Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Tulayha Ibn Khuwaylid – RA From False Prophet To Shaheed
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu I
seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful All praise is due to Allah, Lord
of the worlds There is no title but
upon the wrongdoers And the end is for
those who are righteous O Allah, bless and
bless Your servant and Messenger Muhammad Peace and
blessings be upon him and his family and
companions Many salutations So alhamdulillah, last week we
covered the story of Ka'ab who of
course was a poet and we kind of
used the story of Ka'ab as a
window into the life of the poets that
rejected the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and who
used to incite against the Messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam And so we talked about
the kindness of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
the grace of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
with those poets, how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam was able to use those poets after
they had repented of course this is for
the ones who did actually repent Tonight we're
going to be covering who in my opinion
is probably like the most complicated companion of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam So just a
reminder here we're not talking about companions in
order of virtue There are some companions where
there are a few paragraphs about them and
they are from the earliest of the companions
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam But we're
just trying to get dimensions now and windows
into the lives of the companions so that
if you were to walk into the Masjid
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam what type
of people would you encounter and what did
they actually represent So when I say tonight
is one of the most complicated Muslims because
he is the only man that we know
that claimed prophethood and then repented Alright, that
claimed prophethood and then repented So you have
false poets you have warriors, tribal chiefs you
have the thumamas of the world and people
that rejected the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam for
obvious reasons, political reasons but imagine a man
claiming prophethood and then repenting to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and it's really a remarkable
story that we have but before we get
to him I want to actually speak about
this dimension InshaAllah Ta'ala So first and
foremost we start with the hadith of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam where he said لا
تقوم الساعة حتى ينبعث دجالون كذابون قريب من
ثلاثين The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that
the hour will not be established until you
have nearly 30 lying dajjals 30 dajjals that
will be lying What will they be lying
about?
قال صلى الله عليه وسلم كلهم يزعموا أنه
رسول الله Every single one of those dajjals
will claim that they are a messenger of
Allah that they are a prophet of Allah
and there is no prophet after me Now
throughout history you have scholars that will sort
of categorize those people that have claimed prophethood
from the time of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam to their time Obviously you have people
SubhanAllah and I say this not to be
diminishing or condescending but you have many people
that might have a mental disorder that would
claim all sorts of things about themselves I
mean I've met people in my own life
that have claimed everything from Dhul Qarnayn to
the Mahdi to a prophet and I don't
mock them They're people who Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala we hope has raised the pen
from They're not people that we would actually
look at as punishable or sinful in any
way because this is simply their mental state
But these people would have to be people
who actually were able to amass movements around
their claim to prophethood And you can find
throughout history these attempts and of course all
the way from the time of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam until even recent history with
deviant movements that have people that claim to
be prophets of Allah and claim that Khataman
Nabiyeen that the seal of prophethood does not
mean the final prophet There can still be
a prophet after him and that will use
mental gymnastics to try to create room for
another prophet of Allah So the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said that there will be about
30 of them before the Day of Judgment
And subhanAllah you could trace around that number
from the time of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam until now false prophets who were able
to actually amass a significant set of followers
Now the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used the
word Dajjalun that they are Dajjala they are
people who are liars and deceivers But what
makes Al-Masih Dajjal the Antichrist, the Ad
-Dajjal so different and so significant is what?
Can anyone tell me?
What makes him different from these people?
He claims to be Allah himself So some
of the scholars said he initially doesn't come
outward and claim to be God himself claim
to be Allah himself He might use tricks
in the beginning and he might even start
with Rasulullah like claiming to be a messenger
of Allah But at some point Al-Masih
Dajjal May Allah protect us from his fitna
will claim to be God himself Right?
Will claim to be Allah himself making him
the most dangerous of all of the claimants
that are to come So this sin is
not like any sin Right?
It literally involves Kufr of the highest order
And Allah SWT says in Surah Al-An
'am Verse 93 وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنَ اَفْتَرَىٰ عَلَىٰ
اللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَوْ قَالَ أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ وَلَمْ يُوحَىٰ
إِلَيْهِ شَيْئًا Right?
Who is worse?
Who is a greater transgressor than the one
who attributes a lie to Allah SWT or
who says that revelation has come to me
and nothing has come to them of revelation
So it's actually in the Quran the gravity
of the sin of claiming to be a
prophet, claiming to be someone who receives revelation
Imam bin Taymiyyah RA said من ادعى النبوة
وهو كاذب Those that claim to be prophets
while they are liars فَهُوَ مِنْ أَكْثَرِ الْكُفَارِ
وَأَظْلَمِ الظَّالِمِينَ That whoever claims to be a
prophet is of the worst of the disbelievers
The most disbelieving of the disbelievers is someone
who claims to be a prophet And the
most, you know, transgressing or the greatest oppressor
amongst the oppressors is the one who claims
to be a prophet of Allah Now obviously
what all of this will do is help
you appreciate what Abu Bakr as-Siddiq RA
inherited Right?
عام الوفود is the year the year of
delegation right before the Prophet ﷺ passes away
and tribes are coming to the Prophet ﷺ
to embrace Islam Some tribes, there is no
doubt are merely reading the political situation They
live sort of in between the major states
the major hubs of power and they ally
themselves to those hubs of power in hopes
that they too can benefit from that power
Some of them are undoubtedly insincere in their
Islam Right?
They're reading this as the best political move
to come to the Prophet ﷺ and to
embrace Islam in this regard because right now,
he has become the dominant force in the
region Once the Prophet ﷺ passes away عليه
الصلاة والسلام and it wasn't long after عام
الوفود, after the year of delegation Abu Bakr
RA has a lot on his hands Why?
Because this is the perfect opportunity for this
tribal leader who used to oppose the Prophet
ﷺ and who was trying to preserve their
idols Now idol worship is gone This was
never about theology Now I need to build
on the dominant power structure which is tawhid
It's not idolism anymore It's not idolatry anymore
It's tawhid, it's monotheism So I want to
build on the dominant power structure So what
better way to say I'm an extension of
the Prophet ﷺ, I too am a Prophet
of Allah So it becomes a ploy and
a trick for tribal chiefs who never really
had Islam settle in their hearts to say
okay, I have a new way, a new
trick a new sorcery, right to claim power
in the region Several factors are working against
Abu Bakr RA Number one, you've got to
think about the fact that like people didn't
really understand the concept of a Nabi the
concept of God and Prophethood that much, if
they're living disconnected from everything, like these are
very vague concepts and Islam is meant to
be simple Tawhid, the idea of the oneness
of God and Prophets that were sent by
that one God can be understood even by
a Bedouin in the desert But at the
same time to manipulate that concept with them
wasn't that hard Right?
They didn't know the Prophet ﷺ, many of
them never got to live with the Prophet
ﷺ, they never got that first hand exposure
of the Prophet ﷺ for Iman to really
settle in their hearts and some of them
fell for it that you know what, sure
there's one God, this man is now saying
that he too is a messenger of Allah
but he's not changing anything fundamentally about the
idea of one God which was something that
had settled into the hearts of many people,
so it's expedience it's power and there are
many reasons for you to oppose now you
know Abu Bakr RA and the Khilafah in
Medina Your tribe might not like Quraysh and
the Prophet ﷺ is Qurayshi, Abu Bakr RA
is Qurayshi, so you might now reject Islam
for that reason or a tribe that you're
fighting is allied to Quraysh or Medina as
a power structure, this Medina to Nabi, this
idea of this being the command center annoys
you, bothers you we can't deal with this
type of a power structure and we'd rather
find another thing or we simply don't want
to pay Zakah right, which is why Abu
Bakr RA was so strict on the idea
of Zakah, because if you let up on
a pillar of Islam here right, in a
systematic fashion you lose it all and that's
why Abu Bakr RA said to me I'm
not paying Zakah, it's just like them not
praying Salah, like this is at the core
of the religion, Zakah is like Salah, it's
a pillar of Islam some of them said
the Prophet ﷺ is dead we don't want
to pay Zakah anymore in any case it
helps you appreciate how Abu Bakr RA has
to solidify this in a matter of just
two years right, Islam is very volatile outside
of Medina, right and outside of Mecca in
this regard so the first person who claims
prophethood, we've spoken about him significantly already, is
Musaylim Al-Kadhab the great liar Musaylim Al
-Kadhab and he's not only a false prophet,
he's a murderer he is someone who is
viciously brutalizing the companions of the Prophet ﷺ
and because of where he's situated, remember we
talked about Thumama RA and that area of
An-Najd, because of where he's situated, he
can garner that same type of power envelope
that once suffocated Mecca on behalf of the
Prophet ﷺ okay, so he can consolidate power
amongst those tribes and he does consolidate a
significant amount of power amongst those tribes and
he wages war against the Muslims in many
ways now the thing about him is that
he also gave people ideas right, it's you
know he's the first person to really come
up with this scheme, alright let me just
claim that I'm a prophet just like Muhammad
ﷺ and now that Muhammad ﷺ is dead,
he can't really negate my prophethood right, now
he negated the Prophet of Musaylimah while he
was still alive ﷺ but others can start
to make that claim now so they've got
a scheme, they've got a game here that
they can play based upon Musaylimah al-Kadhab
so as the scholars mentioned he bears the
punishment of all of the false prophets after
him because he's the one that came up
with this idea of being a false prophet,
Musaylimah claiming to be Rasulullah after Muhammad Rasulullah
ﷺ now just quickly because there are only
two of them two of these false prophets
that actually died Muslim one of them is
Tulayha who we're going to speak about in
detail tonight, so this is all just a
build up to Tulayha so that you can
understand the environment of Tulayha another person is
a woman by the name of Sajjah bint
al-Harith alright now Sajjah bint al-Harith
is not someone who ever meets the Prophet
ﷺ, there's no thubut no firm evidence nothing
establishing a meeting between her and the Prophet
ﷺ, she is a Christian woman, she's a
poet a Christian woman and she is from
a very powerful family her father is a
chief of Banu Tamim her mother is from
Taghlib basically if you go about a hundred
miles behind Yamama towards al-Iraq about a
hundred kilometers, not miles you have this entire
region which is controlled by her tribe alright,
Banu Tamim and you really start to understand
when the Prophet ﷺ describes the horn of
the devil the fitna coming from that direction
almost all the false prophets are coming from
that direction from the direction of Iraq Najd
is in the direction of Iraq so she
has a very powerful father the chief of
the tribe, very powerful mother they kind of
control the region she's beautiful she's a poet
and again poetry is the sorcery of the
Arabs and so she, I mean this is
like, by the way, probably the worst conception
of women's empowerment in history she said, if
all these men can claim to be prophets,
why can't a woman be a false prophet
too?
so talk about like the most twisted feminism
you've ever seen in history you've got male
false prophets, hey, wait a minute I want
to be a false prophet too let me
claim nubuwwah as well so that I can
join the party so what does she do?
she actually claims to be a prophet she's
got the power structure of both of her
parents, and she's got a big region, and
it's kind of caving in on Abu Bakr
ﷺ from that side, right because you've already
got Musaylimah the problem of Musaylimah, now you
have this problem developing behind him and she
manages to gather about four or five thousand
followers and she's also thinking purely like opportunism
here, like this is purely a political ploy
for her never met the Prophet ﷺ, there
is no there's no theology here this is
merely, jump on the bandwagon, and she's powerful
enough, she's got the look, she's got the
speech she's got the power, political power, she's
powerful enough to be the first fake female
prophet alright, it gets more interesting because she
says, you know what Musaylimah, he's got a
big army and he's claiming to be a
prophet, what better than two false prophets to
get together Musaylimah hears of her beauty, you've
got to be a particular type of weird
to be doing this type of stuff, right
Musaylimah burns incense in his home, tries to
seduce her she comes into his home to
meet him to discuss the proposition of two
prophets joining forces against Medina, against Abu Bakr
radiyallahu anhu, it is as silly as it
sounds, right, and remember Musaylimah's Qur'an, how
silly and garbage it was so she asks
him to recite some Qur'an so he
recites some stuff about women some romance fake
Qur'an from Musaylimah to Sajjah Sajjah Sajjah
says, alright I know he's a liar but
at the same time he has a lot
of power a lot of followers so she
goes back to her people and she says
alright, I think I'm going to get together
with Musaylimah and the first prophet, male prophet
and the first female prophet after the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam will get married and we'll
have a whole thing, alright it gets even
weirder they say, well what's the mahr so
she goes back to Musaylimah and says, what's
the mahr Musaylimah says, cancel Fajr and Isha'
for your people so he cancelled two Salahs
as a mahr for her it just keeps
getting weirder by the way, I could stay
with this story and the details don't get
any more flattering and it shows you how
crazy these people have become and how drunk
with power they are and just trying to
shut down Islam or take over and you
gotta keep in mind, these people are coming
from idolatry, they used to just make gods
when they felt like it and they controlled
power based upon how they could fashion their
gods and use those idols to command power
so if they could do that with God
himself of course they could do that with
the concept of prophethood and nabuwa as well
so Musaylimah marries Sajjah, now what happens is
that once Khalid ibn al-Walid radiyallahu anhu
defeats Musaylimah she flees what's very interesting about
her is that she goes to al-Iraq
she flees to al-Iraq and then later
on later on, she repents she becomes a
Muslim woman they say hasuna islamah like when
Islam actually came to Iraq and she actually
understood what Islam was because remember, she never
actually interacted with Islam before she actually became
a Muslim and she actually died as a
Muslimah and janazah was prayed on her in
Basra, in Iraq and her janazah was led
by Samurah ibn Jundab radiyallahu ta'ala anhu
a companion of the prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam so subhanallah the first female fake prophet
who was married to Musaylimah the worst false
prophet in the history of Islam repented to
Allah died a Muslim and a companion led
her janazah in Iraq subhanallah now, if you
notice I'm not saying radiyallahu anha why?
it's not because of the gravity of her
crying it's because she doesn't meet the status
of a companion because she never met the
prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam as a Muslim,
so there's no dispute about that part of
things, right?
you have to be considered you can't be
in a discussion about being a companion unless
you met the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
as a Muslim so, in any case she's
not a companion but at the same time
the books, the scholars will say may Allah
forgive her and be pleased with her because
at the end of the day, she repented
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala perhaps she
had no idea what this affair was, what
Islam was when she joined in that evil
plot of hers and once she kind of
understood it she went to herself retired into
a corner in Iraq prayed to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala for forgiveness فغفر الله لها
ورحمه الله may Allah forgive her and have
mercy upon her now with that, we introduce
the second greatest fitna in this regard and
his name is Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid ibn Nawfal
al-Asadi Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid ibn Nawfal al
-Asadi so we're going to talk about Tulayha
tonight and we're going to spend some time
with Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid now really interesting about
him so first of all his name, Tulayha
is the tasgheer, it's the diminutive of talha
so the name Tulayha is like smaller talha
really interesting about him is that even though
his name is Khuwaylid Nawfal al-Asadi, he
has no relationship to Khadija radiyallahu anha ibn
Khuwaylid whose brother was Nawfal and from Banu
Asad it's an entirely different Banu Asad so
he belongs to another Banu Asad all together
there's Banu Asad of Quraysh which is the
tribe of our mother Khadija radiyallahu ta'ala
anha and then there is Banu Asad of
Najd so he's from the same area as
Musaylim al-Kaddhab alright and he is a
powerful chief of his people as well so
he's a chief of Najd he is extremely
wealthy he has a great presence he's closer
to Medina he's situated closer to Medina than
Musaylima, then he's not as far as Yamama,
he's between Yamama and Medina is where you
have that Banu Asad and when he hears
about the Prophet ﷺ initially he opposes Islam
very early on so he was actually allied
to Quraysh in Mecca, similar to Thumama radiyallahu
ta'ala anha, right he was allied to
Quraysh in Mecca and so he aids Mecca
for several years in trying to fight the
Prophet ﷺ and squashes Saman al-Madina so
he's not neutral he is aiding in the
skirmishes for several years basically from Uhud onwards
until the death of the Prophet ﷺ if
you remember in the battle of Khandaq they
amassed this huge army Al-Ahzab, right of
different tribes and all these different battalions to
try to crush Islam in Medina so he
actually participated his tribe, whether he himself was
present or not, his tribe participated in Al
-Ahzab against the Muslims in Medina, so they
were actively in battle with the Prophet ﷺ
and even in Khaybar Tuleyha tried to agitate
from the outside against the Prophet ﷺ all
of this without having met the Prophet ﷺ
at the end of the day these people
were beholden to a certain narrative about the
messenger of Allah ﷺ largely coming from Mecca
they dominated the airwaves, they dominated the media
of the time, and they had fed these
people this propaganda that the Prophet ﷺ was
a threat that he was coming to destroy
idols and tribes and break up families and
so he bought it Tuleyha is one of
those people who will come to the Prophet
ﷺ in Aam al-Wafut in what's known
as the year of the delegation so again,
ninth year after Hijrah tribes are coming from
all over to embrace Islam with the Prophet
ﷺ and there's a very specific ayah of
Quran that now will inshaAllah ta'ala, will
hopefully have this background to enrich it a
bit for you when you read it Banu
Asad when they came to the Prophet ﷺ
they were ten men amongst them a man
by the name of Dharar ibn al-Azwar
al-Asadi radhiAllahu anhu if you haven't watched
it yet please go back and watch the
documentary I filmed in Jordan about the plague
of Amwas, the companions who died as shuhada
in the plague of Amwas, so Dharar radhiAllahu
anhu goes on to become basically Khalid radhiAllahu
anhu's right hand man and he is one
of the most righteous of the companions, one
of the most righteous warriors that you will
find later on, but right now he's from
the same tribe as Tulaiha he's from Banu
Asad of Najd, he's coming to the Prophet
ﷺ to embrace Islam on this year, so
you have Dharar ibn al-Azwar, you have
a man by the name of Wabisa ibn
Ma'bad, you have Tulaiha to get to
the point here, of the ten men the
chief of them at the time or the
person that was speaking prior to Tulaiha was
Hadrami ibn Aamir Hadrami ibn Aamir and he
said to the Prophet ﷺ as he comes
to meet him in the masjid with these
other nine men some tribes eager, some tribes
not so eager, some tribes very sincere some
tribes politically opportunistic, so he says to the
Prophet ﷺ as he has the nine men
with him, he says Ya Rasulullah, ataynaka natadarra
'u allayla albahima fee sanatin shahba'a, that
we have come to you under the dark
stars, like meaning in the darkest of nights,
it was a difficult journey to get to
you, in a difficult season, like we went
through a lot to come to you walam
tabAAaf ilayna baAAafa, and you didn't even send
us a messenger, you didn't send us an
ambassador, what's he trying to do?
He's trying to garner favour with the Prophet
ﷺ to say we went through a lot
to come to you and to become Muslim,
so next time you read the ayah in
surah al-hujurat where Allah ﷻ says at
the very end of surah al-hujurat yamunoon
alayka an aslamoo, qulla tamunoo alayya islamakum, balillahu
yamunoo alaykum an hadakum lil-eemani in kuntum
sadiqi that they try to impress upon you
this favour, like we became Muslim and we
have embraced faith and Allah is saying to
the Prophet ﷺ to say to them, look
basically you're not doing me a favour you're
not doing us a favour by becoming Muslim
do not boast about your Islam or confer
this upon us as if it's a favour
that you're doing towards us, rather Allah has
a favour upon you by guiding you to
Islam if you are truthful, in kuntum sadiqi
right, and it kind of gives you some
more understanding of like what's happening with the
Bedouin tribes at the end of surah al
-hujurat, right aslamna, we became Muslim wait until
iman enters into your heart, right there is
a process here and especially for a tribe
like this that's really just reading the politics
of the situation don't sit there and say
you owe us a favour because we became
Muslim there are people around the world that
would do anything to come to the Prophet
ﷺ and embrace Islam, and if they lost
every limb of their body in order to
come to the Prophet ﷺ and have that
opportunity to have faith then it would be
worth it for them, so you're not doing
Allah any favours when you make yourself out
to be Muslim, or when you say that
we've become believers so throw that to the
side so next time you read surah al
-hujurat think of Tulayha and this group of
men that came to the Prophet ﷺ braving
the dark night in a difficult year and
saying that no one was even sent to
us and Allah عز و جل saying you
should be grateful that Islam came to you,
right not that we should be grateful to
you for becoming Muslim, in any case Tulayha
assumes the power and when he heard the
Prophet ﷺ was dying and he heard about
what Musaylimah al-Kadhab was doing, Musaylimah who
is not too far away from him, again
he's situated between Musaylimah and Muhammad ﷺ he
basically thought to himself, you know what pretty
good idea I can do the same thing
we've got a region, we've got a layer
where we can assemble enough tribes and I
will claim to be a Prophet of Allah
so Tulayha brings together Banu Asad, he brings
together Ghatafan, another tribe and the chief of
Ghatafan is a man by the name of
Uyayn ibn Hussain who says, you know what
a living Prophet is better than a dead
Prophet for trying to garner more power so
the Prophet ﷺ is dead, I don't really
believe him, I don't really take him too
seriously but at the end of the day,
an opportunity here, right, let me jump on
this bandwagon and join with him, since we
have a living Prophet that's still amongst us
and he's more friendly to us, and then
who else, some of the Hawazin from Ta
'if, subhanAllah they're still giving the Prophet ﷺ
a hard time they joined forces with Tulayha
ibn Khuwaylid Banu Qayy we will talk about
Adiyy ibn Hatim radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, who
tried to stop Qayy from apostatizing from leaving
and he was successful for the most part
in actually taking people away from the fitna
of Tulayha so Tulayha is a nasty false
Prophet what makes him so complicated he's not
too far away from Medina he also is
a poet he's also strong, he's a notable
horseman, he is favorable to many of the
tribes that are around and so he starts
his fitna and his fitna was not an
easy one alright, and perhaps only the fitna
of Musaylimah was greater than his fitna, so
he's not, he's no small business here now
he's claiming to be a Prophet so he
has to come up with some miracles so
he starts coming up with some feats some
visual deception to try to show that he's
a Prophet and also Dhirar ibn al-Azwar
radiyallahu anhu, the righteous man right he tried
to strike him and his sword did not
kill him, it broke on his armor and
he said that was the only time Dhirar
ever missed, radiyallahu anhu, in battle you go
back and watch the documentary, I mean again
Dhirar is a person who was unbelievable, unmatched
in his war craft, right so the fact
that that happened, he said alright, something is
up with this man Tulayha, special armor whatever
it is, special horses seems to make sense
now subhanallah every false Prophet I want this
to be as real to us as possible
by the way every single person who is
a deviant right like that deviates from the
text in a massive way is going to
remove some of the most inconvenient practices of
Islam to the people that's why every single
person who denies Hadith from the thinkers of
the day will end up removing chunks of
the deen that make people say you know
what I kind of like that message we
don't have to do this we don't have
to do that, they're appealing in every age,
they're appealing in every generation add to that
charisma I mean, hey we don't have to
pray five times a day anymore right, riba
is not haram anymore, we always get these
types right, just remove chunks of the deen
making it more appealing to people who want
to believe because of fitrah, but at the
same time, they're not ready to fully commit
and it's convenient to have someone that removes
the most inconvenient parts of the deen right,
so that is always true, like Musaylimah, who
mashallah is his mahr, right, cancelled Fajr and
Isha, Tuleyha has to come up, his advisors
tell him you got to come up with
something to ease things for people, like if
you want to make your message more appealing
you got to remove something from the religion,
so Tuleyha sends a message to Medina through
his brother Salma, and the message says verily
God does not command you to put your
faces in the dirt in your prostration or
to bend your backs like bows when you
go into your prayer you could do your
salah standing up make it quick and that's
good enough for you with that makes halal
a lot of things, so both him and
Musaylimah, like conveniently right, not only do they
remove zakah remove alcohol, remove some other things
too, very appealing to some of these tribes
that are trying to find themselves in the
politics of the day, so here he is,
and what makes him also a little bit
more potent than Musaylimah right now is he's
also a really good poet, Musaylimah sounded like
an idiot when he spoke people knew his
Quran was weird and it was like even
his own people made fun of him but
he was actually very eloquent he's a horseman
so what happens to Tuleyha at this point
as the enemy of Abu Bakr radiallahu ta
'ala anhu and the Muslims there's a battle
known as the battle of Buzakha the battle
of Buzakha Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'ala anhu
sends Khalid and Waleed radiallahu ta'ala anhu
with a group into that region right, to
basically start to fight Al-Murtadin, that's why
it's called Hurub al-Ridda, the apostate battles,
because it wasn't one battle like Khalid radiallahu
ta'ala anhu had to clean up a
lot of what was happening in that area
and even though Musaylimah precedes Tuleyha in calling
to his message Tuleyha is on the way
to Musaylimah, so Khalid radiallahu ta'ala anhu
before the battle of Yamamah, the very famous
battle against Musaylimah al-Kaddab in the year
11 AH, so right after the death of
the Prophet ﷺ he meets the army of
Tuleyha ibn Khuwaylid for what is known as
the battle of Buzakha, Khalid only had 6
,000 men Tuleyha had about 35,000 men,
so it's actually a significant outnumbering here, Tuleyha
has consolidated at that point significant power, right
to fight against the Muslims before the battle
starts Tuleyha and his brother Salmah, they are
confronted by two of the greatest companions of
the Prophet ﷺ one of them Ukasha radiallahu
ta'ala anhu Ukasha bin Mihsan and I
remind you about Ukasha radiallahu anhu this is
the man who is famous for the very
famous hadith Sabaqa biha Ukasha, Ukasha beats you
to it because when the Prophet ﷺ said
that there is a group of people that
will enter Jannah without any form of questioning
any form of accountability, no punishment Ukasha said
Ya Rasulullah, make dua that I am amongst
them the Prophet ﷺ said, you are amongst
them, another man said it the Prophet ﷺ
said Sabaqa biha Ukasha Ukasha beats you to
it Ukasha is that man he is one
of the people radiallahu anhu who enters into
Jannah without any questioning on the day of
judgement may Allah make us amongst them, Allahumma
ameen say it with your heart by the
way, ameen may Allah make us amongst those
people have husn al-dhan and Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala have a good assumption of
Allah when you ask Ukasha is also a
companion from Badr onwards, he is from one
of the companions that fought alongside the Prophet
ﷺ from the very beginning every battle with
the Prophet ﷺ so Ukasha and then another
companion by the name of Thabit ibn Arqam
radiallahu anhu Thabit ibn Arqam also an Ansari
companion who was with the Prophet ﷺ from
Badr onwards and if you go back to
the battle of Mu'tah remember when the flag
fell from Zaid and then Ja'far and
Abdullah ibn Rawaha Thabit was the one in
Mu'tah who picked up the banner and was
the one who put it in the hand
of Khalid radiallahu ta'ala anhu so he
is a noble companion why am I talking
about their virtue Tulayha and his brother killed
Ukasha and Thabit radiallahu anhu so they managed
to kill two major companions of the Prophet
ﷺ and then Khalid radiallahu anhu once the
battle commenced Khalid radiallahu ta'ala anhu was
able to defeat the army of Tulayha with
a much smaller number of people which was
par Khalid that's what Khalid radiallahu anhu used
to do right, I mean he is usually
outnumbered subhanallah, it's rare to find Khalid not
outnumbered by at least 7-8 times the
size but he always finds a way and
he is in Tulayha's territory but he managed
to attack from different directions and basically he
sent Tulayha running to Ashsham, so Tulayha fled
the battlefield and actually fled the entire region
where did he go?
he went to the same place where Mu'tah
happens in Jordan, modern day Jordan and lived
amongst the Ghassasina and basically you know, stayed
there plot twist now I'll introduce to you
the other Tulayha Imam al-Zahabi rahimahullah has
a chapter of him in Sir al-Alam
an-Nubula of the most noble people that
lived, and his title is al-Batal al
-Karraru sahibu rasulillahi sallallahu alayhi wasallam wa man
yudrabu bi shaja'atihi al-mathal the steadfast
warrior, the companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam whose bravery was legendary and people made
parables to the bravery of this man Tulayha
ibn Khuwailid radiyallahu anhu and you go, how?
how?
like I get someone like Abu Sufyan even
those are hard they fought the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam for 20 years and they called
him a liar, but come on a false
prophet a serious false prophet with this much
fitna, how in the world do we begin
to wrap our minds around this person's repentance
so what happens to him Tulayha has escaped
the danger of what has happened and some
time passes and he actually reads about Islam
he actually comes to learn about Islam and
he realizes how deeply he wronged himself and
he comes to his senses and he goes
to the Muslims that he can find and
he says do you think Allah would accept
me I mean, this is complicated right you're
not just a normal guy there is no
precedent to a false prophet coming back to
Islam murtad an apostate disbeliever qatir al sahaba
murder the sahaba, organize armies against Medina, against
the Khilafah on top of that, false prophet
you have a lot working against you so
what does he do, he writes a letter
to Abu Bakr al-Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala
and in it is a poem and it's
a powerful poem, and I'll read it he
says so
he says that I regret the murder of
Thabit and Akasha and Maabad and every single
incident, every single time I fought against you
and he said, and greater than all of
that in terms of crime was my inability
to see the beauty of Islam was my
stubbornness in rejection of Islam so
he says and I left my homeland amongst
all of these trials I was driven away
though I was never a fugitive before, meaning
before Islam I was never a fugitive but
now here I am, a fugitive from my
own homeland and this is where he starts
to address Abu Bakr directly so
would al-Siddiq, Abu Bakr accept my return
and that I have actually renounced all of
those actions that I committed and
that after my being astray, I am bearing
witness that I am actually bearing witness to
the truth and I am not turning away
from it that indeed the
lord of the people and my lord is
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and I am
a humiliated person that's coming back and recognizing
that the deen is the deen of Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and if I am
not going to be accepted then I can't
run away to Asham and I can't run
away to the Romans, I can't run away
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on any
occasion and in any way because on this
day or tomorrow, at some point Allah is
going to take me back to him so
I have nowhere to run, if you are
not going to accept me, if Allah is
not going to accept me I have nowhere
to run even though now I am bearing
witness to the truth and he says and
I was not but a disbeliever and a
hypocrite and I was not a Jew or
a Christian and then he says he
said but the devil Iblis cast a fitna
onto my heart that made me the most
miserable person and I failed to uphold my
covenant my promise when I said la ilaha
illallah muhammad rasulallah the first time tough one
you are still tulayha ibn khuwaylid but Abu
Bakr radiallahu ta'ala anhu he read the
letter and he said I think he is
sincere I think he is actually telling the
truth now here is the thing tulayha says
I was too shy to show my face
to Abu Bakr after what I did to
him because at the end of the day
Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu he was in direct
war with Abu Bakr he was gathering an
army raising an army against Abu Bakr as
-Siddiq radiallahu anhu so I didn't know what
to do and I was too shy to
actually see Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'ala anhu
on top of that Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu
reasonably so put a moratorium on apostates who
came back to Islam from fighting for the
Muslims, meaning what if you join Musaylimah if
you join tulayha, if you join al-Aswad
al-Ansi if you join Sajjah, if you
join one of these false prophets, if you
were a murtad if you were an apostate
and you just came back to Islam, your
tawbah might be accepted but stay away for
now, it's too risky to the army, to
the Muslim army to place these people within
the army itself, so I'm not saying your
tawbah is not accepted, but I'm not going
to accept you as part of this army
so that was Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu's moratorium
Umar radiallahu anhu later on when he felt
it safe to do so, removed that, meaning
at that point, Hurub al-Ridda were over,
people had come back to Islam, those that
would remain upon hypocrisy showed their hypocrisy at
this point those that would have repented, would
have repented at that point, but tulayha says
I was making my way to Abu Bakr
and I was slow because I was afraid
to show my face to him, I was
too shy to show my face after what
I did, so imagine going to Hajj the
next year, and you see tulayha in ihram
saying labbayk Allahumma labbayk and doing tawaf around
the Ka'bah, strange sight, strange sight, especially
for someone who is directly hurt by that
fitna Umar radiallahu anhu, this was his first
Hajj as the khalifa after Abu Bakr radiallahu
anhu, so Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu passed away
Umar radiallahu ta'ala anhu sees him in
Hajj, in his ihram, saying labbayk Allahumma labbayk
and praying, and you know, like the scene
of him in Arafah, and the scene of
him, it's a strange thing to see so
he came to Umar radiallahu anhu to give
him salam, and Umar radiallahu anhu did not
want to give him salam and Umar radiallahu
anhu was extremely angry with him right, and
he says to him, straight up he looks
at him, he says ya tulayha, kayfa tarjul
najata minan nari wa qatalta thabit ibn arqam
al-ansari wa ukasha bin mihsan how in
the world do you see yourself as being
saved from the fire when you killed ukasha
and thabit, like these were two people that
were precious to the heart of Umar because
these are people that are far from hypocrisy,
they're Umar radiallahu anhu's type, these are those
ansar that held the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam through thick and thin he's like, what
do you think is going to happen here,
you're in hajj here wearing your ihram we
know who you are, we remember and he
said to him, and this shows you the
human side, he says la uhibbuka abadan, I
will never like you because you killed ukasha
and thabit, like I can't hurt you, I
can't attack you now because you're a Muslim,
but I'll never love you, I'll never like
you because of what you did I mean,
what do you say when you have Umar
radiallahu anhu in front of you and he's
this angry and he he has reasonable doubt
about you, right, and what you represent at
this point tulayha says to Umar radiallahu anhu,
he says ya ameer al mu'mineen, so it's
a different demeanor all together, he addresses him
with humility he says oh commander of the
believers thalikuma rajulani akramahumu allahu bil jannah that
these are two righteous men that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala honoured with jannah wasaqa ilayhim
al shahada ala yadi and Allah granted them
shahada through my hand walam yaqtulni bi aydihima
faakoonu finnaar and Allah, in his decree, in
his wisdom, did not allow me to die
at their hands because I certainly would have
ended up in the fire, he's not saying,
like, it's no big deal, I gave them
shahada anyway, right, like, it's because of me
that they're shuhada what he's saying to Umar
radiallahu anhu is that I understand the pain
and I get it because these two people,
but remember the premise of Umar's question was,
how do you expect to not go to
* and he's saying, look Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala took those two men to jannah,
and for whatever reason the decree was that
it was through this hand and perhaps it's
from the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala that he did not allow their hands
to kill me and to send me to
the fire, Umar radiallahu anhu liked his answer
and he actually saw him as sincere so
Umar radiallahu anhu kind of left that exchange
with a different perspective but understandably how in
the world do you have this man amongst
you, now on top of that, tulayha comes
and he asks Umar radiallahu anhu for permission
to fight in the army you led armies
against us you want to go fight against
the Persians with the Muslims, but he's a
talented horseman he says, ya ameer al mu'mineen
give me a chance to prove myself I
repented to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala I
want a chance, just let me go into
the battlefield so what happens to him is
that he actually goes into these battles these
skirmishes with the Persians and he proves himself
to be a noble warrior, very smart very
dedicated he's protecting the backs of the Muslims
and he's always the first one diving in
so if he was insincere and he was
just trying to solidify his rank within the
new Muslim political scheme then he would have
kind of hung out in the back, situated
himself here or there, had a few strikes
but the fact that he's circling around watching
people's backs defending people, he's jumping in head
first, he's showing something to Umar radiyaAllahu ta
'ala anhu that Umar radiyaAllahu anhu is seeing
in him and is saying, okay this is
different but here's the wisdom Umar radiyaAllahu ta
'ala anhu writes to Sa'ad ibn Abi
Waqas, because Sa'ad radiyaAllahu anhu was leading,
commanding the armies against the Persians against the
Persian empire, Sa'ad wants to use Tulayha
and at this point we say Tulayha radiyaAllahu
anhu Sa'ad wants to use him, he's
a righteous man he's a warrior he's shown
himself competent and so far he's shown himself
sincere, he's not doing anything to backstab anyone
so Umar radiyaAllahu anhu said, listen he says
shawirtulayhata fee amril harb use him, consult him
in matters of war, wala tuwallihi shai'a,
but don't put him in charge of anything
look this shows you how complex this is,
Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu is accepting the repentance
of these people but too soon to put
you in the army right, and to jeopardize
the safety, which shows you that wisdom is
permissible in this regard without renouncing the repentance
of these men I can accept your repentance
but I don't want to jeopardize the status
of the Muslims so he says, use him
but just don't put him as a commander
in your army, Sa'ad radiyaAllahu anhu says
okay, Sa'ad radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu takes
him and he uses him in the battle
of Qadisiyyah which is of course the most
famous battle between the Muslims and the Persians
and Tuleyha what Muhammad ibn Sa'ad narrates,
and this is in Surah Al-An'am
kanatulayhatu yu'addu bi alfi farisi li shaja
'atihi wa shiddatihi, Tuleyha himself was equivalent to
a thousand horsemen he was so talented as
a horseman and he was so brave that
you could put him against a thousand people
and he was equivalent to a thousand people
so Tuleyha's earning his credibility again and subhanAllah
it comes back full circle who's he fighting
next to now, under the command of Khalid
ibn Walid radiyaAllahu anhu who defeated him as
a false prophet and now Tuleyha works for
Khalid, reports to Khalid radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu
and is going forth in these battles in
the battle of Qadisiyah it's said that he
had absolutely no fear one of the things
about Tuleyha was that Tuleyha did not fear
death at all, so on the third day
of the battle of Qadisiyah he managed to
cut behind the entire army of the Persians
and he got behind them and he shouted
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar three times
with such a booming voice that the Persians
thought that there was a whole army behind
them because of the boom of his voice
and then he came back around, in the
process he deflected their attention to the back
managed to come back around and join the
Muslims in fighting them from the front so
the Muslims started to like Tuleyha radiyaAllahu anhu
because they're seeing his bravery, out of his
lack of fear of death he asks Sa'd
radiyaAllahu anhu to do something at night like
to go on a brave operation he said
I can get to Rustam what do you
mean you can get to Rustam?
Rustam is the commander there are 80,000
men between us and Rustam he says I
can get to Rustam and I can get
some information about what they're planning to do
the next day so Sa'd says okay Tuleyha
radiyaAllahu anhu manages at night to sneak all
the way to the tent of Rustam himself
and he first causes the horses to panic
he wraps up two of them steals two
of them he cuts the strings that are
holding the tent of Rustam himself collapses the
tent manages to kill two of Rustam's guard
and take another two back to Sa'd radiyaAllahu
anhu so he collapses the tent of the
commander, the main guy comes back with two
kills two of the bodyguards and brings them
to Sa'd radiyaAllahu anhu and that incident not
only panicked the Persians and shook them up
in Qadisiyah but it also gave Sa'd radiyaAllahu
anhu some critical information about the inner workings
of Rustam so it was considered one of
the most consequential operations that happened within the
battle of Qadisiyah so the Muslims won Qadisiyah
then came the battle of Nahawand and in
the battle of Nahawand which was considered the
most fatal blow to the Persian empire Tuleyha
radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu jumped in, he led
a battalion and as Imam al-Zahabi ends
his biography qala abla yawma nahawand thumma istushida
radiyaAllahu anhu wasamahahu I don't see Imam al
-Zahabi say this about anyone else by the
way he said that he jumped in and
he fought bravely and courageously on the day
of Nahawand and he was martyred may Allah
be pleased with him and may Allah forgive
him because samahahu it's a different type like
this is not a normal person in the
seerah of the Prophet ﷺ how do we
end with this number one what's the point
of telling the story is not just the
tremendous forgiveness in Islam but remember the magicians
of Firaun became shuhada the same day they
started off that day as magicians of Firaun
and when they threw their sticks and Musa
a.s threw his and they said we
believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we
believe in the lord of Musa a.s
and they fell in sajda and they were
killed this was a mass sahara to shahada
event unprecedented a whole bunch of magicians who
if they would have died that day would
have died as the companions of Firaun died
as shuhada lillah as martyrs for the sake
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we don't
know of a single person in history who
went from claiming to be a prophet to
dying a shaheed radhiAllahu ta'ala now is
he a companion and this is the last
thing that the scholars speak about like does
he count as a sahabi so the scholars
say that someone who met the prophet s
.a.w. as a disbeliever but then embraced
islam after the death of the prophet s
.a.w. does not count as a companion
but someone and of course someone who apostated
after meeting the prophet s.a.w. and
died not as a muslim does not count
as a sahabi but kullu man laqiya nabiya
s.a.w. musliman wa mata ala al
islam fahuwa sahabi anyone who met the prophet
s.a.w. as a muslim and then
died as a muslim counts as a companion
so tulayha radhiAllahu anhu counts as a sahabi
even though he apostated and claimed prophethood and
fought the muslims for a period of time
what does this mean for you you're worried
about Allah not accepting your tawbah you see
people who do terrible things who drift away
from the community who maybe even join the
enemies of islam against the community you don't
shut the door of tawbah on people you
can't shut the door of tawbah on people
there is no one who is going to
commit a more grievous sin than this man
who again as Ibn Taymiyyah said that whoever
claims to be a prophet whoever claims to
be a prophet and is not amongst them
then that person is from the worst of
the kuffar and the worst of the zalimeen
but we say tulayha radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu
and so we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala to be pleased with him and we
ask Allah to allow us to learn from
this the meaning of husnul khitam what Imam
Siraj always says it's not about how you
start the race it's how you finish the
race so tulayha's story shows it's not about
how you started the race it's about how
you finish the race he ended at the
finish line as a shaheed a lesson on
that dear brothers and sisters by the way
which is very important you realize why the
sahaba were afraid that Islam would be taken
away from them at the end of their
lives and at the same time had hope
even despite their distance from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala that Allah would still forgive them
if they came to Allah imagine if tulayha
never wrote that letter to Abu Bakr and
thought to himself I am not worthy of
tawba I'm just going to disappear here and
just die in the middle of nowhere but
he took that step so we ask Allah
azawajal to empower us towards that step of
tawba as well