Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – When Allah Guided The Children Of Abu Lahab
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The interviewer discusses the Prophet's image, relationship between his uncle and brother, the importance of Islam's actions and actions of its siblings, and the aftermath of his actions. They also touch on the Prophet's son's political and intellectual stance, his flexibility and pride, and his humility and focus on money. The discussion touches on the Prophet's son's closest relative's influence on the world, as well as his humility and focus on money.AI: Transcript ©
Dear brothers and sisters, InshaAllah Ta'ala, as we
get into
these last few biographies
prior to Dhul Hijjah, may Allah allow us
to witness it. May Allah give an accepted
Hajj to all of those that are going,
accept their du'as on behalf of our brothers
and sisters in
and beyond. May
Allah accept everyone's Ibadat,
everyone's acts of worship in that month, Allahum
Amin.
I wanted
to kind of summarize at this point now,
the family of the Prophet
coming back to him
after Fathuh Makkah. Obviously, you had from the
family of the Prophet
those that are considered from Assaabihun al Awloon,
the first Muslims, the first to embrace Islam.
And then you have those that held out
until the very end
and embraced Islam on Fatiha Mecca with some
of the most severe enemies of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Of course, some of
them who were enemies to the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam themselves, such as Abu Sufyan
ibn Harith, the brother of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam who we spoke about. You have
some that were indifferent,
but they eventually came around again at the
end, and the Prophet was so happy to
have them. Hakim Nuhizam
You have some like the mother of the
Prophet
Halima
Sadia
who was out in the desert when this
entire affair was taking place
and Islam came to her at the end
of her life and the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam was able to find comfort and joy
in giving Shahada now to the woman
that gave him milk and nursed him when
no one else would when he was a
child, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so the last
2 that we're going to cover
are the last 2 uncles of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that we haven't spoken
about in detail just yet.
You had Abu Lahab,
you had Abu Talib,
you had Al Abbas,
you had Hamza.
Right? So Abu Lahab,
obviously, is the one that we're going to
focus on tonight in terms of his family
and what would become of the family that
he left behind after
his notorious enmity of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
Abu Talib, who protected the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam and tried to shield him even as
he hadn't embraced his dua in Mecca, still
protecting the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and serving
a fatherly role. Al Abbas
becomes Muslim later on, we'll talk about him
in detail next week, who tries to step
into the role of Abu Talib and protect
the prophet
after the death of Abu Talib, though he
is not to the seniority of Abu Talib.
And then finally, Hamza
who was the brother of the prophet
as well as the uncle of the prophet
closest to him in age, who embraces Islam,
the only uncle to make hijrah with him
and then to be killed as a martyr,
to be martyred on the day of Uhud
So the only uncle
that was hostile to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam was Abu Lahab.
And the sad thing about this is that
Abu Lahab
arguably was the closest to the Prophet
in terms of playing that fatherly figure role
before Islam. There is a deep relationship
between Abu Lahab and between the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, and so the pain that
will be caused by the rejection of Abu
Lahab is severe.
Now the title for tonight is the Muslim
family of Abu Lahab.
But before we talk about the Muslim family
of Abu Lahab, we're gonna talk about Abu
Lahab. We're gonna talk about his wife. We're
going to talk about
his descendant who doesn't embrace Islam. And that
will give us some perspective into the lives
of those that did embrace Islam.
And one thing that I'll tell you, SubhanAllah,
is that no one's life in this family
ends normally.
Everybody has a very dramatic exit
from this dunya into the akhirah. It's stunning,
SubhanAllah, when you start to study
each and every single one of their exits
from this dunya, may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
give us a good exit and allow our
good exit to be a welcoming from the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam into the next realm,
Allama Ameen. So let's talk about Abu Lahab,
the uncle of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He's about 20 years or so older than
the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So he is a fatherly figure as well
as an uncle, and we've already established this
idea that Al Amr
that the paternal uncle is like Al Warl,
is like the father as the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam said.
And when the
Prophet was born, of course,
he did not have his father
Right? His father had passed away
while he was still in the womb of
Aminah.
And this man steps into the picture, and
we only know him for the scorn
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has scorns him with in the Quran
in Juzamah read so frequently by all of
us. But Abu Lahab
doesn't exactly fit
the image that's often given to him
in the movies. Right? Now, obviously, when there
are movies about the Sahaba,
the villains
always look like villains,
and the heroes look like heroes.
Right? The image of the hero, the image
of the villain matches
what would bring out the greatest emotion, what
would dramatize
how we see these figures around the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. But Abu Lahab does
not fit
the image
that is given to him in many of
these movies and many of these popular
references. So who is he?
His name is actually
So the father of the Prophet
was Abdullah
ibn Abdul Muttalib. He is Abdul izah
ibn Abdul Muttalib. Abdul izah, obviously,
in dedication to the idol, Al Uzza, the
slave of Al Uzza.
He was
a stunningly
handsome man.
Immediately,
you know, deflates,
some of the imagery that you have,
of the man. Extremely handsome. In fact, even
when he's described in the most unflattering accounts
by those who came from Mecca and saw
or came into Mecca and saw him doing
what he was doing,
they were struck by his appearance.
Very handsome man,
very intelligent,
wealthy, well put together, well dressed. And just
side note here,
all of the uncles of the Prophet SAW
Allahu Alaihi Wasallam are described with a similar
description.
Right? Of course, the Messenger of Allah SAW
Allahu Alaihi Wasallam was the most beautiful
creation that you would see. His uncles are
all described as being exceedingly handsome.
Abu Lahab is no exception to that. He
was handsome, he commanded
a great respect because of his tribe. So
he's from Banu Hashim.
He's also exceedingly wealthy. So he's got the
lineage. He has the wealth. He he has
the appearance,
he has everything in society, in that pagan
society, in that Qurashi society
that would cause him to succeed.
He's described
as having a glowing
face. Now, by the way, when they say
not all Nur is the same, not all
light is the same,
Right?
Abu Lahab, which means the father of the
flame, was actually his nickname before Islam.
Why? Because the flame, they said he had
reddish cheeks, he had a glow from his
face,
and of course that's something that was appealing
to the Arabs, the reddish face. Right? He
had a brightness, a glow,
of iman, not the light of faith,
but he was handsome.
And some people's names were flipped when they
rejected the prophet and some people's names simply
took on another dimension.
So Abu Hakem, the father of wisdom became
Abu Jahal, the father of ignorance.
Abu Lahab, the father of the flame became
the father of another flame which is hellfire.
Right? So what was a positive nickname becomes
a negative nickname for him, but he was
described by his appearance, which tells you a
little bit about how he was. He used
to wear a famous,
cloak from Adam from from Yemen.
He was described as being very generous towards
the pilgrims.
And in his generosity, which was boasting and
not from a place of sincerity,
Abu Lahab
gained a reputation of generosity.
How does he come into the life of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
I take you back to a few weeks
ago when we describe
that moment where Aminah
gave birth to the Messenger of
Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Abu Lahab
loved his brother, Abdullah, the father of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
And he too was grieving over the untimely
death of Abdullah, and there isn't much in
terms of years between him and Abdullah.
Right? The father of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam. They're very close in age.
They grew up together.
And so, of course, Abdullah died without even
knowing that his wife Amina was pregnant with
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And when Amina
gave birth to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
Subhaiba
becomes Muslim later on,
was a servant in that house. She went
to Abu Lahab to tell Abu Lahab, the
uncle,
that your nephew has just been born.
Abu Lahab out of joy over the birth
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam freed Fawaybah
Radiallahu Ta'ala Anha from slavery,
Was so joyous, he sacrificed,
he celebrated.
He saw the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
as an extension of his beloved brother, Abdullah.
And
as time goes on,
the closeness between the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and Abu Lahab
is in every single way in terms of
business, in terms of caring for the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
He was the neighbor of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. And when I say the neighbor
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, I don't
just mean that they lived in the same
neighborhood and there was any distance. They actually
shared a wall.
So when you think about the closeness,
they shared a wall.
So, I mean, if you think about how
the exchanges between those two families,
they are as tight as they come.
2 of the sons of Abu Lahab, who
we're gonna speak about, are engaged to 2
daughters of the Prophet
By all accounts, this is supposed to be
a beautiful relationship
of 2 families that are coming together, and
we're gonna talk about the full family
of Abu Lahab.
His wife,
her name is Jamil
Arwa Bint Harb. Arwa Bint Harb.
Who can tell me who she's the sister
of?
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb.
Right? So she's Abu Sufyan's
sister.
Not the Abu Sufyan, the brother of the
Prophet Abu Sufyan ibn Harif because we've distinguished
those 2. Abu Sufyan, the chief enemy of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to come, right?
That's his sister.
Okay?
Now,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
comes out on that day
to proclaim,
to call out to his closest relatives, to
call them to Islam.
And when the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam stands on a Safa, he calls out,
You
which was a cry of an enemy that
was approaching.
Something severe is happening. Something severe is happening.
The family of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
his relatives, all
surround Asafaa
to hear what the messenger of Allah SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam
is going to say.
When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam calls them
to Islam,
I can't emphasize enough
how history could have changed
if his uncle responded to him differently.
Right? When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
introduces
Islam to these people after they just affirmed,
you are the trustworthy one, you are the
honest one,
When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam starts
with that call, you know, if you ever
see the pictures or the videos of entire
tribes entering Islam,
naturally,
those of Banu Hashim look towards
their elders.
So if Abu Lahab, his neighbor,
who is to be the father-in-law of his
2 precious daughters alaihis salatu wa salam
says, You
My blood is your blood. My money is
your money. I'm going to support you and
follow you. We believe in you. Go forth.
If Abu Lahab
says, we believe in you,
the entire
episode changes.
But Abu Lahab
calls out to the Prophet
and he curses him with the lowest curse
in that
society,
may you perish, O Muhammad.
Now, by the way, that is equivalent to
the worst curse word that you could think
about in the English language.
Okay. Tabun Laka You Muhammad.
And he says, Alihatha
Jama'atana,
is this what you gathered us for?
You want us to turn all of these
gods into 1 God?
You want us to turn all of these
gods into 1 God? And there are multiple
narrations about how this how this conversation then
takes place. But when he says that,
he takes the air out of the room
figuratively, right? Like, woah.
And everyone else walks away from the Prophet
except for Adi
and who was a child. He says, I
will follow you, You Rasool Allah.
But Abu Lahab was the one
who started
the turning of society
against the prophet
Abu Lahab is a businessman. He rejected the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam on the basis of
money. He said, we make money off of
these gods. We sell these gods. The pilgrims
come from all over. Everyone makes money off
of these idols. I am a man of
commerce. How is it that you're gonna turn
it all into one invisible God? It doesn't
make sense financially. It's not a good business
decision.
That's what he's saying to the prophet, I
can't hear anything else that you're saying because
you're taking away our commerce. Right? I always
tell people think of Abu Lahab not as,
you know, like Captain Hook, if any of
you remember
imagery. Think of Abu Lahab as like a
guy from Wall Street.
Alright? Suit, tie, really cleaned up.
Right? No. No. No. No. This this is
a bad business decision. I hate this. And
he even says to the prophet,
you know, in in some of the subsequent
conversations,
he says, if you can't put it in
my hand, it doesn't exist.
Right? And there are multiple tafasir of
He says, what you're promising me is as
empty as these hands, and he
blows on his hands, he says,
I see nothing of what you're promising us.
It's as empty as my empty hands right
now. And Allah says, you and your hands
will perish.
You and your hands
will perish.
In one narration, in the Qurtubi, he said
to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
What do I get if I embrace Islam?
The Prophet said, You get what every Muslim
gets.
Abu Lahab said,
So you're trying to bring a religion to
your uncle that will put him on the
same level as all of them?
That's what you're giving me? No, no. I
need my leverage. I need my money. I
need my profit
with an f.
Hates the Prophet
from that day on and the humiliation and
the abuse
starts.
His wife,
Jameel Arwa bint Harb.
Imam Ahmad Rahimullah narrates his Musnat from Jundub
ibn Abdullah
that the Prophet
became ill,
and he was unable to stand up for
prayer for a night or 2. Now imagine,
they're next to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
they can hear his qiyam at night with
Khadija
And so they didn't hear him standing up
and praying
for a few nights.
And Jamil comes to him and says to
him,
Where is that devil that descends upon you?
I see that your demon has abandoned you.
And that was the revelation of
Allah swears
that your lord has not abandoned you. Your
lord has not forgotten you. Your lord has
not forsaken you. Your Lord has not become
repulsed by you. Your Lord is here. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is with you.
When the initial
verbal insult didn't work,
they then went to the next level, which
was the physical abuse of the Prophet
And Jamil,
whose nickname
is Hammaratul Hatab,
the one who carries the firewood,
she
is the person
who literally takes it upon herself
to harass the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam every
time he exits from his home, Alaihi Wasallam.
So what should what would she do? Ashoka
She would place actual physical thorns like spikes
and stuff outside of the house of the
Prophet So imagine the Prophet when he gets
out of his door, he has to step
over
the spikes.
Right? Like he literally has to avoid
the harmful things that she's going out of
her way to put in front of the
door of the Prophet
On top of that,
she and Abu Lahab would take
the guts of animals,
the waste of animals,
and they there are 2 narrations as to
what they would do. They put it in
front of his door, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and they put it on top of his
door. Why on top of his door? I
mean, it gets really nasty, but I want
you to have an image.
That every time the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
would open his door, what was on top
of the door would fall on him Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And then on top of that, like, think
about psychologically,
your own uncle,
your uncle, who's like a father figure to
you, who's doing this to you.
And on top of that, like, not only
has this filth fallen on top of you,
now you gotta step over this the the
spikes
and the thorns
and all of that that's been placed along
the way. On top of that,
it's also narrated that she used to strangle
the Prophet
at times.
This is like his aunt.
So she would take this rope, she'd put
it around the neck of the Prophet SAWS-eleven,
and she'd chug it this way.
Right? And it had some thorns on it,
so it would leave marks on the Messenger
of Allah,
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
I'm giving you a picture of the parents,
Abu Lahab and Jamil, because we know that
their ending is not good.
One of the things that they used to
put in front of the door was
was like a particular type of filth,
and the prophet
appealed to the senses of Quraysh, the sensibilities
of Quraysh sometimes.
So he said,
What type of a neighbor is this, O
Banu Abdul Muttalib?
People who claim to honor your neighbors. Is
this how a neighbor is supposed to be
treated? Is this how a relative is supposed
to be treated?
So here's the thing, Abu Talib,
Abbas,
Hamza, they're not Muslim yet.
Right? But they still they're trying to protect
their nephew. Like, this is at the end
of the day family. We don't treat family
like this, and they're embarrassed because the prophet
is
talking about the betrayal of their values. This
is aib on the family. It's shameful for
the family.
Right? And we know Hamzah
how he is with Abu Jahl, right, when
he smacks Abu Jahl,
not even as a Muslim because how dare
you treat my nephew that way? There's one
narration
that Hamzah
heard the Prophet complaining. He comes out. He's
not Muslim yet.
And
he says, What is it that you're talking
about? The Prophet points to all the filth
that Abu Lahab is putting on his door.
Hamza
takes it and he puts it on Abu
Lahab.
And Abu Lahab says, in akhirajulan
majnoon, this brother of mine is a crazy
man. He's a madman. Leave Hamza alone. Hamza
is like, what are you doing? You're embarrassing
us.
Abu Lahab
says,
I've freed myself from you. I've freed myself
from him. He's basically denouncing all of his
brothers. I denounce Muhammad
and I denounce all of those that protect
the Prophet
Now he takes it to the next level.
He goes to his sons.
He says,
My head is forbidden from your head. Basically,
I'm disowning you.
Our lineage is cut if you don't divorce
the daughters of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Now an important,
important distinction to be made here.
Rutba,
Rutba,
who's the oldest son
of Abu Lahab and the closest in age
to the Prophet
extremely close in age to the prophet
Utbah
seems to have been a little bit hesitant
and that's why some of the narrations
Abu Lahab is particularly talking to Urutba to
say, if you don't divorce
Ruqayyah,
the daughter of the Prophet then basically I'm
disowning you.
Right? Either way, Abu Lahab says you both
need to divorce
the 2 daughters of the Prophet
Ruqaiyah
and Qrthun, may Allah be pleased with them.
Rutba,
again, there is no narration about the way
that he actually divorces Ruqayya,
Right?
Simply that it's devastating to the Prophet I
mean, do you imagine, by the way,
Rasulullah
the father, how much he loves his own
children, how much he loves his daughters, the
way he treats his daughters,
and how the Prophet
you know, chose these 2 noble men for
his 2 daughters and thought that he was
doing them right, and the guilt and the
empathy and all that comes with that. Right?
I'm the father of these 2 girls. I'm
supposed to be the one protecting them, giving
them a good future,
giving them the best, and this is how
you hurt the Prophet
Rutba
does not do anything except for divorce Ruqayah,
and he's very close to the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam in age. Rutaybah
is the name
that you must remember.
Rutaybah is the second son of Abu Lahab.
He is engaged to Qursum,
the daughter of the Prophet
Rutayba makes a scene
of this divorce.
And again, put yourself in Mecca.
You know what Abu Lahab does to the
prophet You know what Umjameed does to the
prophet What does Retayba do?
Retayba walks up to the prophet
in public, his father-in-law,
and he says,
Oh, Muhammad, I have
disbelieved in your religion.
And he starts mocking the Quran, right? The
star that you talk about. I disbelieve in
all of it. He starts humiliating the prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, all this nonsense that you're
talking about, and he makes poetry
about that. And he says,
and I'm divorcing
your daughter. I'm separating myself from your daughter.
I don't love you. You don't love me.
I don't love her. She doesn't love me.
She's done.
And he takes a step further.
Now, can you imagine someone talking to the
prophet this way, your father-in-law? Like, again, just
Arab morals at the time, like, what are
you doing? But on top of that, he
physically attacks the Prophet
He tears his shirt,
alayhis salatu waslam, and then he spits out
the Prophet
for you to treat him this way to
manifest the ugliest,
the ugliest behavior
of your parents?
The prophet
did what he rarely did
to people, but every time he did it,
it was very impactful.
When he did this to the Prophet
the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi
Wasallam
says,
Oh Allah, set one of your dogs on
him.
O Allah, set one of your dogs on
him. So the Prophet
made dua against Ir Tayba
ibn Abillahab,
the only child of Abu Lahab who gets
a dua made against him by the Prophet
But again, the way he treated the Prophet
was very, very, very different, very ugly,
right, in this divorce. Like, you could have
went and, you know, maybe apologized and said,
you know, my father is forcing me to
do this, but to do it in this
way is just further humiliation, physical abuse, again,
taking away from the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa
sallam in society.
Now, SubhanAllah, there's a wisdom here as well.
So we're gonna talk about Utaybah later on
this Dua of the Prophet
Ruqaiyah and Unkursum,
who did they end up marrying?
Uthman ibn Affan
who was more handsome than the children of
Abu Lahab,
who was better, who had the most noble
of character,
who was more generous than Abu Lahab and
his family. He manifested everything you would want
in Jahiliyyah and everything you'd want in Islam
together. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
married Ruqayya to Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. Uthman
made Hijrah to Abyssinia with Ruqayya, and then,
of course, when Ruqayya died,
he married Qrthoom
to Ithman
So what, you know,
Those 2 women get to show up in
Jannah
as spouses of Ithman
rather than having been buried down. And this
is one of those Asa and Taqra who
say, well, you
might want something and
or hate something and it's good for you
or vice versa. Like, it obviously is devastating
that this is happening, but instead of being
married to Uthba and Uthayba, the children of
Abu Lahab, you ended up being married to
Ismail ibn Affam
So these are 2 sons.
Chance, would you mind putting up the chart
really quick, Insha'Allah?
I want to just give you a quick
look at the rest of the children
of Abu Lahab. Okay, great.
Then you have Durwa
bint Abi Lahab.
Durwa bint Abi Lahab.
Durwa
was also
engaged
to Zayd ibn al Haritha
And what was Zayd's name at the time?
Zayd ibn Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He's the
son of He's the adopted son of the
prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Remember, Hakim Al Khazam,
who we spoke about last week, purchased Zayd
gave him to Khadija. Khadija gave him
to the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. The prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam freed him and made him
a son.
So Zayd is also engaged to the daughter
of Abu Lahab Dura bint Abi Lahab, and
he breaks that off too. So it's it's
3 broken engagements actually if you think about
it. Right? Not just 2. The 2 sons
from the 2 daughters and the son of
the prophet who at that time is the
full son of the Prophet
in terms of Jahiliya, Zayd ibn Muhammad,
divorced from Dura bint Abilahab. And then you
have
Ibn Abilahab, who we're gonna come to as
well.
He's a younger one.
And this young son
is the one who, when the Prophet
was
expelled from Makar when Hijrah happened,
He is the one who confiscated the house
of the Prophet and Khadeel
So he moves in next door
to his father
and to his mother
and becomes the neighbor of Abu Lahab, lives
in the House of Revelation, the house of
the Prophet and Khadija, of course, stole it
at the time.
And he marries
Aatika Bint Abu Sufyan ibn al Harif.
I'm mentioning this for a very particular reason
for those who follow this series.
He marries Aatika bint Abu Sufyan ibn al
Harith ibn Abdul Muttalib.
The reason why this is important is because
it kind of gives you another dimension to
Abu Safiyyah ibn Haraf being a brother to
the Prophet and how he kind of steps
into some of the positions that the Prophet
would have had. Right?
Had he not
declared prophethood. This is his brother in full
effect. Now his daughter is Maryann, the son
of Abu
Lahab,
and his daughter is moving into that house
right next door
to Abu Lahab.
Alright.
We'll talk about these kids once again as
time goes on. So this kind of gives
you the scene in Mecca as to what's
happening.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala reveals,
Perish the 2 hands of Abu Lahab and
perish he.
His wealth will do him no good nor
that which he earns.
He will enter into a fire that is
with a blazing flame. So again, the name
means something else.
And his wife
will be the carrier of firewood
in place of the firewood that she used
to place in front of the house of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
and she will be pouring
SubhanAllah, just imagine that. She'll be pouring the
flames on her husband in hellfire
As she used to try to pour the
adha, the filth on the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
And she has around her neck
a rope of twisted thorns.
Right? So it gives you a scene.
So much to talk about here.
Number 1,
Allah has named so many or Allah has
referred to so many opponents of the Prophet
in the Quran.
Why is this the only man who is
named in the Quran?
Why as an enemy of the Prophet
Number 1, the scholars mention
the consequence of his rejection was unlike the
consequence of anyone else.
Right? This is your own family. If you're
You know, it's almost to say if your
own uncle
doesn't believe in you, then who are we
on the outside in tribalistic society to believe
in you? The consequence.
But also,
he left I mean, just the visual, he
left the Prophet
humiliated and alone on the day of his
initial call. Think about the scene of everyone
turning away from the Prophet and the Prophet
standing on safa
completely,
completely
bewildered as to what just happened here.
How did I go from being this beloved
person to my people, to everyone turning their
back on me except for an 8 year
old boy? What happened here?
So just as he left the prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam alone in an effort to humiliate
him, Allah
left him alone to be humiliated in the
Quran in a way that no one else
is humiliated
by name.
Right? That it is Ibadah, it is an
act of worship to read His name
in this way.
And so that is one of the wisdoms
that the scholars mentioned
in this regard.
Now, why does Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mention
that his money and what he has earned
will not benefit him? Because Abu Lahab, when
he eventually kind of you know, when people
told him within Ben Muhashem, like, you know
that your nephew
is speaking the truth, he said, look,
if he's right, on the day of judgment,
I'll pay myself out of *.
I've got the money for it.
The man is so addicted to his money,
he thinks, I mean, at the end of
the day, I know how to buy myself.
I'll post the bill
out of Jahannam on the day of judgment
if I have to. Right? If this is
all real.
And
So Allah revealed his punishment and
punishment
as well. The story gets a little bit
richer here now.
If they were abusive to the Prophet
before, how abusive are they going to be
when Quran comes down naming them?
Right?
How enraged do you think this is going
to make them?
So when this surah came down
and Jamil
heard the surah recited,
she grabbed the biggest stone
and she came out of her home screaming
the name of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and saying, where is he?
Basically saying, I'm going to kill him.
The Prophet was sitting next to the Kaaba,
next to Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr looks at the Prophet and he
says, You Rasool Allah,
she's calling your name, and she's clearly
coming with an intention to harm you.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
Allah is going to take her vision away
from me. Don't worry.
She won't see me.
So she goes to the Kaaba. She sees
Abu Bakr,
and she says, hey. She didn't even call
his name, literally in Arabic language. Hey, You.
Where is your friend?
And the prophet sitting right next Abu Bakr.
Abu Bakr is looking at the prophet and
she's saying, where is your friend? So he
realizes that there's a miracle, and the prophet
is sitting in full tranquility,
completely unfazed by it.
So Abu Bakr
stayed quiet. She said,
Oh Hajani,
it has come to me that he has
made this poetry about me. Right? Because this
was the type of poetry they called, remember
this poetry. Right? Hasnat al Nuthabit was the
expert in it. So it's come to me
that he's making these lines of poetry.
And she says,
if I find him, I'm going to smash
his face with the stone. So she's telling
Abu Bakr that when I find Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, I'm gonna smash his face
with the stone.
Then she says,
You know what? He's a poet
and I'm a poet too.
So she goes and she stands on safa,
where the prophet
made the initial call.
And she makes these lines. She
says,
Starts singing it with a rhythm.
So that people start repeating it after her.
What does it mean? Obviously, turn the name
of the Prophet Muhammad
the most praiseworthy,
to Muzhammam, someone who is humiliated.
Muzhammam and Asaina, we have
rejected
Muzammam.
And we have refused
or repudiated
his deen, his his affair.
His affair.
And we hate his religion.
Right? So we reject him, we reject his
affair, we reject his religion, and she turned
into poetry. So imagine the prophet is sitting
next to the Kaaba, you see how close
Safa is to the Kaaba.
Maybe 1 or 2 of you who have
studied.
It's not common. SubhanAllah. But imagine in that
moment,
right,
the boastfulness,
right, to say those words around the Kaaba
about the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, and she left still not having
noticed the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Afterwards,
you have, of course, the boycott of Banu
Hashan.
Abu Lahab sinks to a new low. SubhanAllah,
I wanted to get to the Muslim family,
it's taking me some time.
Abu Lahab sinks to a new low with
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. No one
does this in that society.
Abu Lahab says, As for Banu Hashim, I
have nothing to do with them anymore. Go
ahead and torture them.
They cut themselves off from us when they
adopted this religion of theirs.
Torture them, boycott them, starve them. I don't
care.
You wonder how you see the, the token,
quote, unquote Palestinian that goes on the news
today and preaches the Zionist points? They can
only find, like, one of them these days,
right, who keeps showing up on all the
shows. Like, he's so angry and hateful, and
you can just see him in his face.
And you're like, what an evil omen, right,
to his people. Right? It's like they got
one. They keep on putting on Pierce, and
they keep putting on all of those. Right?
Think of Abu Lahab that way. Talking about
his own family, you know what? Starve them.
Torture them.
I'm happy to hear that they're crying at
night and for 3 years, they have nothing.
Abu Lahab, wake up. It's not happening. Abu
Talib dies
because of the pain of the boycott. Your
brother,
a noble man dies because of the pain
of the boycott. Doesn't move his heart at
all. Khadija Radiallahu Anha dies. I mean, you
torture. This used to be your neighbor, Muhammad
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in Khadija. Can you imagine
being a neighbor of Khadija radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
for all those years, that noble woman and
what type of relationship you would have had
and seen her beautiful and noble characteristics, she
dies because of the starvation.
Nothing.
Afterwards, when Abu Talib passes away, not only
does Abu Lahab not have any sympathy,
he ramps up his efforts of delegitimizing the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
after the boycott is over. So what the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was doing for the
years prior to the hijrah is that he
would go out to the places where the
travelers would come. He kinda The Dawah in
Mecca has reached its its end.
Right? Now he's waiting for those pilgrims coming
from abroad,
right? And those coming to the marketplaces in
the
to Islam.
As this is happening,
Tarkal Muharabi
became Muslim later on. He said, I remember
coming to Mecca
from Yemen, and I saw 2 men walking.
I didn't know who they were.
1 man was walking and saying,
Oh people say, you
will be successful.
And
he
said,
and a man is walking behind him pelting
him with rocks
and saying,
Don't believe him. He's a liar.
He said, I asked,
what is this?
Think about how confusing the scene is.
And they said, that is Muhammad
ibn Abdullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He claims to
have a new religion that believes in one
God.
That's his uncle,
Abu Lahab,
that is pelting him with stones and saying,
Don't believe him. There are multiple narrations. There's
one from Rabi ibn Abad,
in Muslim Ahmed. And he says, I saw
him in Dhul Majaz in the marketplace. And
he said, you know,
people would gather around Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and he'd start to have an audience. So
it wasn't enough just from Safa. Right? And
Safa,
the first call, Abu Lahab dispersed the audience
by his response.
In this narration, Muslim Ahmed, like the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, would start to have the
attention of some people, and then Abu Lahab
would come and start throwing things at him,
saying,
Don't believe him. He's a liar.
Subhan'Allah.
Prophet makes hijrah.
Now I want you to remember is that
everyone has an extraordinary ending here.
Did Abu Lahab fight in the Battle of
Badr?
Did he fight the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in Badr?
No, he didn't.
He's a good businessman.
Smart.
He's like, I know how to get myself
out of this.
He calls
Abu Jahl's brother. Abu Jahl's name is Amru
Nuhisham,
and he has a brother named Al Asim
Nuhisham. He calls Al Asim Nuhisham.
He says, you know how you owe me
4,000 dirhams?
Said, yeah. He said, go fight in Badr
for me, and you're free from the dead.
So he sends the brother of Abu Jahl
in his place, Al Asr ibn Nishan, to
go fight and battle in his place in
exchange for freeing him from the money
that is due to him. And he's hanging
out in Mecca thinking, piece of cake.
We ran the Prophet
out. We treated him this way. What's the
worst that could possibly happen?
Abu Rafi,
who was the freed slave of Al Abbas
and Umunubaba
Abu Raifah says I was sitting with them
and
Abu Lahab
was
pacing
nervously
around the tent waiting for the news from
Badr.
And then he'd sit and he'd put his
back on my back, like this is the
treatment of a slave. Right? Sit up and
let me rest on your back.
He'd put his back on my back, and
then he'd get up and he'd pace again
nervously waiting for the news.
Then, Abu Sufyan ibn al Harish
comes to the tent.
And Abu Sufyan ibn al Harith, as he
comes to the tent remember, Abu Sufyan ibn
al Harith fought the prophet alaihi wa sallam
al Bayr.
Abu Luhav stands up and says, Mel Khabbar,
what's the news? What happened?
Abu Sufyan Al Harith
says,
we found a people
who were small in number, but not encouraged.
They were small in number, but not encouraged.
We fought them thinking we could overpower them.
Somehow, they overpowered us.
They killed us
as freely as they wanted to. They captured
us with absolutely no issues,
and they had with them
these humongous men that filled the skies. And
they were wearing white robes, white garments that
filled the entire horizon.
And they would strike us, but we couldn't
strike them. And they would pluck us from
the field and throw us around, and we
couldn't do anything to them.
So this is Abu Lahab hearing this from
Abu Sufyan al Hadif.
Abu Raffa was secretly a Muslim.
He's secretly a Muslim,
along with Lubaba who's the mother of Abdullah
ibn Abbas.
So Barathe,
he says, so I stood up out of
joy
and I said, It's the angels. It's the
angels. It's the angels.
And he said, Abu Lahab
punched me, and then he got on top
of me, and he started beating me with
both of his fists until he almost beat
me to death.
Then comes the end of Abu Lahab.
Lubaba
takes a tentpole
and she cracks it on Abu Lahab's head,
and it exposes
a huge wound on his skull.
And she says,
Are you showing yourself off on him because
his master is gone? Al Abbas is gone.
Al Abbas is not here. Is that why
you're beating up on him? He's not yours
for you to beat up on him this
way. What do you think you're doing?
So she popped him with the tent pole.
Now, here's the thing.
7 days from that moment where she popped
him,
that wound became infected,
and his whole body
started to rot, Abu Lahab.
And subhanAllah,
he became so ill that when you looked
at him, you were terrified by his condition,
by the infection that spread throughout his entire
body,
that his own family
let him die alone in his last days.
They basically quarantined him because they were afraid
that whatever he had might be contagious because
they've never seen
anyone's condition like that.
So the one who forced the prophet salAllahu
alaihi wasalam alone was forced alone.
And then on top of that, SubhanAllah,
he dies
a week later,
and his body stunk so badly that none
of his kids wanted to go and retrieve
his body.
The stench from the body of Abu Lahab
was so bad
that they left it for 3 days until
some of the family of Ben El Hashim,
they said, come on, you can't do this
to your father.
Right? Like, this is shameful. Don't do this
to your father. So they had some of
the slaves go and pick up the body
of Abu Lahab, and they put him on
a place in Mecca. And you know how
they buried him?
They pelted him with stones from far away.
SubhanAllah. So the same way he used to
follow the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
pelt him with stones,
he was pelted
with stones
in that way. Alright. The next 10 minutes
are a bit gruesome, but it's just to
show you some how every single person who
hurt the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was hurt
in the same way. Remember the son of
Abu Lahab who
did what he who tore the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam's shirt, beat him, spit at him
and all that stuff, and the Prophet made
what du'a against him?
Oh, Allah, place upon him a dog from
one of your dogs.
This is Ur Tayba.
Ur Tayba
went out on a journey to a sham,
one of the trade routes. Abu Lahab told
Ur Tayba, or he called Ur Tayba and
his friends before he left.
He said, listen,
I'm afraid that the Dua of Muhammad SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam, the curse of Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam will come upon him, So protect him
throughout this entire journey. I want you to
surround him the entire time. This shows you
that they knew what they were disbelieving in.
They knew that they were upon kufr. They
knew that the prophet had something
that they were denying out of their own
ego and arrogance. So he said, look, protect
my son when you all travel.
So they got to
a zarkah.
A zarkah in, by the way, Jordan, modern
day Jordan.
Right?
And
they go to sleep at night,
and they would place Ur Tayba in the
middle of them. So they'd all sleep around
him.
Okay?
And SubhanAllah,
in the middle of the night, a lion
comes,
and they wake up to the sound of
a roaring lion.
And the lion walks past all of the
rest of them, and they're all frozen because,
obviously, they don't wanna
upset the lion. No one's gonna get up
and fight this lion.
The lion walks right to the head of
Urtheba,
and Ur Tayba
screams,
he shouts
and he says,
Muhammad has killed me, and he is in
Mecca, and I'm all the way in Hashem.
Not to give you too many of the
graphic details, but the line basically decapitated him.
Literally ate off his head.
That's the dua of the Prophet against this
person, so he tore the clothes of the
Prophet His body was literally torn SubhanAllah, from
the dua of the Messenger of Allah against
him. Jameel, last
graphic ending here, and we can get to
the Muslims.
Jameel Arwa bint Harb,
was
obviously dealing with the sadness of her husband
and her son now,
both killed in very gruesome and nasty ways.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala caused it that one
day as she was walking, she was carrying
that same rope. She had a habl that
was well known where she had the thorns
on it. She was carrying it, and she
sat on a stone,
and she basically fell forward, and she was
killed by her own hands.
She was found holding
the rope on her own neck.
As,
Al Qurtubi says,
had basically taken her as she used to
strangle the Prophet
she too died in the exact same way.
A miserable ending for 3 people from this
family, and it shows you, SubhanAllah,
the humiliation of these people who harmed the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
as they harmed it, and of course,
fahkhanataha
Allah
SWAJal strangled her with how she used to
do to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, but
what's worse is what comes in hellfire because
that's where the real
torture and punishment is. May Allah
protect us. Allahumma Ameen.
Now, if you put that image back on
the screen of the children and the family,
everybody else
on this chart becomes Muslim.
Everybody else is going to become Muslim.
So let's start to walk through the stories
of how the rest of them embrace Islam.
So 3 people,
Abu Lahab,
Jamil, and Arutayba have a miserable ending
that exactly mirrors the way they used to
torture the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
The first one to become Muslim is the
daughter,
And
has a magnificent story because she's actually from
She's from the early Muslims, the Muhajireen.
How does she gain that particular
type of presence? So again, she was divorced
from Zayd,
When she was divorced from Zayd, Abu Laha
married her to Al Harith ibnunofal.
Al Harith of Nunufar
fought the Prophet in Badr,
and he died
fighting the Prophet
in Badr,
and she was left with
2 or 3 children from him.
And when the news came back from Badr
while everybody else was steaming in revenge, Durwa
said, I knew he was a prophet. I
knew he was a prophet. She made Hijrah
by herself to the Prophet
in Medina.
She escapes Mecca,
and she goes to Medina
with her children. Now imagine the sight
of the daughter of Abu Lahab holding her
children and walking into Medina, and you're a
Muslim in Medina. What in the world is
happening here?
So she comes in and there's this mystery
surrounding Durrah bint Abi Lahab. What do we
do with her?
Right? Is she a spy? Is she coming
to plead on behalf of someone? What is
the point of Dura showing up here? And
Dura comes, she comes to the prophet
and she says,
She takes Shahab.
She becomes a Muslim.
So when you talk about how you have
to be nice to new Muslims, how do
you be nice to a new Muslim that's
Abu Lahab's daughter?
So the women in the Masjid,
when Dura walks into the Masjid, what do
they do? Start talking,
and Dura can hear them talking
about her.
And eventually,
some of the women from Banu Zurayk, they
were known to be stronger women from the
Ansar.
They said to her,
Are you the daughter of Abu Lahab,
the one who Allah says perish the 2
hands of Abu Lahab?
And she said, yes.
They said to her,
What good is your Hijra?
Like, go back home.
You're the daughter of Abu Lahab.
What good is your Islam
going to have?
And the Prophet
was sitting in his home.
And
she comes to the Prophet
and she said, You Rasool Allah, Innan Nasayusihu
An Habib, the people are making fun of
me. They are mocking me. They're saying, you
are the daughter of Hatab Anar.
Gets up and the Prophet
was angry.
Yes, the Messenger of Allah SWALL, this is
the type of stuff
that would cause the Prophet
anger. His face was red
He went to the Masjid
He prayed with them Dhuhr,
And then the Prophet
told her, Aj Lisi, sit there.
Wait there. So he wants Dura to be
there to witness this and to see what
he's about to do. And the
prophet stands up on the manbar,
on the pulpit, not on Jum'ah after
And he
said,
Who what is it that you're hurting my
family? You're hurting me in regards to my
family.
A.
She's from the family of the prophet My
intercession is for dura
What is it with you that you hurt
me in regards to my family? Will you
stop hurting me in regards to my family?
Sets a tone.
Right? And the prophet
he said
that,
No living person should be hurt on the
account of someone who's dead. You don't mock
someone on the basis of someone that's passed
away. A father, a mother, it doesn't matter.
Don't hurt someone on the basis of a
dead relative.
Don't do that.
And Durrah
becomes a member of the community of the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in Madinah, on top
of that. When Prophet
chooses well for people, who does the Prophet
marry her to?
He marries her to Dihyah
Who is Dhihyah?
The one who Jibreel Alaihi Salam
used to look like in human form because
he was the most handsome
of the companions of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam. The most beautiful
of the companions of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam. The ambassador of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam to the Romans and beyond. The Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam marries Dihyah
to the daughter of Abu Lahab. You know
what I think of the irony here? Her
mom used to tell the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam, where is your Shaytan?
It looks like he stopped descending on you.
And she was talking about Jibreel alayhis salam.
The daughter of that woman married the man
that Jibreel
would look like when he would come down
to this earth.
Subhanallah, the way that it flipped.
So Dura
is considered one of the best
because she's one of the early ones and
think of the sacrifice that she made to
come to
Al Madinah.
Now who's left?
Let's start with Utbah
and Mu'attab.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
comes back in Fathih Makkah.
And Al Aba
who's obviously
and we're gonna talk about him next week
in sort of his own detail
because he keeps showing up in every one
of these stories. He's the one that the
Prophet is communicating to everyone through,
right?
Al Abbas says
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam called me
and he said,
Where
are your 2 nephews, Ruthba and Mu'atib? I
don't see them here.
Prophet
is looking around the scene of Fathih Makk,
and he's looking for his old relatives.
And Al Abbas is thinking, you know, he's
probably not excited
about seeing the children of Abu Lahab,
all the harm that came from those parents.
But he says to the prophet,
that they have fled to the edges of
Mecca the way that some of the leaders
of Quraysh have fled because some people ran
away from the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam thinking
that he would carry out retribution.
The prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
go to them.
And bring them to me.
Go talk to Utbah and Mu'attab
and tell them that I want to see
them. You can imagine, we're the kids of
Abu Lahab.
We don't think this is gonna end well.
Utbah divorced the oldest daughter of the prophet
He divorced Ruqayya.
SubhanAllah.
Usman is there amongst those
that have come.
There's a lot of pain here, right?
So the Abbas
says, So I went to them
in the area that I knew them to
be.
I said to them, guess what? The prophet
is calling for you. He wants to see
you.
And so they came rushing.
Now they're excited, like, woah, he called for
us? Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam wants to see
us?
So they came riding very quickly with an
Abbas the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
until they came to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam,
the prophet called them.
This is one of my favorite scenes because
it's just so beautiful and it's in the
details.
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam went between them, he
grabbed both of their hands and he said,
Let's take a walk.
And he walked with both of them,
talking to both of them for a long
time, Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. Can you imagine the scene? Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. What a Rahma. What a mercy.
As if he's putting them at ease and
saying, listen,
I know it was your father, it wasn't
you. It was your mother, it wasn't you.
Because we don't actually see any of the
particular aggression from Utbah or Mu'atib. Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam putting them at ease,
walking with them SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
until he reached to the Mu'tazam
of the Ka'aba, right at the Kaaba, sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
And then the prophet
after talking to them, holding their hands, walking
between them for that long, he lets them
go.
And Al Abbas says that he came back,
and the prophet
face was full of joy. He was so
happy.
So,
I said to the prophet sallAllahu alaihi
wasalam,
may Allah keep you happy, O Messenger of
Allah.
I can see joy in your face like
this is
so much happiness in your face.
That I asked my Lord to give me
my 2 cousins, and Allah gifted me with
my 2 cousins.
So the prophet
had a soft spot. He loved
still
who was supposed to be his first son-in-law,
Utba, his cousin,
Mu'athib, who's a young man, he loved them.
Even though Mu'athib
confiscated his house, Mu'athib lives in the house
of the prophet, khadid radiAllahu anha. What does
the prophet do?
He lets him keep the
house. You can still live in that house.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam doesn't take
back. You know, I remember when I when
I did the Sirat of Khadija
there was a question. Why did the Prophet
SAWH-seven put his tent
close to
Al Mu'allah
where the grave of the Khadeed
was? Why didn't the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
just go back home? Like to his old
house in Fathah Makkah.
He let Mu'athab keep the house
that he stole from the Prophet Khadija
And the Prophet
was overjoyed to have his 2 cousins with
him, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and that is from
Now, what
Now, what happens in every one of these
stories, Hunayn and Ta'if are where it shows.
In Hunayn,
Utbah and Mu'attab were amongst those who did
not flee from the side of the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Mu'attab
lost an eye fighting alongside the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
in the Battle of Hunayn by which he
always wore an eye patch after that.
And this solidified the bonds of the Prophet
in Utbah and Mu'attab. So Utba
ibn Abi Lahab
Strange
when you read that he's the one that
divorced the Prophet's
daughter.
Utbah
They fought alongside the Prophet in her name,
They continued, and they fought alongside the Prophet
in Ta'if as well.
Kharida and Izzam,
may Allah be pleased with them. The other
2 daughters also embraced Islam, but we don't
know anything about them. So all of the
children,
except for Uttaiba
became Muslim.
On top of that,
Al Mu'attab
had many children.
And what did he name his children?
Abdullah,
Mohammed,
Abu Sufyan,
Musa,
Rabaydullah,
Saeed,
Khaleda.
So he's Abba Abdillah and he has a
son that he names Muhammad,
and he names his children Musa and Ubaidullah.
I mean, it's so beautiful and profound
when you think about this. And here's the
thing,
from the descendants of the children of Abu
Lahab
are many, many Muslims. So you can find
hadith narrators
whose grandfather
and great grandfather
is Abu Lahab. I want you to think
about this name. I was looking at this
name from the from the book of the,
the
Al Qasem ibn al Abbas ibn Muhammad ibn
Mu'attab ibn Abilahab.
It just blew my mind.
That's a hadith narrator.
Al Qasem was the oldest son of the
prophet
ibn al Abbas,
who was the uncle of the prophet ibn
Muhammad, of course, is Muhammad
ibn
Abilahab.
Every single one of them is a half
of the Quran.
And so they all read
His children, his grandchildren,
and by the way, his descendants surely exist
in the Muslim world Muslim world today. So
the descendants of Abu Lahab,
Muslim descendants exist in the Muslim world today.
SubhanAllah.
And this is the way that Allah
changes the fate of people. I wanna also
share with you something else in this regards,
His money did not
benefit him nor what he earned. Ibn Abbas,
one
time, 2 children
Abu Lahab, got into an argument.
Ibn Abbas tried to break them up, and
then he left them, and he said, you
are maqasab.
You're what he earned.
And they asked him, I said, what do
you mean by that?
And he said, when Allah said, he
meant his kids.
He didn't benefit from his children.
He didn't benefit from his children. SubhanAllah.
He took pride in his money. His money
did him nothing. He took pride in his
children. His children became Muslim.
And read his humiliation and taught his humiliation
to their kids and their grandkids and became
a father of the Quran who all
taught that Surah. So when you read,
is
and
and and and their descendants.
Now when you read that Surah, think of
all of them and think, somehow, what a
failure.
If he would have become Muslim, they would
have all been his
They would have all been a continuation of
his legacy. He would have benefited from the
intercession
of the Prophet
I leave you with one narration
in this regard,
and it's the narration of Al Abbas
who we will speak about in detail, inshaAllah,
next week. Even though we've spoken about Lubaba
his wife, and we will speak about Abdulla
Abba
in detail
one day soon, inshallah ta'ala.
But it's the dream of Al Abbas.
Al Abbas
sees
in his dream
his brother Abu Lahab,
And he said
that he was in a terrible situation.
Right?
And he said, I asked my brother as
I saw him in this terrible situation,
Abu Lahab in this terrible situation,
I asked him, what did you find?
What's
what's the hereafter like for you?
And Abu Lahab says,
He said that I have not found
any
relief
since I left you in that world,
except for this amount
of water,
for the time that I freed thawaybah,
radiallahu anha when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was born.
SubhanAllah, his eternal humiliation
is when he humiliated the Prophet
The one form of relief and respite that
he has on the day of judgment
or, you know, in his punishment is for
the one moment that he honored the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. A little bit of
relief for that time
that I honored Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
make us amongst those who honor the way
of the Prophet
and who are honored with the companionship of
the Prophet
May
Allah be pleased with his family and his
companions and may Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam fit for the dose
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