Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Zayd Ibn Al-Khattab – Ra The Quiet Brother Of Omar

Omar Suleiman
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The mother of his nephew was insulted with his name and used it to rob him of his nephew, including a woman in the grave of the Prophetipping who used her name to grab his nephew. The mother also mentions the one who insulted him with his name and was named the one who washed him.
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Who can remember the very first...

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first that we spoke about in this entire

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series?

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So we're on episode 145 or 146.

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Who was the very first person that we

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spoke about?

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Anybody know?

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A man with a single nation, very good.

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What's his name though?

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A man who will be standing on the

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Day of Judgment as an Ummah by himself.

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Zayd Ibn Amr Ibn Nufayl.

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Zayd Ibn Amr Ibn Nufayl radiAllahu ta'ala

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anhu was the very first person that we

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actually spoke about.

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And this was the man that recognized the

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truth even before the Prophet ﷺ and who

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Allah guided in so many different ways.

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And the Prophet ﷺ mentioned that on the

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Day of Judgment he would be standing as

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an Ummah all by himself because he died

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before the Prophet ﷺ received revelation.

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While he was waiting for the revelation.

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And he is, if anyone remembers, he is

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the cousin of Umar Ibn Al-Khattab radiAllahu

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ta'ala anhu.

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Zayd Ibn Amr Ibn Nufayl, Umar Ibn Al

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-Khattab Ibn Nufayl.

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Umar radiAllahu anhu's father Al-Khattab used to

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torture Zayd because Zayd was talking about the

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oneness of God, was speaking against the idols,

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was speaking against the evil practices in Mecca

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at the time.

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Okay, so it was a Zayd.

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And then of course somewhere along the way

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we had Zayd Ibn Haritha, we had Zayd

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Ibn Thabit.

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There are other Zayds that we did not

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even cover.

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But the Zayd that we're covering tonight subhanAllah

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has to be the most lost Zayd of

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them all.

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And that is Zayd Ibn Al-Khattab Ibn

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Nufayl radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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Zayd Ibn Al-Khattab Ibn Nufayl radiAllahu ta

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'ala anhu.

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The older brother of Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

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radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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Now subhanAllah when you talk about someone being

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overshadowed, if you were to take a group

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of Muslims and sample them randomly and say

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who's your favorite sahabi, usually the majority of

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them will say Umar Ibn Al-Khattab radiAllahu

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ta'ala anhu.

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His personality is literally larger than life.

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As soon as you mention his name in

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the story of the Prophet ﷺ or in

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the story of another companion, everyone starts to

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smile because they know it's going to be

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interesting and amazing.

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Because his personality was so large, his voice

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was booming.

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When he spoke radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he

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shook literally the road.

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The shaitan would not be on the same

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road as Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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The barber who was cutting Umar's hair and

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Umar radiAllahu anhu just opened his mouth and

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the man faints from the strength of his

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voice, the boom of the voice of Umar

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radiAllahu anhu.

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That's the man Umar radiAllahu anhu and that's

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not even speaking about his virtues and what

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he represents.

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He's a larger than life personality.

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Imagine being his brother, right?

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And talk about getting lost and overshadowed and

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people not knowing anything about you and the

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history books glossing over you.

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On top of that, one thing subhanAllah that's

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very interesting and I happen to have one

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brother, I know a lot of people have,

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you know, siblings that look like them, that

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are somewhat like them but they're the opposite

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of them in terms of personality, there are

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all types of differences.

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People make assumptions because you came from the

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same womb and you look the same that

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you might be the same.

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And in reality subhanAllah, Allah has given us

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ashkhas, Allah has given us unique personalities, unique

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qualities for which we all have a path

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back to Him.

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What if I told you that this one

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Ibn al-Khattab other than Umar ibn al

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-Khattab was one of the most quiet human

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beings around the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam.

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It's like, wait, what?

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How is that possible?

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The sahabi that we're talking about today is

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a victim of his silence in that sense.

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Zayd ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu,

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the scholars refer to him as the silent

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giant because he doesn't open his mouth radiAllahu

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ta'ala anhu even though he's the brother

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of Umar ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala

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anhu.

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So what's the story of this man and

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how do we create this world around someone

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who's so quiet to understand his personality and

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understand his virtues?

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And he is a man of legendary virtue

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radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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Let's first and foremost just take a step

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back and talk about Umar radiAllahu anhu's family.

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Umar radiAllahu anhu has two sisters that we

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know of.

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We know of Fatima bint al-Khattab radiAllahu

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anha and she is an amazing woman, one

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of the first that we covered as well.

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The wife of Sa'id ibn Zayd radiAllahu

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anhu, Sa'id ibn Zayd ibn Amr al

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-Nufayr who of course was the reason for

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Umar radiAllahu anhu to read the Quran and

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to embrace Islam.

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She was married to Sa'id ibn Zayd.

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So Umar has a sister named Fatima and

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he has another sister named Safiyyah bint al

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-Khattab.

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And she is married to a great companion

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by the name of Qudama ibn Mad'un

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radiAllahu anhu.

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So Umar radiAllahu anhu is married to Zaynab

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bint Mad'un.

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Fatima bint al-Khattab married to his sister,

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married to Sa'id ibn Zayd, one of

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the other ten promised paradise.

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Then you have Safiyyah bint al-Khattab who

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is married to Qudama ibn Mad'un.

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So Umar and his sister married from the

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same family, the siblings of the famous Uthman

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ibn Mad'un radiAllahu anhu.

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And then you get to his brothers.

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Now he has one brother who's a half

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-brother from his mom who never became Muslim

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or at least we don't know of him

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ever embracing Islam.

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He may or may not have become Muslim.

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Most historians say he did not become a

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Muslim and he's not the son of al

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-Khattab, he's Umar's brother through his mother.

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He's Umar's brother through his mother and his

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name is Uthman ibn Hakim.

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Uthman ibn Hakim, the half-brother of Umar

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radiAllahu anhu through his mother.

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And the reason why we even know about

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this brother is because there's a famous ruling

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of fiqh, a famous ruling of jurisprudence that

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we extract from the relationship of Umar and

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this man and his brother that Umar radiAllahu

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anhu gifted him a hulla, gifted him a

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suit after Islam.

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When he was in al-Madinah, Umar radiAllahu

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anhu still kept a good relationship with this

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brother and gifted his brother a suit.

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Perhaps that he could soften his heart or

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to maintain the ties of kinship.

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And so the books of fiqh will mention

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the permissibility and in fact the encouragement to

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be good to your non-Muslim family.

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And so that's why we learn about Uthman

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ibn Hakim, the brother of Umar radiAllahu anhu

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through his mother.

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But there is only one other ibn al

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-Khattab and it's this man that we're talking

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about today.

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And he is to Umar like Harun is

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to Musa.

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He's one year older than Umar radiAllahu anhu.

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And subhanAllah, it just so happens that the

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Prophet ﷺ likened Umar radiAllahu anhu to Musa

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a.s. He said, in my ummah, if

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there's anyone that resembles Musa a.s., it's

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Umar ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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And Musa has his brother Harun a.s.

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who's a lot softer than him, right?

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Who, mahboobun fi qawmihi, who's beloved to his

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people.

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He plays the gentle side to his people

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when Musa a.s. becomes frustrated with his

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people.

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And in this situation, very similar dynamic.

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The brother of Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu,

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one year older than him, is someone who

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doesn't have that booming personality of Umar ibn

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al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, but he's

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one year older than Umar radiAllahu ta'ala

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anhu.

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And Imam al-Zahabi, rahimahullah, introduces him with

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the following title.

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السيد الشهيد المجاهد التقي أبو عبد الرحمن القراشي

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العدوي أخو أمير المؤمنين عمر بن الخطاب He

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is a Sayyid, our master, a Shaheed, the

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martyr, المجاهد, the warrior, التقي, a man of

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legendary piety.

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أبو عبد الرحمن, the father of عبد الرحمن,

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القراشي العدوي from Quraysh, from Banu Adi, like

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his brother Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, أخو

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أمير المؤمنين عمر بن الخطاب رadiAllahu ta'ala

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anhu, the brother of the commander of the

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believers, عمر بن الخطاب رadiAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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So his name is Zayd ibn al-Khattab

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ibn Nufayr.

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We talked about Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayr.

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Some of the scholars mentioned that this Zayd

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that we're talking about today is named after

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that Zayd.

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May Allah be pleased with him and be

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pleased with them all, subhanAllah.

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So this Zayd is named after that Zayd,

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and he indeed is an increase in the

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beauty of this family.

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And because he's the only brother of Umar

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radiAllahu ta'ala anhu through al-Khattab, then

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you can assume that he had a very

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difficult childhood because al-Khattab was famous for

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what?

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What was he famous for?

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It's okay, you guys can guess.

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What is al-Khattab famous for?

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Abuse.

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Horrible father.

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Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu hated him.

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He used to beat his son so badly.

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Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu literally would say,

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I didn't want to become like my father.

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SubhanAllah, there's a lesson in trauma here, right?

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That all he remembered al-Khattab with, Umar

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radiAllahu ta'ala anhu remembered his father with

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was bad qualities.

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The bad quality of abuse and beating him

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and mistreating him.

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And he wanted to be the opposite of

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his father.

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And subhanAllah, we see that Umar radiAllahu ta

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'ala anhu was the best father that you

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can imagine to his own kids, right?

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But that means that necessarily, Zayd being the

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older brother of Umar, he ate that as

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well, right?

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Being the firstborn of al-Khattab, definitely incurred

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in the process much abuse and a very

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difficult childhood.

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How is he described?

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كان أسلم من أخيه عمر وأسلم قبله.

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He was one year older than Umar radiAllahu

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ta'ala anhu and he became Muslim a

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year before Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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So it gets very interesting.

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He became Muslim before Umar.

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سبق أخيه إلى الإسلام.

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Which is really crazy subhanAllah when you think

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about it, right?

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The quiet muhajireen around the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi

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wa sallam.

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He looked exactly like Umar radiAllahu ta'ala

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anhu in his physical stature except that he

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had a darker complexion radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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So he had a dark complexion and he's

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described as كان طويلً بائن الطول.

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He was awkwardly tall.

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Huge human being.

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Physical stature was imposing.

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If Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu is tall

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think of him as being the same height

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or perhaps even taller because in every biography

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of him his height was so imposing that

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when he was far away with the people

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he was the only one that you knew

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was approaching.

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So you think about the physical meaning of

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that, right?

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If a group of people are approaching from

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afar the only person you could tell from

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them all was Zayd ibn Khattab radiAllahu ta

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'ala anhu.

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But with that, his height, with his posture,

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with his position, he's extremely quiet.

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An imposing physical presence, extremely quiet.

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And subhanAllah, one thing about him that's really

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interesting, you only hear his voice in battle.

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Like the narrations about him, the only time

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he seems to open his mouth radiAllahu ta

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'ala anhu is in the battlefield.

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The person that I could liken him to

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in this regard is the brother of Anas

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ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, Al-Bara

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'a ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, right?

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Remember Anas radiAllahu anhu, this prolific hadith narrator,

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Al-Bara'a radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, throw

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me in the battlefield, right?

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And he doesn't talk much.

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So he's the silent brother of Umar radiAllahu

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anhu, looks like Umar, slightly darker complexion, the

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same physical imposing presence, but a very quiet

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man, who does as the Prophet ﷺ says.

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Listen to these manaqib, listen to these virtues.

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He became Muslim before Umar, he made hijrah

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before Umar, he died shaheed before Umar.

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May Allah be pleased with them both.

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So his virtues are incredible.

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On top of that, he was the pride

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of Umar ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala

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anhu.

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What do I mean by that?

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You don't see a man praising his brother

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the way that Umar praises Zayd.

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And we're going to talk about that.

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So his entire biography is almost narrated by

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the way that Umar radiAllahu anhu praised his

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brother.

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Like you don't know who he is.

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He's a victim of his silence as we

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said in terms of the documentation of the

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history books.

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But Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu praises Zayd

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radiAllahu ta'ala anhu in a way that

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demonstrates that he envied his silent righteousness.

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Remember Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, would regret

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often.

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He'd regret if he spoke, right?

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And he would say that, I wish I

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could be a quiet believer that enters the

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gathering and leaves the gathering and no one

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notices that he is there.

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And that is one of the praiseworthy personalities

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that the Prophet ﷺ mentions.

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Not everyone who gets into Jannah has to

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be that leader.

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In fact, sometimes we overpraise the profile of

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a leader.

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Most of Ahlul Jannah don't fit that profile

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of on the front lines and speaking and

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loud and making your presence known.

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The Prophet ﷺ mentions the person who enters

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the gathering and leaves unnoticed.

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SubhanAllah, Salim, pure from the sins of the

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gathering, doesn't open their mouth to backbite, doesn't

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get on anybody's bad side, just puts their

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head down and worships Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala until the time they leave this world.

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That is a profile of a person of

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Jannah.

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And Zayd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu fits this

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profile.

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So again, he became Muslim a whole year

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before Umar.

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He made hijrah before Umar radiAllahu ta'ala

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anhu and he was martyred before Umar bin

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Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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So we start to create the world around

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him now in Al-Madinah based upon these

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things around him.

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And you have to do that because of

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how quiet he is radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.

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So first and foremost, when he came to

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Madinah, the Prophet ﷺ tended to pair people

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off with Sahaba in Madinah, Ansar that had

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similar dispositions.

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It's from the hikmah of the Prophet ﷺ,

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the wisdom of the Prophet ﷺ that you

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often can find that the Muhajir and the

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Ansari and the Muakha and the Brotherhood have

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the same type of personality.

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So the Prophet ﷺ paired him off with

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a man by the name of Ma'an

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ibn Adi.

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Ma'an ibn Adi al-Ansari radiAllahu ta

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'ala anhu.

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And Ma'an ibn Adi, very similar personality.

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Quiet, warrior in the battlefield, someone who follows

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and obeys the Prophet ﷺ in all things,

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doesn't really say much.

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And subhanAllah, the only narration that you find

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from Ma'an, it's a beautiful one that's

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worth mentioning here, is at the time of

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the death of the Prophet ﷺ.

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Remember Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu standing up

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in the masjid, holding his sword, ready to

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kill someone for saying the Prophet ﷺ was

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dead because of his emotion.

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Ma'an ibn Adi, like his brother Zayd,

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Ma'an radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he saw

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the people crying.

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And he too of course was devastated, just

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like all of the companions.

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And when the people said, لَيْتَنَا مِتْنَا قَبْلَهُ

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ﷺ We wish we died before the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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نَخْشَ أَن نَفْتَتِنَا بَعْدَهُ Because we're afraid of

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the fitna that will come to us after

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the death of the Prophet ﷺ.

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Ma'an radiAllahu anhu said, لَكِنِّي وَاللَّهِ مَا

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أُحِبُّ أَنِّي مِتْتُ قَبْلَهُ Very interesting.

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He said, I actually don't wish that I

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died before him.

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حَتَّى أُصَدِّقَهُ مَيِّتًا كَمَا صَدَّقْتُهُ حَيًّا So I

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can believe in him when he's dead ﷺ

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the way I believed in him when he

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was alive.

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Almost like projecting the fitna that's going to

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happen after the death of the Prophet ﷺ

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which is a huge fitna.

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A lot of people left Islam after the

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death of the Prophet ﷺ.

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There's no sugarcoating it.

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Tens and thousands of people left Islam after

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the death of the Prophet ﷺ and fell

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into these weird schisms of false prophets or

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returning to enmity with the Muslims.

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And he's saying, I want the reward, the

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ajr of believing in the Prophet ﷺ after

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he passed away the way I believed in

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the Prophet ﷺ while he was still alive.

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So this is the brother of Zayd ibn

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Khattab in Medina and he's going to be

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at the hip with Ma'an for the

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rest of his life.

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رضي الله تعالى عنهما His wife, he marries

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Habibah bint Abi Amr the sister of Hamdala.

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May Allah be pleased with them.

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Hamdala رضي الله تعالى عنه is the one

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who dies shaheed and he's called Ghaseel al

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-Malaika.

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The angels washed his body as he was

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a martyr on the day of Uhud.

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That is his brother-in-law.

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Okay, so he marries Habibah bint Abi Amr

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رضي الله تعالى عنها who is the sister

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of Hamdala and the daughter of one of

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the great enemies of the Prophet ﷺ because

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the father, Abi Amr was one of the

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staunch opponents of the Prophet ﷺ.

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So what does he do now?

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How do you start to see Zayd رضي

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الله تعالى عنه in these battles?

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In every battle wherever you saw the Prophet

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ﷺ you saw Zayd.

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You looked anywhere where the Prophet ﷺ was

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Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه was close to

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him.

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He was a talented horseman.

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He's one of the few people who never

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fled the side of the Prophet ﷺ even

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on the day of Uhud.

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So on the day of Uhud it's a

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small group of people that after Khalid رضي

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الله تعالى عنه who attacked the Muslims from

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behind rushed to the side of the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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Zayd is one of those blessed people who

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was with the Prophet ﷺ in Badr who

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was next to the Prophet ﷺ in Uhud

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who was with the Prophet ﷺ in Khandaq.

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And so he was digging next to the

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Prophet ﷺ near the Prophet ﷺ who was

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with the Prophet ﷺ on the day of

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Bay'at al-Ridwan the pledge that was

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taken under the tree where Allah ﷻ mentions

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that he was pleased with those people and

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never really makes his presence known except through

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that action.

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So he's always with the Prophet ﷺ.

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So all of the virtues of serving in

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that battle or in those battles and being

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next to the Prophet ﷺ Zayd ibn al

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-Khattab رضي الله تعالى عنه has that position.

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On the day of Badr Umar ibn al

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-Khattab رضي الله تعالى عنه remembered he recalled

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an incident with his brother.

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So Umar رضي الله تعالى عنه said that

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I saw him on the day of Badr

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and he was fighting without armor.

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He wasn't wearing a coat of armor.

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He was just going through the battlefield and

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fighting.

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So I went to my brother and I

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took off my armor and I said, ألبس

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درعي I said, wear my armor.

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And Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه responded to

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me and he says إني أريد من الشهادة

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ما تريد I seek martyrdom in the same

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way that you seek martyrdom.

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Like you know what you're saying and I

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know what I'm saying.

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I seek martyrdom the way that you seek

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martyrdom in this battle.

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So Umar رضي الله تعالى عنه said So

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I left it in the battlefield and we

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both fought side by side on the day

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of Badr without our armor, without our shields.

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And of course Allah سبحانه وتعالى granted them

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victory.

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Which shows you by the way سبحان الله

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that their ferociousness in battle and their desire

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to be counted amongst the shahada with Allah

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سبحانه وتعالى to be counted amongst the martyrs

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did not lead them to like slacken in

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their fighting, right?

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Or to you know to just wish for

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someone to hurry up and strike them so

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they could die.

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I mean they won multiple battles in this

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fashion.

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But Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه was a

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man who said I'm a man who seeks

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shahada the same way that you seek shahada

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Ya Umar.

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And the only narration that we have from

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Zaid ibn al-Khattab outside of the battlefield

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is on Hajjatul Wada'a the farewell hajj

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with the Prophet ﷺ where he narrated that

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the Prophet ﷺ said that you should take

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care of those whom Allah سبحانه وتعالى has

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entrusted you with.

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You should feed them of what you feed

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yourselves and you should clothe them with what

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you clothe yourselves.

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So the Prophet ﷺ talking about the treatment

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of the mamluk the treatment of the slave

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in society and the goodness that they should

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be treated with.

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Zaid رضي الله عنه narrates just that hadith

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from the Prophet ﷺ and it's narrated from

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his nephew Abdullah ibn Umar رضي الله تعالى

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عنه.

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So let's go to where he really shines

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in this regard since he doesn't talk much.

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You just have the prototype of someone that's

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with the Prophet ﷺ all the time.

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Every sahabi that we're going to cover from

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here on out intersects with the battle of

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Yamamah or Aam al-Wafud or the year

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of delegation because we've spoken so much about

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Musaylim al-Kaddhab and the fitna of the

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false prophets that it gives you an idea

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of how terrible this fitna actually was.

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So the battle of Yamamah takes place in

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Mabi' al-Awwal of the 12th year.

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We are of course in Mabi' al-Awwal

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in this year right now.

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So it takes place in Mabi' al-Awwal

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the 12th year after Hijrah.

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Zayd ibn al-Khattab رضي الله تعالى عنه

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is commissioned to go out in the war

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against the apostates حروب الردة by Abu Bakr

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al-Siddiq رضي الله تعالى عنه.

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So he goes and he is actually the

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first one who was holding the banner of

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the Muslims.

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And of course that denotes a very special

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place amongst the companions of the Prophet ﷺ.

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فكانت راية المسلمين معه يوم اليمامة as the

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scholars narrate.

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He is the flag bearer of the Muslims

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on that day of Yamamah.

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And this was the fitna that was so

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severe that more companions were killed in this

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day than any other incident amongst all of

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the incidents that took place.

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Over 600 sahaba were going to be martyred

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in this particular battle.

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So you can find multiple sahaba that are

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going to be martyred on the day of

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Yamamah.

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So he is the one who is holding

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the banner on the day of Yamamah.

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Now Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنه gives

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us a very interesting narration about the man

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that Zaid will kill on the day of

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Yamamah.

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The man that Zaid will kill on the

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day of Yamamah to start off the battle.

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Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنه says كنت

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يوما عند النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في

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راهة That I was once sitting with the

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Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم with a group.

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So we're in Al-Madinah and we're sitting

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as a group around the Prophet صلى الله

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عليه وسلم.

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معنى الرجال ابن عنفوة الرجال ابن عنفوة not

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الرجال الرجال ابن عنفوة If you haven't heard

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his name, there's a reason why.

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So we are with this man named الرجال

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ابن عنفوة And the Prophet صلى الله عليه

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وسلم says to this group of Sahaba which

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shows you SubhanAllah never be too sure of

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yourself.

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He says صلى الله عليه وسلم إِنَّ فِيكُمْ

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لَرَجُلًا ضِرْصُهُ فِي النَّارِ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ أُحُدٍ That

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one of you, one of you who is

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sitting here, your tooth, your molar tooth in

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hellfire is the size of Jabal Uhud.

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This is very rare.

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The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم talking to

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a group of Sahaba and saying one of

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you is going to go to * and

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your molar tooth will be bigger than Mount

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Uhud in hellfire.

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Why?

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Because the bodies are bigger in hellfire.

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The punishment is felt more as a result

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of that.

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May Allah سبحانه وتعالى protect us.

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Allahumma ameen.

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So if you look at Jabal Uhud with

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all of its size, think about that hadith

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of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.

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Your tooth would be the size of Uhud

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in hellfire.

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So naturally, Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنه

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says that as we were sitting around, all

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of us were worried that it could be

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that person.

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Shows you, subhanAllah, that idea of not feeling

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safe from fitnah.

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That Allah سبحانه وتعالى could test you at

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any moment and Allah عز و جل could

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expose something about you in the process.

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And we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for حسن

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الختام.

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Allahumma ameen.

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So Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنه says,

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I was counting the sahaba amongst us that

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day, and one by one they were dying.

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Until he says, it was just me and

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this man.

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Al-Rajal ibn Anfuwa.

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And he says, Al-Rajal ibn Anfuwa was

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someone who used to read the Qur'an

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at night.

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Someone who was deeply pious and who appeared

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to be a very close man to the

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Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.

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But then he said, when the Prophet صلى

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الله عليه وسلم died, he left Islam and

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he went and he joined Musaylim al-Kaddhab.

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And that was a fitnah for the Muslims.

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SubhanAllah, why?

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Because this man could have been like Abu

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Musa al-Ash'ari and some of those

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other, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, those young sahaba

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who memorized the Qur'an.

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May Allah protect us.

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This man left Islam.

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So Abu Huraira رضي الله عنه said, Alhamdulillah,

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it's not me.

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Imagine, Abu Huraira was like, we were five

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or six, everyone died, and it was just

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us two.

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And the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said,

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one of us is going to *.

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And this man left Islam and he went

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and he joined Musaylim al-Kaddhab.

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And he says, his fitnah was harder on

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the Muslims in Musaylimah.

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Why?

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Because Musaylimah, everyone knew he was an idiot.

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Everyone knew he was a liar.

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His people were moved by his fitnah.

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Banu Hanifa were moved by his fitnah.

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Because there was clearly a tribal, you know,

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aim here.

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But As-Sahabi الرجال ibn Anfuwa As-Sahabi,

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to leave Islam, As-Sahabi who knew the

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Quran, to leave Islam and to go join

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the likes of Musaylimah, it was a fitnah

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for us.

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It was a fitnah for the companions of

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the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.

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So he says, as we went out to

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fight Musaylimah, Zaid ibn Al-Khattab رضي الله

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تعالى عنه was looking for him.

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So Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه, his ghira

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for the deen, the way he felt, his

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honor for the religion.

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Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه wanted to find

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him.

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And it just so happened that before the

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battle even flamed, Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه

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came into a duel with Al-Rajal.

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And Al-Rajal supposedly, you know, Musaylimah did

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his, when I say these people were weird,

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you have to understand they're very weird.

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He did like a ruqya on him, some

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sort of, he read on him and blew

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on him in a way that no one's

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going to be able to hurt him.

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So when Zaid ibn Al-Khattab killed him

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to start the battle, it actually had a

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huge impact on demoralizing the troops of Musaylimah.

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These are the little things in history that

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you don't pay attention to.

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So Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه killed him

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in the duel.

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And then as the battle started and the

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Muslims were hugely, hugely overwhelmed in terms of

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numbers and forces and weaponry and tricks in

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the battle of Yamam.

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As the battle started, Zaid رضي الله تعالى

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عنه never stopped moving forward.

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He never stopped moving forward until he ended

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up في نحر العدو, right in the middle

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of the army.

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And Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه was shouting

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out while he was holding the banner.

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أما الرجال فلا رجال As for the men,

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where are the men?

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Where are the men?

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So he's pushing the Sahaba to move forward.

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He doesn't like that some people are moving

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backwards because Musaylimah had all sorts of military

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preparations and an army that's 10 times the

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size of the Muslims.

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And they're shooting them with, you know, from

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catapults, they've got the hadeeqah, the garden of

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Musaylimah which is behind this huge fortress.

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It's not an easy battle.

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And so some of the Muslims are hesitant.

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And Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه, the only

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time you hear his voice is in battle.

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أما الرجال فلا رجال And then Zaid رضي

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الله عنه even gets frustrated at some point.

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So you can almost, you can hear the

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Umar in him.

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The Umar رضي الله عنه in him when

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Umar رضي الله عنه would be frustrated over

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people's hesitation towards the sunnah.

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Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه says, اللهم إني

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أعتذر إليك من فرار أصحابي Oh Allah, I

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seek forgiveness from you from the fleeing of

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my companions.

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وأبرأ إليك مما جاء به مسيلمة ومحكم اليمامة

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And I free myself from the evil of

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what Musaylimah and Muhakkama who is one of

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his disciples of Yemamah have called to.

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I free myself from them.

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So Zaid is frustrated with the pace of

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the Muslims and he's saying, Oh Allah, I

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seek forgiveness from you for their fleeing and

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I declare myself innocent of the evil of

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Musaylimah and Muhakkama.

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As he goes forward, he enters into, if

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you go back and you actually listen to

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Al-Bara'a ibn Malik رضي الله تعالى

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عنه Remember Al-Bara'a was literally catapulted

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into Hadiqah Musaylimah, into the garden of Musaylimah,

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right?

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He got that close to Musaylimah Al-Kaddhab

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and Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه was killed

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and the Raya, the banner fell from his

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hand.

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And after the banner fell from his hand,

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Salim Mawla Abu Hudhayfa رضي الله تعالى عنه

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picked up the banner and Salim رضي الله

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تعالى عنه was killed.

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And if you go back, subhanAllah, the way

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the companions fell, Salim and Abu Hudhayfa, the

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two best friends, may Allah be pleased with

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them, the two best friends of the companions

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were laying next to each other in the

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battlefield.

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Zaid رضي الله عنه, guess who he was

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laying next to in the battlefield?

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Ma'in ibn Adi رضي الله عنه His

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brother from the Ansar who said, I don't

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want to die before the Prophet ﷺ because

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I want to prove myself to Allah سبحانه

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وتعالى that I believe in him when he

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was alive ﷺ and I believe in him

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once again after he died ﷺ.

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And so Zaid and Ma'in were next

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to each other and Salim and Abu Hudhayfa

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were next to each other and they were

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the two flag bearers of the Muslims that

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day.

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Now subhanAllah, the story becomes more profound in

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lessons and grief, lessons and grief.

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So Zaid, you could summarize this whole story,

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the quiet older brother of Umar ibn al

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-Khattab who became Muslim before him, who made

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hijrah before him, who was a shaheed before

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him, may Allah be pleased with them.

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But the story actually gets very interesting and

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profound when you look at the grief then.

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When the soldiers were coming back to Medina,

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the news had reached Medina that the Muslims

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won, that Khalid رضي الله عنه had gained

00:32:02 --> 00:32:05

victory but after a difficult battle.

00:32:05 --> 00:32:08

So the messenger had already reached Medina to

00:32:08 --> 00:32:11

let Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه know that

00:32:11 --> 00:32:13

the sahaba won the battle.

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But the messenger told him that hundreds of

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sahaba were killed.

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So I want you to actually think of

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the scene in Al-Madinah where all the

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families of the sahaba are coming out and

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waiting to see who made it back.

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It's a very difficult moment to actually try

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to think about, you know, like it's not

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Uhud.

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It's the first experience that they really have

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like this.

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It's not Uhud where it all happened in

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Medina.

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It happened all the way in Najd, modern

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day Riyadh, right?

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And all the families are out there, mothers,

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fathers, spouses, children, waiting to see who made

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it back.

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And we said that the description of Zayd

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رضي الله عنه was what?

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That he was so awkwardly tall that from

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a distance you only would see him.

00:33:05 --> 00:33:08

And so Umar رضي الله عنه was out

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there and he was nervously pacing over Zayd.

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He wants to see his brother Zayd.

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Now subhanAllah something very interesting here about Umar.

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Umar's son Abdullah was one of those people

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that went out to fight.

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But Umar was more nervously pacing over Zayd.

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So he was pacing, waiting for the news.

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And then when they came back, Umar رضي

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الله عنه as he saw the group approaching

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and he didn't see Zayd, Umar رضي الله

00:33:35 --> 00:33:37

عنه immediately fell into grief.

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Like he knows he's about to get that

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news.

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So as Ibn Hajar رحمه الله says, فلما

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أُوتِ عُمَرُ قَتْلَهُ حَزِنَ حُزْنًا شَدِيدًا He fell

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into grief.

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He started to cry.

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And subhanAllah you find this conversation with him

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and his son.

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Abdullah Ibn Umar رحمه الله May Allah be

00:34:00 --> 00:34:01

pleased with them both.

00:34:01 --> 00:34:04

Abdullah comes to his father, almost ashamed that

00:34:04 --> 00:34:06

I let my uncle die.

00:34:06 --> 00:34:08

I didn't do enough to save my uncle.

00:34:09 --> 00:34:11

So he says to Abdullah Ibn Umar رحمه

00:34:11 --> 00:34:13

الله and this shows you again a human

00:34:13 --> 00:34:16

side of them but still it shows you

00:34:16 --> 00:34:18

the virtue or what Zayd meant to Umar.

00:34:18 --> 00:34:20

This man who's virtually unknown in the books.

00:34:21 --> 00:34:23

Umar رضي الله عنه when he sees his

00:34:23 --> 00:34:25

son Abdullah رضي الله تعالى عنه he's not

00:34:25 --> 00:34:26

embracing him and celebrating.

00:34:27 --> 00:34:29

He looks to him and he says, أَلَا

00:34:29 --> 00:34:34

هَلَكْتَ قَبْلَ زَيْدٍ هَلَكَ زَيْدٌ وَأَنْتَ حَيٌّ How

00:34:34 --> 00:34:37

could you not have died before Zayd?

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Zayd was killed and you're still alive and

00:34:40 --> 00:34:43

he even tells him أصرف وجهك عني Don't

00:34:43 --> 00:34:43

let me see your face.

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Like I'm upset with you for not doing

00:34:46 --> 00:34:47

more.

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You know the virtue of Zayd.

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You know who he is, your uncle Zayd.

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وَالْعَمْسِنُ وَالْوَالَدُ As the Prophet ﷺ said, the

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paternal uncle is like your father.

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How could you let Zayd be killed?

00:34:57 --> 00:34:59

How could you not stand up and defend

00:34:59 --> 00:35:02

him when the enemies came towards him?

00:35:03 --> 00:35:05

And Abdullah Ibn Umar رضي الله عنه says

00:35:05 --> 00:35:09

to his father, he says, يا أبتي Oh

00:35:09 --> 00:35:13

my father, قَدْ حَرَسْتُ عَلَىٰ ذَلِكَ أَنْ يَكُونَ

00:35:13 --> 00:35:16

He said, look, I actually was hoping that

00:35:16 --> 00:35:18

I would be a shaheed before him.

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وَلَكِنْ نَفْسِهِ تَأَخَرَتْ فَأَكْرَمَهُ اللَّهُ بِالشَّهَادَةِ He said,

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but my nafs, my self, my lower self,

00:35:28 --> 00:35:30

it pulled me back a bit.

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But as for my uncle Zayd, he never

00:35:32 --> 00:35:33

stopped going forward.

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So Allah honored him with shahada and he

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didn't grant me that honor.

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SubhanAllah.

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So think of the grief of Umar رضي

00:35:41 --> 00:35:44

الله عنه over Zayd رضي الله عنه, his

00:35:44 --> 00:35:46

older brother, the quiet older brother, to the

00:35:46 --> 00:35:48

point that he's telling his son, I don't

00:35:48 --> 00:35:50

want to see you because you should have

00:35:50 --> 00:35:51

stood up and protected your uncle.

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Why didn't you protect your uncle?

00:35:53 --> 00:35:55

And the way Abdullah and we know how

00:35:55 --> 00:35:57

righteous Abdullah Ibn Umar رضي الله عنه is.

00:35:57 --> 00:35:59

The copy of Umar رضي الله عنه, the

00:35:59 --> 00:36:01

man who loved the Prophet ﷺ, he says,

00:36:01 --> 00:36:04

no one kept the pace of Zayd in

00:36:04 --> 00:36:06

the battle of Yamama.

00:36:07 --> 00:36:08

Listen to what Umar says.

00:36:09 --> 00:36:12

Umar رضي الله عنه said, رحم الله أخي

00:36:12 --> 00:36:18

زيد سبقني إلى الحسنيين أسلم قبلي واستشهد قبلي.

00:36:18 --> 00:36:21

May Allah have mercy on my brother Zayd.

00:36:21 --> 00:36:23

He beat me to the two good things,

00:36:23 --> 00:36:25

to the two beautiful things.

00:36:25 --> 00:36:27

He became Muslim before me and he was

00:36:27 --> 00:36:29

granted shahada before me.

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As if you can remember that conversation between

00:36:31 --> 00:36:33

them in Badr where Umar is trying to

00:36:33 --> 00:36:35

give him an armor and Zayd is saying,

00:36:35 --> 00:36:36

I'm seeking the same thing that you're seeking.

00:36:36 --> 00:36:37

Get it away from me.

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And Umar knew that the bushra of shahada,

00:36:40 --> 00:36:42

the glad tidings of shahada was there for

00:36:42 --> 00:36:44

him because the Prophet ﷺ told him on

00:36:44 --> 00:36:47

that day when Uhud shook, أثبت يا أحد,

00:36:47 --> 00:36:49

be firm أحد because you have upon you

00:36:49 --> 00:36:52

a prophet, a Siddiq أبو بكر وشهدين and

00:36:52 --> 00:36:54

two martyrs Umar and Uthman.

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So Umar رضي الله عنه would say, رحم

00:36:56 --> 00:36:58

الله أخي زيد May Allah have mercy on

00:36:58 --> 00:36:58

my brother Zayd.

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He beat me to Islam and he beat

00:37:00 --> 00:37:01

me to shahada.

00:37:01 --> 00:37:03

And another narration, رحم الله أخي زيد May

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

Allah have mercy on my brother Zayd.

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

Everything I tried to do, he did it

00:37:07 --> 00:37:08

first.

00:37:08 --> 00:37:12

سبقني إلى الإسلام وسبقني إلى الهجرة وسبقني إلى

00:37:12 --> 00:37:13

الجهاد في سبيل الله.

00:37:14 --> 00:37:14

SubhanAllah.

00:37:14 --> 00:37:16

May Allah have mercy on my brother Zayd.

00:37:16 --> 00:37:17

He beat me to Islam, he beat me

00:37:17 --> 00:37:19

to the hijrah, and he beat me to

00:37:19 --> 00:37:20

that martyrdom.

00:37:22 --> 00:37:23

Go on.

00:37:23 --> 00:37:25

And this is where the story gets even

00:37:25 --> 00:37:26

richer.

00:37:27 --> 00:37:31

Umar رضي الله عنه was that man who

00:37:31 --> 00:37:33

you don't really associate grieving over the dead

00:37:33 --> 00:37:33

with.

00:37:34 --> 00:37:37

Right, like he's not the type that you

00:37:37 --> 00:37:39

would expect great grief over the dead.

00:37:39 --> 00:37:41

In the sense that, in fact, Umar رضي

00:37:41 --> 00:37:44

الله عنه condemned a woman who was crying

00:37:44 --> 00:37:46

at the death of her husband because he

00:37:46 --> 00:37:47

thought crying was haram.

00:37:48 --> 00:37:49

Right?

00:37:49 --> 00:37:50

And then the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم

00:37:50 --> 00:37:54

hadith, of course, overcame where the Prophet صلى

00:37:54 --> 00:37:56

الله عليه وسلم باند النياحة which was wailing

00:37:56 --> 00:37:58

to tear the clothes and to smack yourself

00:37:58 --> 00:37:59

and to scream.

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But not the tears.

00:38:01 --> 00:38:02

The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not

00:38:02 --> 00:38:04

condemn the crying, did not condemn the tears.

00:38:05 --> 00:38:08

Umar رضي الله عنه thought at first it

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

was haram to cry.

00:38:09 --> 00:38:12

So he's not someone that you associate grief

00:38:12 --> 00:38:14

over the dead.

00:38:14 --> 00:38:18

However, the description of Umar رضي الله عنه

00:38:18 --> 00:38:20

is that he did not grieve over anyone

00:38:20 --> 00:38:23

the way he grieved over his brother Zayd.

00:38:24 --> 00:38:26

And in fact, he would never stop talking

00:38:26 --> 00:38:26

about him.

00:38:26 --> 00:38:28

He would never stop missing him.

00:38:28 --> 00:38:30

And Umar رضي الله عنه has a beautiful

00:38:30 --> 00:38:32

line, كان يقول So he used to say

00:38:32 --> 00:38:34

on a regular basis.

00:38:34 --> 00:38:37

He used to say, ما هبّت الصباء إلا

00:38:37 --> 00:38:39

وأنا أجد ريح زيد.

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The wind does not blow from the east

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except I can smell the scent of Zayd.

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وإني لأجد ريح يوسف.

00:38:49 --> 00:38:51

I can smell Yusuf عليه السلام.

00:38:51 --> 00:38:51

Right?

00:38:51 --> 00:38:54

When Yaqub said that about his father, Umar

00:38:54 --> 00:38:57

رضي الله عنه was saying, I still smell

00:38:57 --> 00:38:57

Zayd.

00:38:58 --> 00:39:01

Every day when the wind blows, I smell

00:39:01 --> 00:39:01

him.

00:39:01 --> 00:39:04

I smell my brother Zayd رضي الله عنه

00:39:04 --> 00:39:05

وأرضاه.

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So beautiful, so powerful.

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Because if a man like Umar رضي الله

00:39:08 --> 00:39:10

عنه can grieve that way, what does it

00:39:10 --> 00:39:11

tell us about our situation?

00:39:12 --> 00:39:13

And you say, well, how come he didn't

00:39:13 --> 00:39:15

grieve this way over someone else or this

00:39:15 --> 00:39:16

person or this person?

00:39:16 --> 00:39:16

SubhanAllah.

00:39:17 --> 00:39:19

There's something between these two brothers and there's

00:39:19 --> 00:39:23

something about the virtue and the righteousness of

00:39:23 --> 00:39:26

Zayd رضي الله عنها in this regard.

00:39:27 --> 00:39:28

And it shows you as the ulema mention

00:39:28 --> 00:39:32

as well, the permissibility, right, of remembering.

00:39:33 --> 00:39:35

And the fact that he remembered for years

00:39:35 --> 00:39:37

and years to come despite his righteousness shows

00:39:37 --> 00:39:39

you subhanAllah that a deep connection truly can

00:39:39 --> 00:39:40

carry something supernatural.

00:39:41 --> 00:39:43

Remember Umar رضي الله عنه was the one

00:39:43 --> 00:39:44

who said يا سارية الجبل.

00:39:45 --> 00:39:47

He felt an army approaching a group of

00:39:47 --> 00:39:48

people from far away.

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And so some of the ulema say it

00:39:50 --> 00:39:52

could be from the miracles of Umar رضي

00:39:52 --> 00:39:53

الله عنه, the karamat of Umar.

00:39:54 --> 00:39:56

That Umar رضي الله عنه actually kept the

00:39:56 --> 00:39:58

scent of Zayd رضي الله عنه.

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And of course, many people subhanAllah, they describe

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remembering the scent of their loved ones.

00:40:03 --> 00:40:04

And may Allah سبحانه وتعالى gather us all

00:40:04 --> 00:40:07

with our loved ones فى الفردوس الأعلى.

00:40:07 --> 00:40:07

Allahumma ameen.

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It continues.

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Story of grieving over Zayd and we learn

00:40:13 --> 00:40:16

about Zayd through the grief of Umar رضي

00:40:16 --> 00:40:16

الله عنه.

00:40:16 --> 00:40:17

May Allah be pleased with them.

00:40:18 --> 00:40:22

Ahmed ibn Ammar العبد he narrates from his

00:40:22 --> 00:40:24

father who narrates from his grandfather.

00:40:24 --> 00:40:26

He says, صليت مع عمر بن الخطاب رضي

00:40:26 --> 00:40:27

الله تعالى عنه الصبح.

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That I once prayed Salatul Fajr with Umar

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بن الخطاب رضي الله تعالى عنه.

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So he says, فلما انقضى من صلاته when

00:40:35 --> 00:40:39

he finished his prayer إذا هو برجل قصير

00:40:39 --> 00:40:40

أعور.

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He saw a man who was short and

00:40:44 --> 00:40:47

he had one eye basically.

00:40:47 --> 00:40:49

That's the description of him in this regard.

00:40:50 --> 00:40:51

So Umar رضي الله عنه said, من هذا?

00:40:51 --> 00:40:52

Who is this man?

00:40:53 --> 00:40:57

So they said, متمم بن نويره متمم بن

00:40:57 --> 00:40:59

نويره رضي الله تعالى عنه.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:05

And Mutammim is the brother of Malik بن

00:41:05 --> 00:41:08

نويره who Khalid رضي الله تعالى عنه was

00:41:08 --> 00:41:12

blamed for being too quick to kill that

00:41:12 --> 00:41:12

tribe.

00:41:13 --> 00:41:15

Right, because he assumed them to have apostated.

00:41:16 --> 00:41:18

So Mutammim is the brother of Malik بن

00:41:18 --> 00:41:20

نويره and Malik بن نويره is a character

00:41:20 --> 00:41:22

that we really don't know what his state

00:41:22 --> 00:41:23

was when he died.

00:41:23 --> 00:41:24

We know Khalid رضي الله عنه was blamed

00:41:24 --> 00:41:29

for being too quick, right, in marching with

00:41:29 --> 00:41:30

the army.

00:41:30 --> 00:41:32

But we don't know much about him.

00:41:32 --> 00:41:34

But Mutammim is a good Muslim.

00:41:35 --> 00:41:38

And Mutammim missed his brother a lot.

00:41:39 --> 00:41:43

So Mutammim used to author, Umar رضي الله

00:41:43 --> 00:41:44

عنه asked, ما شأنه?

00:41:44 --> 00:41:45

What's his situation?

00:41:46 --> 00:41:49

So Mutammim authors poetry about his brother all

00:41:49 --> 00:41:49

day long.

00:41:49 --> 00:41:52

He misses Malik بن نويره and he's a

00:41:52 --> 00:41:53

poet.

00:41:53 --> 00:41:56

So he writes poetry about how much he

00:41:56 --> 00:41:57

misses him.

00:41:58 --> 00:42:00

So Umar بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه says

00:42:00 --> 00:42:04

to Mutammim بن نويره, ما أشد ما لقيت

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

على أخيك من الحزن?

00:42:06 --> 00:42:11

Like what incredible grief you have over your

00:42:11 --> 00:42:11

brother.

00:42:12 --> 00:42:14

What happened to you as a result of

00:42:14 --> 00:42:14

that grief?

00:42:15 --> 00:42:18

SubhanAllah, he says, كانت عيني هذه قد ذهبت.

00:42:18 --> 00:42:20

So he points to the eye that's no

00:42:20 --> 00:42:20

longer there.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:22

Now, whether it's there, whether it's defective, or

00:42:22 --> 00:42:23

he went blind in that eye, all of

00:42:23 --> 00:42:24

it could be implied.

00:42:25 --> 00:42:26

But the point is, he can't see out

00:42:26 --> 00:42:27

of one eye.

00:42:27 --> 00:42:30

And he says that my sadness literally caused

00:42:30 --> 00:42:33

me to lose sight in one eye وأشار

00:42:33 --> 00:42:34

إليها and he pointed to it.

00:42:35 --> 00:42:40

قال فبكيت بالصحيحة He said, so I cried

00:42:40 --> 00:42:41

with the good eye.

00:42:42 --> 00:42:45

And he said, وكثرة البكاء that the amount

00:42:45 --> 00:42:48

of crying that I did with the good

00:42:48 --> 00:42:55

eye, it basically watered العين الذاهبة It watered

00:42:55 --> 00:42:56

the eye that is gone.

00:42:56 --> 00:42:59

Like he's basically saying that I cry so

00:42:59 --> 00:43:01

much out of the good eye that I

00:43:01 --> 00:43:03

have that it kind of, it nurtures the

00:43:03 --> 00:43:04

other eye.

00:43:04 --> 00:43:05

I mean, he's using poetry again.

00:43:05 --> 00:43:06

He's a very poetic man.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:07

But he's conveying to عمر رضي الله عنه

00:43:07 --> 00:43:10

that I'm in deep pain.

00:43:11 --> 00:43:13

And عمر رضي الله تعالى عنه said, إن

00:43:13 --> 00:43:18

هذا الحزن شديد He says that this grief

00:43:18 --> 00:43:19

is indeed severe.

00:43:20 --> 00:43:25

ما يحزن هكذا أحد على هالكه So he

00:43:25 --> 00:43:27

goes on to say that this type of

00:43:27 --> 00:43:31

حزن is so difficult on a person that

00:43:31 --> 00:43:34

it could literally do away with a person.

00:43:35 --> 00:43:38

And then عمر رضي الله عنه says, يرحم

00:43:38 --> 00:43:41

الله أخي زيت May Allah have mercy on

00:43:41 --> 00:43:42

my brother زيت.

00:43:43 --> 00:43:47

إني لأحزب أني لو كنت أقدر على أن

00:43:47 --> 00:43:53

أقول الشعر لبكيته كما بكيت أخاك SubhanAllah.

00:43:53 --> 00:43:56

He said, I think that if I could

00:43:56 --> 00:43:59

come up with the words of poetry, the

00:43:59 --> 00:44:00

way that you come up with words of

00:44:00 --> 00:44:03

poetry about your brother, that I would cry

00:44:03 --> 00:44:05

for him in the same way that you

00:44:05 --> 00:44:06

cry for him.

00:44:07 --> 00:44:09

You imagine عمر رضي الله عنه saying that?

00:44:09 --> 00:44:11

Like that's how much this man who cried

00:44:11 --> 00:44:13

himself blind, عمر رضي الله عنه was saying,

00:44:13 --> 00:44:15

I think if I had the words that

00:44:15 --> 00:44:17

you have, I would cry myself blind over

00:44:17 --> 00:44:18

زيت.

00:44:19 --> 00:44:23

And then متمم says to عمر رضي الله

00:44:23 --> 00:44:27

عنه, قال لو أن أخي مات على ما

00:44:27 --> 00:44:31

مات عليه أخوك ما رثيته He said, but

00:44:31 --> 00:44:33

if my brother died the way that your

00:44:33 --> 00:44:34

brother died, I would not be grieving him.

00:44:36 --> 00:44:38

And عمر رضي الله عنه said, ما عزان

00:44:38 --> 00:44:40

أحد عن أخي مثل ما عزان به متمم

00:44:40 --> 00:44:44

No one gave me more happiness and peace

00:44:44 --> 00:44:47

over the death of my brother than متمم

00:44:47 --> 00:44:47

when he said that.

00:44:48 --> 00:44:50

Like he had to remind me, your brother

00:44:50 --> 00:44:51

died شهيد.

00:44:52 --> 00:44:52

Right?

00:44:53 --> 00:44:54

You're grieving over your brother, but your brother

00:44:54 --> 00:44:55

died شهيد.

00:44:55 --> 00:44:59

So you shouldn't feel that type of pain.

00:44:59 --> 00:45:02

Basically saying that my pain over my brother

00:45:02 --> 00:45:04

is also not knowing what became of him

00:45:04 --> 00:45:04

in the hereafter.

00:45:04 --> 00:45:06

It's not just missing him in this world,

00:45:06 --> 00:45:08

but it's also what may have become of

00:45:08 --> 00:45:09

him in the hereafter.

00:45:09 --> 00:45:13

And عمر رضي الله عنه is saying, no

00:45:13 --> 00:45:15

one gave me more peace of mind than

00:45:15 --> 00:45:17

that man, than متمم when he said that

00:45:17 --> 00:45:17

to me.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:19

Because I realized الحمد لله my brother died

00:45:19 --> 00:45:19

شهيد.

00:45:20 --> 00:45:21

SubhanAllah, this is a lesson for us in

00:45:21 --> 00:45:23

the people of Gaza as well.

00:45:23 --> 00:45:24

May Allah عز و جل accept them all

00:45:24 --> 00:45:25

as شهداء.

00:45:25 --> 00:45:28

That we hate what we're seeing and we

00:45:28 --> 00:45:31

can cry over the grief that we feel

00:45:31 --> 00:45:34

over them while still being at peace over

00:45:34 --> 00:45:36

what we know that Allah will do with

00:45:36 --> 00:45:36

them.

00:45:37 --> 00:45:39

That it's not the same as someone who

00:45:39 --> 00:45:42

just loses their loved one to a gruesome

00:45:42 --> 00:45:42

accident.

00:45:43 --> 00:45:45

That there is that peace of heart and

00:45:45 --> 00:45:46

that peace of mind and knowing that these

00:45:46 --> 00:45:48

are people that Allah سبحانه و تعالى loves

00:45:48 --> 00:45:51

and that Allah سبحانه و تعالى will take

00:45:51 --> 00:45:51

care of.

00:45:51 --> 00:45:53

May Allah عز و جل accept them all

00:45:53 --> 00:45:53

as شهداء.

00:45:53 --> 00:45:54

اللهم آمين.

00:45:55 --> 00:45:56

But there is another dimension.

00:45:58 --> 00:46:02

عمر رضي الله عنه one day is in

00:46:02 --> 00:46:05

المدينة and someone points out a man to

00:46:05 --> 00:46:06

him.

00:46:07 --> 00:46:08

And he says, يا أمير المؤمنين you know

00:46:08 --> 00:46:09

who that man is?

00:46:09 --> 00:46:10

Who can guess?

00:46:11 --> 00:46:12

What do you all think?

00:46:15 --> 00:46:17

That's the guy that killed your brother.

00:46:18 --> 00:46:19

He's Muslim now.

00:46:21 --> 00:46:22

سبحان الله.

00:46:22 --> 00:46:25

Like you talk about layer upon layer upon

00:46:25 --> 00:46:28

layer, all this grief, all this pain and

00:46:28 --> 00:46:30

the people point to him and they say

00:46:30 --> 00:46:33

that that is أبا مريم الحنفي.

00:46:36 --> 00:46:39

He's the one that killed your brother on

00:46:39 --> 00:46:39

the day of Yamama.

00:46:40 --> 00:46:42

تاب إلى الله و رجع.

00:46:42 --> 00:46:44

He repented to Allah سبحانه و تعالى and

00:46:44 --> 00:46:46

he came back and he's here in المدينة.

00:46:46 --> 00:46:49

This is a whole another dimension here.

00:46:49 --> 00:46:52

عمر رضي الله عنه is the خليفة right

00:46:52 --> 00:46:52

now.

00:46:54 --> 00:46:57

He could say you come here, smack him,

00:46:58 --> 00:46:59

chop off his head.

00:46:59 --> 00:47:01

I mean like think about what do you

00:47:01 --> 00:47:03

think a ruler back in that day would

00:47:03 --> 00:47:05

do like in the 7th century would do,

00:47:05 --> 00:47:05

right?

00:47:05 --> 00:47:07

Even just the tribalism that people used to

00:47:07 --> 00:47:07

have.

00:47:07 --> 00:47:09

Do away with him, right?

00:47:10 --> 00:47:11

Or at least punch him in the face,

00:47:12 --> 00:47:14

spit on him, curse him.

00:47:14 --> 00:47:16

And this is عمر رضي الله عنه.

00:47:16 --> 00:47:17

There's no lack of strength here.

00:47:17 --> 00:47:19

But the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم mentions

00:47:19 --> 00:47:22

that strength is not a person who can

00:47:22 --> 00:47:22

overcome the other.

00:47:22 --> 00:47:24

الذي يملك نفسه عند الغضب but the one

00:47:24 --> 00:47:25

who controls himself in anger.

00:47:26 --> 00:47:29

عمر رضي الله عنه goes up to him

00:47:29 --> 00:47:32

and he says وَيْحَكَ Woe to you.

00:47:32 --> 00:47:36

لَقَدْ قَتَلْتَ لِي أَخَنْ You have killed a

00:47:36 --> 00:47:37

brother of mine.

00:47:37 --> 00:47:41

مَا هَبَّتِ الصَّدَاءِ إِلَّا ذَكَرْتُهُ The wind does

00:47:41 --> 00:47:43

not blow except that I remember him.

00:47:44 --> 00:47:45

Woe to you.

00:47:45 --> 00:47:47

What pain you caused me.

00:47:47 --> 00:47:48

SubhanAllah.

00:47:49 --> 00:47:51

This is like a deja vu of what

00:47:51 --> 00:47:54

we said last week with Tulayha رضي الله

00:47:54 --> 00:47:56

عنه and عمر رضي الله عنه confronted him

00:47:56 --> 00:47:56

in hajj.

00:47:57 --> 00:47:59

The one who killed Akasha, right?

00:47:59 --> 00:48:00

Kills noble sahaba.

00:48:01 --> 00:48:02

But here this is his brother.

00:48:03 --> 00:48:03

It's personal.

00:48:04 --> 00:48:05

And عمر رضي الله عنه grieves over his

00:48:05 --> 00:48:07

brother like he doesn't grieve over anyone else.

00:48:08 --> 00:48:09

And what do you think the response of

00:48:09 --> 00:48:11

Abu Maryam and Hanafi was?

00:48:11 --> 00:48:13

Same response Tulayha gave.

00:48:13 --> 00:48:17

قَالَ يَأْمِرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ O commander of the believers.

00:48:18 --> 00:48:23

أَكْرَمَهُ اللَّهُ بِيَدِي وَلَمْ يُهِنِّي بِيَدِهِ He said,

00:48:24 --> 00:48:26

O commander of the believers, Allah honored him

00:48:26 --> 00:48:29

through my hand and Allah did not disgrace

00:48:29 --> 00:48:29

me through his hand.

00:48:31 --> 00:48:34

And عمر رضي الله عنه, I mean, it's

00:48:34 --> 00:48:36

not the most satisfying answer, right?

00:48:36 --> 00:48:38

Like, but he's saying to him at the

00:48:38 --> 00:48:40

end of the day, again, your brother died

00:48:40 --> 00:48:40

shaheed.

00:48:41 --> 00:48:43

And Allah honored him and I just happened

00:48:43 --> 00:48:45

to be the hand in that qadr of

00:48:45 --> 00:48:46

Allah سبحانه وتعالى.

00:48:46 --> 00:48:48

Allah gave him the position that he was

00:48:48 --> 00:48:48

seeking anyway.

00:48:49 --> 00:48:52

But Allah did not disgrace me with his

00:48:52 --> 00:48:52

hand.

00:48:53 --> 00:48:55

عمر رضي الله عنه wants to ask him

00:48:55 --> 00:48:56

now questions about Yamama.

00:48:57 --> 00:49:00

So he says to him, كَمْ تَرَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ

00:49:00 --> 00:49:04

قَتَلُوا مِنكُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ How many people do you

00:49:04 --> 00:49:06

think the Muslims killed from amongst you on

00:49:06 --> 00:49:06

the day of Yamama?

00:49:07 --> 00:49:11

قَالَ أَلْفًا وَأَرْبَعْ مِئَاتِ يَزِيدُونَ قَلِيلً He said

00:49:11 --> 00:49:14

about 1400 and maybe a little bit more.

00:49:14 --> 00:49:18

عمر رضي الله عنه said, بِئْسَ الْقَتْلَةِ What

00:49:18 --> 00:49:21

evil people they are, what losers they are

00:49:21 --> 00:49:23

to have died that day and to be

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

killed by the likes of Zayd and Al

00:49:25 --> 00:49:28

-Baraa and Abu Dujana and Salim.

00:49:28 --> 00:49:31

Like what horrible people they are.

00:49:31 --> 00:49:33

Just like قَتْلَانَا فِي الْجَنَّ وَقَتْلَاكُمْ فِي النَّارِ

00:49:33 --> 00:49:34

Our dead are in Paradise and your dead

00:49:34 --> 00:49:35

are in Hellfire.

00:49:35 --> 00:49:37

عمر رضي الله عنه was still looking at

00:49:37 --> 00:49:38

him and he's kind of talking to him

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like you're from the enemy.

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So he says بِئْسَ الْقَتْلَةِ And Abu Maryam

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says to him, الحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَبْقَانِ حَتَّى

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رَجَعْتُ إِلَى الدِّينِ الَّذِي رَضِيَ لِنَبِيهِ صلى الله

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عليه وسلم وللمسلمين Abu Maryam said, الحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ

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Allah let me live until He guided me

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back to the religion that He was pleased

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with for His Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم

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and for the Muslims.

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And عمر رضي الله عنه found closure in

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that he felt he was sincere.

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And you want to know how it goes?

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That Ibn Abd al-Barr actually narrates that

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عمر رضي الله عنه appointed him as a

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judge in Basra, as a qadi in Basra.

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Not only did he not penalize him or

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hurt him, even though he loved Zayd رضي

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الله عنه but he felt him to be

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sincere in his tawbah and he still has

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the best interests of the Muslims at heart.

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And so عمر رضي الله عنه appoints him

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as a judge.

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Some of the scholars debated with Ibn Abd

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al-Barr's assessment.

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They said it was another Abu Maryam al

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-Hanafi that عمر رضي الله عنه appointed.

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So that's another discussion all together.

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So you see another dimension here of the

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justice of Sayyiduna عمر رضي الله عنه that

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we praise so much.

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Now who was left behind from Zayd رضي

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الله عنه?

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This amazing luminary, the silent giant Zayd رضي

00:51:05 --> 00:51:06

الله عنه.

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He had two kids, عبد الرحمن and أسما.

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As for أسما رضي الله عنها, we don't

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know anything about her.

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As for عبد الرحمن, عبد الرحمن was six

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years old when the Prophet ﷺ passed away.

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So technically he's a companion too.

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عبد الرحمن بن زيد رضي الله عنه.

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And he became a hadith narrator.

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And عمر رضي الله عنه raised عبد الرحمن

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with his own kids.

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So عبد الرحمن بن زيد was raised with

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عبد الله بن عمر and with أسما and

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with the rest of the children of عمر

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الخطاب رضي الله عنه.

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And again that idea بالعمس والوالد, the uncle

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is like the father.

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That عمر رضي الله عنه truly assumed a

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position like a father to him.

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And one of the most beautiful narrations that

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I found from عبد الرحمن that's narrated in

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al-Isabah, عبد الرحمن بن زيد, he says

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كنت أنا وعاصم بن وعمر بن الخطاب في

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البحر.

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That عاصم and I were swimming in the

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ocean.

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And he said that this was a time

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of عمر or حج.

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So we were in إحرام.

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So it would have been along the coast

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on their way to Mecca that they were

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swimming in the ocean.

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قال يغيب رأسي وأغيب رأسه.

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He was dipping my head into the water

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and I was dipping his head into the

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water.

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Gives you another dimension.

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وعمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه ينظر بالساحل.

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And عمر رضي الله عنه was watching from

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the shore.

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عمر taking the kids out to swim.

00:52:36 --> 00:52:38

It's the closest thing that you get to

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that human moment of his nephew, of his

00:52:40 --> 00:52:42

beloved brother who he loved so much.

00:52:43 --> 00:52:45

And it shows you that side of these

00:52:45 --> 00:52:47

companions and these great people that you can

00:52:47 --> 00:52:49

imagine عاصم and عبد الرحمن that they were

00:52:49 --> 00:52:52

dipping their heads into the water and playing

00:52:52 --> 00:52:52

together.

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And عمر رضي الله عنه watching them as

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they did so.

00:52:56 --> 00:52:58

However, another interesting fact is that عبد الرحمن

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actually says my name was actually محمد.

00:53:00 --> 00:53:02

So my father named me محمد.

00:53:03 --> 00:53:06

But he said one time there was a

00:53:06 --> 00:53:07

man that got mad at me.

00:53:08 --> 00:53:10

And so he started to insult me with

00:53:10 --> 00:53:11

the name محمد.

00:53:12 --> 00:53:15

So he started to say, فعل الله بك

00:53:15 --> 00:53:17

يا محمد وفعل وفعل.

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So he's yelling at me and he's using

00:53:20 --> 00:53:21

the name محمد.

00:53:22 --> 00:53:25

So عمر رضي الله عنه says, يابن زيد

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ادنو.

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Come here, oh son of Zaid.

00:53:28 --> 00:53:32

He says, ألا أرى رسول الله صلى الله

00:53:32 --> 00:53:34

عليه وسلم أو قال محمد يسببك.

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I can't stand to see the name of

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the Prophet ﷺ insulted because of you.

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So he says, والله لا تدع محمدا ما

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دمت حيا.

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You're not going to be called محمد anymore.

00:53:45 --> 00:53:46

وسماه عبد الرحمن.

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I'm going to call you عبد الرحمن instead.

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Because I don't like seeing people insult the

00:53:51 --> 00:53:51

name of محمد.

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And the Prophet ﷺ received that on account

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of you.

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And so he actually named him عبد الرحمن.

00:53:59 --> 00:54:00

And this was common of course because عمر

00:54:00 --> 00:54:02

رضي الله عنه is the narrator of the

00:54:02 --> 00:54:02

hadith.

00:54:02 --> 00:54:04

أحب الأسماء إلى الله.

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The two most beloved names to Allah are

00:54:06 --> 00:54:08

عبد الرحمن and عبد الله.

00:54:09 --> 00:54:10

And عمر رضي الله عنه named three of

00:54:10 --> 00:54:11

his kids عبد الرحمن.

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So he just added his nephew to عبد

00:54:14 --> 00:54:16

الرحمن as well.

00:54:16 --> 00:54:18

And عبد الرحمن عبد الزيد lived a long

00:54:18 --> 00:54:19

life.

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And he died in the life of عبد

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الله بن عمر رضي الله عنه.

00:54:23 --> 00:54:25

And عبد الله بن عمر was actually the

00:54:25 --> 00:54:29

one, his cousin, who washed him, who shrouded

00:54:29 --> 00:54:31

him, who buried him, and who led his

00:54:31 --> 00:54:31

janazah.

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And what an amazing honor that actually is.

00:54:34 --> 00:54:36

May Allah سبحانه وتعالى be pleased with them

00:54:36 --> 00:54:36

all.

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So we get back to زيد رضي الله

00:54:38 --> 00:54:39

عنه.

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In the short entry, it's literally less than

00:54:41 --> 00:54:44

a page of سيرة علامة النبولاء لإمام الذهبي

00:54:44 --> 00:54:44

رحمه الله.

00:54:45 --> 00:54:47

He mentions him and his فضيلة and his

00:54:47 --> 00:54:49

virtue of being من شهداء اليمامة.

00:54:49 --> 00:54:50

And as I said, we're going to talk

00:54:50 --> 00:54:51

about the martyrs of يمامة.

00:54:51 --> 00:54:53

And he starts to list out the names

00:54:53 --> 00:54:56

of the people that have been killed in

00:54:56 --> 00:54:57

يمامة.

00:54:57 --> 00:54:59

And they were over 600 companions.

00:55:00 --> 00:55:03

And there's a note on his grave in

00:55:03 --> 00:55:03

this regard.

00:55:03 --> 00:55:05

So subhanAllah, it's actually, I've never had the

00:55:05 --> 00:55:06

chance to visit.

00:55:07 --> 00:55:09

But if any of you are ever in

00:55:09 --> 00:55:13

Riyadh, this graveyard is actually there, شهداء الصحابة.

00:55:13 --> 00:55:15

The شهداء from the صحابة, the battle of

00:55:15 --> 00:55:16

يمامة, 600 companions.

00:55:18 --> 00:55:21

Of course, they used to build domes and

00:55:21 --> 00:55:23

they used to build, you know, huge structures

00:55:23 --> 00:55:24

on top of some of the graves of

00:55:24 --> 00:55:25

the صحابة, right?

00:55:26 --> 00:55:28

زيد رضي الله تعالى عنه, what you'll note

00:55:28 --> 00:55:29

in the history books is they say that

00:55:29 --> 00:55:31

he had the largest قبة.

00:55:31 --> 00:55:33

If you remember when we talked about عباس

00:55:33 --> 00:55:34

رضي الله عنه, we actually showed a picture

00:55:34 --> 00:55:34

of it.

00:55:35 --> 00:55:37

So زيد رضي الله عنه had the largest

00:55:37 --> 00:55:41

structure built on his grave in معركة يمامة,

00:55:41 --> 00:55:42

in the battle of يمامة.

00:55:42 --> 00:55:44

So when people would come to visit, his

00:55:44 --> 00:55:46

grave was the one that stood out.

00:55:46 --> 00:55:48

And of course, that's not the case anymore.

00:55:48 --> 00:55:50

And if you could just put this picture,

00:55:50 --> 00:55:52

I don't know why this picture made me

00:55:52 --> 00:55:53

very emotional, subhanAllah.

00:55:54 --> 00:55:56

That's the grave of زيد رضي الله تعالى

00:55:56 --> 00:55:57

عنه.

00:55:58 --> 00:56:01

I'm looking at that and I'm thinking to

00:56:01 --> 00:56:05

myself, subhanAllah, where is this man going to

00:56:05 --> 00:56:07

be standing in terms of the people who

00:56:07 --> 00:56:08

enter into Jannah?

00:56:09 --> 00:56:11

If Abu Bakr and Umar, may Allah be

00:56:11 --> 00:56:13

pleased with them, will be entering with the

00:56:13 --> 00:56:16

Prophet ﷺ to his sides, where is زيد

00:56:16 --> 00:56:19

رضي الله تعالى عنه, the quiet brother of

00:56:19 --> 00:56:20

Umar رضي الله عنه?

00:56:20 --> 00:56:22

Umar testifies was more virtuous than him.

00:56:25 --> 00:56:29

And that tells you something that it's not

00:56:29 --> 00:56:32

about the structures on the grave, it's about

00:56:32 --> 00:56:33

the station with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the

00:56:33 --> 00:56:37

position on the Day of Judgment and entering

00:56:37 --> 00:56:39

into Al-Jannah.

00:56:39 --> 00:56:41

May Allah سبحانه وتعالى be pleased with him

00:56:41 --> 00:56:44

and may Allah سبحانه وتعالى accept him رضي

00:56:44 --> 00:56:45

الله عنه وعن أخي.

00:56:45 --> 00:56:47

May Allah be pleased with his brother أمير

00:56:47 --> 00:56:49

المؤمنين عمر الخطاب رضي الله تعالى عنه.

00:56:50 --> 00:56:52

May Allah سبحانه وتعالى gather us with them

00:56:52 --> 00:56:55

all with our beloved Prophet ﷺ في الفردوس

00:56:55 --> 00:56:56

الأعلى.

00:56:56 --> 00:56:57

اللهم آمين.

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