah, he immediately is given
the assignment of being the perpetual
murabit,
the watch the watchman.
So SubhanAllah,
if you think of all of the ahadith
about Al Murabitun, about those that hold the
fort and about the eye that watches the
borders for the sake of Allah,
literally this man
Every single one of those ahadith
primarily
first focuses on him.
He's the one on the lookout. And when
the Prophet
mentions that 2 eyes will not touch the
fire,
the eye that sheds tears out of the
fear of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and the eye that watches
the borders of the Muslims. And we talked
about this, SubhanAllah, how even greater than a
night of Laylatul Qadr
is a person who goes out defending the
borders and fears for their life. Doesn't know
if they're going to come back
to their home and to their family. So
they put themselves on the line to watch
the Muslims back, to watch the borders of
the Muslims. And we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala to accept from the Murabitun in Al
Ghazza and elsewhere. Allahumma'ami.
So every single hadith about Murabitun, you can
imagine that it would be sweetness to the
ears of Muhammad ibn Maslama.
And there's something very special here as well
that the Sahaba accepted the roles that were
given to them by the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and they didn't try to divert
from that. So he's a man that knows
that he has a specialty,
and he doesn't try to veer out of
what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created him for
and what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
loved him for. He's always that man, He's
always that man
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sends
on the lookout.
So he says
to his children
that I witnessed every single battle with the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam except for Tabooq,
except for
Ghazwat
Tabooq. Does anyone know why Muhammad ibn Maslama
did not witness the Battle of Tabooq?
Any guesses?
Because the Prophet
made him the Amir of Madinah
during Tabooq.
So So that shows you his position,
with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam appointed him to be
in charge of Al Madinah
during the expedition of Tabuk. So he says,
ask me any question
about any battle. He's Telling his children,
Ask me any question about any battle, and
I will be able to recount to you
everything about that battle except for Tabuk, because
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
left me in charge of Al Madina
Al Munawwara.
So he attends
the Battle of Badr, and therefore
he attains the status of Al Badriun, the
people of Badr, and they are the best
of the companions
and every battle that comes afterwards.
Now, SubhanAllah,
after the Battle of Badr,
he is
and this is one of those things when
we discuss Sira, it's important for us to
contextualize and important for us to dive right
into it,
especially, subhanallah, why I found this to be
a necessary intervention in the last few halakat
and the ones that we're going to be
having.
He is the one that the prophet, salAllahu
alaihi wa sama, appointed to assassinate one of
his severest enemies.
Important clarification here.
Just like when we talked about the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam making du'a for people.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam used to
make du'a for people as a norm, but
there were people that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam made du'a against.
That's the exception,
not the norm. And that is for a
hikmah. That's for wisdom. And we talked about
it. The main one that the ulama derived
is that those people that the prophet
made du'a against were a present
danger that had committed a heinous atrocity and
they were in the midst of that atrocity,
and Rasool Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam made du'a
against them.
However, if you took the ahadith where the
prophet
makes du'a for people's guidance versus the Ahadith
where the Prophet
makes du'a against people,
definitely proportionately speaking, the majority of the Ahadith
of the Prophet making du'a for people to
come to him.
What this means is that there's room for
this and there's room for that. There's a
time for this and there's a time for
that, even if the majority
even if the majority
is the grace and the mercy of the
Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And
sometimes his making du'a against the people
is mercy to the victims of those people.
It's
also an element of this, and I think
a lot of this a lot of us
understand this in the moment that we're in
right now. Sometimes making du'a against people is
out of mercy
to the victims of those people.
Okay.
So we have all these stories of people
that
actually were about to assassinate the Prophet and
the Prophet
forgave them and let them go. We have
the story of Umayr ibn Wahab, who we
spoke about. We have all these stories from
Ta'if.
There are exceptions to that.
People that pose a present danger
and that there is a wisdom, a greater
wisdom to fighting them.
And the name of the man that the
Prophet would order Muhammad ibn Masama
to assassinate is a man by the name
of Kab ibn Ashaaf.
Kab ibn Ashaaf.
Now, Islamophobes love to use the story of
Kab ibn Ashaaf to say that the Prophet
killed all of those that spoke against him.
Except that the problem is is that I
could give you literally 30 people that the
prophet
did not kill
that spoke against him, alayhis salatu wassalam,
just like that. Like, the prophet is not
this impulsive person, so he spoke against me
and killed me kill him. In fact, there
were people in front of the Prophet, sallAllahu
alaihi wa sallam, again, that had a knife
in front of him, and the Prophet, sallAllahu
alaihi wa sallam, let them go.
But this was a man who was different.
And why is he so different?
So Kab ibn Ashtraf
is a man who actually comes he has
a very interesting background. His father
fled to Yathrib at the time
after committing a crime,
somewhere with the people of Huza'a. So somewhere
in the outskirts
of Mecca, he committed a crime and he
fled to Yasserib seeking permission.
So the people that gave him refuge
were Benun Adir,
which is, of course, one of the 3
main Jewish tribes of El Medina
that gave Kabir al Asraf's father
refuge in El Madinah.
And he ended up marrying a woman from
amongst them, and Kabir al Asraf
is
a child of that marriage.
Now, Kabir al Asraf
ends up going on to become
one of
the most poetic people, one of the richest
people in Yasser about the time,
and essentially a warlord in Yasser about the
time.
Okay?
So one one of the things, subhanAllah, that's
really incredible, by the way, is that you
still have the remains of the fort of
Kabnan Ashraf
in Al Madinah right now. So I actually
have a picture of it, if you all
could put it up, inshaAllah ta'ala. Not that
one, the other one.
So that's actually the remains. You can still
find the remains of the fortress
of Kabir al Ashraf
today.
He's a warlord.
He's a poet.
He's a wealthy man. He's a politician.
And he pulls a lot of strings inside
and outside of Al Madin al Munawwara.
SubhanAllah, some of you might be wondering, well,
what about Abdulazn Ubayb bin Salud, the chief
hypocrite?
Abdulazn Ubayb bin Salud,
in these first few years
was
suggesting,
hinting,
but the active plot on the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam does not come until years later.
This man is different.
When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam comes to
Al Madinah,
he immediately takes a position of hostility to
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And of course, the Jewish tribes
had entered into an agreement with the Prophet
Kabir al Ashraf is opposed to
that pact and is
trying from the very start of Al Islam
to ruin it and to
spoil the relationship between the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam and the Jewish tribes.
So you have obviously varied responses.
You have the response of Husayn ibn Salam,
who is the chief rabbi of Medina, Abdullah
ibn Salam
who embraced Islam. You have those responses, but
you have a man who incites
many of the problems between the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
and the tribes in Al Madinah.
But when does it reach a point where
the Prophet
orders that he be killed?
So initially, when it's poetry
and
it's still in the beginning of incitement, the
prophet is trying to hold Al Madinah together.
But the prophet
did not give the order yet for him
to be attacked.
But what ends up happening
is that Badr happens. And SubhanAllah, you're going
to understand
some of the ayat of the Quran now
in this regards because the seerah gives you
the tafsir in the best way. Right?
So when the battle of Badr happens,
not only is he trying to instigate from
within, not only is he trashing the prophet,
salal alayhi wasalam, his name from within, he's
authoring poetry about Muslim women, and I don't
need to go any further.
So he's making really nasty poetry,
right, that is rated whatever you want to
call it, right, as vulgar,
as low as it comes, essentially inciting people
against the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, against the
women of the Muslims, against against Islam.
But when Badr happens,
what does he do? It wasn't enough for
him to try to fracture in Al Madinah
further.
He goes to Mecca.
And because he's such a rich man, he
has trade relationships with pretty much all of
the elites of Mecca.
So he goes to Mecca
and he finds them in this depressed state
because they lost the battle of Badri. And
obviously, as we talked about with the Umayr
and Safwan ibn Umayyah, may Allah be pleased
with them both, like the mood in Mecca
was one of defeat and deflation. Like, we
ran these people out and then we pursued
them to kill them, and they ended up
killing us instead.
So he goes to them,
and he says to them,
I would rather
live in a world where you people are
victorious than Muhammad salAllahu alaihi wa sama and
his army.
What is it with you all?
Why are you so low? Why are you
defeated?
You have all that you need from the
inside of Al Madinah.
You have all that you need from the
outside.
Rise up with some pride and go back
and kill Muhammad and his companions. So he's
going to Mecca and literally inciting the elders
of Mecca,
who, of course, in that in that period,
right, are oscillating between these emotions of sadness
and grief and rage and vengeance. Right? Who
could have taken a moment to reflect on
what they've done and back off of the
Prophet
because they pursued the Prophet
Right? At the end of the day, you
harmed him and you initiated this conflict with
the Messenger of Allah
But he's telling them,
go fight him and you'll get all the
help that you need. Go kill him and
you'll get all the help that you need.
And Subhanallah, this conversation happens between him and
Abu Sufyan.
Mind you
that it would not be an understatement to
say that the Battle of Uhud was from
the incitement of Kab ibn Ashaaf.
Alright? Does that convey enough of the severity
of this? It's his incitement
that directly leads to
the galvanizing of the troops for the Battle
of Uhud. That's how severe this is. So
this isn't just a man who's running his
mouth. It's serious.
Subbu Sufyan,
who knows him really well,
he says to him, you know, it's really
interesting.
So I have a question for you.
Which religion
is more beloved to you?
Our religion
or the way of Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa
sallam?
Why do you think he's asking him this
question?
Abu Sufyan, as an enemy of Islam,
is amused by the hatred of Kab ibn
al Ashraf towards the Prophet sallallahu 'alaihiwasallam.
Why?
Because the people of the book in Abyssinia
saw a relationship
between Christianity and Islam, saw An Najash
who saw
in the Prophet
and in his message,
first a similarity and then the truth.
Initially,
that we are similar, Christians and Muslims, we
come from the same spirit,
right? From the people of the book, that
this resembles the way of Ibrahim
and the way of and then eventually recognizing
that it was actually the way of
alayhis salaam. So Abu Sufyan
is a little taken aback by Qad'un Asha
of, look, at the end of the day,
you know, you're Jewish, he's Muslim.
Right? Don't you all speak from the same
place? Like, isn't this
your religion and his religion are more similar
than our religion and your religion? If you
took polytheism in Mecca
and you took Islam in Medina
or Islam period.
Right?
And you took polytheism in Mecca versus Judaism
and Judaism versus Islam. I mean, the similarities
are huge
from a pure scriptural and textual perspective.
So I don't understand why it is that
you have this enmity towards him. Why would
you want us to be victorious over him?
Why would you want our religion to be
greater than his? SubhanAllah, it's a condition of
the hearts.
So you have Najashi radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu who
recognizes
right away the truth. You have Abdullah Abu
Salam radiAllahu Anhu who recognizes right away the
truth.
They know him the way that they know
their own children. But you have a man
with a diseased heart. And so even though
the scriptures were similar,
he says to Abu Sufyan
that your religion is way more beloved to
me than his religion.
You're closer to me than him. Your religion
is closer to me than him. We don't
believe in God. We don't believe in resurrection.
We don't believe in any of this stuff.
We're idol worshipers. But you know what? At
the end of the day, you're closer to
me than him because it was driven this
way. This is the context that the ulama
mentioned
for the ayah in,
Surat
Al Naidah verse 82 where Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala mentions. Well, first and foremost, you have
sorry.
Surah Nisa verse 51 and 52. Surah Nisa
verse 51 and 52. So now you know
when you hear this in in Taraweeh inshaAllah.
Where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, have you,
oh prophet, seen those who were given a
portion of the scriptures
yet believe
in the idols and these false gods, and
they reassured the disbelievers saying that
you are closer to the truth than these
Muslims. You are closer to the truth than
these believers.
Right? Like, how low of a person do
you have to be that you have the
scripture
and you still choose this path?
And also Surat Al Maidah verse 82,
Where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes the reception
of people like Kabir al Asraf and some
of those Jewish tribes and the polytheists and
the disbelievers
versus
the Christians in Abyssinia, the prophet sallAllahu alaihi
wasallam was expecting
a similar type of response. And he got
it from some of the rabbis. He got
it from some of,
the Jewish, you know,
citizens of Yefir ibn Medina at the time.
But overall,
what incites a man like Kabir ibn al
Shraf to be this violent against the Prophet
and have this much hatred
and to plot along with Abu Sufyan
and along with the Palatheists of Mecca against
the Prophet
So what happens now? After this incitement, and
again, you could trace the incitement of
Kabir al Ashraf in Mecca to the Battle
of Uhud,
Jabir ibn Abdullah
says in an authentic Hadith
that the Prophet
stood up and he said, Manli Kab ibn
al Ashraf.
Who will suffice me in regards to Kab
ibn al Ashraf?
And he says,
that he has harmed the way of Allah
and the Messenger
So he's active in his enmity.
So Muhammad ibn Maslama
wants to make sure he's getting the order
right. So he says,
You Rasool Allah, Atuhibbu An Aqdula,
O Messenger of Allah, before I go do
something, I just wanna make sure I'm understanding
you correctly.
Because remember, the Prophet let people go in
Badr that actively tried to kill him. He
showed grace
to all these people. So You Rasulullah,
are you asking me to kill him?
So the Prophet
said, Nam. He said, Yes.
So he said, and if you're reading the
Hadith, it's not immediately clear.
Fell aqul.
He said, then give me permission to say
certain things.
What does he mean by that?
Muhammed ibn Maslama says, in order to get
into the fortress
of Kabir al Ashaaf
and get close enough to him to do
that because he's well guarded. He's literally got
his guards out there. He's got he's prepared
at any moment. The man lives like a
king on the outskirts of Medina.
He says, I'm gonna have to say certain
things. What does he mean by that? I'm
going to have to, you know, act like
I'm not Muslim.
So I might have to say certain things
about you that I don't actually believe in
order to get close to him.
And the prophet
says,
say what you got to say.
Do what you have to do.
So he goes to him
and he,
you know, goes to Kabul Ashraf
and he reminds him of some, you know,
relationships that they had before Islam came. And
he also took, SubhanAllah, by the way, Kabir
al Ashraf's brother,
foster brother,
whose name is Abu Na'ilah
So
Kabir al Ashraf's brother became Muslim.
His brother became Muslim. So
basically, Muhammadu
Maslama is on a mission, and he has
to take Abu Naa Elah with him, and
he's got to soften
Kab
ibn al Ashraf
up a bit in order to have
that encounter.
So he asked for permission to enter upon
him. And obviously, the guards are on high
alert because they know he's a Muslim.
And
he starts off with him, and he says,
He's
talking about the
Prophet He says, this man
is asking us for more charity, and he's
driving us crazy. He's making us poor.
Right? He's complaining about the Prophet
to Kabir al Ashraf.
And
he says,
you know, when I said that,
Kaban Al Asraf was saying to me, I
told you also, you should have left him
a long time ago. Why is it that
you still remain Muslim?
So Muhammad Al Masama says that we said
to him
that we followed him
for now
so that we could see.
So we could see which way this is
going to end up,
meaning what we think he's going to win,
and he might not win, so we followed
him out of convenience, basically like the hypocrites
of Medina,
to just ride the wave for now.
And then if he ends up, you know,
on the lower hands or on the other
side of this, then we'll join forces against
him.
So he,
in that situation, and this shows you, subhanAllah,
that this was a very tricky situation,
in that situation,
Khabib Nur Ashraf, he lightens up towards them,
and he says to them, maturidu, what is
it that you want?
So he said, well, I need you to
give me some money.
I'm asking you for some money and some
dates so I can pay off the sadaqah,
so we can pay the Prophet off
and, you know, get ourselves out of the
situation.
Qad bin al Ashaaf said, I need a
guarantee. I need to hold on to something
while,
you know, while you do that.
You know, like I need give me something
to hold on to while you do that.
So Muhammadu Maslama,
he says,
what is it that you want as Allah?
Literally like a mortgage.
So he says, nisa'a'akum.
Give me your wives.
It's like, okay.
He's testing them, and he's also
acting in a certain way.
And listen to how he responds. He says,
no. We can't give you our wise,
and you're the most handsome of the Arabs.
We can't do that.
So he said, okay,
give me your kids.
I'll give you the money to go pay
off the prophet, but I wanna hold on
to something precious to you
so that when you pay them off, you
can come get them back. He's being savvy.
So they said, if we give you our
kids, then they're going to to curse us
when they get older and say that we
weren't worth to you but a couple of
containers of dates.
So we don't want the curse of our
children upon us or, you know, when they
grow up and they get mad at us
for that.
So they said, look, what if we give
you our weapons? Hamdul Maslama says, we'll give
you our weapons.
He said, fine. Give me your weapons. So
Muhammadu Mustafa says, I'm gonna go back and
bring some of the companions of the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, that are on the same
wavelength as me, and we're gonna give you
our weapons. Came back at night.
The operation goes successfully.
Alright?
So he hears them out there.
Muhammadu al Mustlama calls them out in the
middle of the night,
and the wife of, Kabir al Ashraf, says
to him, I don't you know, that doesn't
sound right. Why are they coming at this
time of the night? Kabir al Ashraf says,
no. I got it. I know what they're
coming for. Know, we already have an agreement
and things of that sort.
He comes out and he's got his good
scent, good perfume, good musk.
And
this just shows you what a smart man
does. Muhammad Al Maslamah says to him, Masha'Allah,
you smell great. He says, come closer so
I could smell you.
So when he comes closer
and he smells him, then he eliminates him,
and they all get out of the fortress
before they could even be detected.
Now, Benun Adir
wants to complain to the Prophet
but at the same time, they realize they
don't have a basis to complain to the
Prophet because this man was inciting war against
the Messenger of Allah
So why did the Prophet kill him? Why
take out Kabir al Ashaaf? Many wisdoms that
the 'ilama mentioned because I'm literally going to
give you even more biographies next week of
people the Prophet forgave at the point of
assassination.
Why did he take him out? Some of
the scholars say that it was the time
period that it was in.
It was a sensitive time period. It would
have been irresponsible
to let the man who incited Uhud and
who had the control of the tribes in
Al Madinah,
to have the power to incite from within
and without. You could literally make the argument
that what he was going to do was,
once Uhud started,
basically you would have an early khandaq scenario.
Remember in khandaq, how the tribes betrayed from
within?
That Kabir al Ashraf would have planned, after
inciting Uhud from there, to go and then
rile up from the inside and attack the
prophet So you could argue that it's early,
it's preemptive.
Also
that it's sending a message similar to the
way of Abu Jahl, that the pharaoh had
to die. The Prophet forgave
so many people, but Abu Jahl
had to die. The Fir'aun of this Ummah
had to die.
And that was one of the
realities of the Sira of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, a man
who always
preferred to take to forgiveness and to take
towards grace And we'll see this with many
other situations.
So Muhammad al Maslama
fulfills that on behalf of the Prophet
gives you an idea of
the
type of person that he is in terms
of military skill and in terms of being
able to
patrol. And on every single one of the
battles, the Prophet
appoints him to patrol. So
the night before Uhud, the Prophet
had Muhammadun al Maslama
all night surrounding the camp and circling the
encampment of the Muslims with 50 men under
him to make sure that they wouldn't be
ambushed at night. So that's his role. And
when Khaledun Walid
attacked the Muslims from behind
on the day of Uhud, Muhammad ibn Mas'am
was one of those companions who ran to
the Prophet
and defended the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and took in the process many hits
trying to protect the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
He's basically the intelligence of Madinah,
so he foils many of the plots inside
and outside.
He's the one that the prophet
sent
to
foil the plot of Banu Payn Uta.
And then,
Muhammad al Mas'ama oversaw the expulsion of that
tribe from Al Madinah and then also the
expulsion of Banu Nadir,
which was significant because Al Aus was an
ally tribe to them. So he's someone that's
watching
and listening
to what's happening, who's plotting against the prophet
supervising
or patrolling from the back during khandaq. So
in the khandaq, when the Muslims were watching
the front of the ditch, Muhammad Al Maslam
was
riding around
Al Madinah
and making sure that the Muslims were protected
from behind. And then he carries out
many of those operations in that regard. I'll
mention one other thing here in that regard,
subhanAllah, which is in Khaybar.
Muhammad al Maslama was the one who scouted
out
the place where the Muslims would settle themselves
in Khaybar,
as that operation
was going to take place.
And his brother Mahmoud,
Mahmoud ibn Mas'am
the only narration we have about him
is that he was the 1st shahid of
the day of Khaybar.
Because when they scouted out that place and
when they settled in that place, there was
a
warrior from,
from Banu Quraydah by the name of Marhab,
who threw something on Mahmoud, his brother Mahmoud
Un Muslim and
murdered him.
And Muhammad Un Muslimah would be the one
that would avenge his brother. They said, SubhanAllah,
that a fierce the battle that took place
between Muhammad ul Maslama
and Marhab
in the Gardens
of Khaybar
was so
fierce that they cut every tree in the
process.
As they were dueling, SubhanAllah, and he was
avenging
the death of his brother
and eventually,
he caught him and he said, dukkal mawtakama.
That tastes
death the way that Mahmood
tasted death. So he's that person.
During Hudaybiyah,
Sur Hudaybiyah,
he's the one that the prophet
sends to Hudaybiyah in advance before he gets
there. So Muhammad binullah, Allah, twenty horsemen
to basically occupy the wells before the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam got there and he was
again on the night watch,
patrolling the camp. And one of the things,
subhanAllah, we don't know like when you look
at the turns in history,
is that he actually caught 50 men trying
to attack the Prophet
and the Muslims at Hudaybiyyah before the negotiations
even took place.
So think about how history changes.
Right? If this man is not set up
patrolling
and watching the back of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and the Muslims in that regard,
he also ends up catching,
the most powerful prisoner the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam ever had, who we're going to talk
about next week. The story of Thumama
Thumama was the most powerful prisoner the Prophet
ever had in his hand.
And the way that he was caught
was after Hudaybiyyah,
after the treaty took place, Muhammadun Maslama
caught this group of people
in an area called Al Qura'at.
And,
you know,
they killed some and they captured the rest.
And he brought back this small group of
men, and they had a 150
camels
and 3,000 sheep with them. So it's this
huge portion of wealth.
And Muhammad al Maslama didn't know who Thumama
was. He didn't realize the powerful man that
he was. So when he brings him, he
thinks he's just a prisoner
on the outside,
and the prophet
sees him. And the prophet is taken aback
by the fact that he just brought back
one of the most powerful people in the
world who was plotting against the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, who we'll talk about next week.
I'm gonna start going to the stories, inshallah,
to where we can take some instructive lessons,
because if I talk about military expeditions, we'll
be here all night.
But just to say, SubhanAllah, even in Fathah
Mekkah,
the Prophet
sent him ahead with a 100 horsemen before
he got to Makkah.
And he assured the Meccans, because when the
Meccans saw Muhammad ibn Maslama, they thought that
they were coming for war. And the Prophet
sent the message that they're not here for
war, they're here to simply secure the area.
Right? So he's that man. And you can
imagine, SubhanAllah, when the prophet was doing tawaf
around the Kaaba for the first time, and
he was removing the idols,
Muhammad ibn Masama was the one walking in
front of the prophet
holding
the reins of Al Qaswah,
the, the camel of the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. So let's talk about some
narrations in regards to him and some stories
that we can take that are very instructive
to us. One of the narrations in in,
Seer Al Alam and Ubula
that has some weakness in the chain, but
the hadith is authentic, meaning the actual narration.
The Muhammad ibn Maslama
says,
I once walked by the prophet and he
was on the Mount of Safa
while the anyadahu alayadi raju,
and he was putting his hand on the
hand of another man.
So he said, so I left.
And the Prophet came to me and he
said,
What stopped you from saying, Assalamu alaikum to
me?
So he said, You Rasulullah,
fa'alta bihaa rajuri shayah ma fa'alta hubi ahad.
I saw that you were talking to this
man in a way that you didn't talk
to other people.
I didn't want to interrupt the conversation. I
saw that you were in an important conversation
with this man,
and I didn't want to interrupt the conversation,
with this man. Who do you all think
the man was?
So the prophet
said,
Jibril,
that that was Jibril, aehis salam,
that is Muhammad ibn Maslama,
Had he said salaam to us, we would
have responded to him with salaam.
And he says,
I said to the prophet and this is
where the authentic hadith comes outside of the
books of Sir,
What did he say to you, O Messenger
of Allah?
The prophet
said that Jibreel
was telling me about the importance of the
neighbor to the point that I thought Jibreel
was going to assign inheritance
to the neighbor because of how much Jibril,
a. S, was saying, take care of your
neighbor, take care of your neighbor, take care
of your neighbor. So this is the closeness
that he has to the prophet, s,allahu alaihi
wasallam.
And obviously, he's someone who's safe from hypocrisy,
if that makes sense. Someone that's gonna be
that close to the prophet
like Abu Ubaydah
Aminu Hadid Ummah, the trustworthy one of this
ummah. He's safe from hypocrisy and that's why
the prophet trusts him in ways
that he doesn't trust other people.
But SubhanAllah,
one of the most incredible narrations I've ever
read about Al Fitan,
about trials and tribulation is actually his.
Muslim Imam Ahmed
Muhammad ibn Maslama radiAllahu anhu says that the
prophet gave me a sword.
The Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gave
me a sword.
And he said to me, qatilbihil mushrikeen.
He said, use this to fight in battle
against the disbelievers, like this is for war.
I'm giving you this special sword and this
is for war.
But he said,
He said, But when you see Muslims
start to fight one another,
go to Uhud and
bang the sword against Jabal Uhud, against the
mountain of Uhud
until you break that sword.
Go sit at home
until death comes to you, either at the
hand of someone or something else.
Meaning, I'm giving you the sword and I
want you to continue to be fierce in
battle the way that you've been taught. This
is the horsemen, the knight of the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
But, subhanAllah, think about how powerful this is.
Once you see Muslims fight each other,
don't just stop fighting. I want you to
break your sword.
If you just took the statement, break your
sword,
you literally could derive hours of lessons about
how to act when fitna happens.
If you think that there's a chance that
you're not going to be able to control
yourself once fitna happens,
abandon all of the vehicles of participation.
You
know what that means? When people start talking
about each other,
withdraw from the conversation altogether
because you're not gonna be able to figure
this out. It's like when they went to
Umar ibn Abdul Aziz and they asked him,
they said, you know, what do you say
about this and what do you say about
that? He said, that is a fitna that
Allah
saved our hands from. Why in the world
would I go dip my tongue in it
now?
I'm not gonna get involved.
The fact that the prophet said, break your
sword, you know what that sounds like today?
That sounds like if you can't control yourself
on social media, deactivate.
If you can't sit with these people and
not end up in fitna, stop sitting with
these people.
If you're confused and you keep falling into
the same sins and you keep messing up
when you're in certain situations, abandon the situation
altogether.
That's a powerful lesson that the Prophet
is giving to him. So he took that
advice. He had a special sword from the
Prophet
but he said once fitna happens, when Muslims
start fighting each other, I'm out.
I'm not involved in any of the fitna
between the Muslims. And this is the way
of the companions of the Prophet
and clearly what the Prophet
intended for these people like Muhammad alaihi Wasallam
So what happens in his life? And there
are some incredible incidents with him.
If he's that safe from hypocrisy,
then the man who's going to love him
is the man who loved Abu Ubaydah
the most, which is Umar bin Khattab
No one loved Abu Ubaydah
the way Umar bin Khattab
loved Abu Ubaydah
because of the sincerity,
the trustworthiness,
the truthfulness, the integrity
of that man.
So Umar radiAllahu Anhu had a special place
in his heart for Muhammad ibn Masam radiAllahu
Anhu
and they had an amazing relationship.
Imagine being the guy
that Umar, radiallahu,
basically appoints as the head of intelligence at
that time.
Like, if there's a muhabarat and intelligence at
that time, Muhammad ibn al Mustam as his
head of intelligence. But the intelligence is not
used to shut down and investigate and ruin
people's lives.
Intelligence is to protect from plots and to
see what's going on. Right?
So what happens with him?
When anyone would complain to Omar Khattab, radiAllahu,
about their governors, he would send Muhammadun Massam,
radiAllahu, anhu, to investigate.
Talk about a job.
Now, Umar would check-in
on governors themselves, but he's only one man,
and it wasn't uncommon if you were the
ruler of an area for Amir ul Momineen,
for the kharifa to show up on your
doorstep and start asking you about every single
dollar that you have, about every single thing
that you possess and how you're acting here
and how you're acting there.
Muhammad ibn Maslah was that guy
that Umar
would send to investigate people. So he either
would catch you by surprise
or
he would come to you as a direct
result of a complaint of the people against
you. So he's Umar's guy. Just like he
was the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's guy, he's
Umar 's guy. So
you have several of these incidents,
and they're all really interesting.
In the time of Amrul Anas
and Amrul Anas arrived in Rafah. May Allah
liberate
Gaza
and Masr and all of that area. He
arrives in Gaza and obviously, Amr AlaaS entered
into Masr
and he asked Umar
for reinforcements.
Umar sent
Muhammad ibn Maslama
in charge of a 1000 men
as one of those reinforcements to Umar. So
you loved having Muhammad ibn Maslama with you
in battle.
You hated having him investigate you.
You understand? Like, that's the relationship that the
companions had with him.
So when he showed up to help Amrul
Aas
in battle,
it was welcomed.
But when Umar, radiAllahu, sent Muhammadun Muslim, radiAllahu,
to investigate Amrul Aas, radiAllahu,
to ask him about his possessions.
Amrul As was very uneasy about him.
Right? So look how the conversation goes.
Amrul
As enters into the I'm sorry. Muhammadud Aslam
enters into the house of Amrul As. I'm
going to paraphrase a little bit, InshaAllah, just
for the sake of time.
So when he enters,
Amr is radiAllahu, I don't want to dohaat
al Arabi. He's one of the most intelligent
people. He's like trying to, like,
calm him down right away.
Not because he's fierce and unreasonable, but it's
like, let me let me lighten up the
mood. Right? So Amrul As prepares this really
nice meal for him, puts this really nice
meal on the table,
and Muhammad al Mas'am just stares at him.
And Amrul Asad says to him,
Amanaakaa
Amir Mumineen, did Amrul Khapa prevent you from
eating my food?
Muhammad ibn Maslama said, no, he didn't prevent
me, but he also didn't command me to
eat your food.
You know why I'm here. Right? It's a
mission.
So Mohammed bin Maslama pulls out a piece
of bread
from his pocket
and just starts eating his own piece of
bread.
Why? Because I'm here to investigate what you
own.
And obviously, it's not like Umar
suspects him, but this was routine checkup from
Umar,
and the Sahaba understood that that's how Umar
dealt with him. If Umar thought Umar was
a hypocrite, he would have removed him. It's
not that situation, but,
you know, he's asking about everything that he
has.
And these people are human.
So when Amr al-'As
sees Muhammadun Raslama pull his bread out and
start eating his bread instead of eating his
food,
He makes this comma.
He says, qabbaha Allahu zanananamr
ibn 'asliamrul
khatab feehiamir.
Like, may Allah curse a time where Amrul
Khattab has to work for someone like Amrul
Khattab.
And he says, I remember the time, Umar
al Khattab is saying this, I remember the
time when Umar and Al Khattab
were walking around wearing clothes that couldn't even
cover themselves properly in Jahiliyyah.
And my father, Al 'as,
was wearing a dibaju, wuzawaran bizahab, like a
robe that was lined with gold. Like, I
remember those days where we used to be
wealthy and Omar and his father did not
have anything. And now I'm getting questioned and
being subjected to this type of
interrogation. Listen to what Muhammad assessed him. He
says, listen,
As for Omar,
he's better than you. He says,
As for your dad and his dad, they're
both in hellfire anyway. So I don't know
what you're boasting about
with your father over his father.
And he says to him, and if Umar
did not make you a leader, then you
would have been satisfied with whatever he apportioned
for you.
So he said to him, account for everything
that you have.
Where is this from? Where is this from?
And Amr Ras radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
is trying to account for everything that he
has
And Muhammad al Maslama held him to that
accounting to the point that they say he
took, like, one sandal from a pair of
sandals,
completely
abiding by the way of Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu, and this was a way of accountability
that they had amongst themselves. And by the
way, it's very special in this regard. So
one moment he's in battle, the next moment
he's acting as Umar radiAllahu Anhu's interrogator.
So he goes and he conquers Babylon
along with the Zubayr
and then he's back to investigating
governors on behalf of Umar Khattab.
SubhanAllah, very interesting narrations between him and Sa'ad
Abi Waqqas
Now we know Sa'ad Abi Waqqas
and the position that he has in Islam,
But they held each other accountable.
Umar
in one narration, he heard that Sa'ad
built a gate for himself
and he sent Muhammad Un Muslim. Muhammad Un
Muslim went to Iraq, burned down the gate
without even having a conversation
with Sa'd ibn Nabi Waqas, and Sa'd did
not object. He knew it was an order
from Umayr al Mu'mineen
that we're not going to have a gate
between us and the people,
in this regard. But of course, Umar
loves Sa'd
So I wanted to mention this narration, even
though it's not necessarily about Muhammad al Mas'imah,
but he's involved in this, which is that
a complaint some complaints came from Kufa
about Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas
And Umar
has to investigate, even though he loves these
people. So,
you know,
he says, You Aba Ishaq,
speaking to Sa'ad radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
He says, Some of the people in Iraq
are complaining about you, And he says, and
I know that there are people of complaint.
They give everybody a hard time.
But I need to ask you. So he
said, there's been some words about your salah
and about, you know, your your governorship and
things of that sort.
So he responded and he says,
I
was praying with them the prayer of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. I would lengthen the
first 2 rakas.
I would shorten the last 2 rakas.
And I never missed my salah with them.
So I held on to that with them,
You Amir Mumineen, and I never missed that.
Umar
said,
That's what I assumed of you, and I
didn't assume anything less. Remember, it was the
first message from Umar to Sa'ed as the
governor, Half of the Allah hold on to
your prayer
But then he said, you know,
I'm gonna have them ask. I'm gonna have
Muhammadun al Mustlama ask in the different massages
about you,
basically report back.
So, SubhanAllah, once it got to it,
there was only 1 man
who complained
and his name was Usama ibn Khattada. Usama
ibn Khattada.
And he said, as for Sa'id,
which is a scorching report.
He says, he doesn't go out with us
in battle,
nor does he distribute fairly, nor does he
judge fairly.
So he said nasty things about him.
And
Sa'ad
made du'a against that man.
He said,
Oh, Allah, if he's lying,
it's an interesting du'a. He said, let him
live a long life
and let him suffer from a lot of
poverty
and expose him to fitan.
And, SubhanAllah,
the narrators say about him that that man
lived so long and there wasn't a single
humiliation except that he went through it.
And he lived so long that his eyebrows
fell out
and he was harassing young girls in the
street like a disgusting behavior, like Allah exposed
all of his sins.
And he would say
that I was struck by the dua of
Sa'ad
which just shows you, subhanAllah,
be careful in fitan. And there's a reason
when the Prophet tells Muhammadun Rasalama, hold your
sword back, hold your tongue back as well
because the dua of a person against you
might strike you much later on. And this
man might have had the moment, but later
on look what happened to him, subhanAllah, as
a result of the dua of that companion,
There's another narration where the complaint is about
Muhammadunu Maslama.
SubhanAllah,
it's a beautiful narration,
just shows you the character of these men.
Umar al Khattab
and this is an authentic narration. He once
went out to visit Khaybar.
And
he took a nap under a tree.
And that's Umar's kind of, you know, his
way. Right? He takes naps under trees in
his khilafa,
isn't scared of people because he knows he
rules with justice.
So he doesn't have bodyguards around him. He
takes his naps under a tree, this giant
man, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
So think of this,
this incident.
Umar's taking a nap under a tree,
and then a woman starts shaking his feet
lightly.
He wakes up
and he goes,
What is it, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
female servant of Allah, what is it that
you need? What are you doing?
So she said,
I saw that you're a good man. Like,
I I feel my intuition tells me that
you're a person of khair. I don't know
who you are, but I feel like you
can probably help me in this situation.
So Umar
sits up
and he says, what is it?
So she said,
Mu'tima. I am a woman. Mu'tima means I'm
a mother of orphans. Right? So I'm a
mother of orphans.
And Amir ul Mu'tmineen so she doesn't realize
he's talking to Omar.
She says, Amir ul Mu'tineen, the Khalifa,
sent Muhammad ibn Maslama to us last year.
And Muhammad ibn Maslama
took from the rich, gave to the poor
and he distributed the zakah,
but he didn't get to me. He missed
me.
And I heard so it was coming to
the time of zakah. I heard that Amir
ul Mu'tmineen is about to send Muhammad ibn
Maslama radiAllahu anhu again to our area to
distribute zakah.
So I wanted to speak to Amir ul
Mu'tmineen
so that he could speak to Muhammad ibn
Maslama
so that he doesn't miss me this year
again.
So, Omar
he calls out, Yarfa,
Yarfa,
Starts calling out a name, Yarfa. Yarfa was
the helper of Omar
Says, come here. He says,
go call Muhammad ul Maslama.
The woman is so confused. She says, no,
that's that's not I'm not telling you to
call Muhammad ul Maslama. I want you to
go talk to the Khalifa
so the Khalifa can call Muhammadun al Maslama.
I mean, Muhammad Muslim is a scary man.
He's a big guy. I don't want to
make him mad. Like, what are you doing?
Umar radiAllahu 'alama just wait. Call Muhammadun al
Maslama.
Muhammadun al Maslama comes.
And he says, Assalamu alaikayamir mumineen. So the
woman is like, oh, okay. So she holds
her clothes and she straightens herself up realizing
that that was Umar that she was talking
to and she said to wasamtuffikal khair that
I see good in you. And Umar
said to Muhammadul Maslama,
You Muhammad, do you remember
how poor we were?
Do you remember how outnumbered you were? Do
you remember when the enemies used to surround
us and we would only have one head
of an animal to feed all of us?
Do you remember how vulnerable we were? Did
you forget all of that? SubhanAllah, I mean,
he's admonishing him.
Muhammadun Rasamah is saying, You Miramunilelah
Tajal AAeala, don't be hasty with me.
It wasn't Ta'amudhan. I didn't miss her on
purpose.
Now, Umar
was reminding him of zakah and reminding him
of the right of zakah and the right
of the poor. Look at this man. Look
at this khilafa.
Look at the way these people think.
And he's blasting Muhammad ibn Maslama, the night
of the prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wasalam, like, no
one escapes this.
How did you forget this woman? How could
you miss this woman? Is this what you've
been appointed to do? And Muhammad ibn Maslama
started to weep.
He said, wallahi amir mumineen, I didn't do
it on purpose.
So what does Umar do?
He turns to the woman.
He says to her, listen,
go back home for now.
And before you get home, someone will be
there with some stuff for you. So first
and foremost, I'm sending you something now. And
then he says to Muhammadun al Maslama,
when you go to them to distribute Zakah,
give her her share this year and give
her the share that you missed last year.
Subhanallah. This is the relationship.
But you know what? It goes both ways.
Umar,
one time,
he said to Muhammad.
He said, Yeah, Muhammad,
how do you see me? This is when
he was the Khalifa.
So he said,
I see You
the way that I love
and the way that those who want good
for You would love to see You.
And he
said,
You're strong in the collection of wealth, but
you yourself are independent of it. You don't
care for it. It's exactly how I want
you to be.
And you are just in its distribution.
And he
said,
and he said,
and if you were to depart from justice,
we would straighten you out.
We would straighten you out the way that
the arrow is straightened out its notch. SubhanAllah,
this is a man now talking to the
khalifa. Like, if you weren't straight, we would
straighten you out. And Umar
said, Alhamdulillah
lavi jalanifi qawman idhaamiltu adaluni. Alhamdulillah, Allah put
me amongst the people who, if I mess
up, they will straighten me out.
So this is a two way relationship
between them. May Allah
be pleased with them all.
When Umar
passes away, Muhammadun Aslamah becomes this way with
Uthman
so he continues
to participate in the Futuhat and many of
the conquests,
continues to participate
in many of the high level governmental affairs,
of the hilaf of Uthman
And when the fitna started,
he tried to protect Uthman
from the fitna. Brothers, if he can move
forward can the brothers move forward on this
side, inshallah?
Move forward as much as you can, inshaAllah.
When the fitna happened, he tried to protect
Uthman
as much as possible. So he actually went
out to Egypt with 'Ali'
to try to intercept the people of fitna,
to try to reason with them, to try
to stop them. But of course, we know
that at the end of the day,
he was unable to, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, and
the Sahaba were unable to stop the fitna
that had caught fire at that time, and
Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu was assassinated.
Go back to what we said about him.
The fitna starts.
Companions start to argue amongst themselves.
What do we do? Do we pursue the
killers of Uthman, or do we solidify the
government of Ali
What do we do now? And as the
fitna starts to break out, he remembers the
advice of the Prophet
This was the man, subhanAllah, who would scan
the ummah for fitna
to make sure that there was no corruption.
But he remembered the advice of the Messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Harhayfah ibn al Imam who was, of course,
the secret keeper of the Prophet and
who knew the names of the hypocrites. He
said,
I
know a man that fitna would not hurt
him. The fitna would not harm
him. And they said, who is it?
He says,
He said, there's not a single human being
except that I worry about fitna with them,
except for Muhammad ibn Maslama because I heard
the prophet
say,
The fitna would not affect Muhammad ibn Maslama
So when the Muslims start to fight each
other, what does he do?
What did the prophet tell him to do?
SubhanAllah, like this is such a vivid thing.
He takes the sword the prophet gave to
him.
He goes to Jabal Uhud and he breaks
it. He pounds it against Jabal Uhud
until he breaks his sword.
And then he goes home
and he says, don't call upon me for
the fights and the battles, the fitna between
the Muslims. I want nothing to do with
this.
And the only thing that he did was
was he made for himself a little wooden
sword and he hung it in the house.
He said, that's just in case someone attacks
me that I can scare them away.
Right? But he relinquishes his sword altogether breaks
his sword
altogether
and he stays away from the fitna
altogether
as the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam told him
to do. If you put up that picture
of the map, if you don't mind. He
went SubhanAllah to live in an area and
I'm going to familiarize you with this map
next week as well InshaAllah.
If you look to the red area, that's
actually a current Google map. It's where Abu
Dharr al Gifari is
buried. It's called the area of Ar Rabada.
And Ar Rabada was literally
hundreds of miles away from Al Madina
on the way to Al Iraq, this
beaten path
where Abu Dhar went to retire to get
away from everybody. He also went to that
area, pitched his tent and said, keep me
away from the fitna.
I want nothing to do with the fitna
and he stayed in that place of Arabada.
And he says,
that one time we passed by
and we saw a beaten up tent
for Eid al Muhammed al Mustaman. There was
Muhammad al Muhammed al Maslama.
So he said to him, Subhanallah, this is
the close man to the prophet sallAllahu alaihi
wasalam.
The the, you know, he's the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasalam's night.
We said to
him
hate. If only you'd go out to the
people and you'd command good and forbid evil,
enjoying good and forbid evil.
And he said to them, no.
He said, because the prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
told me that there will come a time
where the Muslims start to fight each other,
and they start to raise their swords against
each other. And the prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
told me,
Break your sword and go sit in your
house.
And that's fitna. Avoid it and run away
from it like the plague.
Don't put your tongue in it. Don't put
your sword in it. Don't put your hand
in it. And And if there's anyone that
would be safe from it, it would be
this man,
And SubhanAllah,
it's
only his Qadr.
That even though he left the fitna and
he wanted nothing to do with it,
Ibn Sa'ad narrates that a man came, Ahl
al Sham,
Waqan Arajula and Shaqee and Min Ahl al
Urdu. So he's from the area of Jordan,
from Asham,
and he was upset that Muhammad ibn Maslama
did not participate
in the fitna,
so he entered into the house of Muhammad
ibn Maslama and he killed him
And as Abu Darda
said that the people are like thorns. If
you leave them or you don't leave them,
they will still sting you.
So he was murdered
at the age of 77
years old, and he's buried in Al Madin
al Munawara,
the companion named Muhammad,
the companion of the Prophet
inshallahta'ala.
Next week, we'll talk about tsunami
bin Athal
who was the prisoner that he caught and
was responsible for.